Good read from Business insider on the softness in EV business in 2024, what is not working, and how government incentives played out in Norway. Large cars: Automakers argued that this was proof that people wanted only big cars, so they cut small models and made existing vehicles bigger, which made people with smaller cars feel less safe — you get the picture. Range anxiety: Since Americans have...
40 Tech terms explained for dummies – link How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they’ve solved. link WHAT IS IPV4 VS IPV6? IPv4 is 32 bit IP and is written in decimal as four numbers separated by periods. Each...
CANON “….smart-creative product managers need to find the technical insights that make products better. These derive from knowing how people use the products (and how those patterns will change as technology progresses), from understanding and analyzing data, and from looking at technology trends and anticipating how they will affect their industry.” Classics – Product Management Classics PM...
Sources: Dell Geekwire Predictions: AI as a fundamental platform shift is here Unprecedented wave of startup acquisitions and wind downs “By the end of 2024, machines will write more than half of the new code generated globally.” “Shift away from text/chat-based UX for AI-native applications in 2024” “GenAI will move from proof of concept to proof of productivity...
Insights: Growth in the trade in goods used to bring the world together, since 2008 that baton has passed to intangibles (data and IP), services (IT and professional services), and people (international students) No country gained more of global supply share than China (see below), and Japan lost the most Barriers to trade in most services are two or three orders of magnitude higher than those...
Fontainebleau and Downtown Calcutta You want me to take initiative. You want me to cooperate, voluntarily, with others around me. You want me to learn continuously and bring the benefits of that learning to my work, to my job, to the company, to its success. How do we get into those behaviors if around me it is the smell of the place you create? If you’d asked these questions to your...
MIT review’s yearly list is here. 2017 list includes – Facial recognition has existed for decades, but only now is it accurate enough to be used in secure financial transactions. The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition because it makes a computer zero in on the facial features that will most reliably...
Augmented reality to growing brain cells to large scale desalination, some of these technologies are already here, some give a lot of hope and we need a few of them yesterday. Here is MIT’s list for 2015.
Magic LeapNano-ArchitectureCar-to-Car CommunicationProject LoonLiquid BiopsyMegascale DesalinationApple PayBrain OrganoidsSupercharged PhotosynthesisInternet of DNA
Top 10 from MIT review.
“I think I’ve seen five or six computer demos in my life that made me think the world was about to change,” he says. “Apple II, Netscape, Google, iPhone … then Oculus. It was that kind of amazing.” By December, Oculus had closed Series B funding—with Andreessen Horowitz leading—for $75 million. Peter Rubin’s inside story on Oculus Rift and how virtual reality is coming of age...
Founder editor of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly in his book The Inevitable, talks about some of the technology trends that will shape society and consumption over the next few decades. He identifies 12 patterns – Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning , Beginning. Of these Flowing refers to the technology...