The Dropcam Team

You may have seen Reed Albergotti’s recent article. In it, Tony Fadell says “a lot of the employees were not as good as we hoped,” and that Dropcam was “a very small team and unfortunately it wasn’t a very experienced team.”

The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus.

On May 15th a critical Nest product will go dark. I’m shocked this isn’t bigger…

What’s going on at Nest? How about ‘what’s Next?’

This past week, Greg Duffy, the founder and former CEO of Dropcam published a piece…

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car

After 1.7 million miles we’ve learned a lot — not just about our…

Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code?

As America goes digital, its bluest collar workers are facing the toughest challenge of…

Our Medical Data Must Become Free

Data generated by your body is routinely captured and sold by healthcare companies…

Building a VR App in 14 Days

A Designer’s First Time Building with Unity3D

How Virtual Reality Will Democratize Learning

This post was originally published in ReadWrite.

Why is Apple asleep at the wheel with VR?

Make a Mac that you can plug a GPU into.

Tay the racist Twitter bot should make us fear human nature, not A.I.

Microsoft’s Tay is an Example of Bad Design

or Why Interaction Design Matters, and so does QA-ing.

Yesterday Microsoft launched a teen girl AI on Twitter named “Tay.” I work with chat bots and natural language processing as a researcher for my day job and I’m pretty into teen…

The Near Future of AI: The Road to Super Intelligent Apps and Machines

The Artificial intelligence revolution is changing lives but scaring millions. AIs are already everywhere…

The Human Move

A follow-up post to The Divine Move

The historic match between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo is over, and as you probably know it was a victory for the AI developed by Google’s DeepMind team. It was really exciting to watch, as it was full of…

AlphaGo’s Defeat of Lee Sedol is a Great Victory For Humanity

AlphaGo, from Google’s DeepMind, made history today with its historic 4–1 defeat of Go world champion, Lee Sedol. Prior to the five-game match, many Go experts, including Mr. Lee himself predicted that the machine would be defeated 5–0 or, if it did well, 4–1. The result was…

This Isn’t about One iPhone. It’s About Millions of Them.

FBI vs Apple: how did we get here?

A cartoonish explanation of crypto history

Apple and the FBI have been headlining recently in a debate about cryptography. Crypto is one of…

“The Network Is Hostile”: Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum on the Future of Surveillance

Your iPhone Already Has a Backdoor

You should be worried about the iPhone backdoor, but not for the reason…

The Apple FBI trial should still happen anyway

The FBI requested to delay today’s trial against Apple, and it’s been accepted.

The reason? Apparently an outsider has come to the aid of the FBI to unlock the iPhone that they claimed they couldn’t without a backdoor from…