The launch of the iPhone 12 has focused our collective attention on “5G,” a collection of fifth-generation wireless technologies that will supersede the fourth generation (4G) wireless …
A few weeks ago, I got a chance to go up on the roof of the only high-rise buildings in the Mission District in San Francisco to enjoy the sunset. It was a beautiful evening – setting sun, pe…
More than a decade ago, Apple introduced the iPhone 4, with its new boxy rectangular design. It was the first time we got to experience the Retina display. Fast forward to today, and the new iPhone…
This past Tuesday I was having dinner with a friend at Bistro Elan in Palo Alto when I ran into Y Combinator co-founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston. Paul, who has given up his day-to-day du…
Quibi, a mobile-first video startup primarily known for being an extremely well-funded pet project of woefully out-of-touch co-founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is shutting down. Born in…
When it comes to 2020, “I have tried to keep my sanity is by finding mini-obsessions,” my dear friend Shri writes on her blog. She has been obsessed with bonsais and mechanical key…
The Oscars are over, but we will all be talking about the winners — and the losers — for days and weeks to come. Why? Because we love movies. We love movie stars. What’s not to love? They have the …
Bradley Price is a Brooklyn-based industrial designer and the founder and owner of Autodromo, a company that makes watches, sunglasses, and driving gloves that express the spirit of motoring. He lo…
These are strange days — imagine that if Zoom met the $600-a-share price target set by analysts, then it would have a market capitalization that will exceed that of AT&T. While …
Every time Google tweaks its communication offerings, I am reminded that it has become a gigantic company, with the same dysfunction associated with large industrial companies. Today they had anoth…
One of Internet’s pioneers, Leonard Kleinrock, now a distinguished computer science professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in an opinion piece for The Los Angeles Times wonders:…
During today’s iPhone 12 launch event, Apple proudly noted that its voice command service, Siri, was now running on a billion devices and had 25 billion interactions. “That’s less than …
I am pretty sure you have seen this clip that went viral last night. It shows Stanford University’s Robert Wilson walking up to the door of his neighbor, Stanford colleague, and former studen…
The pandemic’s horrors are well known to most, but there have been some silver linings. The emptiness of the streets, fewer people driving, and general lack of activity gave us the gift of si…
The horrors of the pandemic are hard to ignore. The long-term damage to society is still unknown. What is undeniable, however, is that we are in a period of extreme, rapid change that will redefine…