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A few weeks ago I received a review copy of Ralph Roberts’ “Google App Inventor” from the ebook publisher Packt Publishing. I took a quick look at it, was favorably impressed by the sections I read, and was left with … Continue reading →

I haven’t thought about Google’s App Inventor since it was thrown off Sergey and Larry’s bus this past summer. Yes, it does live on as an open source project at MIT’s Media Labs, but certainly the orphaning of AI has … Continue reading →

Watson, the Jeopardy playing super-computer, is out to take on new challenges. Rather than reworking its algorithms for a chance to compete on say “Deal or No Deal, IBM executives have other ideas in mind. At The Singularity Summit 2011 … Continue reading →

Exhilarating, frustrating, muddled, tea-party-ish, revealing, revolting, liberal rationalist, and hyper-optimistic are just a few of the pithy comments I tapped into my magical (inside joke) Apple MacBook. And I hope not to hear the word exponential in general conversation for … Continue reading →

I’ve been at more than a few singles event at the 92nd Street YMHA during my solo period. Just to be clear, the Singularity Summit that’s being held at the Y this weekend will bring together AI researchers, neuroscientists, mathematicians, … Continue reading →

I was at the O’Reilly Strata Summit yesterday, which is a gathering of data miners, visualization geeks, CIOs, data base developers and hackers, journalists, and NoSQL evangelists. Journalists?! I noticed that the afternoon session would have a talk by Simon … Continue reading →

In 2008, Google Transit pulled up into the New York and New Jersey areas and took in a few passengers. They launched partnerships with New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the people who run the subways and buses, and New … Continue reading →

Wikimedia Maybe. MakerBot CEO and co-founder Bre Pettis sees a lot of hardware startup activity in New York City, San Francisco, and Colorado in a recent interview with Chris Dixon. As you may recall, Makerbot is a a 3D printer … Continue reading →

Wikimedia Google Correlate is yet another R&D project that can be found in Sergey and Larry’s basement— the Google Labs area of the site. I discovered Correlate in my last Labs visit, and though it has gotten some press, it’s … Continue reading →

I tried  Microsoft’s Office in the cloud last month as a beta user, and I’ve managed to somehow since get my work done without Office 365. I was informed this morning through an email that the product is out of … Continue reading →