You’ve seen them walking around shopping malls, college campuses and summertime social gatherings — those packs of sleepy-eyed teens with their heads down and eyes glued to their smartphones. Even though they cluster together in groups, you notice they don’t make direct eye contact or utter any sounds to each other except to share a video…
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently published two recall announcements, one from Tesla Motors and one from GM. Both are related to problems that could cause fires. Tesla’s fix can be conducted as an “over the air” software update and doesn’t require owners to bring their cars to the dealer. For that reason, we…
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Over the past three decades, pundits and prognosticators have proclaimed the looming arrival of the paperless office. After many monumental technology advances, we’re not much closer to the paperless office than we were when Stevie Ray Vaughan was first laying down Texas Flood at Antone’s in Austin in the early 80’s when I was in…
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Whether you’re every other freelance blogger at your local coffee shop (latte in hand) or a small business owner struggling to keep the lights on, it’s certainly a question worth pondering. The answer to such a question, relayed to us by a faceless sea of “gurus,” “experts” and tech start-up superstars is a resounding “Of…
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Robert Schmid, Chief Technologist, IoT, Deloitte Digital The proliferation of smart things has reached critical mass. Products with wireless connectivity (from lightbulbs to thermostats to smart speakers) are more present in people’s homes today than not—one report suggests that 79 percent of U.S. consumers have at least one connected device at home. But the technology actually has…
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