In the Weeds with Dexter Johnson

Let's take a field trip!! The title of Apple's latest event has us buzzing. What will we see? New iPads, new Apple pencil devices or extended support? What about a low cost MacBook Air? For a company that's extremely behind in education, Apple hopes to right the ship -- we'll see. Stay tuned for coverage. ||

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Facebook has a LOT of your data -- a lot. In fact, you don't even have to be signed in for them to track you and tie information to your personal profile because of Facebook Pixel. Did Facebook do anything wrong? Well, thanks to a whistleblower at Cambridge Analytica, we've found out that 50 million users had their data manipulated and modeled to target their "inner demons" -- can this happen with other companies? ||

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A database is an organized collection of data. And a relational database, more restrictively, is a collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views, and other elements. Many just think of a database as a box, but more importantly it is the backbone of any successful IT organization with many needs for management in the realms of security, performance and design.

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Automation is defined as the automatic operation or control of equipment, a process, or a system. Many things, whether you realize it or not, are automated from payment processing, vending machines, traffic lights -- essentially all things electronic contain automation points to make our lives easier. Can autonomous vehicles help make for safer highways? On the wake of an unfortunate event involving Uber and a pedestrian, I discuss.

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Does the government really want to help pioneer technology or does it simply want to make money off of creating fear from it's constituents?

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How do us and our new found digital assistants interact? Do we just talk and get answers? Are we sometimes interrupted with a prompt to install a skill (meh)? What is the way of the future, who is doing what right and is who is doing what wrong?

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Apple fans (seemingly more so than others, but it also includes Google fans etc.) have a tendency to always offer praise while blindly overlooking aspects of their favorite company that are not up to par and simply lag behind it's competitors. Stop drinking the Kool aid guys and shout just as loudly when these conglomerates put out half baked tech -- instead of only doing so when they do something good.

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3D printing refers to processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object,[1] with material being added together (such as liquid molecules or powder grains being fused together). (Source: Wikipedia) It's a very cool technology, which I believe will increase consumerism in the future and will help push society forward in medicine, electronics and communication goods.

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Ever wonder how Facebook seems to know what you just searched for? How about Google and Amazon? All of these companies follow certain guidelines that let them and other aggregate information about you then show it to you in relevant ways -- but you can limit it because it's your data!! Take control with Privacy Badger and Ghostery!

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Set top boxes are everywhere, from Roku to Amazon Fire to Apple TV 4K....but where is Google and it's once proud creation of Android TV? Is this yet another ecosystem that Google will let die?

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