Fitness and Activity Trackers
(E) New York Times Tech columnist Molly Wood made an interesting video review this week of two fitness bands: the LG Lifeband Touch and the Samsung Gear Fit, two wearable […]
Time Machine into the Journey of our Cosmic Evolution
(T) I do remember a while ago that Professor Alan Guth from MIT, the father of the Inflationary Universe Theory, said that the next step in better understanding the evolution of the Universe […]
The Latest in Web Front-End Development Technologies
(T) San Francisco has certainly one of the best engineering workforces for Web front-end technologies. I am trying to attend many developer meetings as I can. But there is so […]
The Start of Open Source Patents
(B) Start-ups and established players should be focusing on creating and innovating. Patent litigation is a major hurdle for technology companies that want to change the world. And efforts to […]
Cybersecurity – When Governments are Both Doing the Right and Wrong Things
(B) One day, we hear governments working together to keep the bad guys out the Internet: the US, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ukraine, and the UK collaborating together to route […]
From Big Data to Small Data – Big is not Necessary Better than Small
(T) The real challenge is not researching new algorithms that will help organizations to find valuable insights in large data sets. The real challenge is for organizations to focus on […]
Providing Large Scale Cloud Services by Virtualizing Network Services over Software Defined Networks
(T) Internet networks have been designed with two major types of protocols: data plane protocols and control plane protocols. The data plane is in charge of forwarding the packets from […]
IBM Bullish on Africa
(B) I was not surprised to hear that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty, interviewed on CNBC yesterday, considered that cloud and data are key to the present growth of IBM. I was […]
Deep Dive into Deep Learning
(T) There are many objects which look like a bicycle but are not a bicycle. A person will make the difference between all those objects and tell accurately which one […]
Deep Dive into Machine Learning
(T) The goal of Machine Learning (ML) is to develop algorithms for making predictions from an existing data set. First, you start by collecting the data and analyzing it. Second, […]
Sharing Code Implies Sharing Vulnerabilities
(E) If Microsoft software has a vulnerability either in one of its application such as Internet Explorer or Office or in its Windows operating system – no problem – just […]
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 […]
Regis McKenna and the Birth of Marketing for the Technology Industry
(B) Earlier this month, Regis McKenna was interviewed by NY Times journalist John Markoff at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. McKenna talked in this interview about his career, his marketing firm Regis McKenna Inc, the […]
Dancing with the Stars
(T) At the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris last year, Spanish Choregrapher Blanca Li explored with poetry the relationships between humans and robots. In her show Robots!, the robot character is played by Nao, the […]
Investing in Drought Technology
(B) While California is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history, all new irrigation technology proposed to California farmers are coming from overseas and not from Silicon […]
From Stuxnet to Careto
(T) It started with Stuxnet. And then, came Duqu, Flame, Gauss, Red October…and this week, Careto discovered by Kaspersky Lab. Unfortunately, those cyberweapons that we are identifying are likely to be just the top of the iceberg […]
StartX Start-Ups from Fall 2013 Class
(B) Yesterday StartX, Stanford’s non-profit organization which aims to accelerate the development of entrepreneurship at Stanford, had its demo day for its Fall 2013 Class. Always interesting to learn what the […]
The Cloudy Outlook for Emerging Markets
(B) Since last year, the headlines for emerging markets have not been very sunny to say the least. But there are starting for 2014 to be even worse. There is […]
From SDK to RDK or from Software Development to Robot Development
(T) Imagine that you can buy a Robot for $249 and that you can program it to help you with your Vietnamese or French cuisine or packing your suitcase the […]
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