It’s a cliché, but I have wondered why we use flat images to depict our multifaceted environments and experiences. Over the past few months, I also noticed companies ranging from Facebook to Google (YouTube) and Twitter continuously rolling out multimedia features related to 360-degree imagery. So, when MIT Technology Review brainstormed ideas for its annual […]
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I haven’t written a profile in a long time, but I recently came across a person who I knew would make a fascinating profile subject: Douglas Trumbull. Trumbull is a filmmaker though is probably better known for his visual effects work on iconic, futuristic, sci-fi movies, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Close Encounters […]
I’ve covered the smartphone industry long enough to know that when someone touts a new phone capability as the next must-have feature, they’re most likely wrong. Yet I recently wrote a story that proclaims Google’s Tango technology as just that. What is Tango? And what’s so great about it? Tango is tough to describe pithily. […]
Earlier this year, I attended a healthcare conference at MIT’s business school. At the end of a panel discussion about data analysis in drug discovery and development, an audience member stood up and asked whether the companies represented on the panel were analyzing genomic data for a wide range of ethnicities and subpopulations. The experts […]
Creating a list of the world’s 50 smartest companies is a ton of work. I know because MIT Technology Review just published its latest version of such a list (called the TR50) and I researched and wrote a good chunk of it. You can read the list here, online, and in the July/August issue of […]
“Who are the people in charge of climate-change issues at large companies?” “What time frames are they looking at?” These questions, posed by Technology Review’s top editor, were the spark for my latest story, which appears in the upcoming (July/August 2016) issue of TR and can be found online here. The article–part of a broader TR Business […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is part of daily life for anyone who consults Siri, Google Now, or Cortana on a regular basis. These AI assistants are smart, but generalists by design. That made me curious: Are there any AI-powered assistants that are geared for business use? What is the equivalent of Siri for business? I recently […]
LinkedIn created a higher-education marketing business earlier this year and has major ambitions for its growth. Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is assembling a brain trust of high-profile hires under a relatively new CEO. I wasn’t aware of either of these developments until I wrote about them recently for EdSurge. (Hopefully they were news to EdSurge’s readers, as […]
I’ve been freelancing since 2012. I love all the obviously great things about freelancing: the ability to collaborate with a broad range of clients on many different topics; the freedom to set my own hours; and the flexibility of being able to work from just about anywhere. But I’m not going to lie. It’s tough […]
I recently published a story about a topic that gets very little attention within the tech industry, but that I think is intriguing: historical preservation at tech companies. I wanted to know: Which tech companies are preserving their histories? How are they doing it? Why are they doing it? And what can other tech companies learn […]
