In the aftermath of HurricaneDorian, The Bahamas was pretty much underwater, including the Grand Bahama International Airport, Freeport. The yellow line is the coastline which shows so practically the entire island was underwater. Our True Ventures portfolio company, ICEYE shared this image from its satellite and has another more recent update coming that shows the … Continue reading Dorian almost drowns the Bahamas
It is hard not to be overcome by a sense of despair and doom about the world in general, and technology in specific. It doesn’t help that media is dominated by doomsday narratives. We all need something positive to hold on to. Well, there is a new magazine called Reasons to Be Cheerful. It is … Continue reading Reasons to be cheerful
My former colleague, Derrick Harris, wrote more about Hadoop than any other reporter, and today, he wrote a wonderful obituary of Hadoop. He goes step by step, through what has made Hadoop quite irrelevant. Hadoop’s path to ubiquity intersected a host of other technology shifts that as a whole would prove to be more impactful … Continue reading Why Hadoop’s time has come and gone
You might have noticed that things are a little different around here. And you’re right! The blog has been redesigned — in more ways than one. Continue reading “Some Changes”
Yesterday, I blogged about Facebook’s desire to manage our WiFi connections and alluded to the need to access our location data for better advertising targeting. Later, I came across this article from December 2018, which outlines the incredible importance of location data, and why Facebook creates an illusion of privacy controls, even as it hyper … Continue reading WiFi, Geo Location & Facebook Advertising
Back in 2017, Facebook rolled out the “Find Wi-Fi” feature globally, a feature that lists the nearby Wi-Fi networks that Page owners shared with Facebook. Two years later, Facebook is working to expand this feature from being a list of nearby Wi-Fi networks to a service that manages the Wi-Fi connections on the device. Facebook … Continue reading Why Facebook wants to manage your WiFi connections.
Each Tesla computer has two AI chips, a redundant design for better safety, Venkataramanan said. There’s redundancy in the chips’ power supplies and data input feeds, too. Even the car’s cameras are on two separate power supplies to guard against failures. ….Each Tesla AI chip runs at 2GHz and performs 36 trillion operations per second. That … Continue reading Details on Tesla’s new big beefy chips
A full-fledged quantum computer is still years, if not decades, away. But developers have long thought that its killer app will be decoding encrypted messages on the internet and elsewhere, be they state secrets or personal information. That prospect has galvanized cryptographers. At a meeting this week in Santa Barbara, California, they will discuss nearly … Continue reading When the Quantum Computers Attack
Before you read, disclosure: I despise Allbirds. They are tasteless and are a perfect allegory for the technology sector’s idea of aesthetics. I can’t for the love of god figure out why folks wear these abominations, the equivalent of shapeless sweatpants in the form of shoes. So now that you know where I stand let’s … Continue reading The irony of Allbirds socks
Elon Musk wants to rebuild the Internet in space. He wants the space network to carry half the long-distance Internet traffic. How much is that? If the current trends of doubling of traffic every two years, then we should expect that the total Internet bandwidth in 2020 will double from 2018 to 2 petabits. With … Continue reading Facts & Fiction of Space Internet Claims
