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Social and Collaboration Tools: Now a Must-Have Feature for Enterprise Software

By Dick Weisinger

COVID-19 has been a catalyst for the growth and adoption of collaboration software by businesses. Gartner is predicting that the growth trend will continue even after the worries about COVID-19 die down. Nicole Alvino, co-founder and chief strategy officer at…

Brain-Computer Interface: Computers Enabling Human Minds to Process the World Around Them

By Dick Weisinger

Brain-Computer interfaces (BCI) are being developed that allow human brainwaves to be captured and converted into signals that can be processed and interpreted by computers. The technology is especially beneficial to people who have been handicapped by, for example, the…

Security: Passphrases Versus Passwords

By Dick Weisinger

Security professionals suggest users begin to adopt passphrases instead of using passwords. What’s the difference? The difference is in length. The longer the security credential, the more secure it is. Research has found that making secure passwords secure with complex…

Microservices: Are they Worth the Complexity?

By Dick Weisinger

Scaling, resilience and performance are some of the benefits that come with a microservice architecture. Huge applications can be broken up into smaller pieces, and the individual pieces can then be scaled independently. Leif Beaton, Senior Solutions Architect at NGINX,…

Data Poisoning: Corrupting Data to Thwart AI

By Dick Weisinger

It’s a fact of life that big tech and governments are collecting your personal data: all the pieces of your life’s history, your interactions with digital technology, and even the monitoring of your biologic functions. Some of the reasons why…