Technology
Gov. Evers, Technology
Evers on Digital Divide
Elections, Hacking, Milwaukee, Technology
Milwaukee Election Commission “Zoom Bombed” with graphic content
Technology
Tips for Looking (and Sounding) Great on a Video Call
Encryption, FBI, Federal Government, Liberty, Privacy, Private Property, Surveillance, Technology
Precedent
At least with our homes we have some reasonable ways to know whether or not a government agent has entered it. With our technology, however, they could enter our computers, phones, tablets, etc., take whatever they want, and we would never know unless they decided to tell us. And there have been too many instances of that happening for the American people to feel comfortable giving the government even more tools to access our technology.
Perhaps if the government had behaved more responsibly with our civil liberties to date, this wouldn’t be much of an issue.
Via Obama Makes Case for Government Access to Private Property @ Boots & Sabers.
Encryption, Sen. Johnson, Technology
Ron Johnson Favors FBI in Apple Battle
Madison, Police, Technology
Body Cams?
Business, Sports, Technology
Timing
Business, Technology
Anti-procrastination software maker claims procrastination a big problem
Via Three-fourths of college students in survey attribute procrastination to Internet distractions @ JS School Zone.
Press, Technology
Could it handle the workload?
Via “Is there an app that detects bogus claims in a story pretending to be reporting?” Althouse.
Business, Liberty, Technology
Open
Accidents, Technology
Benders
Via What if you buy an elegantly thin iPhone and put it in your back pocket and proceed to sit on it all day? @ Althouse.
Technology
$349 and up
So now, why would I want something on my wrist again, something that I’ll want to take off whenever I type, which I do much of the day? I don’t see it. And it’s certainly not so aesthetically pleasing that I’d feel cool flaunting it as an accessory. It’s for men, isn’t it? Remember pocket…
Crime, Technology
Accomplice?
Via “A college student accused of killing his roommate asked Siri for advice on hiding a body the day the man went missing…” @ Althouse.
History, Science, Technology
7.20.1969
State Government, Technology
Lt. Gov. Kleefisch on Broadband
Technology, UW Madison
She’s gone electric
Technology, UW Madison
No Email Wednesday
The outage occurred at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday when the power source quit to the universal power supply — a roomful of batteries that power a data center on Dayton Street. The data center is the largest at the university although it’s supplemented by dozens of smaller centers across campus. Power returned to the data center…
Food, Technology
PancakeBot
Government Spending, State Government, Technology
$137,800,000
State Government, Technology, Wisconsin
New state website
Education, Schools, Technology
Tablets peaking?
Via College students aren’t embracing tablets like experts expected, study says @ JS School Zone Blog.
Technology, UW Madison
UW-Madison moves online
UW-Madison is offering 100 online courses this summer, up from 64 last summer and 49 the summer before. Via UW-Madison expanding online course offerings for summer term @ JS School Zone.
Business, Technology
Software company that lets others make software get seven-figure investment
Drifty, founded in 2012 by Max Lynch and Ben Sperry — friends since kindergarten in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood and former co-workers at Madison mobile game developer PerBlue — makes software designed to help users create their own mobile apps or mobile websites. Via Drifty draws $1 million investment; and coming events for techies @…
Business, Technology
So, would SXSW work in Wisconsin?
Accidents, Milwaukee, Technology
Will a satellite crash land in MIlwaukee?
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about: They aren’t saying Milwaukee is in the target zone, but then again, they aren’t saying Milwaukee isn’t…. more» Via JS Hubbub Blog.
Packers, Technology
Still spotty
Crime, Local Government, Misconduct, Photography, Police, Technology
Local policing and point of view cameras
Point of view cameras, activated during each and every encounter, will exonerate police of false complaints while confirming actual misconduct. Via Local Policing and Point-of-View Cameras @ Daily Adams.
Technology
The age of predictive robots
Technology, Wisconsin
Wisconsin middle-of-pack for broadband speed
Schools, Technology
Madison School Board’s bungled search for new superintendent
Someday, they’ll discover…the Web: The consultant hired by the Madison School Board to coordinate its search for a new superintendent didn’t raise questions about the work experience of finalist Walter Milton Jr. in its background investigation summary, records show. But Milton acknowledged to board members in written materials that an Internet search about him would…