Category Archives: Technology

The Panopticon Comes for Your Playlist

Artists can see what playlists you add their songs to on Spotify. That hasn’t really [...]

How IT-Secure is Your Business?

Take our quiz (via Google Forms) here: https://forms.gle/Yz36chVPMshp6bT57 And when you’re done, download or view [...]

Does Digital Content Have to Be Made Scarce?

NFTs The ever-unpopular NFT is a fantastic example of artificial scarcity, and how creating it [...]

“NPC Interactions” and the Death Of Social Cues

What is An NPC? NPCs, or non-playable characters, are side characters in video games. When [...]

Digital Influencers are like Vocaloids but Worse

Polar, the New “Digital Influencer” What is a digital influencer? Essentially, a digital influencer is [...]

Metadata: What is it?

The BTK killer was caught with metadata. Geotagging can unintentionally help poachers find endangered animals, [...]

What is Redaction?

Once upon a time, I stumbled into a forum thread about image censorship. The forum [...]

The Kinect’s Path To Market

The Xbox Kinect was famous for a couple of things: it could see you without [...]

FlexPlay: The Worst of All Worlds

Once upon a time, there was a growing trend towards making media easy to access. [...]

Folding Smartphones – from Samsung Bricks

Brick Phones (and Mobile Phones) The first portable phones were barely. A suitcase with a [...]