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Jim Karpen

Computer Frontiers, Features
August 6, 2019

How To Get Your Money From Equifax

EDITOR’S NOTE: Editor’s note: After this column was published, Equifax began requiring that applicants for…

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Jim Karpen August 6, 2019
Computer Frontiers, Features
August 1, 2019

Where’s the Deal? How To Defeat Dynamic Pricing Online

I thought I’d buy a tennis racquet online at Midwest Sports, having bought there before…

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Jim Karpen August 1, 2019
Computer Frontiers, Features
July 9, 2019

The Irony of Surveillance Capitalism: What’s Up with Those Wedding Ring Ads?

By now you must be very familiar with the issue: everything you do on the…

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Jim Karpen July 9, 2019
Computer Frontiers, Features
May 31, 2019

How To Spot Fake Reviews Online

There comes a time in a man’s life when he needs a hearing aid. Embarrassing,…

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Jim Karpen May 31, 2019
Computer Frontiers, Features
May 3, 2019

Scammed!! Don’t Be Fooled By Hoaxes and Hackers

So my friend “Tom” got an email from his supervisor at work saying, “I need…

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Jim Karpen May 3, 2019
Computer Frontiers
April 4, 2019

Cameras Are Watching You: The Erosion of Privacy in the Digital Era

By the end of 2020, China hopes to have a surveillance system fully in place…

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Jim Karpen April 4, 2019
Computer Frontiers, Features
March 4, 2019

My Password Has Been Hacked at Least 27 Times

Do this right away. Go to the website Have I Been Pwned (haveibeenpwned.com), enter your…

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Jim Karpen March 4, 2019
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
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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
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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
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