A few months ago, I decided to start blogging again.
Even with steady freelance work and a couple of tech advice newsletters, I missed having my own little place on the web to write about any topic I pleased, free from the limits and vagaries of social media.
But I didn’t want to neglect social networks entirely. Instead, I dreamed of being able to write on my blog, and have that content automatically propagate
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After announcing he would not return to Congress, Matt Gaetz is trying out a new career path making personalized videos on Cameo.
Gaetz, a former Florida representative, joined the celebrity video message app last week, a day after withdrawing his name from consideration to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general amid sexual misconduct allegations. Gaetz has den
American Airlines is cracking down on “gate lice” ahead of what’s expected to be a
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration—among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence tech
TikTok is planning to ban teen users in Europe from using beauty filters that alter their facial features. In the coming weeks, minors will be blocked from making their eyes bigger, plumping their lips, and smoothing or changing their skin tone with filters—all part of an effort to mitigate the impact on teens’ mental health.
Apple defies gravity, and AI is divine. That’s how Guy Kawasaki, who worked closely with Steve Jobs—and is now chief evangelist at Canva and host of the podcast Remarkable People—describes the state of tech today. Guy muses about Tim Cook’s limitations, what he means when he says, “AI is God,” and explains his definition of what makes a person remarkable.
In a way, Tim Berners-Lee’s current project is more ambitious than the one that changed history. When he conceived the World Wide Web in 1989, it didn’t compete with any other deeply-entrenched system for sharing information across the internet, which was still limited to government and academic users at the time. Indeed, without the web, the internet might never have had mass appeal in
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
I’ve been in the data privacy field for over 15 years, but nothing could prepare me for the complications and complexities that AI has created for companies since it hit the mainstream in 2022.
Each week a new company is in the spotlight—from the backlash against Meta for using Facebook and Instagram users’ data for AI training, Microsoft’