Last week you had the chance to ask software designer and international man on the run John McAfee about his exploits in business, programming, and the jungle. Mr. McAfee provided some extraordinarily entertaining and frank answers to your questions. Read below and enjoy.
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In the first interview since her husband’s death, Laurene Powell Jobs dedicated her sizable platform to advancing immigration reform, while remaining notably tight-lipped about the private life of the late Steve Jobs. We’ve included highlights (with context) from her interview with Rock Center host Brian Williams. On Steve Jobs: “Pretty Cool” Legacy BRIAN WILLIAMS: It’s another way of saying we’re left with a world of really cool stuff. I always wanted to know what it was like to be a Kennedy and drive to Kennedy Airport; and what it’s like to be you at a light and watch 10 people cross, and the only thing they have in common are white ear buds. What’s that like? LAURENE POWELL JOBS: It’s pretty cool. BRIAN WILLIAMS: (LAUGHS) It’s pretty cool. I mean, that changed our world. LAURENE POWELL JOBS: Yeah. To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark– in a way that you think is important and lasting, that’s a life well lived. On Immigration Reform Powell Jobs has been a vocal advocate of immigration reform, partnering with director Davis Guggenheim (Waiting For Superman, An Inconvenient Truth) on a documentary highlighting the struggles of talented, patriotic American youth who have been denied entrance into the military and college because they are undocumented immigrants. To add public pressure for Congress to pass a bill that provides a pathway to citizenship for children of immigrants who came to America illegally, the film (trailer below) is accompanied by a grassroots campaign and website. BRIAN WILLIAMS: Climb into the minds of our viewers watching you guys on Friday night. So help us process this. How are we supposed to feel about their parents, who did do something bad? This is ill-gotten gains, because the first entry into this country was wrong. How are we supposed to feel about the bureaucracy we would now have to have just to hand Social Security numbers to our Marine, our civil engineer? LAURENE JOBS POWELL: Yes. It’s understandable that people are conflicted about this. And, yes, the parents broke the law. And so I think that’s why Congress is trying to find a way to make amends. So have them pay a penalty, have them pay back taxes. Have them wait for two decades in order to have the chance to have citizenship. I mean, there are penalties that can be brought out. But then you have someone
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From the latest harbinger of the robopocalypse from Boston Dynamics to more friendly looking machines like Romo, Engadget has a longstanding love affair with all forms of robots. Syfy channel’s newest show, Robot Combat League (RCL), has provided us with twelve new objects of robotic affection –and the best part is, we get to watch them destroy each other in gladiatorial fashion. RCL isn’t the first show to have ‘bots do battle on TV, of course, but it is the first to have the robots be humanoid avatars that mimic the movements of the people operating them. Mark Setrakian is the man who designed and built the dozen robots on the show, and we recently got the opportunity to chat with him about how he did it.
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When you think of crowdsourcing, you usually imagine something like the Pebble smart watch or the Misfit Shine – gadgets that are hard to build in mainstream ways but take off by sparking a groundswell of support. But what about a crowdfunded Tesla museum? Or how about a grocery store that uses no packaging? Those kinds of projects are what Slava Rubin, founder of Indiegogo, is most excited about these days.
After wowing us at CES with the Xperia Z, Sony enticed us at Mobile World Congress with the Xperia Tablet Z. Both devices combine top-notch specs with beautiful industrial design — pure rectangular forms with a mirror-like finish packaged in thin, light and water-resistant shells. We sat down with product marketing manager Stephen Sneeden in Barcelona to talk about these iconic products. We discussed the “omni-balance” design and the common user experience shared by both devices, which was spearheaded when Kuni Suzuki became Sony Mobile’s president and CEO. He explained that some of these design elements will likely be incorporated into future (non-mobile) products and that the both the Xperia Z and Tablet Z are premium, aspirational devices which will become reference points for more affordable models. We then chatted about the Tablet Z’s specs, in particular its impressive thickness (6.9mm / 0.27 inches) and best-in-class weight (495g / 0.99lbs). Mr. Sneeden mentioned the TV SideView app, an electronic programming guide with voice activation that’s available from the Play Store and takes advantage of the Tablet Z’s built-in IR blaster — he also pointed out that Sony’s Music Unlimited and Walkman Player apps will be fully integrated by summer. We touched upon a few other topics, including the Xperia Play and PlayStation Certified program for phones. Check out the full video interview after the break.
