Oct 28, 2019 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Echo, Google, Google Home, hardware, home assistants, phone, web_services
(Sonoma County fires: we have evacuated to a safe place and our house is not threatened. All of our thoughts and best wishes go out to those in danger or suffering losses.) Hey Google . . . What time is my flight today? How long will it take to drive to Oakland...
Aug 4, 2019 | Amazon, news, Politics, security
Here’s a scary story about the government’s preparations for the 2020 census and how it was exposed to “potentially catastrophic risk” when it lost some passwords. Costs for the census have soared in the last few decades. After the 2010 census, the Census Bureau...
Mar 24, 2019 | Amazon, business, shopping
Amazon has become an infinitely large mall full of small shops. More than half of the stuff sold on Amazon worldwide in 2017 came from third-party sellers. More than 2,500,000 small and medium-sized businesses sell through Amazon Marketplace. Amazon was founded in...
Mar 17, 2019 | Amazon, Apple, business, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Politics, Privacy
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other companies) in startling ways. Their ability to analyze that data and predict your behavior is...
Mar 3, 2019 | Amazon, business, Google, Microsoft, Politics, Privacy, security
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other companies) in startling ways. Their ability to analyze that data and predict your behavior is...
Feb 25, 2019 | Amazon, Apple, Azure, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, security
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other companies) in startling ways. Their ability to analyze that data and predict your behavior is...
