by Michael Belfiore | Jan 30, 2024 | Blog
Technology always involves people. People build it. People use it. People are impacted by it. Few know that better than Joy Buolamwini, an African American, MIT-trained AI researcher who discovered that the face-tracking software she needed for a school project...
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...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 3, 2020 | Blog
Amid the toxic politics, pandemic, violence, mass unemployment, and protests and the rest of the Dumpster fire that 2020 has become, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that there’s a bigger picture. A much bigger picture. Case in point, Rocket Lab, in...
