by Michael Belfiore | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog
On the morning of October 4, 2004, in Mojave, California, I stood on the flight line of the Mojave Air and Spaceport with 27,000 other spectators looking up. Fifty thousand feet above, a little, three-seat space plane scratched the clear, blue sky, riding out of the...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog
The Biden Administration is proposing a new federal agency modeled after DARPA — the Pentagon agency responsible for jumpstarting the internet, GPS, self-driving cars, and many other breakthroughs. From President Biden’s address to Congress in April: The National...
by Michael Belfiore | Dec 2, 2020 | Blog
One of the last in-person events I attended pre-Covid was the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York City. There, I got a chance to see the battery-free Bluetooth tags developed by Wiliot. Each tag incorporates a three-core ARM processor, memory, radio, and...
