Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2014
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, […]
Smart Clothing and Affective Computing
(T) Over a week ago, I received an interesting article from an online magazine French District about “le vetement intelligent” or “smart clothing”… “Il fut un temps où le pull tenait chaud, le […]
Art Technology and the Human Condition
(E) “Aujourd’hui Maman est morte” – “Today, Mother died”. The first sentence of “The Stranger” was very original for the beginning of a novel when it was published and has […]
Can You Build a Gaming App That Lasts?
(B) This week was the Game Developer Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. A lot of people, a lot of events, and a lot of parties! At the same time, […]
Y Combinator Female Founders Conference
(B) Y Combinator had a very successful Female Founders Conference at the Computer Museum earlier this month. Highlights of the conference as well as all the videos are now online and on the Y Combinator YouTube Channel. […]
Professor Schiller – In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency
(B) Yale Professor’s and Nobel Prize winner’s in economy Professor Schiller wrote a must-read article yesterday about Bitcoin in the New York Times: In search of a stable electronic currency. Professor Schiller […]
Can we Build Trust into the DNA of the Internet?
(T) “We have to trust the infrastructure (of the Internet)…The fact that it has been subverted in ways we don’t understand…we don’t know what to trust. And that is an […]
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