So much technology exists wholly or in part so that employers can control our lives. However, the wearable technology, called a Moodbeam, isn’t here to monitor your physical health. Instead it a
They all look the same, amiright? In February 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy and trying to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, N.J. He had been identif
Gizmodo has this series where they ask experts this or that. For this week’s version, they asked a bunch of historians about which technology has led to the most accidental death. I was one of t
The idea that Iowa Democrats could just drop an untested app into the middle of the caucuses and nothing could go wrong says a whole heck of a lot about Americans. The first thing to note is that ther
The Stop and Shop Strike is now in its sixth day. Some stores are closed, others remain open. Yesterday I went out to my local store, where I do most of my shopping, and walked the picket line with th
Time to return to one of my oldest hobby horses: the horror of the self-checkout counter. Between no one knowing how to use them, the fact that companies are asking you to labor for free instead of pa
Oh, ICE is just asking tech people to develop technology that would allow it to track immigrants’ social media activity. The Department of Immigration & Customs Enforcement is taking new st
I have a lot of issues with driverless cars, primarily that they are being developed to throw millions of people out of work. With driving pretty much the last decently paid working class job that emp