When the gasoline car displaced the horse, transportation infrastructure had to adapt. One of the biggest risks to EV adoption has been the lack of charging infrastructure. The Economist details why they think this potential roadblock won’t be an issue. | learn […]
Legal tech entrepreneur Preston Byrne digs into the implication of tokenization when real assets are involved. He attacks the idea that you can create liquidity out of a real asset just by tokenizing it. |learn more
The Korean conglomerate is setting up a strategic business unit to focus on the space. I love seeing more competitors jump into the fray of this major change in transportation. Maybe we’ll find that many investments won’t pan out, but […]
This MIT Technology Review article discusses their use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), a machine learning technique, to better understand fashion and style. | learn more
Venture capitalist Benedict Evans has a new post discussing the likely winner-takes-all outcomes in the burgeoning autonomous car business. His analysis is always very thorough and worth reading. | learn more
I remember a few years back, ISPs were very worried about Google coming in and setting up shop on their turf. That hasn’t played out exactly as expected. Google Fiber isn’t dead, but it hasn’t killed the ISPs. Why? | learn more
Founder David Hall originally started Velodyne to make speakers with great bass, but pivoted (before the word was cool) to making the best LIDAR on the market. The business is at the epicenter of technology powering the autonomous vehicle movement. | learn […]
This excellent memo from NYC’s Notation Capital provides some worthy thoughts about how to capture value from blockchain. The memo was originally written for internal use of their limited partners. | learn more
Voice interfaces have sucked for the past 20 years. I remember how crappy the experience was in the first car I had with the voice feature. Venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz thinks that legacy of bad experiences is the biggest challenge […]
They thought it would be easy to create a tractor that goes straight then turns around. Well, that was partly true. But, it didn’t replace the driver. The lesson here is that this tech is hard! | learn more