(T) Interesting interview from Bloomberg’s Emily Chang with Arati Prabhakar, director at DARPA, this week, from self-driving cars to self-driving ships. More interesting are Mrs. Prabhakar’s comments on cybersecurity, in […]
(T) Large-scale Internet attacks are now reaching a point where their impacts are incredible. Leveraging Mirai a botnet that launches attacks from DVRs, IP Cameras and other IoT devices, multiple […]
(E) Please help Haiti recovering from Hurricane Matthew. While Jeremie, a coastal city of Haiti was just starting to prosper since the 2010 Earthquake that killed over 200,000 Haitians, Hurricane […]
(T) There are so many AI and ML product announcements from the largest tech companies, that it is hard to keep up – competitive technology advantages are going to erode quickly: […]
(T) This weekend, at Evergreen Valley College in San-Jose, 2,515 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Silicon Valley Code Camp prepared and supported by 193 volunteers. Certainly the biggest code camp […]
(B) You have probably seen on TV the new commercial from GE – “Sarah: GE is the perfect mix of digital and industrial – an ideal combination like peanut butter […]
(T) Many start-ups have been embracing Storm for real-time processing of big data into their cloud applications. A Storm topology consumes streams of data, and processes those streams in arbitrarily […]
(T) In Silicon Valley, you learned more by meeting people in an informal setting, than through business meetings and conferences. A friend of mine invited me yesterday to a party. […]
(T) The media have just broadcasted this week that 300 Megabytes of data stolen from an NSA server has been posted on the Internet. The data seems to be cyberweapon […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The […]
(T) I just received an e-mail that the b8ta store at 516 Bryant Street in Palo Alto will have for one week Pepper – the emotional robot from Aldebaran in […]
(T) Researchers have been working on quantum encryption for a long time. Quantum encryption is based on quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD algorithms can leverage well-defined quantum states (or photon […]
(E) The Fourteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us travel musically this year and explore, according to the festival […]
(E) I cannot agree more with Mr. Adam Gopnik from the New Yorker – there are many cases, where we can do much about the WHY but in all cases, […]
(T) The architecture and implementation of iOS and Android are both similar when you compare feature-to-feature, and different when you compare implementation-to-implementation. Very basically, the iOS security model is based […]
(B) Like many of us, I still do not understand the Brexit vote. Is it a distrust of the benefits of the global economic system? A return to nationalist movements […]
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
