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Marry Your Phone? I Smell A Divorce In Your Near Future

Till death do us part: Man marries his phone in Vegas - CNET. Okay, it might seem extreme to marry a smartphone. But, this guy did it, and promised his phone they would live happily ever after. Of course, now he will be tempted by every new, shiny, thinner, prettier phone that comes along every year. Will he cheat? Will he dump his old phone for a newer, prettier model? I see a divorce lawyer in this guy's future. Perhaps a niche practice can be developed. We help you divorce your phone. Of course, the smartphone manufacturers are already doing that leg work. I confess, dear Galaxy Note 5. I have my eye on a bright eyed Note 7, with really big memory. She even is rumored to have curves on the edges to die for. But, I still love you, and there is a place in my office for you. I am a serial phone lover.

Verizon Feeling The Heat Of Competition

Verizon to introduce new features, including carryover data | Android and Me. Competition is growing heated between the major cell carriers; and, the latest development is Big Red's  deciding to allow its customers to roll over unused data for a month. This is going to save some big bucks for users who are able to regulate their data use. I should be able to shave around $75 a month from my bill, just by reducing the data bucket. I often have months where there is 5GB or more of data left over, which, when rolled over to the next month, will provide a great cushion for over use by the clan. Now, all I have to do is get the kids out of the house, into their own homes or apartments, and paying their own bills. Wish me luck.

Google Phone - Take My Money Now

Google rumored to launch its own smartphone this year | Android and Me. While the Nexus phones built by Motorola and Huawei are great phones, and run the latest, greatest, purest versions of Android, it is likely that, later this year, Google will start manufacturing its own phones. With complete control over the devices, and expected compatibility with the new Daydream VR platform, it will an exciting time. I may delay the purchase of the Galaxy Note 7 this year; although, 256 GB of internal storage is so outrageous that I may not be able to resist. Would you buy an all Google all the time mobile phone? On the other hand, the jump of the Note 7 to 256 GB of storage, with an additional 256GB of storage available with a Micro SD card can only be to support VR apps on Daydream. 512GB of storage on a mobile phone? Outstanding.

Lawn Mowing By Proxy

Execupundit.com: Lawn Cam. Michael Wade writes about getting up early to mow the lawn before the Arizona sun bakes him. I mow the lawn by proxy. My proxy comes every other Friday, and he does a fine job. Occasionally, I reward him by giving him money. The Florida sun is nothing to be fooled with. I protect the office from intruders at night with a security system also. However, I seldom catch any. I allow the police to do that.

Seagate 8TB Drive For $229. We've Come A Long Way, Baby

Seagate 8TB Expansion External Desktop HDD - Hard drive, 8TB, External, USB 3.0 - STEB8000100 at TigerDirect.com. For OMG Wednesday, here is a Seagate expansion hard drive with 8 Terabytes of storage capacity for $229. I remember paying $900 for a 10 Megabyte drive in the late Eighties. Do you have any clue how much data is in a Terabyte? Much less 8 Terabytes? Let's do the math. There are 1,000 megabytes in a Gigabyte. That would be 100 of the drives I paid $900 apiece for in 1988. There are 1,000 Gigabytes in a Terabyte. That would be 100,000 of the drives I paid $900 apiece for in 1988. This drive has 8 Terabytes of capacity and costs $229. That is 800,000 of the drives I paid $900 apiece for in 1988. I will allow you to compare price per megabyte of data between then and now. Do the math.

In An AI World, It Might Be Good To Be A Lawyer

An AI Just Defeated Human Fighter Pilots in An Air Combat Simulator. The more that AI machine learning computers are advanced, the more that I am glad I am in the legal profession. Not only will we get to litigate all the many issues that will crop up in the use of AI, from drone litigation to litigation over the rights of thinking machines; but, it is going to be really impossible for machines to duplicate the emotional, irrational human beings required to navigate the legal world. The practice of law is more art than science, and nothing requires more human judgment. Jet plane pilots, on the other hand, depend upon many physical factors that can be duplicated by machines, and the defeat of human pilots by an AI computer in a simulation makes this clear. The practice of law is much more than an intellectual exercise, and combines human factors with psychology, social factors, and just plain human interaction that most of us require to stay sane and to navigate the world. Need advice? Call a lawyer, not a computer. 

Google+ - Five And Alive

Google turns 5 and is somehow still alive | TechCrunch. This article by Frederic Lardinois talks about the fifth birthday of Google+ as if he is surprised that it survives in a 140 character social media world dominated by Facebook. As a denizen of Twitter, Google+ and Facebook, the FutureLawyer believes there is a place for each. Twitter is fast, ubiquitous, and doesn't require a lot of time. You can check up on the news without endangering your attention span. Facebook is like hanging around the local diner or watering hole and catching up with family and friends. Google+ is the special interest club you go to on weekday evenings to talk about cars and photography and computers and law and whatever else interests you. I have met more like minded strangers who have become friends there than anywhere else on the Internet. So, Mr. Lardinois, remove your head from your nether regions, look up, and see us plussers. We are loud and we are proud. Happy Birthday, Google+. Long may you live.

Bionic Earbuds - Wearable Computers For Your Ears

These Bionic Earbuds Are Nearly a Smartphone You Can Leave in Your Ears Forever. The next evolution of wearable computing is almost here. These Bionic Earbuds are actually sophisticated computers that you put in your ears, and they stay there, monitoring your world, bringing you music, acting as a smartphone, and much more. Pricey at $300 they will be available later this year. But, this is as close as you are going to get to implantable computers for the time being. Who wants a set?

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Share Your Workspace With A Robot? We Already Do.

Sharing your work cubicle with robots may not be such a bad thing | homeAI.info. Okay, this author uses the phrase "work cubicle", which is a phrase that never passes the FutureLawyer lips. In fact, I will never work in an open space, preferring the solitude of a room with a door that closes. Call me Les Nessman (anyone who gets that reference is too old already). However, the future of our work world, be we lawyers or any other profession is certainly destined to include human enhancements like robots. We already have them in our offices; we just call them laser printers, copiers, scanners, external hard drives, microphones and so forth. Purists will argue that robots have the ability to ambulate around; but, the true benefit of AI and other advanced machine learning tech is in the enhancement of human function. Robots in your future? Look around. They are already here.