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The Smart and Secure Farm & More
“Agriculture faces no less of a threat from cybersecurity incidents or adversarial impacts than any other industry,” says NTCA’s Josh Seidemann. In the above interview, filmed at NTCA’s Smart Rural Community Live, Seidemann, who is NTCA’s VP of Policy and Innovation, provides terrifying examples of potential vulnerabilities as agriculture becomes increasingly reliant on technology. He…
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Get on Board the STEM Train
It is never too late to start a STEM career is one of the messages imparted by Liz Acosta-McCune, VP of Market Growth and Advocacy for Silver Star Communications. Speaking at the recent WICON event in Boise, Idaho, Acosta-McCune suggested that the ever-evolving technology industry presents new opportunities in many different fields, beyond engineering. Her…
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Tech Talk with Techstination’s Fred Fishkin
From interviewing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos when he first started talking about selling books on the Internet to interviewing a peanut farmer who would go on to be president to being engulfed in the horror of 9/11, Fred Fishkin’s career as a reporter could have been written in Hollywood. Since the 1970s, he has been the…
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App Enriched Blue Jeans & Swimsuits #CES2017
Blue Jeans with built-in vibration to direct a female (they don’t have them for men) to a given location without having to look or listen to a smart phone is the clever way that France’s Spinali Design is marrying technology with fashion. The wearer may also set up alerts so that only certain text messages…
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A Cooperative Form of Crowd Sourcing
“It’s what a cooperative is about; sharing ideas and bringing a community together,” said Corey McCarthy, CFO and SVP of Business Development of the National Cable Television Cooperative. He was referring to the NCTC’s efforts to crowdsource ideas from its members, as well as bringing together members to devise technology solutions that would be impossible…