Geekz has been a side passion for years as I have attempted to grow some type of sustainable audience and more importantly, a community, around the topics that interest me most. I started off re-posting many articles that I found interesting. I was basically curating content for the page for a very long time. […]
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technologies have made a huge impact in technology over the last couple of years. While there were many toiling away writing code long before that to support these technologies, the general public was really made aware and got involved heavily in the last few years. That leads me to wonder what […]
These days it is hard to tell one social network from another. The feature sets are beginning to align between all of the major players and this is continuing the fragmentation of users across the various platforms. One prime example is the ability to host video chats with other users, sometimes multiple users at […]
As our family prepared for travel to China to finalize the adoption of our child, we were instructed by our adoption agency to download the app, WeChat. Outside of adoption circles, I was not familiar with this particular service, but it would be an understatement to say it was huge in mainland China. The thing […]
Good news, Fitbit Ionic and Ionic Adidas Edition owners, Fitbit OS 2.0 has landed with the latest software update, bringing a handful of new features… Source: Fitbit OS 2.0: New features to look out for on your Ionic I received the Fitbit OS 2.0 today, and it brought a long-awaited feature for me. I was […]
Google Play Instant is part of a redesign of the Google Play Games app. Source: Google will let you play Android games before downloading them “Google on Monday rolled out Google Play Instant in its Google Play store. You can tap on one of the games listed and play it without having to buy or download it […]
Microsoft is announcing the next generation of it’s DirectX API, called DirectX Raytracing (DXR). The new API is intended to bridge the gap between rasterization and raytracing, allowing for new and increasingly realistic renderings to take place. You can read about the details on Microsoft’s DirectX blog, but let’s talk about what this means for […]
Chatbot Therapy — Read on www.psychtechpodcast.com/chatbot-therapy/ As a person who regularly deals with anxiety, I found this post interesting. Honestly, I did not listen to the podcast, but I read through some of the supporting materials. I have never thought about the use of a chatbot for helping mental health patients deal with issues. I […]
These days, all we hear about are ways to cut the cord and ditch those evil cable networks and their exhaustive pricing. I, too, was in that state of mind over the last few years. I have spent the last 3 years without cable…sort of. There are all sorts of illegal ways by which to […]
Useful links: pfSense Forum Topic pfelk.3ilson.com (doesn’t seem to be maintained) I currently work for a big data company. We take machine data, or digital exhaust, and turn it into searchable, intelligible, information for analytics and visualization. As an vendor knows, there are always competitors whose names come up often in conversation. One such competitor, Elastic, […]
