• Smart Devices Can Hear Subliminal Messages from Music that Humans Can’t

    Smart Devices Can Hear Subliminal Messages from Music that Humans Can’t

    When it comes to technology, nothing should surprise you.  Nothing surprises me these days.  Which is why, when I learned what a group of students was doing, it didn’t phase me.  Is it highly troubling?  It certainly is, but it doesn’t surprise me.  In a New York Times report, a group of students from the…

  • Is Google Duplex Ethical? And How Will it Impact Our Lives?

    Is Google Duplex Ethical? And How Will it Impact Our Lives?

    Google has unveiled their human-sounding assistant Duplex, during the Google I/O conference this week.  On one hand, this is going to be revolutionary technology, but on the other hand, this could be bad news.  If you’re not familiar with the technology, it’s essentially a human-sounding voice that can potentially make appointments for you.  During the…

  • The Biggest Announcements from Google I/O 2018

    The Biggest Announcements from Google I/O 2018

    As you know, the Google I/O developer conference is by far Googles’ biggest event of the year.  This is different from Apple, who’s developer conference isn’t as big as when they release their new iPhone in the late summer.  Maybe it’s because Google is a software company, so they tend to give us a lot…