When Starbucks rebranded their food selections under the La Boulange name, they did away with the original coffee cake recipe that so many people had come to love. My wife, Rachael, was one of the sorely disappointed patrons. Unable to suppress the yearnings, she went on the quest to find a…
Here’s a very interesting article and set of survey results from Pew Research about the feelings Americans have about privacy in the digital age of government spying and corporate data breaches. The results are better than I feared, but there is still much room for improvement. And here is a great page…
More than you probably thought possible. A recently released study shows that computer-based personality judgements are more accurate than those made by humans. This study compares the accuracy of personality judgment—a ubiquitous and important social-cognitive activity—between computer models and humans. Using several criteria, we show that computers’ judgments of people’s…
The old bait and switch: promise you one thing and sell you another. That’s what happened when I signed up for a year of VPN service through NordVPN. Their website said: “Easiest VPN Ever. To get on NordVPN, just click and go. NordVPN’s secure VPN software takes care of all the…
We have one network in the world today. Either we build our communications infrastructure for surveillance, or we build it for security. Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy. That’s our choice, with the Internet, with cell phone networks, with everything. How true.
Update 4.23.15: I received a promotional email (spam) from TrueCar.com today, even after I was assured that they had unsubscribed me! I let them know by responding to their tweet from 3.31. They asked me to DM them about it, and they requested me to forward the email I received so…
