27
Jun
Emotional Humanoid Robots
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Interacting with robots in the future could be easier due to their ability to simulate human emotions. Think C3P0 from Star Wars.
25
May
Happy Towel Day!
Hoopy froods everywhere rejoice. For May 25th is Towel Day. If you’re not familiar with Towel Day, it’s a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001) who is perhaps best known for writing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. If you haven’t read this book, do so immediately.
21
May
Lossless Audio
Sure, I still have records and tapes and CDs, but I can’t remember the last time I listened to any of them. I listen to music every day, but my computer is now the source of most of it. I have countless gigabytes of music stored on several hard drives that could keep me busy for years.
19
Apr
CAPTCHA the moment
Let’s face it, opening your in-box to a hundred unwanted e-mail messages (spam) can ruin your entire day. So, how do you prevent it? Well, you really can’t. But if you have a website with a contact form, you can drastically reduce your spam with the use of a CAPTCHA.
11
Mar
How Secure are You?
Have you ever stopped to think, “How Secure am I?” With all the online banking, e-commerce, and social networking going on these days, your private information is at risk of falling into the wrong hands. I think the number is somewhere around 10 million cases of identity theft or identity fraud every year in the U.S. alone.
While recently doing some work for a client who runs a network security business called “Breached Systems,” I was introduced to an end-point security software called Blink.
