Radio Recap: Imposter Syndrome
To paraphrase from Alison Jones' Guardian story: “17 of the Top 20 authors in the Business category of Amazon.com were men; and of the three women, two were writing about the virtues of decluttering. By contrast, on the same day the Top 10 names on the Fiction authors’ list were all female.” It’s facts like these [Read More]
Radio Recap: Artificial Intelligence
Last week, the National Transit Highway Safety Administration released a statement saying the artificial intelligence system in Google’s self-driving car legally qualifies as a driver in the US, therefore meeting all safety standards for driving on public roads—without a steering wheel or conventional brake pedal. This marks the first of many huge steps toward streamlining [Read More]
Radio Recap: Digital Dating & Offline Love
Now that over 100 million people are using mobile dating apps—with over 50 million users using Tinder alone!— online dating is now a $2 billion dollar industry. And now that using technology to find a date has now become the most popular way for singles to meet, mobile dating is expected to be a $600 [Read More]
Radio Recap: Baby Tech
Since early January I’ve been reporting on the many trends of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show: Drones, smarthome appliances, wearables—but one trend I was most surprised to see make such an impact was that of Baby Tech. From Fisher Price’s cool Code-a-Pillar that teaches coding for kids, to the hospital grade Owlet baby monitor that [Read More]
Radio Recap: Women Gamers
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 60% of all girls between the ages of 13 and 17 are gamers, yet 76% of solo video game protagonists are male. Over 42% of females own a console, compared to 37 percent of males, and yet for every 5 male characters in a game there is only [Read More]
Radio Recap: Rise of the Drones
2016 has already started out with a bang: The Powerball jackpot paid out over a billion dollars while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been down since the first of the January. We’ve lost actor Alan Rickman, American judge and first woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court, Marie Garibaldi, and what sadly [Read More]
Radio Recap: Media Moms & Digital Dads
With tech growing at an exponential rate, being a digital immigrant is no easy feat. Dr. Yalda Uhls is a researcher, Director at Common Sense Media, and she’s the author of Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact, Not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age. Today Yalda’s addressed the challenges and benefits of raising digital [Read More]
Radio Recap: CES 2016
Neither rain, nor mudslides, nor flight delays have stopped the 200,000-plus attendees and over 3,600 exhibitors from around the globe from getting to this biggest consumer tech show of the year. CES 2016 has drones, virtual reality, wearables, 3D TVS, OLED laptops, and especially smarthome appliances—anything and everything related to the Internet of Things is here [Read More]