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We first met Chul Bae Lee — VP of LG’s mobile design lab — in Seoul last fall and were lucky to spend a few minutes with him in the company’s booth at MWC. LG’s flagship Optimus G Pro made quite the splash in Barcelona but looks rather different from the Optimus G. We asked Mr. Lee to walk us through the design process behind the company’s new superphone. He mentioned that LG offers two high-end product lines, one focused on premium design (Optimus G), the other on high-performance design (Optimus G Pro) and shared a diagram with us to illustrate this (after the break). The new handset puts an emphasis on ergonomics rather than style by featuring a comfortable and a friendly shape, with soft edges and round corners.
We discussed the extremely narrow display bezel, striking RGB notification ring around the home button, recessed camera lens and IR blaster (for the QRemote functionality). Mr. Lee explained that the placement of the buttons around the Optimus G Pro was carefully chosen to minimize interference with the power / lock key — this includes the QNote button, which can be remapped to invoke other apps, and even double as a shutter key. We then talked about the new Optimus F series, which blends the design DNA of flagship devices with performance specs (like LTE) at a more affordable price, and the Optimus L II line, which offers unique designs for specific markets (single SIM in Europe, and dual-SIM in Latin America). Hi the break for our video interview and to check out the aforementioned design diagram.
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We caught up with Greg Sullivan — senior product manager of Windows Phone — for an early morning chat during Mobile World Congress. He was kind enough to give us an update on the state of Microsoft’s mobile OS, which has apparently experienced a four-fold increase in sales since version 8 launched last fall and is taking share away from Android in the UK. We discussed the delightful user experience provided by lower-end Windows Phone 8 handsets like Nokia’s Lumia 620 and asked how Microsoft plans to satisfy power users at the higher-end of the spectrum who are still missing critical features such as proper notifications, quick settings and CalDAV / CardDAV support (to name a few). It’s clear that the company’s aware of these shortcomings and is working to remedy most of them in a future release. We also talked about the ecosystem, what Microsoft is doing to improve app quality, how it meshes with Windows 8 / RT and whether the company is looking to expand its partnership beyond existing device manufacturers. Look for our full video interview after the break.
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“It has been a wonderful success for us,” says Daniel Graf about Google Maps for iOS. Originally from Switzerland, Graf worked for Leica and Phillips, and went on to co-found video service Kyte before landing at Google in 2011. There, he ran the mobile apps lab before taking the role of director of Google Maps for mobile, where he oversees the Android and iOS versions of the iconic mapping app. We recently got the chance to spend a few minutes with Graf at Google’s Mountain View headquarters to discuss the iOS app, which launched last December. He’s clearly passionate and proud of his work: “It has been an interesting project, because we got the opportunity to start from scratch.” Graf explains that the Android version “is actually seven years of history, seven years of product, [...] seven years of user experience. On iOS, we didn’t have those seven years so that gave us a chance to take a step back and say. ‘Hey, what would be the next-generation mobile mapping experience?’” Read on after the break.
With iOS 6, Apple ended its partnership with Google and experienced some growing pains with its own mapping app. Still, even in iOS 5, the app only offered a fraction of the functionality provided by Google Maps for Android — lacking voice guidance and 3D views, for example. Graf and his team set out to create an iOS app that wouldn’t just catch up with the Android version, but would also showcase the direction the company was taking in terms of user experience. “When Larry [Page] came on board as CEO two years ago, he talked about beautiful experiences and we had very functional and very useful experiences and in term of beauty I think there was work to do,” says Graf. “Now two years later if you actually use our product on desktop, on Android, on iOS there’s a theme there … there’s a design language there, and I would say actually they’re beautiful.”
