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Good day and welcome to our blog and podcast site.  We will be pausing our blog and podcast for the month of July as we rejig for going forward in August.  

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Artificial Intelligence is set to fundamentally reshape the global marketplace and labor landscape within five years.

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Today we’re looking backward to a big question; How has technology changed our lives in the five years since COVID-19 turned the world upside down?

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In the world of tracking things, this week we are looking at how the globe is taking surveillance to the next level.

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Our Blog and Podcast for April 28th are centred on a book review on the investigative book “Your Face Belongs to Us\", by New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill.

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One of the main issues around algorithms falls into the bias and fairness category.

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I think we can all agree that in the day of feeds and clickbait, algorithms have dramatically transformed all our daily lives in countless ways.

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By 2026, it’s estimated that more than 90% of online content could be AI-generated.

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Today, I will discuss artificial intelligence and an interesting way it is enhancing the wine business.

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For those of you who don’t follow along on TikTok, the very best of who we are occurred last week when an 85 year old man named Doug was recorded on a door bell camera.

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We all jump online to find information - it's rare to actually get through a meal these days without someone reaching for their phone to verify or look up a source to add into the conversation.  

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This week we are going to highlight the digital platform of YouTube and salute Susan Wojcicki it's CEO till 2023.

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What's in a name? Qubit - A qubit (or quantum bit) is the quantum mechanical analogue of a classical bit.

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It’s hard to remember back to folding up a large paper map accordion style … but before GPS became main stream, navigators everywhere had maps spread out on their laps working through the twists and turns that would get ...

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Artificial intelligence … This is machine learned “thinking” that are programmed algorithms to make highly advanced software determinations in fractions of seconds.

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ARPANET – which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network is the original computer-based mail and messaging that became possible with the time-sharing of computers in the early 1960’s. Over time, a complex we...

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A blockchain is a type of database. It is not only technology, but it is a different way of conducting transactions that takes a minute to get your head around.

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To continue on from last week, we are discussing data breaches and how your personal information could be exposed for nefarious means.

","url":"https://mcloughlinconsulting.ca/tech-articles/f/but-there%E2%80%99s-a-lock-on-my-door-%E2%80%A6","title":"But there’s a lock on my door …..","summary":"To continue on from last week, we are discussing data breaches and how your personal information could be exposed for nefarious means.","date_modified":"2024-11-16T11:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://mcloughlinconsulting.ca/tech-articles/f/gdpr-giving-hide-and-seek-a-new-challenge-%E2%80%A6","html_content":"

In Europe, “The right to be forgotten” ~ now known as GDPR ~ was introduced into the public square in 2014 after a landmark case Google v. Spain.

","url":"https://mcloughlinconsulting.ca/tech-articles/f/gdpr-giving-hide-and-seek-a-new-challenge-%E2%80%A6","title":"GDPR ~ Giving hide and seek a new challenge …","summary":"In Europe, “The right to be forgotten” ~ now known as GDPR ~ was introduced into the public square in 2014 after a landmark case Google v. Spain. ","date_modified":"2024-11-01T13:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://mcloughlinconsulting.ca/tech-articles/f/this-is-a-hold-up","html_content":"

Today we will be discussing Ransomware and how it has impacted so many of us – specifically in the last two weeks.

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What’s in a name? Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) …

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What’s in a name? Continuation of Business or COB

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We continue on today from last week in discussions around Cloud Services and some of how that relates to Contact Centres.

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What’s in a name?

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Today we highlight one of the leading pioneer’s of Bluetooth and WiFi techniques. Hedy Lamarr, a famous actress in the 1940’s, played a pivotal roll in “spread spectrum” science during World War II.

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From Wiki’s to WAN’s how does all this technology serve us? Are we protected from ourselves or will the age of information prove to be too much?

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Today we are going to talk about I spy - and not the fun game you used to play in the car on a long road trip.

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Everyone reading this post has never not known some form of computer interaction – the fact that you’re reading this on a device is definitive proof!

","url":"https://mcloughlinconsulting.ca/tech-articles/f/%E2%80%9Conce-upon-a-time%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D","title":"“Once Upon a Time…”","summary":"Everyone reading this post has never not known some form of computer interaction – the fact that you’re reading this on a device is definitive proof!","date_modified":"2024-08-17T15:00:00Z"}]}