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What we can learn from the hitchBOT social experiment

Brendan Spaar reports on the latest on hitchbot from Philidelphia

[schema type=”person” name=”Hitchbot” jobtitle=”the hitchhiking robot” city=”Philadelphia ” state=”PA” ] Those that say that Canadians are too nice and trusting were proven correct over the weekend when a social experiment conducted by a Canadian group came to an end in the United States.  This group of Canadian researchers developed HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, that was …

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Supernatural tech support is actually a high paying job

Brendan Spaar does not believe that witches will protect computers

Have you ever felt like your computer was possessed?  Many computer users, including Brendan Spaar, sometimes get the feeling that glitches in their gadgets are outside of their control.  Some users go to great lengths to protect their data from corruption or theft including placing bible verses on their computer screens, saying a prayer before …

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Cloud computing killed the Infrastructure star

Brendan Spaar is a cloud engineer from Atlanta Georgia

[schema type=”product” name=”Yamaha” description=”Yamaha migrates all of their data servers and applications to Amazon Web Services” brand=”AWS” manfu=”Amazon Web Services” ] If you  have been following technology trends for the last 3 years like Brendan Spaar has, you will notice that companies are outsourcing all of their infrastructure into the cloud.  Outsourcing once was a …

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Anthony Cumia fired from SiriusXM

[schema type=”person” name=”Anthony Cumia” orgname=”SiriusXM” description=”One half of the radio duo Opie and Anthony” city=”New York” state=”NY” ] Fans of the Opie and Anthony show on SIRIUSXM are in shock this morning as it was announced that Anthony Cumia has been fired for comments that he made on social media.  Many people take to Facebook …

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