Digital Transformation

Amazon says its Rekognition facial recognition software can now identify fear and seven other emotions including, happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted, calm and confused. What Amazon is not telling you is that facial recognition when combined with other data will be able, in short order, to take a pretty good guess about lying, cheating, jealousy, and other emotions that you do your best to hide with your "poker face." Lie detectors are so last century. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer reviews some cool tech for back to school on Fox 5 New York's Good Day with Kerry Drew and Raegan Medgie. Original Airdate: August 13, 2019 Continue Reading →

The loud knocking jarred him from his online research. Odd to hear a knock at the door at this hour, he thought. It was too powerful to be a friend. Then again, anyone he knew would have called ahead. As he approached the door, the second knock was insistent, and he heard, “Police. Open up. We know you’re home.” Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks with Zain Asher about Samsung's new Note 10+ and Note 10 on CNN International's Quest Means Business. Original Airdate: August 8, 2019 Continue Reading →

Samsung just announced the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+, available for pre-order at 12:01amET on August 8 and in stores on August 23. I got my hands on them earlier this week, and they are… awesome!! Here’s everything you need to know about Samsung’s newest phones. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about predictive analytics and what can and can't be done with technology to help prevent mass shootings with Sukanya Krishnan and Jennifer Lahmers on Fox 5 New York. Original Airdate: August 6, 2019 Continue Reading →

Apple contractors are listening to snippets of private conversations though Siri. Should you worry? Shelly Palmer speaks with Sukanya Krishnan and Kerry Drew about it on Fox 5 New York's Good Day Wake Up. Original Airdate: July 30, 2019 Continue Reading →

Ever wonder what would happen if your business accounting software was out of commission for a month? Or if you put a core business function in the cloud only to find out that you had no way to work around a flaw in the provider’s system? Or if part of the SaaS software just stopped functioning and there was nothing you could do about it? Continue Reading →

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” becoming the first human being to walk on the moon. At the time, there were only two entities with the resources to accomplish a mission of this scale: America and its cold war rival, the Soviet Union. Today, there are more than 60 individuals who could write a check for their own space programs and the race is on! Continue Reading →

What do you really need to know? Would a sixth-grade education give you enough basic skills to enable you to use online tools to learn a trade or become a service worker or a knowledge worker? Would you need eighth-grade skills? Tenth-grade? Perhaps a four-year college degree? Continue Reading →