This story was originally published on April 12, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Fear mongering about killer robots and the recent deaths connected with Uber and Tesla autonomous vehicles have rekindled concerns about artificial intelligence in the machines around us. We are well beyond […]
Things have been changing at an almost unprecedented rate with regard to power structures. The last time I saw this happen was in the 1970s, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took off. Suddenly a lot of the off-color, sexist and racist jokes that many executives regularly told could get them fired. A surprisingly large […]
Think about planning for a natural disaster emergency that might affect your home. You’d likely store some water, flashlights, food, blankets and other essentials. The key element of your planning would be proactivity. You’d do all of the work before an emergency occurred, not during the actual crisis. If your supplies were used up after […]
This story was originally published on LinuxInsider on May 29, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. In spite of all the high-profile breaches that seem to sweep the headlines with greater frequency, companies slowly but surely have been getting a handle on internal security practices. […]
This story was originally published on the E-Commerce Times on Feb. 2, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. User engagement with podcasts has been steadily increasing, and many listeners actually prefer longer-format content, based on results of Apple’s Podcast Analytics reported this week. The service, […]
This story was originally published on Aug. 11, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. The call came in less than an hour before the 8 a.m. shift was scheduled to start: A family emergency meant the regular caregiver for an elderly Dana Point, California, client […]
By John K. Higgins Oct 6, 2018 5:00 AM PT This story was originally published on the E-Commerce Times on June 15, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. The expanding world of Internet commerce likely will generate a corresponding expansion of data breaches, with the […]
This story was originally published on Aug. 2, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. We’ve all been there: scrolling through a seemingly never-ending carousel of shows and movies available on Netflix, trying to find the one thing we might want to sit down and enjoy. […]
Like many of you I watched last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, and I was struck by the fact that they seemed to be more about the Democrats fighting with Republicans to see which party could corrupt the Supreme Court more effectively than they were about senators doing their jobs. What bothers me most about […]
Smart speakers are becoming a more common platform for controlling connected entertainment due to a rapid increase in popularity and ease of use. Household penetration of smart speakers is expected to reach 47 percent among U.S. broadband households by 2022, based on Parks Associates estimates. New entrants in the connected consumer electronics market, including Samsung, […]