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 […]
From PostgreSQL to MongoDB – What Has Changed?
(T) I had the opportunity to listen last year to the “confessions” of Conrad Irwin (@ConradIrwin), a PostrgreSQL programmer now working on MongoDB @ an HTML 5 Developer Conference in San Francisco. There have been a […]
Metcalfe’s Makimoto’s Amdahl’s Moore’s & Grosch’s Computing Laws
(T) The December edition of the IEEE Computer Magazine has extensive analysis on some of the most well-known computing laws: Metcalfe’s, Makimoto’s, Amdahl’s, Moore’s & Grosch’s Laws. Obviously, Moore’s and Metcalfe’s are the most popular ones, but […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2014
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from […]
Thinks about Wearables as our Sixth Human Sense
(T) There are so many developer events and hackathons, and so many announcements from various market players about wearable computing, that it is somewhat challenging to keep a “sane” and […]
The Best and Worst Investments of 2013
(B) Today Bloomberg published a summary of the best and worst investments of 2013 (http://bloom.bg/IHVd1n). US stocks have been doing extremely well, energy funds are slightly positive, real estate funds […]
HTML 5 The State of the Union
(T) One of my favorite speakers about HTML 5 is certainly Mozilla’s Evangelist Chris Heilmann. I have attended two presentations from Chris over the last year about the state of HTML […]
Nelson Mandela Prisoner Liberator and President
(E) Mr. Mandela’s thoughts, actions, and life shall continue to be a living inspiration to every government and organizational leader, and to everyone on the planet. Please think and think […]
Please Donate for the Victims in the Philippines of SUPERTyphoon Haiyan
(E) Please donate to your favorite humanitarian organization for the victims in the Philippines of Typhoon Haiyan which kills at least 10,000 people. They need water, food, medicines, nurses, doctors, […]
jQuery and Angular two of the Favorite Front-End Tools for Web Developers
(T) The challenge for front-end Web developers is the multiplication of tools, some of them with a short life cycle: jQuery, Dojo, Modernizr, BackBone.js, Angular,js, Yeoman! Who knows what will be the winning tool, and when […]
NodeJS the Favorite Back-End Tool for JS Developers
(T) Among emerging development platforms for back-end Web services, go to any conference, and you will hear about Node.js. San Francisco had just a conference a few weeks ago: Node Summit. While […]
The Leap Motion SDK for Web 3D Developers
(T) I attended this week at the HTML 5 Developer Conference, a presentation from Leap Motion about its latest SDK for Web Developers. But before to get into the SDK, let’s understand how […]
How to Compute with Schroedinger’s Cat – An Introduction to Quantum Computing
(T) The Schroedinger’s cat experiment presents a cat that is both alive and dead and illustrates the superposition of states, a property of a quantum system. This week, Eleanor G. Rieffel from the Quantum Artificial […]
Fama Shiller and Hansen Win Nobel Prize for Research in Asset Pricing
(B) When I was a kid, we were always laughing at the forecast of the weather on TV. Now, weather forecasts are extremely detailed and accurate. Since I have been […]
PIMCO Bill Gross and BlackRock Larry Fink Back at UCLA Anderson
(B) The world’s largest bond mutual fund manager, PIMCO’s Bill Gross, and the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, two graduates from the UCLA Anderson School of Management (where the author […]
Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This weekend, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, 5,000 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp. Certainly the biggest code camp in the world! A great place to learn from other […]
NoSQL Database Conference
(T) The NoSQL database conference “NoSQL Now” occurred this week in San Jose. All the major NoSQL vendors were there: mongoDB, Objectivity, Crouchbase, Neo4j… Like last year, what surprised me was the […]
Y Combinator Summer 13 Demo Day
(B) Yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 13 Demo Day. TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, that introduced […]
The Hyperloop Vehicle Capsules Accelerated by a Linear Electric Motor up to 760 mph in Solar Powered Tubes
(T) Imagine that you could attend a lecture at UCLA in the morning, and at Stanford in the afternoon; or the same day that you finish coding a game in […]
Sensors in the Internet of Things
(T) When I worked at Sun Microsystems, we used to say “The Network is the Computer”…now maybe… “The Sensor is the Computer”. Sensors can now not only capture data but […]
Why not an Agriculture that is Natural Bioregional and Sustainable?
(E) The New York Times has published today a great article about how Florida citrus growers are trying to producing new oranges by modifying their DNA. Why would they do […]
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