Device maker Withings announced their U-Scan urinalysis hardware at CES this month. They’ll be available for sale to Europeans later this year, and Americans someday (pending FDA clearance). To quote my 2018 self: “I’ve been talking for some time about a future […]
From the highly credible Rob May, investor in 100+ AI companies. His point is that there’s little defensibility for most of these companies. First, before there are no barriers to entry. Second, the foundational models that these companies rely on […]
“New Austinites might be surprised to find what this part of town used to be, but those that have lived in the city for decades still remember a very different South Congress experience.” ~ learn more
Oh my! “Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases” ~ learn more
“The team’s findings were published in the Cambridge Archeological Journal. Prof Paul Pettitt, of Durham University, said he was “glad he took it seriously” when Mr Bacon contacted him.” ~ learn more
“That is, in some sense, JPMorgan paid Frank [the startup it acquired] $175 million for an email list. … It went poorly.” In their defense (hah, not really) there were 4.3 millions of those emails. Unfortunately they were emails bought […]
“An interview with Tim Urban, the creator of Wait But Why, perhaps the most obsession-generating website on the internet, on what makes him tick.” ~ learn more
From Tom Tunguz: “In 2021, I estimated that airdrops were 4-7x as expensive as spending venture dollars on sales & marketing. This second analysis shows that Uniswap’s token launch falls within those bounds.” ~ learn more
“In the (near) future 100,000,000s of devices will run open source programs on shared data/models the same way they run any other app. Any RAM / Memory anywhere with internet making (small) casual continuous profit from letting itself be used […]
“It all started with the first NFT ever created, called Quantum, which was minted by Kevin McCoy on Namecoin in 2014. But several other NFTs were launched on pre-Ethereum blockchains over the following years — for example, Spells of Genesis […]