March madness isn’t just about basketball
Technology matters in March at SXSW, GDC and GTC
Happy National Battery Day!
The arrival of National Battery Day inspires some thoughts about batteries, who invented them, and what we do with them.
After chasing pixels all these years, Jon catches some
The accidental art of storms across Texas caught on satellite
Jon counts all the pixels in the world
How many are there? 21 quadrillon pixels An old friend asked me, Hey Jon, how many pixels do you think there are in the world? TV’s, PC’s, smart phones, tablets. It’s going to be a lot! ...
Predicting the future
The demarcation between 2017 and 2018 is nothing but an imaginative fabrication that doesn’t link, or sync up with any natural occurrence or historical event, and is merely a counting convenience. Julius Caesar’s calendar, established ...
Moore’s law is getting expensive
Not only taking longer, costing more too—do we care?
Softer, less scary assistants
We need a friendlier name
We are under attack
Good people can't leave the fight against disinformation and lies up to governments and technology. That's really obvious.
Good and obsolete
On being relevant in a changing world
The (tech) world is catching up to fiction
We need a new category—SciFi is no longer applicable When I was a kid I read the comics (OK, I still do). We read them because we didn’t have TV, hadn’t even heard of it. ...
Customers in charge
One sure sign of a successful launch in the game industry is the rise of an unruly fan base, and AMD has that in spades. Vega is a competitive graphics chip for AMD with benchmarks ...
Today’s VR is so disappointing
Can we finally say the emperor is naked, and move on?