Category: technology

We idolize founders with brilliant ideas, but triumph often results from business savvy combined with imagination. Jobs was a capable technologist but mostly a brilliant pitchman and brand genius. Elon Musk is a great inventor, but his SpaceX is a great company partly because he works with operations experts including Gwynne Shotwell. “The lone genius…

Science magazine published an editorial from its Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp, PhD, about the Biden Administration’s recent handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Spoiler alert. It wasn’t positive. On May 5, Science magazine published an editorial from its Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp, PhD, about the Biden Administration’s recent handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. It began with the sentence,…

England is facing its lowest number of NHS dentists for a decade. England is facing its lowest number of NHS dentists for a decade as thousands leave the service, an industry body has warned. Other areas of the East Midlands county, as well as parts of Yorkshire in the North East, are at risk of…

Americans are moving on from Covid-19, whether or not health-policy experts believe they should. In light of these trends, public health agencies and experts are doing what they’ve been doing all along: telling people what’s safest. These are your “risk boundaries” for any situation—be it driving on the freeway or navigating a pandemic. How Fauci,…

In this post, I provide a primer on what the identity stack is, discuss the trends causing disruption and evolution, and share a viewpoint on where opportunities exist to build companies in the modern Identity Stack. All together, these changes are resulting in an evolving modern identity stack, where solutions are being redefined to keep…

Here are some of Netflix’s best shows, albeit they have cancelled a lot of them. Great shows that Netflix cancels due to what they deem is low viewership. Dash and Lily (100% score) – Cancelled after one season. Blood of Zeus (100% score) – Renewed for season 2, but usually buried pretty deep and most…

The vast region around the Sun extending more than twice as far as Pluto should really now be called the “helio-crescent.” Now NASA has just announced a new five-year grant to allow the scientists to advanced their breakthrough work and investigate how the sun influences and shapes the solar system. That’s what astronomers thought our…

Apple’s iPhone 14 models are not getting the obvious upgrade you expect… Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro plans are daring but it is arguably the company’s refusal to make any meaningful changes to the standard iPhone 14 models which is where the real shock lies. Following eye-opening reports in February that both the iPhone 14 and…

Got Android? Get that security update installed now. If you are an Android user, regardless of your hardware vendor of choice, then pay particular attention to getting the 36 vulnerability-fixing May security update installed as soon as possible. 36 vulnerabilities fixed in the May Android security patchIn all, some 36 vulnerabilities have been addressed in…

The number of new reported Covid-19 cases has been trending upwards in New York City since early March around the time many Covid-19 precautions such as face mask and vaccination requirements were being lifted. Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Covid Data Tracker, this subvariant is now present in an estimated…