Worldwide Web Watch

January 18, 2017 When home concierge systems listen a little too well… That’s the issue multiple Amazon Echo  owners  encountered when several systems heard a line on the news and took it as a command to order a dollhouse.  Among other things, Echo’s “Alexa” is designed to make purchases on behalf of its owner or anyone […]

Technology Triple Trivia

3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. November 1, 2016 Who or what is Budweiser’s new road warrior? Hint:   Answer: look ma! no hands!  Budweiser has teamed up with Otto and together they shipped over 50,000 cans of beer over 120 miles in a driverless truck.  Here is a statement from Otto:  “[w]ith an Otto-equipped […]

Technology Triple Trivia

June 14, 2016 What suggests technology will be a step ahead of many formal medical diagnoses in the near future? Hint: Answer: online health symptom searches on Bing have led a group of Microsoft scientists to claim that pancreatic cancer detection is possible in 5-15% of cases prior to actually receiving a formal diagnosis by […]