Frustrated with the renting process in California? The fees you pay over and over? Santa Cruz County is trying to liberate the renter from the mess by making application fees a thing of the past as people struggle from…
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A very long time ago in the era 2000 I was somehow struck by the need for social commentary a la Dr. Seuss. I understand the current issues but am also one of those who say, “Don’t cancel culture,…
How important is your mail? Stupid question, right? It’s critical. No matter the digital world we still need mail and a mailing address. Increasingly, digital nomads are resurrecting mail on the go services. Are they doing their job? What…
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Fraud and Failure Fail often, fail fast is often said to startup founders. But why? You can get an answer to ‘why’ from tech gurus, plain folk and failures as to why that might be a good thing. Supposedly…
What took so long? This isn’t hidden info. I found Cambridge Analytica and its methods over a year ago. I tweeted. I told friends in the hopes they would stop…
Funny Money A funny thing happens when a place inside of America makes a lot of money. Politicians take notice. With the 2014 midterm elections just around the corner, Silicon Valley is quickly becoming a goto place for political…
We intercepted phone calls to Chancellor Merkel of Germany last year. We spy on our citizens (Hello NSA). Gmail reads my mail before the recipient. Palantir’s CIA funded guard stop me from taking a pic of the menu of what…
The scientists are strongly behind this one now. It wasn’t always so. But people don’t seem to care..too much. The Federal Communications Commission announced this year it would review its maximum Specific Absorption Rate for cell phones. SAR is a measure…
Big data is morphing into hyper data. Big data was the buzz word but it wasn’t big enough so it moved at hyper speed. And now it is hyper data. So the next thing will be data faster…
Theranos opens in Maryland, and 23andme is still chatting with the left in last century organization , FDA, which is always busy with its special interest groups. (United Healthcare on speed dial?) See our first post on Theranos –…