Have you heard of Refrigerdating?  It's like Tinder, only instead of using your favorite selfie as a profile picture you use a picture of what's going on in your fridge (a "fridgefie"?) for potential matches to swipe through.  The app comes by way of Samsung, best known for phones and TVs, but they're also in the kitchen appliance game and their Family Hub Refrigerator sports a camera that checks fridge inventory for you.  To promote this camera feature Samsung crafted the dating app that automatically loads a picture of your fridge contents to y

As we've reported recently, Google is researching ways to make navigating the internet less URL-heavy.  Their reasoning for this is simple - URLs can be messy, confusing, and are easily abused by phishers who can hide their scheme within those characters.  Google does claim, however, that URLs are necessary and will stay - their goal is mainly to reduce the user's reliance on them.  Now, Google is putting their plans into motion.

"Eighty-two percent of employees report poor information management is damaging productivity in the workplace" - according to PaperFree partner M-Files.  In their study, the 2019 Global Intelligent Information Management Benchmark Report, M-Files found that a leading hinderance to productivity was workers knowing what system contained needed information, how to use it, and knowing if the file was the most current.  The study surveyed 1,500 office workers around the world.

This year at CES 2019, Segway announced its new Loomo Delivery product, a robot developed to handle deliveries in buildings and malls.  Fully autonomous, Loomo Delivery can navigate around obstacles and through crowds and handle tasks such as mail delivery (straight from the mail carrier) and moving documents through an office environment.  It could even bring you a snack.  They're smart enough to figure out where deliveries need to go, and feature interactive screens, and can even work an elevator.  Its cloud or 4G connectivity also handles dispatch, updates, scheduling, and monitoring.

In a humorous twist, this week it's the robots that have lost their jobs to humans.  The Henn-na Hotel in Japan was opened with bright hopes of a fully robotic operation, but was recently forced to shelve half of its 243 robots.

Among the layoffs:

Volunteered to help wipe old donated machines to be used in classrooms in LA and Riverside for hardware classes. As part of this, we also allowed members of the congregation to bring in their machines and we did backups/virus scans and all kinds of basic IT support stuff.

Joined a group from a friend’s church in downtown to pass out blankets and sandwiches to the homeless population. This was the first-time volunteering with this particular church and it was a little unorganized, but it is always humbling to get to talk with some of the people who truly are thankful for any amount given.

For my second volunteer activity this year I participated in my church group's preparation of hygiene kits to be distributed to the homeless in downtown San Diego.  After organizing all of the donations from ourselves and other church members we each grabbed a gallon-sized zip bag and filled them with items one by one.  In the end, we created about sixty kits, some geared towards men, others for women, and some were generic in nature.  In all, we provided the homeless with toothbrushes, toothpaste, new socks, combs, hand sanitizer, wipes, soap, basic first aid supplies, and more.  Another g

Kroger, a large player in the American grocery chain market, recently launched a trial of smart technology to make shopping easier for consumers and managing stock easier on store employees.  This technology, developed by Microsoft on their Azure cloud platform, utilizes digital displays located on shelves in place of paper price tags as well as the customer's smartphone or a store-supplied device.

This month PaperFree and its employees again completed a heartfelt charity project for several San Diego-area families in need.