Peter Vogel is a long time tech writer who has contributed to the B.C. Catholic for many years. Follow Peter on X (@PeterVogel) or on Bluesky (petervogel.bsky.social). You can email him at pvogel@outlook.com.
It's been a tumultuous and rapidly advancing time for artificial intelligence in the months since Pope Leo's encyclical.
Here we are, just shy of thirty years writing this column, started on a whim, as a sidebar to a career teaching secondary school physics and computer science, and with … Continued
As so-called cord-cutting, the dropping of cable TV subscription plans, continues to accelerate, it is apparent that replacing such a plan with an antenna to get free television isn’t exactly … Continued
We’ve been covering scams in this column for more than two decades. Thank goodness for the opportunity to be able to cover them in this paper, whether they are electronic, … Continued
One of the most anticipated events of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy is surely his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. Set … Continued
We’ve been covering scams in this column for more than two decades. Thank goodness for the opportunity to be able to cover them in this paper, whether they are electronic, … Continued
Recently I received an email from a friend—an email that immediately aroused suspicion. It was an appeal of the tear-jerker variety, designed to invoke a response through emotion-generating hooks and … Continued
“Splashdown confirmed.” With those words from NASA’s Mission Control came the end of a remarkable and historic 10‑day space mission, the likes of which arguably has not captivated the world … Continued
Juggernaut, behemoth, cable TV killer: all terms we could ascribe to one of the mainstays of the modern internet, YouTube. As a term it acts both as a proper noun … Continued
Flash! A couple of minutes later, boom! Double boom even. Within minutes, various Facebook community groups across the Lower Mainland—particularly in Metro Vancouver, and even more particularly in the Tri-Cities … Continued