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Paperless Office: Businesses Retire Printers as Electronic Documents are Used More Frequently

By Dick Weisinger

COVID-19 caused a big downturn in the use of paper in the office. Businesses were forced to operate with many or most workers working from their homes. The result was that much less paper was able to be pushed around…

Plan 9 by Nokia Bell Labs: Now Released with MIT Licensing

By Dick Weisinger

Forty years ago Bell Labs was a center of technology innovation. Researchers from Bell are credited with developing technologies like the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, and radio astronomy. In the area of software, Bell researchers created Unix and…

Voice Ethics: Are Virtual Assistants More Helpful than Worrisome?

By Dick Weisinger

Siri, Cortana, Alexa and more. Virtual assistants increasingly surround us and respond to questions that we speak. They often can save time, and they can even be spunky and humorous. But what are some of the ethical and legal challenges…

GraphQL: Simplifying the Complexity of Large Microservice Projects

By Dick Weisinger

GraphQL is a query language used with APIs. It is a concise and flexible query language that lets clients pinpoint and return only required the data. It is interesting because it helps overcome some of these common problems that occur…

Hydrogen Energy: A Zero Carbon Emission Goal by 2050

By Dick Weisinger

“Net Zero” is a an environmental goal to keep the CO2 gas in the atmosphere balanced. The net difference of all greenhouse gases emitted and the C02 gases removed from the atmosphere needs to balance out to zero. An even…