Daniela Weiss-Bronstein – Techcitement*

Safety Tech: Self-security In The 21st Century

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:17:30 +0000

Recently, a video was released of a woman, Shoshana Roberts, walking through the streets of New York, being harassed as she goes. Putting aside issues (and there are issues) of the races that were edited out, it’s important to note that her experience was quite sadly typical for a New Yorker. The culture of the New […]

Faraday Cages In Your Kitchen

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:02:10 +0000

Paranoiacs rejoice! Last week, Heather Murphy of the New York Times explained that Edward Snowden had lawyers place their cell phones in a refrigerator to block the signals, using the fridge as a makeshift Faraday cage. Murphy quoted Adam Harvey, a countersurveillance products designer, who said that a martini shaker is a foolproof Faraday cage that can […]

Veronica Mars, I LoVe You…And So Do Over 20,000 Kickstarter Backers

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:39:34 +0000

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been sitting at your computer today going “OhmigodOhmigodOhmigod IT’S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!” “It” being a Veronica Mars movie. And I have to assume you know, because VM is the first Kickstarter to bring in $1 million dollars in a short four hours. Go! Donate! I’ve been waiting six years to find […]

Review: Half The Sky Game Opens New Donation Possibilities Through Facebook

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:30:27 +0000

There’s a new game in town. The Half The Sky Movement, which works to create opportunities for women around the world, has rolled out a new Facebook game with a charitable purpose. Half The Sky Movement: The Game allows players to follow an Indian woman named Radhika on her journey through her village and then around […]

UPDATE — Bait, And Switch Labeling: Your Seafood

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:00:37 +0000

February 22, 2013 UPDATE: Oceana has published a report about national seafood fraud. Two years of DNA testing found that a full third of seafood was mislabeled; snapper and tuna had the highest rates of fraud. Oceana has even created a handy map for a depressing look at your odds of purchasing mislabeled fish. You heard it […]

Why The Big Bang Theory Grates So Many (And Why It Shouldn’t)

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:35:00 +0000

Do you work at the Large Hadron Collider? Do you think it’s the coolest thing you could possibly do with your life? Then, you’re likely the physicist I met recently from CERN who enjoyed seeing pieces of his life reflected back in mainstream culture on The Big Bang Theory. This show. It’s amazing. People either watch it […]

TiVo Slide Remote: Get It While You Can

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:40:49 +0000

Dear TiVo, As any of my dedicated readers know, I love your service. Shortly after my husband and I had our first child, we realized we needed a DVR if we were ever going to watch TV again, and we welcomed out first TiVo box to the family. When the Slide remote came on the […]

Review: The Review That’s Not A Review Of The Nokia Lumia 920

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:14:05 +0000

In this space should be a review of the Nokia Lumia 920. However, instead is the story of why there is no review. Like any good and faithful techie, I pre-ordered the 920 in cyan on the November 7, to be shipped on November 8. I was in the midst of being displaced by Hurricane […]

Dani Doles Out Advice: Yahoo Needs To Re-invent Itself

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:00:37 +0000

Hi, Yahoo! I still use you for my email because you’re a comfortable old friend. But there’s not much else I want from you. I don’t want Yahoo! search, Yahoo! news, or Yahoo! chat. So, how do you become relevant again? People have moved on from your email service. Gmail is all set with Google, and […]

Dani Doles Out Advice: Google Can Do More

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:00:56 +0000

Hi all! I am just brimming over with ideas for everyone. So, in this new column, I’m going to share them. Let’s start with Google. Google gets slammed a lot by people who don’t trust it. Interestingly, I’ve seen friends post to Facebook about not trusting Google, seemingly unaware that Facebook actually has sold consumer […]