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Advanced Materials: Silicon Carbide Begins to Replace Silicon for Improved Electric Power Devices

By Dick Weisinger

In the move away from fossil fuels to electicity, the semiconductor compound called Silicon Carbide (SiC) is increasingly being used to improve electric power electronics. SiC provides high mechanical, chemical, and thermal stability. It is an excellent conductor, especially when…

First-Party Data: Marketers Architect More Personalized Campaigns

By Dick Weisinger

Marketers determine how to sell and advertise products based on data. Marketing data is often classified based on the way that it was collected. First-Party Data is collected through direct interaction with a user, such as tracking visits to a…

Confidential Computing: Keeping Data Secure During Computations

By Dick Weisinger

Security strategies for data and computing usually rely heavily on data encryption. This includes the encryption of data “at rest” and also during “transmission”. But a weak point of this strategy is the use of data during computation — data…

Technology: Remote Work Goes Mainstream

By Dick Weisinger

Covid forced companies to shift many or all of their employees into remote work-from-home positions. Even as Covid wanes, the landscape of work has changed dramatically over just a few years. The results of some of the changes include: 16…

Technology: Boring is often Better than Shiny New

By Dick Weisinger

Being an ‘early adopter’ has a sense of coolness about it that can be irresistable for a lot of people. But new technology generally comes with a unique set of glitches, bugs and incompatibilities, that in more cases than not,…