People meet other people and exchange information online through social networking. By “social networking,” I don’t just mean Facebook, TikTok, and other applications that we generally think of as “social networking apps.” By “social networking,” I mean any application on the internet that connects to information from a different user. On the internet, every participant […]
AI Training and Copyright
Should writers get paid if their work is used as training material for an AI? Under current copyright laws, probably not. Disclaimer: While I work professionally in the field of intellectual property law, I am not a lawyer. These are just my opinions about how copyright laws should work. If you have questions about how […]
Police Reform with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promising to make cars safer by taking the most error-prone human decisions out of the equation of driving. The average driver must make well over a hundred decisions for every mile they drive, and one poor decision while driving could result in a deadly accident. I don’t have any research to […]
Live Video Internet
Everyone should have internet access to any public camera in the world. Any owner of a public-facing camera should have the option to add the live camera feed to map software such as Google Maps or MapQuest (maybe the addition of such a feature could propel MapQuest back to relevance!). Every public store or restaurant […]
An App for Trading Kids’ Stuff
Kids grow up so quickly, and as they grow, they need and want very different things. A highchair and playpen may suit a two-year-old, but after a couple years, those items might be useless to them. You might want to trade that highchair and playpen for a lunchbox and crayons. Even among older kids, wants […]
Eleven Million Inventions and Counting
On May 11, 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued its eleven millionth patent. That’s eleven million distinct inventions published in detail with no duplicates. It’s quite an amazing feat, considering that it took over a hundred years to issue the first million patents. Here’s a look at the eleven big milestone […]