Merry Christmas!

We at Access Innovations wish you a wonderful and prosperous holiday. May the spirit of the season be with you and your family today, and many more years to come. Merry Christmas!  

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New Applications for Augmented and Virtual Reality in Unlikely Places

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are some of the hottest trends in the technological world right now. AR and VR provides greater creative freedom for advertisers and out-of-the-box communication techniques that can have an enormous impact on a retailer’s bottom line. This interesting information came to us from Ad Age in their article,…

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One Two Three

If you are like me and enjoy reading about simple but important tasks in life and the history surrounding them, you will enjoy this. This very interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Biology’s Impact on Counting Words.” Through a simple and engaging video, simple math is explained. Well, sort…

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The Risks of IoT

Cybersecurity can feel like an annoying gnat as each and every day there are a variety of headlines describing every possibly entity that has become a victim of a cyberattack. This interesting information came to us from IoT World Today in their article, “9 IoT Security Principles to Help Reduce Your Attack Surface.” It can be…

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Taxonomist Opportunity

We are always excited to share with our readers career opportunities in the world of taxonomy, metadata, and semantic technology. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are changing. EnviroScience is currently looking for a Diatom-Algal Taxonomist…

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Opening the Technology

Open has many meanings. Open source is software with the source code included. The software developers who support the open source concept believe that by allowing anyone who’s interested to modify the source code, the application will be more useful and error-free over the long term. Open access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles…

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IoT and Big Data

Despite the fact that the term big data has been around since 2005, there is still uncertainty about what it actually means. Exactly how big is big? Predictive Analytics Times brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Data Lakes: The Future of Data Warehousing?“ We are creating data every second. It’s generated across all industries…

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Ransomware Ups the Game

Ransomware is a type of malicious software designed to deny access to a computer system or data until a ransom is paid. Ransomware typically spreads through phishing emails or by unknowingly visiting an infected website.  Ransomware can be devastating to an individual or an organization. But now, there is a new threat involved with ransomware. This interesting news came…

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Taxonomy of Communication

If you are a frequent reader, you know I like discovering unique and quirky taxonomies. They are more than just interesting, they are a perfect example that you can and should classify any topic. This latest one came to us from The Week in their article, “The taxonomy of whining.” Children communicate at every age,…

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Cybersecurity Taxonomy

Recently, the Joint Research Center issued a Proposal for a European Cybersecurity Taxonomy. Noting the absence of a globally accepted and standardized definition of cybersecurity and a clear identification of its domains of development and application, the proposal introduces a taxonomy for cybersecurity. This interesting news came to us from Mondaq in their article, “European Union: A…

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