Now you can get a blood test for Alzheimer’s
I woke up to an email from Quest Diagnostics last week – announcing they’ve released the first consumer blood test to detect the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Scrolling through the email, I was informed that I could put the test in my ‘shopping cart’ and buy it for $399. My father was diagnosed with […]
Where do you draw the line?
Establishing boundaries anywhere in life requires an effort to develop that which is important to you, express it clearly and then enforce those parameters. This actually happened in Washington this past week when President Biden announced he’d received new commitments by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies leading AI technology development to meet a […]
Twitter paved the way for Threads to go live
Who would have thought to imitate Twitter, a platform of some 450 million active users? Apparently, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg did. It would take a financial wiz and savvy tech mogul to attempt this feat – and who better than Zuckerberg, who last month accepted a challenge to a cage match with Twitter’s Elon Musk? Twitter’s […]
Every now and then there are consequences for lying
Last week, Brazil’s top election court took swift action when it barred former President Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 years. Why? Because he was found guilty of making false statements to ambassadors and diplomats, claiming he lost this past presidential election as a result of defects in the electronic ballots he knew […]
Warning: danger ahead!
When the news was finally released that all five men aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible lost their lives – there was an outpouring of grief and sadness for the families. Then came the questions. Followed quickly by the finger pointing. A normal series of events. In the midst of the fallout a phrase that caught […]