• Apple, Google and Fitbit Receive Fastpass from FDA for Health Apps

    Apple, Google and Fitbit Receive Fastpass from FDA for Health Apps

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has named the companies involved in a recently instituted “pre-certification” program that determines whether or not they meet baseline quality standards for health software.  Apple, Fitbit and Samsung and Alphabet’s Verily are among the firms that will help the FDA set the benchmarks and decide just how much information…

  • Showtime Website Has Been Using Cryptocurrency Miner

    Showtime Website Has Been Using Cryptocurrency Miner

    We posted a story last week about how The Pirate Bay was using your CPU in order to mine cryptocurrency.  In that post we talked about the pros and the cons of doing this.  The big pro is for The Pirate Bay to not have to rely on inappropriate advertisers in order to keep the…

  • Is it Possible To Copy Someone or Something in Order to Become Successful Yourself?

    Is it Possible To Copy Someone or Something in Order to Become Successful Yourself?

    How original are you?  Think about it.  I’m not talking about your DNA, or your personality or anything scientific. I’m talking about your behaviour.  Do you imitate others?  Of course you do.  We all do.  Albert Bandura, a psychologist coined the term “social learning theory” which proposes that new behaviours can be acquired by observing…