Nomi: The AI Of Your Dreams & Nightmares
The AI That Gives Gifts So your pet died? I sympathize with you. As a former dog owner, I know how much a pet’s passing can affect you deeply. It’s losing an important family...
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Facial Recognition Doesn’t Recognize Your Rights
Facial Recognition Tech For The Modern Population The question was spurned from a post I saw on Instagram. It’s a concern I’ve talked about a couple of years ago when FR technology started to...
Electrum Wallet Botnet Hack Analysis
There have been numerous “hacks” involving Electrum, with the most common ones involving “fake/modified” versions that people are tricked into downloading from unofficial sources from the outset. On average this botnet has involved more...
Smart Contracts On A Public Blockchain
Good or Bad? Smart Contracts are all the rage lately, with Ethereum bringing them into the limelight but a lot of other currencies also support them. The problem with smart contracts is that they...
182,000 IT Positions Available By 2019 – True or False?
I know this article is quite old from 2015 but it inspires IT professionals and business owners like me to muse aloud about the reality. It is really based on a report from the...
My experience with Proxmox 5.2 vs VMWare ESXi/vSphere 6.7
Recently I’ve been teaching a course on these two beasts and thought I’d give my perspective and that of the students in dealing with it in terms of pros and cons. Ease Of Use...
Quantum Computing Cloud Provider Rigetti Takes on Big Cloud Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft
Who says competitors can’t say good things about each other? While we are not into quantum computing we do salute Rigetti’s foray into Cloud Computing. But as some say even with quantum computing their...
Thanks Linus
20 Years of Linux Milestones! This post is long over due. Summer vacation and I was taking some time to hang out with my wife and kids. So I’m a little behind. But the...
OpenSource Opens Doors For Your IT Career Path
Open That Door This was a great article that I thought was a nice reminder about how vital the Open Source community is for computing, IT and business. There’s no denying Open Source is...
Is Decentralized Centralized?
Vitalik Buterin VS Changpeng Zhao I always found it strange when people refer to decentralized as completely decentralized when it comes to cryptocurrency. Because, there is never truly such a thing as decentralized. It...
