February 15, 2021 Not Just a Face in the Crowd Ep207. Clearview AI – the company that has hoovered up every face it can find on the internet to create a creepy person identifying…
February 1, 2021 Stop Watching Me! Tracking and data mining has gotten way out of hand. We’re not only being tracked online, we’re now being tracked around the real world,…
October 5, 2020 Apple’s Epic Battle Royale (Part 2) What do Apple, Tyson Foods and Worldwide Wrestling (WWE) all have in common? And what is “chickenization”? In part 2 of my interview with…
September 28, 2020 Apple’s Epic Battle Royale (Part 1) Apple and Epic Games are locked in an epic legal (and PR) battle that may determine the future of the App Store, the Google…
September 21, 2020 Take Out the (Windows) Trash If you’re a Windows PC user, you know the term “bloatware”, or maybe “crapware”. Every consumer PC comes chock full of it. Free trials…
September 14, 2020 It’s a Trap! Enterprising scammers have found some very clever ways to trick you into believing your computer needs fixing, when in reality it’s just fine. Using…
August 24, 2020 Apple’s Epic Battle Epic – the maker of the massively popular game Fortnite – has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet. It has decided that it no longer…
July 6, 2020 TikTok Boom TikTok is the hot new social media service (Snapchat and Instragram are so last year), particularly in Asian countries like India. But India just…
May 25, 2020 Apple vs FBI, Part 2 The FBI is once again trash-talking Apple for not helping them in their investigation of a terrorist – this time, the alleged perpetrator of…
January 20, 2020 Clearview Knows Who You Are A small company has amassed over 3 billion online photos from social media and other public sources, creating perhaps the largest facial database in…
