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This one is not quite a year old, originally posted August 1, 2019. But it’s still relevant, and I think the information and possibilities are intriguing. WAY BACK—well, five years ago—when Apple introduced iPhone 5s’s thumbprint scanner, fear mongers lost no time claiming that phone thieves would now take your phone and your finger. Never mind that […]
Here’s an interesting prediction from the February 25, 1966 issue of TIME magazine: “By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.” I don’t think I’m being premature when I say I think the magazine missed the mark with that one. Not that I […]
Originally posted on January 7, 2019 Staying home for months on end can mean more texting, participation in social media, and, at the extreme, actually using a phone to make a voice call. With the first two, we may soon see more cases of “trigger thumb” and related ailments. Over the past decade, monthly texts […]
There’s a new virtual assistant in town, and it’s danged smart. Its name, appropriately enough, is Virtual Banking Assistant from Fiserv.* And while virtual banking assistants are no longer new, this one impresses in its cutting-edge conversational capability. A recent Fiserv press release states: Rooted in Natural Language Processing (NLP), deep learning and AI technologies […]
In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner observed that people once infected with cowpox, which is seldom deadly, later tended to prove immune to smallpox, which often is. It was from that observation that Jenner went on to develop a smallpox vaccine. Hang on to your hat, because I’m about to liken cows to digital payments. The […]