By Fred Vogelstein Patrick Hsu got noticed early as an academic superstar. He was taking classes and doing lab work at Stanford University when he was 14. He had his PhD from Harvard in biochemistry and biological engineering by the time he was 21.  It...

By Fred Vogelstein When you talk to Jakob Uszkoreit you have to bring your “A“ game. It’s not because he’s evasive. It’s because the stuff he’s working on is cutting edge enough that you need every neuron firing to keep up with...

By Fred Vogelstein and Om Malik This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025.  1994 was the year Netscape unveiled the first mainstream internet browser. 2007 was the year Apple unveiled the...

By Om Malik Sometimes, a car is not just a car. Take the new Volvo ES90, as an example. In its press release, Volvo touts computing power of 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS), thanks to dual NVIDIA Orin chips. The ES90 features lidar technology,...

By Fred Vogelstein I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023.  Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There...

By Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter. I so badly wish that its battery would last longer. And I wish Siri worked better on it, so...

Patrick Hsu got noticed early as an academic superstar. He was taking classes and doing lab work at Stanford University when he was 14. He had his PhD from Harvard in biochemistry and biological engineering by the time he was 21.  It was cutting...

I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023.  Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users....

This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025.  1994 was the year Netscape unveiled the first mainstream internet browser. 2007 was the year Apple unveiled the iPhone. And 2022, a hair over 2...

By Fred Vogelstein  Many still believe AI optimization is an oxymoron. You can’t optimize something as complicated and inherently unpredictable as a neural network. Even if it could be done, what AI chatbot would grant outside companies database access...