It’s not just Google Maps for iOS that’s been revamped. Over the past nine months, the company’s been busy updating its mobile apps across the board with a more cohesive look and feel. It all started with Google Now — launched alongside Jelly Bean at Google I/O — followed by Google+ on both platforms, and more recently GMail and Google Maps on iOS. Interestingly, the Android version has not (yet) been updated to reflect the new design language. The iOS app makes extensive use of info sheets similar to those used in Google Now. “Given the feedback we have gotten from our audience about the user experience here, I would say this is kind of the direction we want to move forward,” says Graf. “It’s way more use-case driven … It should actually happen based on your actions.”
We asked Graf what challenges his team encountered while building Google Maps for iOS. “With a mapping app, it’s actually similar to a gaming app because the map you see here, the 3D rendering we have here, so you need a 3D renderer; you need an engine for that, and that was new for us — a 3D renderer for iOS.” The iOS app is written in Objective C (versus Java on Android) and required fine tuning: “To get that to a performance [level] where we have it now, that was definitely a technical challenge.” But there was another hurdle on iOS: “There’s no common login infrastructure like we have on Android — hopefully that’s coming.” When pressed whether this is a political issue (related to Apple’s stringent app requirements) Graf mentions that “it’s a business decision, but it’s a technical challenge as well.”
Despite being more polished than its Android counterpart, Google Maps for iOS lacks some features, such as Latitude (it’s a separate app). Graf admits that “it would be quite interesting to see your friends on the map within Google Maps for mobile.” For this version, however, it was important to simplify: “We obviously wanted this app out before the holidays, which we managed to do in December, so there was a lot of time pressure to get it out but we didn’t want to make compromises so we said is let’s focus on the key use cases which I think we nailed.” We inquired about how much Google Maps development is cross-platform. “Of course we have an Android team; we have an iOS team; we have different platform teams and they work very closely together,” says Graf. “You do want basically the best experience possible for a platform, so you probably have to develop native.” Watch the full video interview above.
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Toys? Toys. We’ll be talking to ThinkGeek about running a successful online business, how to stay novel in a world of noise and Toys. Mostly toys.
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At 5PM, we’ll be talking to Verizon director of network and technology, Praveen Atreya about, you know, networking and technology and the light.
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CES 2013 is shaping up to be the biggest year yet for 3D printing. As more and more companies enter the market, the race to make the technology a consumer friendly proposition is heating up in a big way. 3D Systems, which has been offering up the technology to industrial consumers has been making a play in the home market with lower-priced offerings like the Cube 3D printer. We’ll be discussing the promise of at-home 3D printing with the company’s CEO Avi Reichental.
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It’s been a heck of a year for Nokia and Windows Phone, so we’ve got lots of catching up to do with the smartphone maker’s EVP / Microsoft ex-pat Chris Weber. We’ll talk to the exec about the company’s transformation in 2012 and find out what the next year holds for Nokia.
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Google was cleared of anti-competitive accusations yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission, but a long-forgotten interview with Chairman Eric Schmidt reveals that the search giant may be on an inevitable road to monopoly anyways.
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Paul Jacobs talks about the future of mobile and the data demand problem with PBS’s Charlie Rose. [Read more]
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Via Phoronix comes a link to an interview with prolific GNU/Linux game porter Icculus about the state of gaming on GNU/Linux. Topics include Steam, Windows 8, his experiences trying to push FatELF vs full screen games, and the general state of the game industry. From the article (on the general state of games on GNU/Linux): “It’s making progress. We’re turning out to have a pretty big year, with Unity3D coming to the platform, and Valve preparing to release Steam. These are just good foundations to an awesome 2013.”
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Not long after a secretive CNN interview with fugitive software pioneer John McAfee, McAfee’s own blog posts an item saying he may have been captured. True? Or another twist in an already odd tale? [Read more]
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A rare interview with Apple’s chief executive will air the same day the company heads back to court with rival Samsung. [Read more]
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At the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, two tech titans sat down to have a conversation. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman interviewed Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer at an event with “tech influencers and innovators,” and a bunch of of us press folk. Ballmer is riding on the release of Windows 8, Surface and the Windows 8 Phone, so there is plenty to talk about.
