by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
When I wrote about DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in Popular Science back in 2007, the editors, without running it by me first, called it out on the cover with a headline that sold the project as creating a “bionic arm that’s better than...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 2, 2015 | Articles, Blog
The much-anticipated movie The Martian opens today, and I plan to be there, come hell or high water (and we might actually get some of that here in New York!). The book is amazing hard sf, and the movie promises to be more of the same. Hopefully, it continues a recent...
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 19, 2015 | Blog
Yesterday, a participant in my free PR for Technologists teleconference asked me whether the press release is dead. “When I send one out via wire services, it seems to have about as much impact as stuffing it into a bottle and tossing it in the ocean,” he...