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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
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An A.I. Presentation for a local Rotary Club
The Halifax Harbour Rotary Club asked for a 15-minute presentation about A.I. and its impact on businesses.
Continue ReadingDiana Adams - Poet, Writer, Troublemaker and now CIBC Password Phisher?
Want to hand over your CIBC online banking details to identity thieves? You can do it by visiting dianaadams.ca and filling in the online form.
It's not on the home page - you'll...
Continue ReadingAnatomy of a Website Compromise
Recently I had the "pleasure" of cleaning up one of the websites we host, and encountered one of the sneakiest website compromises ("hacks") I've seen so far. I've decided to document...
Continue ReadingOpenTable Open For Spamming
OpenTable - an online restaurant reservation system - is wide open for spamming.
This discovery comes after a flood of mobile phone spam to one of my email addresses - the kind that...
Continue ReadingPhotobox Spam - Welcome to the dark side
Photobox is a digital photo company based in the UK that just teamed up with a digital greeting card company. Coincidentally, what had been a single 'Welcome to Photobox' spam which I...
Continue ReadingBill Kunkel - the Game Doctor - Dead at 61
It's been a strange weekend. What seemed a toothache turned out to be a mouth pimple.
What seemed like a missed voicemail message turned out to be a big hole in my heart.
We were...
Continue ReadingMaking it Right - The Metropolitan Hotel & Spam
What's not to hate about spam?
It's about as infection-free as a dirty penny lying in spit, fills inboxes daily with offers to steal your identity, to kill you with fake...
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