Whether implemented by Facebook, Google, Apple or some startup that you never heard of, facial-recognition technology is here to stay. The question isn't whether it should be used, but how to make sure it's not abused.
The battle over free trade has taken a crass -- and dishonest -- turn thanks to an ad campaign run by the AFL-CIO which suggests a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Colombia is "about murder" of Colombian labor organizers.
No TV network or newspaper can convey the thoughts, sentiments and feelings of people on the ground as well as their own words can, but there are limitations to getting your news in 140 characters or less. That's where Tumblr comes in.
The analysis of open-source social media can be a great tool to use for defense research, and the NATO mission in Libya shows that forces are attempting to use it.
This summer, from June 13th to July 15th, I'm going to be working at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC as an intern in the Department of Communications.
The wonders of the Internet mean I know my pal's toddler just had his first haircut and my Banana Republic friend has just checked into the store again. I wonder if it's also brought real, tangible, fresh hope to people who've loved and lost and are ready to get twitterpated all over again.
Spectrum is a complex debate. Even more true, it's an essential one to get right today. Congress is starting to move on spectrum legislation, but the clock is ticking.
I had objected to the iPhone on the basis of the fact that it's dangerously addictive and threatens to obviate all need for human interaction. As it turned out, I was pretty much right.
When dictators understand the power of social and mobile, they move toward controlling it or shutting it down. There was hearty agreement that access to the Internet should be an "international right."
A big reason we have darker projection in movie theaters today is because of 3D.
Facebook struck me as the perfect instrument for a father like mine: a networking tool that provides a non-verbal platform from a safe distance, where the term "friend" is used loosely, and a derelict dad can be accepted into my virtual world.
Apple has applied for a patent for software that would sense when iPhone users are trying to use their phone's camera. What's to stop governments from doing the same thing during protests and rallies?
Yes, the security concerns about cloud computing are valid -- the recent hacks of Google accounts belonging to government officials are just one example -- but security in the cloud should not be as controversial as commentators have suggested.
Right now, you're sitting in front of our pact with the Devil. When you finish reading this, you will do nothing about it.
After reading Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach's One Nation Under Sex, I'm pretty convinced Ben Franklin would definitely have had some racy social media exchanges if the technology were available to him.
NASA has a responsibility to be a good customer. This means one that knows what it wants when it walks in, how much it wants and how often, and what it wants to pay.
Freedom of speech is an enormous freedom. Ask anyone that lives in, or comes from, a country where it doesn't exist. The challenge of the Internet is accountability and responsibility.
In Washington, business leaders and lawmakers have been pushing to ease visa rules and caps. And across the country, high-tech workers -- both foreign and domestic -- are seeing the notion of job security give way to a brutal contest of survival.
Why have we not evolved into better decision makers after so many eons of clearly ghastly decisions? Because we have yet to gain mastery over our primal urges or our unconscious needs and insecurities.
Gil Laroya, 2011.06.21
