How to survive and thrive in life after the ‘dead Internet’
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…
No. 950: Seizing the day, hiring the DOGE’d, getting into the Zono – and Long Island goes to the movies!
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…
Online-search woes multiply as Google dips, AI rises
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…
No. 941: Supporting seniors, plugging peanut butter and vetting ancient vegetarians (but we’ll have the lobster)
We came, we thaw: Congratulations, intrepid innovators! You’ve survived the iciest Long Island workweek in a dog’s age and kindled another well-earned winter weekend. That’s got to toast your…
PR mega-merger threatens the very soul of creativity
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…
As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
No. 753: Got milk? Raise a glass to lottery tickets, Hamilton and E Street’s supreme saxophonist
Asking for it: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we plow into the second half of the first full workweek of the New Year. That appears to be the…
How ‘Innovation and Choice’ Act threatens minority biz
By PHIL ANDREWS // Legislation that politicians claim will protect small businesses from the alleged monopoly power of large tech companies will end up depriving entrepreneurs of vital revenue streams…
‘Transformative’ Northwell lands on Google Cloud
By GREGORY ZELLER // A high-caliber partnership between New York’s largest healthcare provider and the planet’s preeminent search engine will advance clinician care, patient experiences and other critical healthcare avenues….
Government, industry must unite now on telemedicine
By JERRY BALENTINE // During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth platforms acted as a lifeline for New Yorkers to safely access medical services. The lasting effect of this increased use of digital-health services will be nothing…
No. 684: On Earth Day, Oppenheimer, organoids … and an arterial vanishing act
Break, or make: Welcome to Friday, dear readers – the end of spring break for most regional schoolkids but just another busy socioeconomic sprint for us all-growed-up innovators. It’s…
No. 633: Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, the dude who invented Sudoku – and fluffernutters all around
We need a break: And we’re getting one, dear readers, as we approach the end of this busy workweek and another well-earned weekend – for some, a three-day blow….
Backing small biz, LIA wades into federal antitrust war
By GREGORY ZELLER // Suggesting they could “fracture the technology industry” – with especially harmful effects on technology-driven Long Island socioeconomics – the Long Island Association is speaking out against…
No. 529: On loop-de-loops, safe bets and SUNY’s status – and Capt. Bligh’s revenge
Roll with it: Here we go, dear readers – the third and final leg of already legendary 2020, complete with an ongoing pandemic, history’s most important presidential election…
No. 525: On Wilt the Stilt, Lincoln and ‘Looney Tunes’ – and a dose of reality for Walt Whitman
Good Friday: You’ve done it again, dear readers … another long workweek bested, another summery weekend earned. Well done. Since we can’t do it properly – bellying up in…