Want to Get Paid $33 Billion a Year? Maybe $600 Billion If Your Data Is Good
by Lee Rickwood
Recognizing its value is one of the best ways to protect our personal data. And we could get paid for it at the same time!
Author Archives: Lee Rickwood
Cheaper Telecom Service from Cellphone Towers in Space
by Lee Rickwood
A small Canadian tech startup company says it plans to offer cheaper telecom service using satellites not much bigger than a breadbox.
Better Search Results from Fewer Search Results
by Lee Rickwood
Million Short entered the search space by offering a new search engine that gives users filters and functions not available from the large, dominant search providers.
Protect Your Online Reputation with Search Engine Take-downs, Privacy Commissioner Says
by Lee Rickwood
The type of information someone might want to be de-indexed or taken down is well, rather broad: from social ratings sites and revenge porn postings to arrest citations and mugshots to nasty reports about our teachers or our shopping experiences by disgruntled consumers or students.
First Aid Training, Emergency Response Awareness Built into New Virtual Reality App
by Lee Rickwood
The Mass Casualty 360 Video/VR simulation recreates a first responder’s initial walk-through and assessment of a major disaster or injury event,
Giant Lithium-Ion Batteries Used to Store Energy, Stabilize Power Grids
by Lee Rickwood
New pilot projects underway in this country and elsewhere show familiar lithium-ion battery technology can power not just smartphones, but entire neighbourhoods.
Holy Fake News! Pope Tackles Distorted Facts on Social Media
by Lee Rickwood
We may be our own last line of defence against fake news and purposeful social manipulation. That puts our media literacy, cognitive skills and critical thinking abilities to a real test. Severely tested, too, will be our economic skills and abilities. Fake news is cheap; real information and investigative journalism is expensive.
Computer Hacks, Smartphone Tracks and “Evil Maid” Protection from Snowden, Citizen Lab, EFF
by Lee Rickwood
Protection against computer hacking, smartphone tracking and a nasty new entity known as the “evil maid” is available with new applications for mobile and desktop users.