Last week we got the chance to spend a few minutes with James Bruce, ARM’s Lead Mobile Strategist, to chat about the company’s past, present and future. We discussed the recent Cortex A50 announcement and ARM’s broad history — including key products like the Nokia 6110 and how the company’s chip designs have “changed how people compute and lead their digital life” over the past five years. We also talked about the scalability and flexibility of the ARM architecture, from embedded systems to smartphones and tablets to servers. So what’s in the pockets of one of the most important people in the chip world? A Nexus 7 and a global Galaxy S III, it turns out. Go ahead and watch the full interview above.
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This man sure knows how to entertain photogs, but he’s much more than just a charming French poser. Meet Henri Seydoux, the founder, chairman and CEO of today’s multi-talented Parrot. While promoting the recently launched Zikmu Solo wireless speaker in Hong Kong, Seydoux sat down with us to share the amusing story behind himself and his company. Check out the video after the break to hear how Seydoux’s encounter with Roland Moreno, the inventor of the smart card, made him drop journalism in favor of software engineering, as well as his detailed explanation on why many Bluetooth audio products suck, and how Bluetooth will continue to rule the world “like Beyoncé.” Enjoy!
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g tI had a chance to discuss an amazing new non-profit program called CODE2040 with one of its founders today, Laura Weidman Powers. The mission of this program is to bring diversity to Silicon Valley by bringing in talented minorities who are in school to Silicon Valley for the summer, mentoring them and find inhem positions with companies.
The non-profit is the brain-child of fTristan Walker, current EIR at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, and formerly of foursquare. The list of board members and mentors are nothing short of impressive.
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With the next giant science fiction blockbuster Total Recall (2012) headed to theaters this summer (out now, in fact), SlashGear took the opportunity to speak with Kate Beckinsale on her role as the main villain. As it turns out, Beckinsale doesn’t just find herself in a series of action movies because she’s custom-built for the
One of the most important questions of either of the iterations of the Rekall story was asked of actress Jessica Biel during our visit to the Total Recall 2012 press junket. That question was on what preparations she did for a character that may very well have not actually been real to anyone but Dennis
This past week Colin Farrell stepped up to the press bench with a deep explanation for what the 2012 version of Total Recall could mean for the audience. Total Recall is set to explode upon the entirety of the United States this weekend, and Farrell was certainly not shy about taking us deep into the
LeVar Burton has to take a moment. He pauses, dabs his eyes with a tissue, taking it all in: the washed-out white room, over-exposed by the sun, filled with journalists, industry reps and friends in rows of folding chairs, red, orange, yellow, green and blue. Large balloons hang from the corners of the room, dressed up like hot air balloons, carrying small, empty baskets. A guitar sits next to an amp off the corner of the stage while the Reading Rainbow logo beams on a flatscreen monitor, largely unchanged since its heyday a quarter-century ago. Burton, too, appears mostly unchanged since those days, aside from closer-cropped hair, more neatly manicured facial hair and a smart, mustard suit jacket.
There’s plenty to be emotional about, of course, hitting the stage on the tail of an introduction by producer Mark Wolfe, who calls Burton, “my best friend.” The return of Reading Rainbow – now in the form of an iPad app – has been a long time coming, the beloved children’s series having been largely MIA since being pulled from the airwaves in 2009, after a 26-year run. “This is two years in the making,” Burton begins in his familiarly gentle cadence as we sit down for an interview roughly an hour later, “and I’m really just overwhelmed with the response. It’s like making a movie. You’re just so close to it and you sometimes lose perspective, you can’t see the forest for the trees, that sort of thing. There’s so much that’s gone into it, so much work, so much sweat, so much blood.”
