Hi everyone, and Happy Independence Day! I hope you are all enjoying some down time this weekend. The tech world enjoyed a little down time this weekend itself, and as a result I don’t have a lot to report. But one trend stood out this past week, one that I think is just beginning: social media (and whole countries, even) stepped up their banning of content. It’s fitting that these events are taking place around the…
This week, there was news from one company that pretty much drowned out all the rest, and that company goes by the name of Apple. This week was the first virtual World-Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), the annual meeting where Apple announces new software updates, and developers can meet and listen to Apple engineers describe the future of Apple products. Most Apple enthusiasts prefer to watch the initial keynote, where the big announcements are made,…
Since we’ve been on lockdown, have you noticed your podcast consumption increasing or decreasing? The number of podcasts have exploded the past few years, and it seems like one effect of the lockdown is that all the people who “always wanted to start a podcast” are now actually doing that, and let’s just say the quality is not uniform.
But I do listen to a fair number of podcasts – legal, technology, and otherwise – and…
Hello, and welcome to the Friday Tech Fix for June 5! My original goal has been to cover what I think are the “biggest” technology stories of the week, and why lawyers should care about them. But we are currently living in extraordinary times, and big technology news has been taking a backseat to, well…..more important topics.
So this week, I’d like to offer my take on two tech stories that caught my eye –…
Welcome to the Friday Tech Fix for May 29, 2020. As I mention over at my weekly newsletter, The Extra Mighell, this was a heck of a time to start blogging and writing about technology news. There just hasn’t been much of it, given the obvious slowdowns. But there was one really big tech news story this week, one that is likely to stick around for a while.
An Internet-Shaking Executive Order
This week, Twitter…
Welcome to the Memorial Day Weekend edition of The Friday Tech Fix, featuring three stories from the consumer technology world lawyers need to know about. Although it was a pretty quiet week overall, there were nevertheless three stories that I think were pretty big. So let’s get started!
If you Virtually “Build” It, Will They Come?
This week Microsoft held its annual developer conference, Build, as a virtual event for the first time ever.…
It was another pretty quiet week in technology, which is probably why my newsletter, The Extra Mighell, is full of goats running wild and episodes of The Office appearing in Slack (you have to see it to understand it). But there were two stories that I think are important for lawyers, so here goes:
The Thunderspy who Hacked Me
If you own a Windows or Linux computer manufactured before 2019, take note: your computer might…
Welcome to your Friday Tech Fix for May 8, 2020! In the Tech Fix, I focus on what I consider to be the top technology news of the week, and why lawyers need to pay attention. For me there were two big stories this week – let’s dive in:
Microsoft Dives Deep with Surface. While most of us are at home, it’s nice to see that companies are still releasing new technology. And Microsoft did…
Welcome to your Friday Tech Fix for the first day of May, 2020. From a news perspective, there were the usual landslide of stories about virtual meetings, Zoom, working from home, and the like. You can catch up on some of the other stories I found interesting at my “extra” newsletter, The Extra Mighell. Here are the top three tech stories lawyers need to pay attention to this week.
“Contact Tracing” is now “Exposure…