• It’s Not TV,

    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...
  • Chevy VS. Tesla

    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...
  • The Lying Filter

    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...
  • “A Bad Naughty Robot?”

    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...
  • The Top 10 Things at CES 2016

    With 20,000 new product announcements and 2.1 million square feet of floor space, it was hard to find the signal in the noise at CES 2016. Here are my top 10 favorite products. 1. LeTV Le Max Pro Another Android phone. No, not just another Android phone – an...
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