A lot, certainly, has gone into the launch, Burton singling out theme song composer Steve Horelick and singer Tina Fabrique in the audience. “It’s my first time meeting her in-person,” he explains, extending a hand to bring her up on stage. “Butterfly in the sky,” she begins, as though not a single day had passed in the last two and a half decades that she didn’t wake up singing that line. “I can go twice as high,” Burton joins in. By “take a look, it’s in a book,” nearly everyone in attendance adds to the chorus. It’s a surreal sight placed up against the standard fare of tech press conferences, where bloggers elbow one another to shoot tablets on stands behind bulletproof plexiglass, and before the crowd finishes singing “a Reading Rainbow,” Burton’s eyes aren’t the only misty ones in the house.
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It’s been said before that RIM CEO Thorsten Heins surely has one of the toughest jobs in tech. It’s a title he no doubt shares with Frank Boulben, the company’s newly minted CMO. After all, it’s Boulben who will be taking charge of the marketing for the company so badly in need of a new image. The Orange / Vodafone expat, naturally, sees very bright things ahead for Research in Motion’s future — a future that hinges almost entirely on the success of the company’s much delayed BlackBerry 10.
Like Heins, Boulben insists that all who have seen the much anticipated mobile operating system thus far have been thoroughly impressed — it’s a sentiment that we certainly can’t debate. Of course, given all of the trouble the company has run into bringing the OS to market, the number of folks who can claim membership in that exclusive club is small indeed. When the first BB10 devices finally hit early next year, Boulben’s team will be tasked with making sure that number increases significantly enough to ensure the company’s success in a field that is increasingly dominated by the likes of Android and iOS.
We spoke to Boulben about his plans to help spread the BlackBerry gospel, the time he spent as an executive at the also-troubled Lightsquared and the changes RIM must make to ensure it’s success in the future.
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colinneagle writes “Among the eye-opening statements in his recent TED talk, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said, ‘Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. Our voices matter and our actions matter even more.’ After you download and install Collusion in Firefox, you can ‘see who is tracking you across the Web and following you through the digital woods,’ Kovacs stated. ‘Going forward, all of our voices need to be heard. Because what we don’t know can actually hurt us. Because the memory of the Internet is forever. We are being watched. It’s now time for us to watch the watchers.’ I’ve been using Collusion for some time now and it is jaw-dropping to watch all the sites that still stalk us across the web even with DNT and privacy add-ons. The Collusion page states: ‘The Ford Foundation is supporting Mozilla to develop the Collusion add-on so it will enable users to not only see who is tracking them across the Web, but also to turn that tracking off when they want to.’”
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Today at the Windows Phone Developer Summit, we had the opportunity to sit down with Kevin Shields, SVP of Program and Product Management at Nokia, and chat about the day’s announcements including Windows Phone 8. Our discussion started with the apps Nokia unveiled today — PlayTo for DLNA support, Nokia Counter to monitor data usage, My Commute for personalized routing, an update of Nokia Music to 3.0 and the Camera Extras imaging suite — which are rolling out next week for all Lumia handsets running Windows Phone 7.5. Kevin gave us a little more insight on Camera Extras, a set of four apps (Self Timer, Panorama Maker, Action Shot and Smart Group Shot) designed to enhance the camera experience which leverage technology from Nokia’s recent Scalado acquisition.
We then moved on to discussing Windows Phone 8 and specifically NFC support, with a small tangent spent on Kevin showing us the recently launched Lumia 610 NFC. The next topic was about what we can expect from Nokia in terms of hardware for upcoming phones running the latest iteration of Microsoft’s mobile OS. We know that the first batch of Windows Phone 8 devices will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Plus dual-core SoC, but on the topic of quad-core processors Kevin said “where additional hardware makes a difference, then sure, let’s talk about it,” adding “we’re going to stay committed to the experience.” Finally we discussed the future of Nokia’s PureView technology and how it fits in with the next generation mobile OS. PureView “is a core technology that we are dedicated to and invested in” said Kevin. Sounds quite promising, right?
We can’t wait to see what the next wave of Lumia handsets brings to the table. Until then, go ahead and watch our video interview.
