Practical Technology

Quantum computing still seems like the stuff of science fiction. It’s not. It is a rapidly maturing technology that harnesses quantum mechanics to solve problems beyond what classical computers can handle. Whether that means cracking all current…Read More

According to Nielsen, the average American watches about 4 hours of TV daily. Of that, Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming providers, such as Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video claim more than a third of our total TV time. Combine that with…Read More

LastPass, the popular password management service, recently announced that it was hacked. Specifically, LastPass’s CEO Karim Toubba wrote that an “unauthorized party gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single…Read More

If you can communicate on it, you can abuse it. This was proven again recently when a hacker using the name “scarycoder” uploaded a dozen malicious Python packages to PyPI, the popular Python code repository. These bits of code pretended to provide…Read More

Home & Office This year there are more ways to stream NFL football games than ever. Are you ready for some football? I am, even if I can’t expect much from my Pittsburgh Steelers this year. Read now With 17 NFL games, fans will have a lot of football…Read More

I used to like Malcolm Gladwell. And, I still think “Outliers,” “Blink,” and “The Tipping Point” are excellent books. But, sometimes, even brilliant people can make dumb mistakes. Case in point: Gladwell recently said, “It’s not in your best…Read More