(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Speak Your Mind
Voice-activated “personal assistants” have been getting more useful and skilled over the years, offering a hands-free way to call up information on the Web, make appointments in your calendar, get the...
View ArticlePTJ 74: Just Droning On and On and On
We’re baaaaack! In an effort to burn off some of the calories we packed on during our time off we’ve put together a super-sized show. J.D. pits voice enabled personal assistants from Google and Apple...
View Article(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Operator, Give Me Information
Technology is suposed to make life easier — robots will clean our homes, hyperdrive will get us to distant galaxies and we’ll have the science to whip up a cup of Earl Grey, hot, out of thin air....
View ArticlePTJ 94: How Soon Is (Google) Now, Fellow Netizen?
El Kaiser looks at the Tech Term “netizen” and explains how the once innocuous mashup of “Internet” and “citizen” has come to represent a responsibility all of us should not take lightly. In her...
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