Identify for retina scan: Yeah, never gonna look at Captain Kirk’s retina scan the same way again. Not sure how they deal with detached retinas in the 23rd Century,…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Two thousand twenty-five was the year the communications industry stopped pretending everything was fine. Behind the polished campaigns, conference panels and artificial-intelligence demos, something far…
Rain, rain gone away: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as sunshine returns to Long Island and we hurdle the hump of another busy Autumnal workweek. It certainly has been…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // My first government job was as a Nassau County legislative aide in 2000. A few months in, I was at a community event when then-County…
Welcome, intrepid innovators, to Wednesday and a landmark edition of your favorite innovation newsletter, and to a momentous day in Innovate Long Island history. It’s mindboggling that more than…
Woof: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we embrace the dog days. Yes, it’s that period of Summer when the warm weather stagnates, when cicadas serenade all afternoon long,…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Is the Internet dying? Over the past year, websites across the Internet have experienced a significant drop in traffic from search engines. Some are reporting…
Looking ahead: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we muscle through another busy early-Summer workweek – an appropriately humid one here on Long Island, though better weather is in…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // National politics have increasingly become the gravitational center of American journalism. From inflation and immigration to trade policy and housing costs, stories that once sat…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Much has been made of the surface-level dangers of generative artificial intelligence: It writes like a robot, invents facts and struggles with nuance. These are…
Horse sense: Welcome to Wednesday, friends, as this latest busy workweek rounds the clubhouse turn and the shortest month of the year gallops toward the finish. Win, place or…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // For nearly two decades, Google has enjoyed an iron grip on the search-engine market – but the rise of artificial intelligence-driven search alternatives, most notably…
By popular demand: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but (already) the second Wednesday of 2025 – and the midpoint of the first full workweek…
Sixteen days of Christmas: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the last Friday before Christmas and Hanukkah – and the last Friday of the…
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // In one memorable episode of “Mad Men,” Sterling Cooper merges into the tongue-twisting Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, igniting a chaotic clash of egos and overlapping…