Tag: internet

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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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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Should you worry about Heartbleed?

[schema type=”product” name=”OpenSSL” description=”The heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL has a lot of people panicking. Brendan Spaar explains what heartbleed is and what you need to do to protect yourself.” ] By now you have probably heard of the security vulnerability known as Heartbleed.  The news broke last week that versions of website encryption software OpenSSL …

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