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Why the EU will not remain the world’s digital über-regulator
It is not a big enough player in AI | Europe (2023)
They Really Don’t Make Music Like They Used To - The New York Times
If the Eagles or Marvin Gaye fan in your life is complaining about this year’s Grammy songs, this might be why. (2019)
The biggest tech trends of 2019, according to top experts
Next year’s AI, AR, and 5G tech may set the stage for some massive tectonic shifts in tech and culture. (2019)
Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? || Bloomberg
This is the best moment in decades for the continent to battle its way back to relevance. Its startups need to act like it. (2018)
(2017) How I Heard The World With Nuheara’s Bionic Earbuds || Fast Company
Even if you’ve got normal ears, the IQbuds’ audio-enhancing technology can help take the stress out of noisy environments. (2017)
Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry - Bloomberg
Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD Co. showed an early model... (2018)
Patent ‘Death Squad’ System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court - Bloomberg
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an administrative review system that has helped Google Inc., Apple Inc. and other companies invalidate hundreds of is... (2018)
Mutually assured detection - Military applications - The Economist
Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide "ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic o... (2018)
Race to the bottom - Undersea mining - The Economist
Mining the ocean floor is about to go mainstream "PATANIA ONE sits in a large shed on the outskirts of Antwerp. Green and cuboid, with an interi... (2018)
How AI is spreading throughout the supply chain - In algorithms we trust
AI is making companies swifter, cleverer and leaner "DELIVERING 25 PACKAGES by lorry or van might seem straightforward enough, but it is devilis... (2018)
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel - Bloomberg
Apple Inc. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to people... (2018)
Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google - Bloomberg
Google could owe Oracle Corp. billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn’t have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming cod... (2018)
'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation - The New York Times
A bold 10-year effort by Japan to seize the lead in computer technology is fizzling to a close, having failed to meet many of its ambitious goals o... (2018)
The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale - Brooklyn Museum
Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum "Many places are using location based technology to deliver content to devices, but in our case the techn... (2018)
Positioning Visitors with iBeacons
Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum When Apple released iOS7 in 2013 one of the new features introduced was iBeacon. This technology would no... (2018)
Amazon’s Alexa isn’t the future of AI—it’s a glorified radio clock and, otherwise, stupid — Quartz
Sometimes Alexa forgets to wake me up in the morning; other times, if the volume hasn’t been turned up all the way, I’ll wake up half an hour late ... (2018)
Can Digital Technology Open Up the Art World? - The New York Times
Prices at galleries are often difficult to find out and can be prohibitively high. Websites and apps are trying to make it easier for newcomers to ... (2018)
Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules - The New York Times
A stringent set of data protection rules will take effect in Europe in May. Facebook, Google and others are working overtime to be ready. (2018)
Searching for lithium deposits with satellites - Prospecting from space | The Economist
CORNWALL, a rugged peninsula that forms Britain’s south-western extremity, has a history of mining going back thousands of years. Its landscape is ... (2018)
Slaughterbots: Military robots are getting smaller and more capable - The Economist
Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)
Russian tech investors set up shop in Silicon Valley | CNBC
Drokova's new fund comes as relations between the United States and Russia remain fraught and foreign investments of all types into U.S. technology... (2018)
Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments - The New York Times
Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner’s ascent in Silicon Valley, where the Russia investigation has ... (2018)
How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel | Bloomberg
The company has many reasons reason to go all-in on silicon. (2018)
How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry | Fast Company
Vector Graphic became one of the best-known computer manufacturers of its era. It went public. Then the IBM PC changed everything. (2015)
How can I do social good through programming?
