I’m about to reveal two biggest IT secrets ever. These secrets are how IT people all over the world solve your problems and make you think of them as super-geniuses from the 8th dimension. Once you know these secrets, you too can use their power to solve problems and look super awesome.
I searched high and low for ideas for this week’s blog. Apparently, I didn’t search high enough… I’m talkin’ ’bout: the SOLAR ECLIPSE!
I know you’re thinking, “ENOUGH about this eclipse! I couldn’t even see it!” Sorry to all who missed it by a few thousand miles or minutes, but it was actually really, really rad.
At this point I hope everyone is educated about the crippling effects of Ransomware. If you’re not a part of “everyone,” let me explain what ransomware is, and give you some steps to avoid becoming a victim before it’s too late.
There was a bit of news in the AI world this week, this time coming from Facebook’s FAIR (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research) division. Here’s the short version: two of Facebook’s AI chatbots created their own language (which is indecipherable to Humans) and was subsequently shut off by the team managing it.
The first few days of my last job were a bit odd, to say the least. Between an all-day road trip to a dilapidated preschool in Milwaukee and trying to navigate a new city in the pouring rain without a smartphone, things were…not ideal. Like many people, I tried to combat my woes by throwing money at Amazon to treat myself to a
