By Gigi Levy-Weiss (@GigiLevy) and James Currier (@jamescurrier)
Levy-Weiss and Currier are Partners at NFX Guild, an early-stage fund with a three-month program for businesses utilizing network effects.
Tech Product Management–what does this mean in a the typical software or hardware company? What is the function, and where does it belong? I have a broad view on this as I’ve held permanent positions in a number of high tech concerns, as…
This time the culprit was Debian.
I didn’t want much from it. I had just finished writing a Python application for bookmarking music and wanted to package it for Debian based distributions. My aim was to distribute it out in the wild and get some feedback. I thought this…
Last friday we quietly rolled out a new service called URI:teller. When I say “quietly” I don’t…
** Note: In this article, I’ll be talking about solutions for MySQL (5.6+), Percona Server (5.5.10+) or MariaDB (10.0+)
You could say that the purpose of this post is more selfish than it is helpful, since this is here to memorialize…
Last month we announced an Alexa Voice Service (AVS) API update and new project for Raspberry Pi that let Makers, for…
Microsoft launched its new chat-based Teams app yesterday. The product will officially be called Microsoft Teams, it will be a part of Office 365. No more interesting is that Slack made Microsoft’s Teams announcement much more exciting with ad in the New York…
I was disappointed when I saw that Geckoboard do not officially support the Raspberry Pi as a method for displaying a dashboard on a TV. Their reasons check out though — V2 wasn’t quite powerful enough to keep a dashboard up and running.
Got any favorite movies on VHS or have any old files on floppy drives? Too bad you can’t…
As high definition (HD) content occupies the norm in video and broadcasting industry, higher standards digital video SFPs are needed for HD or even higher standard video transmission. So there are 3G digital video SFPs suitable for SD/HD/3G-SDI. To know more about…
Every month, I recap the news articles I’ve consumed around autonomous vehicles, calling out the…
Vocabulary: 3D printing, spoofing, biometric
An absolutely SPOT-ON portrayal of how government “does” IT/digital/design/etc. I’ve been working for US federal and local government for nearly 20 years as a UX designer (and developer, and db designer, and admin, and everything else) and saw These “dark patterns” on display regularly.
Last week it was the Let’s Get Real Conference in Manchester and this year the…
In this essay I will summarise some of the key concepts of the book Technovedanta[i] –hereinafter referred to as TV1.0 and hereby incorporated by reference- and enrich this summary with…
Let’s face it, who has the time and motivation to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen to make a healthy, homemade meal after a long day of work. Not me, that’s for sure. To the lazy men and…
Well, I accept the fact that my English pronunciation is far from even pretty flexible North American standards, but somehow I am able to communicate with people around me. I don’t understand why my relationships with that earnest girl in my old car, to which I tried to talk through my phone’s bluetooth connector…
Conceptually, lead generation is simple: attract prospects, offer something of value, and…
Most corporations don’t want innovation, they just say they do.
Corporate leaders talk about radical and disruptive ideas, but is that truly all that innovation is?
Our fellow automatons are a long way off from riot and robot rule. At this time mechanical people are nothing more than puppets, artificial intelligence is unable to pass the “Turing Test” and robots are limited to simple tasks. There may be a time when robots are less docile. What…
The old people in your world well remember when electronics and appliances were repaired…
Raj was trying hard to contemplate the mysteries of the universe — Why is Pluto not a planet anymore? Why did he have such a generic…
This year, I relocated to Houston to continue a career in tech digital marketing. Upon arrival, I did not know where to begin in a city with a fragmented, but burgeoning, tech scene. Seven months after the move, I am…
Mobile covers were always appreciated but the market of mobile covers has become huge ever since the smartphone came into trends. When people get the features of smartphone then, they also get the liability of good handling…
Welcome to the Mayku blog, glad you could join us!
At Mayku we’ve designed the FormBox, a desktop vacuum former that makes beautiful things. You can check out the FormBox here.
Last weekend a few of us gathered together at The Old Vineyard for our very first ‘Blue Rose Book Club’. During the Book Club, we discussed and reviewed, ‘The Hairdresser of Harare’ by Tendai Huchu. The book is published by the local publishing company, ‘Weaver Press’. Whilst it may not be…
I’m a little late getting to this post, but I wanted to recap an event I went to last weekend. MARTA (the public transit authority for Atlanta) partnered with other start up organizations and coding groups to offer a series of hackathons spread over a year. On Friday, I attended the…
I did my Master thesis about maps. I work in a place called Geospatial Technology Research Group. And I think that maps…
When we were doing the early integrations for the Ubi, we received an early DoorBot (now Ring.com). The…
Dear past me,
You were right, we’re more connected than ever before. We didn’t look for calm in our lives nor did we look to take anything away.
