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Jim Karpen

Computer Frontiers, Features
February 5, 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Will It Be Our Doom?

It must have been humiliating for world chess champion Gary Kasparov to lose to a…

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Jim Karpen February 5, 2019
Computer Frontiers, Features
December 6, 2018

Need Gifts? Go for Gadgets This Holiday Season

“Alexa, what’s the weather?” “I seem to be having trouble connecting to the Internet. Please…

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Jim Karpen December 6, 2018
Computer Frontiers, Features
November 11, 2018

Outsourcing: I Hired A Writer to Pen This Month’s Column

You may think outsourcing is the sole province of corporations wanting to take advantage of…

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Jim Karpen November 11, 2018
Computer Frontiers, Features
October 21, 2018

This is What Modern Cyberwarfare Looks Like

On the morning of June 27, 2017, trucks were arriving as usual at the shipping…

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Jim Karpen October 21, 2018
Computer Frontiers, Features
September 5, 2018

Conspiracy Mongers: A Defense of Truth in the Post-Truth Era

It seems possible to know that a child has lived and died. There’s a birth…

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Jim Karpen September 5, 2018
Computer Frontiers, Features, Food, Restaurants and Recipes
August 14, 2018

Fish Fraud . . . and How the Blockchain Revolution is Restoring Transparency

If you sit down at a restaurant to eat some wild-caught salmon from Alaska, you’d…

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Jim Karpen August 14, 2018
car traffic
Computer Frontiers, Features
July 4, 2018

Carmageddon is Coming: Will Gas-Powered Cars Go the Way of the Horse & Carriage?

I’m looking at a photo of a parade on 5th Ave. in New York City…

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Jim Karpen July 4, 2018
Smartphone purchase
Computer Frontiers, Features
June 6, 2018

Some Favorite Things: Internet Conveniences

As I write this, it’s the 25th anniversary of the release of Mosaic—the very first…

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Jim Karpen June 6, 2018
Computer Frontiers, Features
May 8, 2018

Surveillance Capitalism: Does Facebook Know You Better Than Your Friends Do?

It was 2016 and my friend “Matt” was doing some volunteer work for the Rand…

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Jim Karpen May 8, 2018
Features, Internet Tools and Website Savvy
April 4, 2018

Great Websites for Cheap Products

I’m embarrassed to admit that I got fooled online. I thought I was buying a…

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Jim Karpen April 4, 2018
vintage phone
Computer Frontiers, Features
February 28, 2018

A Hero in the Background: Honoring Fred Rosenberg, Database Administrator

You probably haven’t thought much about what happens when you make a phone call. Neither…

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Jim Karpen February 28, 2018
Computer Frontiers, Features
January 30, 2018

The Cryptocurrency Craze

You may remember the February 2015 column about my failed bitcoin mining experiment. Over the…

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Jim Karpen January 30, 2018
Features, Technology
December 12, 2017

Techie Gifts: Deck the Halls with Voice-Controlled Gadgets

It’s that time of year—when I share my technolust. If you’re looking for a gift…

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Jim Karpen December 12, 2017
Computer Frontiers, Features
November 1, 2017

Robots Are Taking Over

I’m happy to tell you that I have everything figured out. What’s the issue? That…

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Jim Karpen November 1, 2017
Computer Frontiers, Features
October 9, 2017

Why You Need a VPN

Protesters who were involved in attempting to disrupt President Trump’s inauguration were a bit nervous…

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Jim Karpen October 9, 2017
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