Workflow
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See how global enterprises are crafting ethical AI frameworks to balance innovation, governance, and trust in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Dan Tynan
(That Guy)
- Freelance Journalist, Writer and Editor, Freelance
- Founder and Contributor, The Tynan Files
California
As seen in:
The Tynan Files,
Medium,
Forbes,
The Guardian,
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News,
Mashable,
Quora,
WIRED Magazine,
Yahoo Finance,
Adweek
and
Covers:
AI, automation, cyber security, education, family tech, IT management issues, Internet's impact on society, machine learning, mobile apps, politics, privacy, smart homes, social media, tech dystopias
Doesn't Cover:
Porn, sports, really nerdy stuff, funding rounds, executive hires/promotions/ego stroking, shoes
Writer, editor, professional troublemaker.
Intercourse Elon. See you on Threads.
www.threads.net/@dantynan
Dan Tynan’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridDear Alexa, I want a divorce
The Tynan Files
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This relationship has run its course. It's not me, it's you.
The Glory That Was Yahoo
Fast Company
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Everyone knows how the story ends. In July 2016, 22 years after it began as a hobby for Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo agreed to sell its core operating business to Verizon in what Forbes writer Brian Solomon called " the saddest $5 billion deal in tech history."
Actors, teachers, therapists - think your job is safe from artificial intelligence? Think again
The Guardian
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In the battle for the 21st century workplace, computers are winning. And the odds of us puny humans making a comeback are not very good. A January 2017 report from the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that roughly half of today's work activities could be automated by 2055, give or take 20 years.
The skills and traits of a next-generation CIO
CIO
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As digital transformation threatens to alter everything we thought we knew about business, the C-suite is suddenly crowded with geeks, and companies scrambling to disrupt themselves or die trying are looking to technology for answers, but not necessarily to the office of the CIO.
Why Old-School Brands Like Gap Need to Learn New Tricks to Survive in the Digital Age
Adweek
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On the third floor of Gap Inc. in San Francisco, near the western terminus of the Bay Bridge, a bank of 14 big-screen monitors displays web visits, order volumes, sales funnels and other real-time analytics to a constantly rotating team of employees. This is Mission Control, the beating heart of Gap's customer experience group.
Why Facebook, Google, And Snap Love AR-And What's Coming Next | Fast Company
Fast Company
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"If you take one thing away from today," Mark Zuckerberg announced in April from the stage of F8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, "this is it: We're making the [smartphone] camera the first augmented-reality platform." Facebook had already begun adding camera effects to its apps, letting users overlay objects, animations, and filters on their images-an unabashed knockoff of Snapchat's popular AR-powered Lenses.
What's in your Facebook data? More than you think - The Parallax
The Parallax
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Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify today before Congress about his company's role in the 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, and his rather lax attitude toward the data of Facebook's 2 billion members. (He kinda sorta answered questions from the press last week.) READ MORE ON FACEBOOK AND PRIVACY Ready to #DeleteFacebook?
Once a Running Joke, LinkedIn Is Suddenly a Hot Social Network. Here's What Changed
Adweek
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When Microsoft announced it was acquiring LinkedIn for $26 billion last December, the tech world responded with a collective "Huh?" Why did the enterprise software giant want LinkedIn so badly, and why was it willing to pay so much?
How This Special Router Turned Me Into A Total Internet Tyrant
www.yahoo.com
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To paraphrase The Flintstones, we are a modern phone-age family. But not just phones. Tablets, phablets, laptops, set-tops, cameras, consoles, you name it- if it's a tech gizmo, you'll find it in our house. And while that may sound like geek nirvana, it often leads to problems.
New iPhones and iOS 11 Promise to Kick-Start Augmented Reality
Consumer Reports
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New iPhones and the rollout of iOS 11 promise to boost augmented reality apps, Consumer Reports says, with exciting new games and fresh ways to decorate your home, watch sports, and more.
Using Technology to Torment Your Kids
Mashable
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The cry came from the pit of agony and despair, also sometimes known as our daughter's bedroom.
"Mom! What's the Internet password?" As usual it was less of a question and more of an accusation. Our 13-year-old, as angry as only a hormone-charged teen girl can be, discovered we had once again changed the pass code for the Wi-Fi router.
Rocket men: why tech's biggest billionaires want their place in space
The Guardian
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The explosion could be felt 30 miles away. At 9.07am on 1 September, a SpaceX rocket containing 75,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene ignited into a fireball that could be seen from orbit, billowing black smoke into the gray sky around its Cape Canaveral launch pad.
Connecting with Your Kids Offline
www.familycircle.com
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The time your kids spend texting, Facebooking and sending IMs can come at a price. Plug in to your kids' social networking skills before they totally disconnect.
Inside the malware name game - The Parallax
the-parallax.com
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Every day, security researchers and machines identify myriad new malware strains and name the most dangerous ones. Hummingbad and Heartbleed , Stagefright and , and -the names of these computer viruses and other digital nasties are often as exotic as they are inscrutable. What's behind them?
15 Awesome Things You Probably Shouldn't Do | PCWorld
PC World
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Sometimes you gotta bend the rules. And when it comes to technology, some rules are begging to get bent. You might do it to gain access to features or functionality, or you do it because, well, it's awesome. But awesomeness has a price, and every activity carries a risk.
10 Gadget Flops We Can Learn From
Fast Company
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These products didn’t connect, but they paved the way for tech we now take for granted.
Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
www.womenshealthmag.com
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Do me a favor and hide this article from my wife. It's the holiday season, and that means she'll soon drag me along on her annual descent into that pit of despair known as our local mall to enact the time-honored tradition of millions of couples: She'll gleefully embark on a marathon of browsing and buying, and I'll trail miserably behind her, wondering whether I should fake a heart attack to make it all stop.
How AI can help our cybersecurity crisis | HPE
hpe.com
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Artificial intelligence has become a key weapon in the fight against cyber crooks, rogue hackers, and aggressive nation states, but it's not a magic fix. Experts weigh in on where AI makes sense in an enterprise security strategy, and what's best left to human judgement.
7 days with the Chevy Volt: Gas-free and fully charged
www.itworld.com
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I like paying $4 a gallon for gas as much as the next person. Which is to say, not one damned bit. So when the kind folks at GM called and offered to loan me a 2011 Chevy Volt -- Detroit's plugged-in answer to the Toyota Prius and Nissan Leaf hybrid cars -- I leapt at the chance.
Who needs talent when you've got AI?
The Tynan Files
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AI video creation tools let anyone be a mini-Spielberg. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Gab is building a Nazi-friendly chatbot. Because of course it is.
The Tynan Files
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Get ready for HitlerGPT, coming to a racist social network near you.