You see, connectivity and devices are still everywhere. No longer are they just in our…
The chapter entitled “Social Media and the Problem of Community: Space, Relationships, Networks”, by Vincent Miller…
CloakCoin has undergone a major overhaul in order to serve today’s need for a totally secure and long term anonymous digital payment system.
What will be the biggest challenge for us, human beings, in the future?
The Center for Entrepreneurship has done some serious upgrading to its new IdeaHUb and there are a lot of new machines and pieces of interesting technology. So much new stuff that not everyone even knows how to use them or what they are even for. But with…
Good judgement comes from bad judgement. Ideas lead to more ideas. This is a running list of ideas with the goal of staying fun and some what fresh. Most are bad, but thats not really the point.
For each section of SCAMPER, Ideas that I sketched are emboldened
Substitute:
Existing Product: Fitbit
In this essay I will summarise some of the key concepts of the book Technovedanta[i] –hereinafter referred to as TV1.0 and hereby incorporated by reference- and enrich this summary with clarifications where TV1.0 did not…
Designed by Luca and Chiara Randazzo, which for nearly three years working for the development of…
Humans are the proud parents of a whole new species of life; born from our intellect rather than our genetics. Living machines are coming.
In 2007, I was living in Shanghai and decided to come back to the US for a visit to see my family in New York. I also passed through Chicago to attend the law school commencement of a…
White House published a report about Artificial Intelligence. The volatile future we have been talking about for the last decade is happening now.
Developing and studying machine intelligence can help us better understand and appreciate our human intelligence. Used…
I just came across yesterday that @uber is totally revamping their app design! Here is the link.
Originally written for The New Grls Club
The rich and smart brains of this universe (apparently just us, surprise!) have started…
This week we have the opportunity to get to know a new member of the Daugherty — Atlanta team, Stephen McConnell…
Get ready to deep dive in the sea of client/server networks. This unique article makes…
To comprehend the need of hello there tech mobile repairing course, one needs to take an impression perspective of what clients can do the gadget. Today, one can deal with million dollar ventures utilizing a cell phone; can…
A gel imaging system is widely used in molecular biology labs for the imaging and documentation of nucleic acids and proteins in polyacrylamide or agarose gels. These easy-to-use and compact systems have several purposes. They are used for…
HitRECord is an awesome project. I am participant of it since 2013 and it totally changed my perception of making art. While living in a small city in Russia it gave me possibility to interact with thousands of talented artists in a variety spheres. So that’s not only a creative “tool”, but also a big community of soulmates.
The worst mistakes I’ve made in my career have all centered around, starting something with little knowledge, and not enough guidance.
One of these things we can control, and the other is found through our connections.
My journey in Berlin started with two days enjoying its winter landscape and counting days down to the conference for which I was determined to do the whole trip from my country, Tunisia in order to attend. Thursday, here it is! Data Natives opened its doors!
Interface DesignCreate an interface or heads-up display (HUD) for an upcoming invention. The item should be highly conceptual and not commercially available. It can be an iteration of an existing piece of digital technology. Explain the features and function of your design.
Adrian Hdz
Si tú o un familiar no se pueden despegar de algún aparato electrónico, esto significa que tú o esa otra persona padece de una adicción tecnológica. Hoy en día hasta los niños desde los dos años están…
In past 10 years, the evolution of cell phones has been marvelous. Hundreds and thousands of models in cell phones had entered the market and created a revolution in the industry. Many new…
La cultura ancestral peruana como insumo para la innovación en el país
El Perú está reconocido como un país mega diverso encontrándose en el ranking de los 10 primeros países con dicho título.84 de las 117 zonas de vida a nivel mundial se encuentran en Perú; es primer lugar en biodiversidad de especies y tiene el segundo un…
Reliance on IT is growing while the resources to support an increasingly complex IT environment may not for many businesses, IT resources are scarce, and can be overwhelmed with keeping the IT infrastructure…
I have not been blogging quite often but you must have guessed from my posts that I love Docker. It’s beautiful piece of technology which comes with a lot of great tooling for developers, devops and infrastructure administrators.
