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Smartphone safety – Find My and Find Device apps

This Malwarebytes (MWB) blog story is interesting, but the information afterwards is useful: setting up Apple’s / Android’s Find My / Find Device service on your smartphone. • Malwarebytes > Blog > “iPhone user watches as stolen phone travels from UK to China” (December 13, 2022 by Christopher Boyd) In practical terms, this meant that… Continue reading Smartphone safety – Find My and Find Device apps

Apple Watch – standalone sans iPhone

If you’re thinking of getting or gifting an Apple Watch this holiday season, here’s an excellent, useful article about a popular FAQ: what can I do on my Watch without carrying an iPhone? At my health club, if a member is wearing a smartwatch, it’s likely an Apple Watch. The most popular. There, I rarely… Continue reading Apple Watch – standalone sans iPhone

What’s fair use got to do with it – limits on AI’s hoover up?12/20/2024
yeah, what’s fair use about, about for the news?what’s fair use but an old-fashioned notion?what’s fair got to say, got to say about it?who needs copyright when hoovering up is… Continue reading What’s fair use got to do with it – limits on AI’s hoover up?
Elevating humanity – OpenAI’s narrative for AGI12/5/2024
Regarding the timeframe for achieving and qualifying Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), recently (December 4, 2024) on CNBC, Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed Sam Altman, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI, at the… Continue reading Elevating humanity – OpenAI’s narrative for AGI
Happy Thanksgiving 202411/25/2024
My holiday digital card for 2024.
AI regulation faces a test in California9/11/2024
Benefits and costs of the new AI gold rush. Move fast and break things … vying for supremacy (“America’s AI edge,” like another Manhattan Project) … but … who’s a… Continue reading AI regulation faces a test in California
The darkside of AI – outages and shortages8/31/2024
Another gold rush is underway. Recast as the AI tech boom. Yet, AI is power hungry, a voracious beast consuming vast amounts of electricity. And water [1]. And those gas-fired… Continue reading The darkside of AI – outages and shortages

jph on Elevating humanity – OpenAI’s narrative for AGI12/16/2024
I've been wondering about the consequences of abdicating literacy to AIs. What this might do to our reliance on individual…
jph on Elevating humanity – OpenAI’s narrative for AGI12/7/2024
Here's a vision of AGI based on progressive levels of cognitive performance: high school to college to Ph.D. In the…
jph on Elevating humanity – OpenAI’s narrative for AGI12/7/2024
Here's another perspective on elevation of services via AIs. Regarding "jobs that rely on emotional connections." And the value of…
jph on Elevating humanity – OpenAI’s narrative for AGI12/5/2024
Another AI evangelist promotes a new global infrastructure, wherein "data encodes society's knowledge and culture and common sense ... hopes…
jph on AI regulation faces a test in California11/11/2024
Here's an interesting perspective on tech, its qualms and hopes. Aside from the Mars thing ... • WIRED > System…