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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 ReadingWRU - The more things change…
WRU is a special purpose key on a teletype machine. It's short for 'Who Are You?'.
It would great to have one of those on today's version of the Great Network.
When two teletype...
Continue ReadingHotmail - Time To Block It?
Out of several hundred emails I've received from Hotmail.com so far this year, can you guess what percentage has been spam?
Would you believe 100 per cent?
And the amount of...
Continue ReadingThe FBI Moves to Nigeria - I win big!!!
One of my favorite junk mails - a category that represents about .00001 per cent of the crap that's filled my inbox over the years - was the sad tale of the Nigerian astronaut...
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Attacks Spam
Microsoft used a US court order to block traffic to 277 .com domains in order to decapitate the command and control capabilities of the Waledec botnet: a global network of compromised...
Continue ReadingConvergence 2.0: CTV discovers the Internet
CTV's Internet coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver has been, without a doubt, a major breakthrough in the merger of traditional and new media. I'd go so far as to call...
Continue ReadingDISH Networks spam - kerplunc!
Update (Feb 16 - 11:46 a.m.)
No response from the DISH Network media contact. Nothing further from Matt @ kerplunc who included the phrase 'legal opt out' in his last email which, in...
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