Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Our phones track our location, what stores and restaurants we visit, ISPs may track our web wanderings, CCTV and license plate scanners monitor us in public, our expenses are tracked…
Employers are monitoring employees activities across a broad spectrum of functions – including your health, your physical activity, even attempting to measure your mood. At least one company required employees…
I migrated my coldstreams.com blog to coldstreams.wordpress.com and the old web site automatically redirects to the new URL. In theory, this process is simple – but getting it done right…
Android devices have an “Ok, Google” voice activation feature. This enables voice input of search and other functions on your Android device. Google also records a copy of the audio…
McDonald’s refers to the machine as a Big Mac ATM. The machine does all the work, no human intervention required between your self order, food prep and delivery. Source: This…
(I originally posted this on May 24, 2014, about 2 1/2 years before “fake news” became a popular meme. Since then, social media has become a friction-less platform for the…
McDonald’s has started testing mobile order-and-pay after acknowledging the ordering process in its restaurants can be “stressful.” Source: McDonald’s tests mobile ordering before national rollout | KATU Six months ago,…
This happens when wage and benefit requirements rise as capital costs (robots/automation) fall rapidly: “Wendy’s plans to install self-ordering kiosks in 1,000 of its stores — about 16 percent of…
I seem to run into many software defects, ranging from the amusing, like this one, to serious errors. I occasionally do screen captures and post them on my personal Facebook…
I will wait for the version with prop safety guards!