Ten years ago I got my first cell phone. The Nokia 3310—what else? I thought I was the…
I got married in 2014, and given that I was then working & living in Maldives (yes, it was quite the experience!), we had booked our honeymoon for the bustling twin cities of Hong Kong & Macau. The honeymoon itself was centered around a few things — it had to…
Google Home vs. Amazon Echo: A Face-Off of Smart Speakers By BRIAN X. CHEN Which is a better helper, Google Home or Amazon Echo? A side-by-side test for six days revealed strengths and weaknesses. Published: November 2, 2016 at 02:00PM via NYT Technology…
The year is 2016, and we’re here in India, living in an era of digital disruption that appears to have taken over our lives in…
Characteristics & Components
The Civic Centre Resource Library had its grand opening on September 3rd, 2016. So, you’re probably wondering what’s so innovative about a library? Don’t they just have books, quiet study areas and maybe a…
1st November almost the full team of FactoryFinder got into an amazing room of FabLab ITMO with a responsible mission — to hold the second webinar in the series on 3D-printing!
Free advertising
I’m sure that Joe Frazier probably was used to receiving offers by second rate boxers, people on…
Since our days at school, we have all been taught about oral traditions and how they were marginalized by the advent of the written ones.A great portion of our cultures just faded away during the past centuries, unless it was “written down”.A lot of…
Diesel is that fuel which is used in the most of the commercial vehicles as those…
In a world run by AI, any job that can be defined with rules (no matter how complex) is gone.
Ryerson is renowned for the resources it provides students with at the core of downtown Toronto. The DME (Digital Media Experience Lab) is just one of the facilities it offers to students who are interested in learning about new technologies will have access to it.
“And then they lived happily ever after.”
What takes to achieve that status? Can’t comment about human relationship, but from our experience of developing and debugging…
The concept of people, process and technology lay the foundation of every business project. We…
Technology advancement at present has made a world where correspondence and data are simply tap, snap or swipe away. Subsequently, each of the one need in such circumstance is a…
Nowadays the majority of us utilize printers routinely both at work and at home which means it’s important to supplant ink and toner all the time. Investigate this brisk manual for various sorts of ink so you can settle on an educated choice with regards to the…
With the passage of time, there has been a lot of advancement in the field of technology. Several electronic gadgets have been developed. Nowadays, the most commonly used electronic gadgets by the…
Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target By JOHN MARKOFF Wireless “smart” devices may be the tech wave of the future, but researchers have found flaws that let hackers spread malicious code through them. Published: November 2, 2016 at 02:00PM via NYT Technology…
Make Siri Hear You on a Mac Mini By J. D. BIERSDORFER Not every Mac model comes with a microphone, but you can still command Apple’s virtual assistant with an external accessory. Published: November 2, 2016 at 02:00PM via NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/technology/personaltech/make-siri-hear-you-on-a-mac-mini.html?partner=IFTTT
We need to keep the appliances in good condition. Once we have things at home it is vital that we maintain them pretty well. There are so many repairs and Service Company that help you with air condition repair…
Daily Report: A New Helper in the Virtual Assistant Race By PUI-WING TAM Google will introduce Home, its rival to Amazon’s Alexa, at the end of this week. Published: November 2, 2016 at 02:00PM via NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/technology/daily-report-a-new-helper-in-the-virtual-assistant-race.html?partner=IFTTT
Slack, you just wrote the definitive guide to responding to competition in one blog post. Well done, and totally epic.
Note to companies asking themselves how aggressively they should pursue their digital customers. If your customers are consuming content, services, products and relationships through digital channels and you are not following them then you need to ask yourself how long you…
This is why Slack will beat any future multi-billion dollar rival entering their sphere of influence.
Slack is laboring out of love while Microsoft labors out of love for money.
The earth Large Internet has presented itself to the new period in acquiring and marketing, despite the fact that earning it more successful and a lot faster. This is the entire world of your Internet, where by all is forced to maneuver much faster and…
Google Rebuts Antitrust Claims in Europe By MARK SCOTT The search giant faces three cases accusing it of hampering consumer choice and crippling competitors, all of which it denies. Published: November 2, 2016 at 02:00PM via NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/technology/google-eu-antitrust-europe.html?partner=IFTTT
Remember the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”? Well, your company NEEDS to learn the new tricks of technology and business to survive in today’s complex digital world. You can’t survive on spreadsheets alone anymore. Big Data, Cloud Computing and…
Is there some way we can use some available technology so that those of us who are not within commuting distance of Somerset House can discuss how we might contribute? A Virtually Open Door … or, better, a Virtually Open Window between 8:30 and 10:30 on some mutually convenient days?
For a considerable sector of the flight simulator individual populace, using a real To Know More Click Here Flight Simulator is purely for amusement functions. For them, you “play” a…
Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is a great smartphone which was launched in August 2016. Currently smartphone exclusive available in India at Rs 20699 via online shopping sites like eBay, Flipkart with Black, Gold color.
The device comes with a flaunt look out of the box and designed very beautifully with a dimensions of 151.7 x 75…
original posted from http://youtu.be/TB1cqwBur3I
