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Monday, October 28, 2019

A Pilot and Software Engineer's Take on the Boeing 737 Max

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As of this writing, the ill-fated Boeing 737 Max series of jetliners is still grounded after two fatal crashes in which...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Hard Rock Hotel Collapse: Why?

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On Saturday morning, Oct. 12, a hotel under construction at the corner of Rampart and Canal streets in New Orleans, Lou...
Monday, October 14, 2019

PG&E Pulls the Fire Plug

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If you were one of an estimated two million customers of Pacific Gas & Electric in northern California this week, y...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Pilot Overload and the Boeing 737 Max Accidents

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In the last couple of months, new information about the factors leading to crashes of two Boeing 737 Max aircraft and t...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Jonathan Franzen Gives Up On Controlling the Climate

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Jonathan Franzen is a novelist and also writes essays that are published in places like The New Yorker .   As he admits, he's not a sc...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Moral Machines?

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By now you may be used to asking your phone or Siri or Alexa questions and expecting a reasonable answer.   The dream o...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Facing Google In Your Living Room

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An article on cnet.com recently described how Google's new smart assistant, called Google Nest Hub Max, uses facial recognition technol...
Monday, September 09, 2019

Vaping Turns Deadly

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At this writing, three people have died and hundreds more have become ill from a mysterious lung ailment that is connec...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Lawyers in Space?

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A recent Washington Post article highlights what would normally be a humdrum domestic dispute alleging identity theft....