“There has never been a better time to be a nerd. In the past century we’ve seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent — and I don’t see anything on […]
About twenty years ago we switched from megahertz to gigahertz when talking about processor speed. Soon it might be time for a new scale for transistor size. “The combined research brainpower at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Taiwan […]
“[Startup company] Loyal is holding out the possibility of eventually expanding its business to humans. In the meantime, [founder Celine] Halioua is happy not to be working only with mice. “We have extended the life spans of mice hundreds of times,” […]
I applaud this effort! “P33, a local nonprofit that’s aiming to turn Chicago into a top-tier tech hub, announced Thursday a program that will target 100,000 tech workers in cities across the country, with the hope of convincing 10,000 of […]
I learned this word recently from Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. It means “enough alcoholic liquor to cause drunkenness.” | learn more
“In 1889, Tit-Bits magazine offered a prize to the spinster who could provide the best answer to the question: Why are you still single? The results proved far too hilariously on point for the magazine to choose just a single […]
Twice this week the book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator came up in conversation. I read the book in college and liked it, but it drove me away from stock trading rather than towards. Many career traders had the opposite response. The […]
“The legislation would fund projects that address aging infrastructure and improve water quality, remove lead pipes from schools, and update infrastructure to be more resilient to the impacts of extreme weather and climate change.” | learn more
“When reports emerged in 2019 that the CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange had died, it left over a quarter of a billion dollars of customers’ funds in limbo. While authorities investigated, one online sleuth decided to dig deeper to […]
Anthony Pompliano analyzes who’s buying, selling, and holding Bitcoin to inform his prediction of near-term price. It’s worth a peek if you aren’t regularly immersed in this sort of data. | learn more