A Future Full of Holes: Cybersecurity is Still Failing Us
Cybersecurity is the elephant in the room that too few people are talking about. The threats posed by hackers and cybercriminals affects us all on multiple levels — financial, personal, and as a matter of national security. For example, the healthcare industry has been experiencing serious and debilitating breaches for years.
Should Traditional College Education Matter in the Jobs Market?
College education has become a focal point in society, no matter where you stand. Those without degrees see them as the stepping stone to a better life — a key that opens doors to untold opportunity. Many employers, on the other hand, see degrees as a requirement to work, an indicator that a person is serious about the jobs market, whether they’re qualified for their position or not.
Using Gamification to Bolster Motivation in the Classroom
The concept of games is one almost everyone in the United States is aware of. The history of gaming is rich, spanning from Milton Bradley board games to highly advanced, modern video games, all revolving around the primary goal of “entertainment.” Nowadays, however, that goal is changing.
Beyond the Facade: 3D Printing and Anaplastology
Famed sci-fi author and philosopher Arthur C.Clarke once famously said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This is a beautiful, thought-provoking sentiment — although, we do have to remember that magic, as awe-inspiring as it can be, is also scary. For centuries, the supernatural has made people uncomfortable. Case in point: Back when animation was primarily done on paper, without graphics processing units and animation programs running the show, cartoon characters were clearly recognizable as human, but they were also simultaneously and unambiguously nothing more than symbolic representations of humans. They were line-drawn characters with human voices, and though it requires suspension of disbelief to derive entertainment…
The Time to Start Reading to Your Child Is Now
If you were a young reader yourself, you might already understand the value of learning to read sooner rather than later — but if you aren’t, on the other hand, you might be unaware of what kind of benefits your kids can gain the sooner you start reading to them. This is different than the type of reading you do when you scroll through Facebook or Twitter; this is the type of imaginative reading that takes you on a journey! It All Starts With the Picture Book Children of any age can start building healthy reading habits with simple picture and board books. However, the younger your child, the better…
3 Tips for Improving Communication in the Digital Workplace
We live in the most connected time that any human being has ever lived in, and yet, it seems that we’ve grown worse at communicating as time has gone on. Gone are the days of the workforce that could rely on face-to-face communication as an workplace staple, as offices exist in both physical locales and in virtual spaces accessed from all over the globe. Communication all too often now boils down to textual exchanges between multiple time zones, sometimes even utilizing varying degrees of shorthand and emojis to get points across. Compounding the issue is the degree to which the current workforce can be considered intergenerational, with baby boomers on…
Cybersecurity Still Isn’t Getting Any Better…
We’ve never been at such technological heights as we are now. We’ve never been more connected, had more data on our hands, or enjoyed the multitude of miraculous digital solutions that we do today. Unfortunately, we’ve also never been less technologically secure.
Autonomous Vehicles and a New Wave of Disruption
There’s been a lot of talk about self-driving cars over the last few years, but the US Senate has finally announced that it will pass legislation clearing regulations and restrictions for manufacturers, in essence providing a clear path to putting driverless cars on the road.
The Next Cybersecurity Weapon: Self-Driving Cars
A new report shows that the fastest growing crime in the world is cyber-crime. Commenting on the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2017, Hiscox CEO Steve Langan said that in 2016 “cybercrime cost the global economy over $450 billion, over 2 billion personal records were stolen and in the U.S. alone over 100 million Americans had their medical records stolen,” reports CNBC.
Is Cyber Security Dead?
If anybody in the U.S. hadn’t heard about cyber security before 2016, you can bet that they’ve heard about it by now. From Russian hacking and interference during the 2016 election, to the Dyn DDoS attack that shut down Internet traffic on the East Coast for half a day in October the same year, cyber security began to dominate the headlines, especially toward the end of the year. The year 2017 hasn’t seen any type of slowdown in terms of cyber security incidents. The UK Parliament was recently hit by a cyber-attack, and ransomware damages alone are projected reach $5 billion by the end of the year, a fifteen-fold increase…
The Blockchain and The Byzantine Generals Problem
Twenty years ago, nobody would have predicted the impact that a popularized global information network would have on society–and even though the internet has only been around for a little over two decades, we still have yet to max out its potential, with wearables, connected home devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) components just recently becoming popular. Nevertheless our dependence on the worldwide web is easily demonstrated. For example, in 2014, it was calculated that $1.2 million dollars worth of business was done every 30 seconds online, and Pew Research released a report showing that only about 13 percent of Americans don’t use the internet. You would think that…
