Ransomware Continues to Be a Threat
Ransomware is a type of malicious software cyber criminals use to block you from accessing your own data. The digital extortionists encrypt the files on your system and add extensions to the attacked data and hold it hostage until the demanded ransom is paid. Information Age brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The fight…
Read MoreAnalytics and Data Governance Go Hand in Hand
There is no point in gathering and collecting data if you aren’t planning to analyze it. Unfortunately, forty-two percent of data and analytics leaders do not assess, measure or monitor their data and analytics governance. CDO Trends brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “How Data and Analytics Leaders Can Master Governance.“ Good data…
Read MoreFear of Technology Continues
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not about robots and automated human-like beings, or at least not just about that. This interesting information came to us from Tech Republic in their article, “5 practical reasons to embrace artificial intelligence.” People still have some level of fear around AI, and there may be some valid reasons for that. However,…
Read MoreIt’s All Semantics
Semantics is the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics. People can absolutely interpret words differently and draw different meanings from them. Semantics EurekAlert! brought this topic to our attention in their article, “A study identifies a universal property for efficient communication.” To look…
Read MoreUsing Emerging Technology to Address Poverty
In most of the United States, an individual with an annual income of $12,760 or less is classified as living below the poverty line. Though the share of the population living on such low incomes has fallen considerably in recent years, there are still 43.5 million Americans living in poverty – a number that will…
Read MoreIT Post-COVID
COVID-19 has changed almost everything over the past year. Why should technology be untouched? To ensure they meet internal and external requirements, many organizations implement a formal information technology (IT) governance program that provides a framework of best practices and controls. Continuity Central brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Audit chiefs see…
Read MoreKeeping It Real
When we talk, we speak in natural language. This language may be raw, rich, and sometimes messy, but it is real. When we organize our information and label it, however, there is so much richness, variance, and confusion in terminology that we often need to impose some order to facilitate agreement between the concepts within…
Read MoreNew Technologies Embraced in COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed many things in our lives, both socially and technologically. In the world of auto insurance, it seems that customers have fully embraced telematics – either a device that plugs into a vehicle’s onboard diagnostic port or a mobile-based app. Telematics tracks a driver’s mileage and driving habits. In return, a customer is…
Read MoreHandedness and Categorization
The look into right handed vs. left handedness tickled the categorization part of my brain as well as the “new information to learn” and “new way to think” part of my psyche. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Lefty versus Righty — A Look at Human Handedness.” “Odd…
Read MoreChange for Change’s Sake
Technology is an ever-changing playing field, and those wanting to remain at the helm of innovation have to adapt. The consumer is charting a new course and companies must embrace emerging technologies. Data Quest brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Adoption of emerging technologies in public sectors.” As IT industry trends such…
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