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Shelly Palmer Generally speaking, there are two kinds of companies in the world: data rich and data poor. The richest of the data rich are easy to name: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. But you don’t need to be at the top of this list to use data to create...
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Sam Liccardo/Mayor of San Jose Facebook’s recent announcement of the development of “Terragraph” — launching a project in San Jose to distribute free, publicly-accessible, gigabit-speed outdoor wireless internet access — captured the attention of national media. To us in San Jose, though, it’s about more than a...
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Shelly Palmer How soon will TV transform from wall-mounted 4K flat-screens to a 99-cent app in a VR/AR App Store? That’s a question few will ponder this week as the National Association of Broadcasters gathers in Las Vegas for the NAB Show 2016. TV has both defined and enlarged...
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Shelly Palmer Elon Musk recently announced the Tesla Model 3, a sub-$40k, 5-seat plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) with a ~200-mile range that is well positioned to change the world. It should be available sometime in late 2017. Don’t count on the ship date; Tesla has never shipped any product...
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Shelly Palmer About 240 years ago, a great, nascent political experiment fought its way into being. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit...
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Shelly Palmer Tay is a combination chatbot and AI system designed by Microsoft to “engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation.” It was specifically “targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., the dominant users of mobile social...
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NewsUSA Americans spend a lot of time on the road and getting to work, be it in a car, on a train or on a bus. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average commute for Americans is 25 minutes. However, other studies peg higher-profile cities such...
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David Folkenflik and Naomi LaChance Per NPR For more than a generation, politicians have been on notice that political opponents would hold them accountable through deep dives into their records — a practice called oppo research. This election cycle, candidates for the White House also have found themselves trying to...
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Encryption Apple v. FBI has started a serious debate about the line between security and privacy. The FBI says this is a case about the contents of one specific iPhone 5c. Apple says this is a case about securing data for everyone. I framed both arguments in a previous...
Shelly Palmer Generally speaking, there are two kinds of companies in the world: data rich and data poor. The richest of the data rich are easy to name: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. But you don’t need to be at the top of this list to use data to create...
Sam Liccardo/Mayor of San Jose Facebook’s recent announcement of the development of “Terragraph” — launching a project in San Jose to distribute free, publicly-accessible, gigabit-speed outdoor wireless internet access — captured the attention of national media. To us in San Jose, though, it’s about more than a...
Shelly Palmer How soon will TV transform from wall-mounted 4K flat-screens to a 99-cent app in a VR/AR App Store? That’s a question few will ponder this week as the National Association of Broadcasters gathers in Las Vegas for the NAB Show 2016. TV has both defined and enlarged...
Shelly Palmer Elon Musk recently announced the Tesla Model 3, a sub-$40k, 5-seat plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) with a ~200-mile range that is well positioned to change the world. It should be available sometime in late 2017. Don’t count on the ship date; Tesla has never shipped any product...
Shelly Palmer About 240 years ago, a great, nascent political experiment fought its way into being. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit...
Shelly Palmer Tay is a combination chatbot and AI system designed by Microsoft to “engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation.” It was specifically “targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., the dominant users of mobile social...
NewsUSA Americans spend a lot of time on the road and getting to work, be it in a car, on a train or on a bus. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average commute for Americans is 25 minutes. However, other studies peg higher-profile cities such...
David Folkenflik and Naomi LaChance Per NPR For more than a generation, politicians have been on notice that political opponents would hold them accountable through deep dives into their records — a practice called oppo research. This election cycle, candidates for the White House also have found themselves trying to...
Encryption Apple v. FBI has started a serious debate about the line between security and privacy. The FBI says this is a case about the contents of one specific iPhone 5c. Apple says this is a case about securing data for everyone. I framed both arguments in a previous...