Ep. 65: When Photography-Hating Moms Attack!

Ep. 65: When Photography-Hating Moms Attack!

The GSS 520 5-axis system is NOT your typical gimbal. Designed by Gyro-stabilized Systems to work at “high velocity”, it can capture buttery smooth footage while strapped to the side of a fighter jet going over 300 knots and pulling 2.5 Gs! The UC Davis pepper spray incident was national news. Memes were generated from […]

Facebook’s Terragraph and ARIES antennas bring Internet to underserved areas

Facebook’s Terragraph and ARIES antennas bring Internet to underserved areas

Probably the most impressive of Facebook’s connectivity projects is its solar-powered Aquila drone for enabling Internet access in remote areas. But while the technology behind Aquila is impressive, more traditional terrestrial connectivity systems are often still more practical. Today, Facebook announced two new connectivity projects at its F8 developer conference, Terragraph and Project ARIES, both of which focus […]

Google launches distributed version of its TensorFlow machine learning system

Google launches distributed version of its TensorFlow machine learning system

Google today announced the launch of version 0.8 of TensorFlow, its open source library for doing the hard computation work that makes machine learning possible. Normally, a small point update like this wouldn’t be all that interesting, but with this version, TensorFlow can now run the training processes for building machine learning models across hundreds of […]

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for Windows, OS X and Linux hits 1.0

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for Windows, OS X and Linux hits 1.0

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft’s cross-platform text editor for developers, hit version 1.0 today after about a year in beta. The company says more than 500,000 developers now actively use the application each month. The launch of VS Code came as quite a surprise when the company first announced it at its Build developer conference […]

How Silicon Valley can put local businesses back on the map

How Silicon Valley can put local businesses back on the map

I come from a small-business family. My mom has owned three small businesses; most recently, a medical clinic in the South Bay. But it was in her first business, a Chinese restaurant outside Chicago, where I saw firsthand the challenges facing small-business owners. When politicians say that “small businesses are the backbone of America,” it’s […]

Game Review: Chameleon Run

Game Review: Chameleon Run

Chameleon Run Is A Must Play Chameleon Run launched a little over a week ago and has been heavily promoted by Apple. Admittedly, I love this game and I am not the only one. Chameleon Run is an auto-runner where you fly through the air bouncing off platforms, see-saws and slides to make your way […]

Jony Ive designs one-off iPad Pro and accessories for charity auction

Jony Ive designs one-off iPad Pro and accessories for charity auction

Want some serious bragging rights in the tech community? Why? Inquire within yourself whether this craving for attention is healthy, and if you still want those rights, consider bidding on this one-of-a-kind iPad Pro and accessories designed by Jony Ive. It’s for a good cause, or at least you can tell yourself that. It’s all […]