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Recruiting startup Interview Street is making a move onto college campuses (virtually speaking).
The company helps employers recruit programmers by holding online coding contests to test their skills. Right now, co-founder Vivek Ravisankar says the average CodeSprint coder has between zero and 3.5 years of work experience — in other words, they’re pretty fresh out of college. Still, a lot of recruiting starts even earlier. So why not try to find the most talented programmers while they’re still in school?
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Earlier this morning, Google critic and Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz used an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal to accuse Google of behaving like a monopoly. Google quickly responded with a line-by-line criticism of Katz’s arguments. I had a chance to talk to Katz about his piece a little while ago and while he argued that he wasn’t so much interested in engaging in yet another back-and-forth argument with Google, we obviously did touch upon Google’s reaction to his piece.
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pcritter writes “In a rare coup for accountants’ association CPA Australia, CEO Alex Malley interviews Neil Armstrong, whose dad worked as an Auditor, bringing him back 4 decades to the pinnacle of the space race. Neil reveals that “I thought we had a 90 per cent chance of getting back safely to Earth on that flight but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt”. The 4 part video series is now posted on CPA Australia’s website.”
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While visiting the Innovation Showcase at CTIA 2012, we ran into Nick Pudar — OnStar’s VP of Business Development — who was kind enough to give us a few minutes of his time. We sat in the LTE Skype-enabled Chevy Volt on display and discussed such topics as OnStar FMV, RelayRides and smart grids — wherein power utilities can (with the customer’s consent) send a signal to a vehicle to control when it charges. The idea is to allows utilities to maximize grid efficiency and minimize power spikes while giving customers options for when to charge the vehicle — like when the rates are the lowest or when the power generated is coming from renewable energy, for example. Pretty neat stuff, eh? Watch our video interview for all the (pardon the pun) juicy details.
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When you run some of the biggest and best presses in town, it’s hard to imagine them ever going silent. Brian Kibby of McGraw-Hill, well known textbook publisher, would be happy to shut them down tomorrow if the need arose. He doesn’t want to pay the costs of printing, paper, and distribution. He just wants to push the ebook industry into the future.
Today at CTIA Wireless in New Orleans we got the chance to spend a few minutes with Todd Simpson, Chief of Innovation at Mozilla. We talked about the company’s “pivot into mobile” — more specifically Firefox for Android and Boot to Gecko — and what it means for Mozilla’s future. Is there a Firefox for Windows Phone in the works? Will boot to Gecko migrate to other platforms, like laptops? We’re not going to spoil the fun for you — just watch our video interview.
Brad Molen contributed to this report.
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John Robb is an astronautical engineer turned US Air Force Special Operations pilot turned Forrester lead analyst turned startup CTO/COO turned military theorist and author, to oversimplify. His writing has heavily influenced my own (eg you’ll find his phrase “open source insurgency” several times in my novel Swarm.) He blogs at Global Guerrillas and edits Resilient Communities.
Q: Your writing has focused on three themes: global guerrillas, resilient communities, and, more recently, drone disruption. Could you give the quick nutshell summaries of each of those?
Sure. The general theme of my work is to be at the center of the information flow in the place the world is changing the fastest. I did that four times (tier 1 spec ops, the Internet, Internet Finance, blogging) in the past. I think these topics are where the change is happening fastest now:
Editor-in-chief Jason Pontin will be interviewing the science fiction legend at 4pm Eastern.
Today at MIT, Neal Stephenson will be questioned about his inspirations, plans, and thoughts on the state of science fiction and real technology in front of an audience of 450 people, who will also get a chance to pose questions of their own.
The historian of technology discusses the remarkable story that inspired his latest book, Turing’s Cathedral.
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This week the Chevy Volt lit up the newswires after GM announced plans to temporarily halt its production — Inhabitat brought you an interview with Chevy on the shutdown and explained why it doesn’t foretell electric vehicle doomsday. We also showcased you the hottest new vehicles straight from the Geneva Motor Show — including Infiniti’s sexy Emerg-E sports car, Toyota’s ultra-compact FT-Bh hybrid, and Nissan’s Hi-Cross hybrid crossover. On the lighter side of things, this week a LEGO space shuttle soared into the stratosphere, we featured an insane Russian bicycle powered by a chainsaw, and DARPA’s robotic cheetah broke a world land speed record.
