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Review: Tasker
Tasker is an amazing application for the Android platform. Basically, you’re able to se up automated tasks (called profiles) for different conditions. EX: for a particular location, say work or school, automatically switch to vibrate.There are some really cool instances … Continue reading
Review: Too Big To Fail
Just finished Andrew Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail. Sorkin does a pretty good job covering the event as it happened, with minimal commentary and analysis. On the one hand, that makes it easy and quick to read. It does mean … Continue reading
Seaswarm: MIT’s Autonomous, Oil-Cleaning Swarm
Seaswarm. Unfortunately, this is priced at $20k a pop. I’d like to see the plans unleashed to the hacker community. (And watch the precipitous pricing drop thereafter.) -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Economic Hitmen Inside the Gates Foundation Invest in Monsanto
Bizarre sense of morality. holdings from $360,000 to ~$23 million. Monsanto’s track record with the third world is classic evil. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
On Google
On the one side, the Larry/Sergey Google that makes amazing cool things — the search engine, Gmail, Android. On the other, the Schmidt Google that, in its efforts to serve ads as efficiently as possible, no longer seems concerned with … Continue reading