• The Lying Filter

    Shelly Palmer  About 240 years ago, a great, nascent political experiment fought its way into being. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit...
  • “A Bad Naughty Robot?”

    Shelly Palmer Tay is a combination chatbot and AI system designed by Microsoft to “engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation.” It was specifically “targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., the dominant users of mobile social...
  • Hello Barbie!

    Shelly Palmer  Hello Barbie! is an IoT-enabled (Internet of Things) Barbie Doll with blonde hair, blue eyes and a built-in surveillance system. She’s not the first of her kind (and she won’t be the last), but here’s what you should know about bringing it, or any connected device, into...
  • The Top 10 Things at CES 2016

    With 20,000 new product announcements and 2.1 million square feet of floor space, it was hard to find the signal in the noise at CES 2016. Here are my top 10 favorite products. 1. LeTV Le Max Pro Another Android phone. No, not just another Android phone – an...
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