Hey, Check Out Magellan TV!
If you’ve found your way to TvB, may the gods bless and sustain you! I’m not blogging here (much) these days, but if you’re curious about …
Category: Social Studies
The Future of Work as a Short Sci-Fi Story
A brief note for the few remaining visitors to this joint: I’m mostly hanging out these days at Medium. Having been given a very unceremonious bon …
And The Intercept Discovers Homophily or the “Birds of a Feather” Principle
This is important. The Intercept has done some very good investigative reporting showing yet another example of Facebook virtually f&@$ing the public in their ear. …
My Interview With Adam Tanner on the Dark Market in Medical Data
If you want to check out what I’m doing these days, you can change channels and catch me at my other show. I recently spoke …
O’Reilly Security Conference 2016: Acceptable Risks
I was listening to Adrian Ludwig’s talk, titled “Securing 85% of the world’s smartphones”, at this year’s O’Reilly Security Conference in New York when I realized …
MapD Political Donation Visualization
I received an email from my friends at MapD. They’re the Harvard-MIT spawned “data exploration” company. That’s a poetic way of saying they do speedy …
Kaiser Fung Explains Data Science
One of the high points of my summer was talking to Kaiser Fung, data snake charmer and best selling author of Numbersense. You can listen …
More Internet of Silly Things: Finder’s Gadgety iBag2 Handbag
In case you need some silicon assistance in curbing your spending, the iBag2 is probably just what your IT person would recommend. iBag2 comes out …
The F*%^ing! Stored Communications Act
As has been the case over the last year, more of my work is over at the Inside Out Security blog. I just finished up …
Security in the Internet of Silly Things
Last month, I had a great time chatting with UK-based penetration tester Ken Munro. We’ve all been hearing about the Internet of Things, but very …
$1000 Steerable Electric Scooter From Cycleboard
For those who want a more adult scooter experience, Cycleboard has this tri-wheel contraption that gives you a stable ride. It’s Lithium-ion batteries let the …
Itero: Pocket Watch Launches on Kickstarter
Itero disrupts the wearables industry with a notification-free gadget that’s purpose-built to continually show the time of day. Their display unit is based on light …
U-Gym: Muscle Stimulator on Indiegogo
Our friend Mark Yu, co-founder of AirSig, has another project he’s introducing. His U-Gym mid-frequency electric stimulator is now starting an Indiegogo campaign. How do …
Spare Change App Feeds NYers
Yikes, I haven’t posted since half-past August! I’ve been busy over at my other show writing about, among other topics, threats to our personal data …
Lima: Secure Personal Cloud At Last
I’ve been busy over at my other show exploring insider data theft and IT sabotage. Thankfully my long awaited beta version of Lima showed up in …
Buddy: Family-Friendly Robot Launches on Indiegogo
As we all read one headline after another warning of the robot takeover of our jobs, I’ve discovered a more serious source of concern for …
SipSup: Photo Sharing Drinking Glass on Kickstarter
My blogging has been on vacation the last few weeks. I was away on holiday in southern Spain—biking the Andalusian countryside—and then after returning I …
Quip: Cute Collaboration Software
After working in Microsoft-controlled environments for years and years, I’m painfully familiar with Redmond’s idea of collaborating. Write document, email Word document to co-workers, remember …
My Interview With the Privacy Guru
Blogging has been a little light at TvB because of my other show. Lately I’ve been delving into the security improvements slated for Windows 10—who …
Trubrain: Nootropic Drink Startup
Nootropic is shorthand for mind or cognitive enhancing. Simple ideas always sound more mysterious when Greek-ified. Trubrain is an energy drink for the mind. But …