Groundbreaking green architecture projects reached for the sky as Tokyo’s Sky Tree was crowned the world’s second tallest building and the eVolo Skyscraper Competition unveiled its futuristic finalists — including an energy-generating tower made entirely from trash, a spiraling water-storing spire for the Himalayas, and a spherical underwater skyscraper that recycles plastic pollution. New York City also made waves as Mayor Bloomberg called for a solid waste to energy facility, Terreform proposed plans for a self-sufficient NYC covered with vertical gardens, and a new cupcake ATM hit the streets of Manhattan.
It was also a big week for consumer tech as Apple launched its brand new iPad — however in the light of recent criticism over Apple’s labor conditions we took a look at the human cost of Apple’s products and we shared 5 things you should know before buying the iPad 3. Meanwhile, researchers at MIT developed a breakthrough LED light that exceeds 100 percent efficiency, and we brought you an inside look at 5 high-tech green data centers that serve the environment. Finally, scientists discovered several amazing new uses for spider silk by weaving it into violin strings that create superior symphonic sounds and insulation that conducts heat 800 times better than any other organic material.
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This week at Mobile World Congress we had the opportunity to talk with Alan Panezic, VP of Enterprise at RIM about what the company is doing to keep existing business customers (and possibly even lure new CIOs) in the warm and secure embrace of its enterprise services while still giving users personal freedom to fully enjoy their devices. RIM’s secret weapon? BlackBerry Balance on the PlayBook running OS 2.0 (of course) and BlackBerry Mobile Fusion on the server side. Take look at our video and remember — that corporate PlayBook of yours may still lack BBM integration but IT professionals are people too, so be gentle with them!
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The work of a non-profit advocacy group is never done. It seems like just yesterday that the Electronic Frontier Foundation was waging a battle to put jailbreaking rights into the hands of consumers, much to the chagrin of manufacturers intent on maintaining control over their devices after they leave store shelves. With the looming expiration of an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that has made such hacks legal, the organization is once again taking up the cause. And this time, it’s added tablets and gaming consoles to its proposal. We sat down with EFF staff attorney Mitch Stoltz to discuss the state of the law and how users can help in the fight.
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Continuing his use of social networks, President Barack Obama is set to do an interview in a Google+ Hangout on Jan. 30.
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The Engadget stage was home to many an interview at this year’s CES. Many, many interviews. Given the deluge of guests we hosted in Las Vegas this year, you could be forgiven for not keeping up — for throwing up your hands in exasperation and making a sandwich to heal the hurt. You could, but you won’t. That’s because this year, we thought it’d be a good idea to corral all of our CES 2012 interviews into one big metallic box, and hand-pick only the plumpest, juiciest and most eyebrow-arching ones for your enjoyment. We then took those select few and put them in a smaller, spotlit box, which was affixed atop the aforementioned metallic box with a butterfly shaped bow and maybe some duck fat. Add some mood lighting, a splash of bourbon, and voilà. It’s the CES 2012 interview roundup, and it’s after the break.
Continue reading CES 2012: interview roundup (video)
CES 2012: interview roundup (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you heard that Engadget would be scoring some one on one time here on stage with TI, you would be right. Texas Instruments has been in the gadget industry longer than most, and we’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Join us here live at 8:30PM ET.
Update: Interview video is now embedded.
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Continue reading Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Qualcomm
Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Qualcomm originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Matt Wuebbling from NVIDIA will be kicking off Wednesday on the Engadget Stage at CES by demoing some of the chipmaker’s latest technology. Join us at 12PM ET after the break to follow along.
Update: Interview video is now live.
Continue reading Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with NVIDIA (update: video embedded)
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Continue reading Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Dell’s Brian Pitstick
Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Dell’s Brian Pitstick originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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