May
20
As he does every year Adam Savage of Mythbuster fame made his grand appearance at the Maker Faire Bay Area, the great gathering of inventors, engineers, artists and other people who love to make things. This year Savage tackled why he and the 50,000 or so people who showed up at the faire spend time, …
May
17
On the eve of Facebook’s much anticipated IPO, we can’t help but look ahead and wonder which technology firm will invent the next transformative platform. That’s why we’re excited about the 14th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends on May 22, hosted by the Churchill Club– Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum. At last year’s event, technology …
May
16
This weekend on FORA.tv, we present one of our most popular live events: the Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. There really isn’t anything quite like it: Put together a bunch of mind-bending inventors, erudite, but slightly crazy, engineers, arts-and-crafts creative geniuses and people who consume technology the way the rest of us eat snacks, and …
May
14
Here’s a quick look at two events coming up on FORA.tv. Last week’s dramatic discovery of an Al-Qaeda plot to blow-up an airliner, and how it was foiled by an operative working with the CIA, MI6, and Saudi intelligence services, revealed how the terrorist organization is evolving in its methods. Though intelligence agencies have the …
May
04
There’s a growing amount of evidence that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are suffering from tunnel vision; that is according to a recent post in The Atlantic. The problem? When it comes to ideas in the social space, it seems there is plenty of money to throw around. But if your start-up needs more than …
May
04
It happened to Microsoft and now it’s happening to Google. The digerati are starting to question, disparage (and even hate) Google’s strategies. It’s a common story, the more powerful and successful a company becomes, the more we enjoy watching it fall from grace. The latest example comes from Om Malik, founder of GigaOM. “Google,” he …
May
03
The classic American road trip could rely a lot less on driving and a lot more on sightseeing; that is, if Google has anything to do with it. They are currently shopping their autonomous driving technology to interested customers, according to a recent article in WIRED. Sebastian Thrun, the chief engineer behind the project–part of …
May
02
If you didn’t get a chance to check out our coverage from yesterday’s WIRED Business Conference from New York City, then take a look at the following clips below. Can we leverage technology to hack our way to better government? Jennifer Pahlka, founder and Executive Director of Code for America, thinks so. Pahlka spoke with …
May
01
Every time we board a plane, we are boarding a drone. It’s now possible for airplanes to taxi, take off, fly and land all without the help of human hands. At the Wired Business Conference, Missy Cummings, an associate professor in aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, talked about how radically different the life of a fighter …
Apr
26
This week we touched briefly on how Facebook is fast approaching 1 billion users worldwide–an astounding amount of growth since the company opened its social media platform in 2006 to anyone with an email address aged 13 and up. With those users comes an extraordinary amount of data in the form of personal information such as …