Ask HN: discussion on Hacker News, with a ton of ideas and links (discussion about social impact & web development) (2018)
America’s Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back—and Hypersonic - Bloomberg
A successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird could cruise at speeds near Mach 6—but is it a real plane or a pipe dream? (2018)
Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production
Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar indust... (2018)
Using thought to control machines | The Economist
TECHNOLOGIES are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a ... (2018)
Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany - The New York Times
A Hamburg regulator said on Tuesday that neither the messenger nor its parent company had received individuals’ permission to share digital informa... (2018)
How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care - The New York Times
Apple, Google, Microsoft and other giants are accelerating their efforts to remake health care with new tracking apps, sensors and other tools. (2017)
Everything You Need to Know About 5G -- IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum Published on Feb 6, 2017 Millimeter waves, massive MIMO, full duplex, beamforming, and small cells are just a few of the technologi... (2018)
How Israel became a leader in water use in the Middle East - PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour Published on Apr 26, 2015 Over the past few years in Israel, the country's water shortage has become a surplus. Through a combinat... (2018)
How Israel Rules The World Of Cyber Security, VICE on HBO, Full Episode
VICE News Published on Mar 14, 2018 U.S. intelligence agencies accuse Russia of hacking the 2016 presidential election, a Ben Ferguson travels ... (2018)
E-Bikes Part 1 - Front Hub vs Rear Hub vs Central Motor. What Works Best?
Huge store with E-Bikes: http://tidd.ly/95caf4b8 MY EQUIPMENT: - mountain bike: http://tidd.ly/1a195083 - smartphone for vlogs and LIVE events: htt... (2018)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2018)
The End of Cloud Computing | a16z
a16z Published on Jul 15, 2017 "I'm going to take you out to the edge to show you what the future looks like." So begins a16z partner Peter Lev... (2017)
S-curves in Innovation
a16z, Published on Aug 5, 2017: "Benedict Evans describes "the s-curve” in the life cycle of technology innovation, and why it’s important. Techno... (2017)
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z
a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)
50 Game Camera Mistakes
In this GDC 2014 talk, John Nesky, the dynamic camera designer for thatgamecompany's award-winning PSN title Journey, takes attendees on a tour of ... (2017)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2017)
Hello World - Machine Learning Recipes #1
Google Developers: Published on Mar 30, 2016 Six lines of Python is all it takes to write your first machine learning program! In this episode, we... (2017)
Lecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)
Stanford University, Published on Jul 22, 2008 Lecture by Professor Andrew Ng for Machine Learning (CS 229) in the Stanford Computer Science depar... (2017)
Equifax: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight, 2017: "John Oliver discusses the massive impact of the cybersecurity breach at Equifax and their massively misguided attempts to m... (2017)
A Harvard mathematician reveals how algorithms are making police and the courts more biased
Business Insider, 2017, "Cathy O'Neil, a self-proclaimed math nerd and author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" explains how police data leads to b... (2017)
What is an algorithm and why should you care? | Khan Academy
Khan Academy | Algorithms | Computer Science | "Computer Science on Khan Academy: Learn select topics from computer science - algorithms (how we ... (2017)
How Do Russian Bots Work? - Video - NYTimes.com
How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pest... (2018)
Go Outside - Repellent Radio
Using radio music to repel mosquitoes This is "Go Outside - Repellent Radio" by bruno bomediano garcia on Vimeo "Go Outside's Repellent Radio... (2018)
Go Outside - Repellent Radio
Using radio music to repel mosquitoes This is "Go Outside - Repellent Radio" by bruno bomediano garcia on Vimeo "Go Outside's Repellent Radio... (2017)
Future of ICOs, Cryptocurrency & VC | This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups, E773: Future of ICOs, Cryptocurrency & VC with Brock Pierce (Blockchain Cap, Block.one) & Vinny Lingham (Civic) @ LAUNCH SCA... (2017)
Apple’s monster investment arm
The Economist, 2017: “Should the world’s biggest company shrink its in-house finance division before it goes bananas? (2017)
Social media's threat to democracy
The Economist, 2017: “Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America's election to polit... (2017)
Airships and the Future that Never Was - 99% Invisible
They are hulking, but graceful — human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public im... (2018)
a16z Podcast: When Is VR’s iPhone Moment? – Andreessen Horowitz
“There was a lot of hype about VR ad then it seemed to go pretty quiet. So where are we right now? Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar and a16z gener... (2018)
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
Goodreads reviews: "From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape t... (2019)
Megaphone fm
Unprecedented technology for podcast publishers and advertisers. Megaphone is a brand new platform for ad-supported podcasts. Featuring simple pub... (2018)