Mycroft became aware of an amazing group in Vienna last year at KDE Akademy, that group is the Open Invention Network (OIN). OIN is a community of companies and users…
Joshua MontgomeryApril 22, 2020
Generally speaking, I don’t trust policymakers to do math. This isn’t a new thing. In 1894, the Indiana State Legislature attempted to set the value of Pi to 3.2 via…
Joshua MontgomeryApril 23, 2019
On April 11, 2019, stories began making the rounds highlighting that Amazon employs thousands of people worldwide to transcribe users' Alexa queries to help improve the Alexa software. The original…
Eric JurgesonApril 17, 2019
Google is a modern day oracle. Like the flawed heroes of tragedy, we ask it to answer our questions, solve our problems and tell us “why”. Ask Google how to…
Joshua MontgomeryFebruary 13, 2019
Two Anniversaries My wife and I celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary this week. With the date falling in the middle of the week, we decided to take the day off…
Chris VeilleuxOctober 2, 2018