We use so much technology today that we seldom think about it. Email comes in, you surf the web, you make a purchase and pay with a credit card at a website, and you watch a video on your phone, tablet, computer, or television. These are all very different technologies, and yet they all seem…
To Western culture, it may seem outrageous to imprison a woman, but not a man, for exposing a face. It sounds like a law from centuries ago, and yet it’s in force today. In 2017, Vida Movahed stood on a utility box in a public street in Tehran, protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab law. Authorities arrested…
This post will conclude the series on ports and connectors. You can find links to the other posts in the series at the end of the post. Today’s entry features connectors that let us store, expand, and extend our devices’ capabilities. Many of these are less visible than the video or audio parts, but they’re…
In his first letter to the early Saints at Corinth, the Apostle Paul admonished them, “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer (1 Cor. 10:10)”. As a Latter-day Saint, I understand the word murmur to mean not just complaining, but a spirit of rebellion or ingratitude. It’s…
Continuing last month’s post on ports and connectors, we’re going to cover audio connectors and network connectors today. I’ll also talk about some legacy types of connectors that were common when I was cutting my technology teeth. You may not recognize some of the older technology, but I still encounter it often enough that it’s…
Well, Society6 made a decision. They’re going “curated,” and my photography products didn’t make the cut. Here’s the opening paragraphs of the email: We hope this message finds you well. As Society6 continues to evolve, we are making strategic changes to our marketplace structure to better align with current market dynamics and customer preferences. While…
What if your Internet connection could be unhackable? Quantum networking is a next-generation way of connecting devices using the weird and powerful rules of quantum physics. Instead of just sending data with electricity or light like today’s internet, it uses particles that can be instantly linked—even across long distances—to enable communication that’s ultra-secure and incredibly…
I’m not a great cook, and when I’m trying out a new recipe, I can get the kitchen pretty messy. It would be nice if I could try it out in a kitchen that self-destructs at the end of the experiment. Anyone with me? How about with technology, though? Well, in the computing world, we…
The images my camera captures are pretty big—around 21 MB. But the ones I post online? Closer to 2 MB. Why such a difference? It’s in the image format, but the image format affects more than just size. We’re going to look at JPEG, TIFF, and RAW image formats. We’ll examine what they mean, what…
Our Internet capabilities have grown tremendously over the past two decades. Most of that progress is thanks to improvements in the Internet itself. As recently as 2000, the idea of three people in a home watching three different movies on three different devices was inconceivable. Today, if we can’t do that, we figure something’s wrong…
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