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BOSTON DID IT FIRST: AN INTERVIEW, AN AUTHOR, AND 500 LOCAL INNOVATIONS

Written by RICH TENORIO Posted June 5, 2021 Filed Under: A+E, Books

An interview, an author, and 500 local innovations

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Book, Boston Made, innovation, Massachusetts

VERIZON 101: YOU CAN STOP CONGRATULATING THIS BEHEMOTH FOR ITS STUDENT IPAD PROGRAM RIGHT NOW

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 30, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

It’s something between ironic and nauseating that Superintendent Tommy Chang and Mayor Marty Walsh are making it look like Verizon, of all entities, is here to save the day.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: bospoli #mapoli, Boston Public Schools, BPS, innovation, Marty Walsh, product placement, technology, Tommy Chang, Verizon

CRITICAL UPDATE: LOBOTOMASS CONT.

Written by JONATHAN RILEY Posted June 13, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Softbank, maker of a robot named Pepper that can “read human emotion,” is apparently stepping up its involvement in the AI sector.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AI, Boston, Boston Dynamics, DEI, innovation, japan, Jonathan Riley, Lobotomass, Pentagon, robots, SoftBank, technology

AUTONOMOUS PROFITEERING: CORPORATE NETWORKS ENLIST BOSTON TO HELP THEM SELL SELF-DRIVING CARS … AND ELIMINATE JOBS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 18, 2016 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

The city should pull out of this incipient arrangement.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Boston Consulting Group, cult of innovation, innovation, Jason Pramas, Marty Walsh, self-driving cars, World Economic Forum

PORKING PERMIT: FOR NEW PARKING APP, BOSTON ENTRUSTS COMPANY THAT COMPROMISED CITY DATA

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 18, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Last year the Dig revealed that Xerox left a trove of license plate and home address information exposed online.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACS, Boston, city data, contract, innovation, Kenneth Lipp, License to Connive, mayor Marty Walsh, municipal data, parking, parking permit, parking tickets, PayTix, technology, TicketZen, Xerox

GOOD LUCK CHUCK: FEAR AND WAITING AT THE CHARLIECARD STORE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 16, 2015 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Tech

The subterranean MBTA CharlieCard Store is a terrific metaphor for everything that’s wrong with transportation in Boston

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Tech Tagged With: Boston, Boston Bubble, CharlieCard, Chris Faraone, Downtown Crossing, green line, innovation, MBTA, orange line, red line, Silver Line, technology, train, transit

CAB FAIR: BOSTON MEDIA DOES RIDESHARE BATTLE JUSTICE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 10, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

With a plethora of neoliberal yuppies populating newsrooms in these parts, it’s surprising that more journos, from city desks to oped pages, haven’t run the taxi union out of town already.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, cab wars, cabs, Cambridge, fenway park, innovation, Lyft, media, protests, San Francisco, Target, Taxis, Uber, Uber coverage, Uber Wars, Walmart, wbur, yellow cabs

WHEEL-E: LOCAL TRIO REINVENT THE WHEEL, WITH HELP FROM “TRON”

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted May 12, 2015 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop

"I see the GeoOrbital wheel not only as a way to get more people into biking, but also as a way to make practical biking the norm, rather than the exception.”

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop Tagged With: artisan's asylum, Cambridge, components, Copenhagen Wheel, dakota decker, e-bike, electric, geo orbital, gideon coltof, innovation, light cycles, michael burtov, MIT SENSElab, no sweat, power, spacex, tron, venture cafe, wheel

BOSTON TROLLING (THE COMPLETE SERIES)

Written by DIG STAFF Posted September 9, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“They’re asserting a general police power to capture anybody’s image and process it for law enforcement purposes just in case they later turn out to be guilty of something. That’s not OK.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 2004 Democratic National Convention, ACLU, Alex Marthews, Big Brother, Bill Oates, Bill Owens, Boston, boston calling, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston Police, BPD, Cambridge, Chris Faraone, City Hall, Cognos, COPLINK, Department of Innovation and Technology, Department of Transportation, DiMasi, DNC, DoIT, Ed Davis, Face Capture, FBI, IBM, innovation, Joanthan Riley, Joe Pesatro, JTTF, Kade Crockford, Kate Norton, Kenneth Lipp, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, MBTA, Minority Report, MIT, MIVIS, MONUM, OCPF, Person of Interest, pre-crime, Smart Cities, South Boston, surveillance, Tom Menino

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