tech, startups, internet

Volvo is going all electric in 2019. 

The brand will become the first major traditional automaker to ditch vehicles that rely solely on internal combustion engines. This is a meaningful move away from the oil that’s traditionally powered our transportation system. Tesla’s role as the catalyst for […]

retail therapy

Amazon’s new patent fights showrooming. 

Remember when retailers like Best Buy were getting clobbered by Amazon because people would look at products in store then buy online for less? Now, Amazon holds a patent for tech that prevents the practice called showrooming. While this author […]

oh, chicago

CPS is getting taxed. 

Not literally, but, “The rate on the [school district’s] bonds, which are supposed to stay extremely low because investors can resell them to banks periodically, jumped to a maximum 9 percent on March 1 from 4.64 percent the week before […]

big ideas

Synthetic IoT sensor is cooler than Miles Davis. 

Follow the link and watch the video – totally worth it. “The plug-in sensor package they’ve developed monitors multiple phenomena in a room, including things such as sounds, vibration, light, heat, electromagnetic noise and temperature. With help from machine learning […]

under the microscope

Neural structures exist in 11 abstract dimensions. 

“The goal of the Blue Brain Project, which is based in Switzerland, is to digitally create a ‘biologically detailed’ simulation of the human brain. By creating digital brains with an ‘unprecedented’ level of biological information, the scientists aim to advance […]

under the microscope

Older men have geekier sons.

Researchers created a geek index, then started analyzing the index scores of almost 8,000 twins in the UK. They found evidence that older fathers tend to have geekier sons. The same result was not found in daughters. | learn more