Star Trek: Discovery - Principle or Interest?

July 1, 2017 - The latest series in the Star Trek franchise finally has it’s release date, September 24th, 2017. As a long-time Trek fan, I’m definitely interested in the new series. The casting looks good, the props, sets, and uniforms we’ve seen in the trailers also look good. I will say, though, the design of the Discovery we’ve seen so far is kinda meh.
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Starshot

April 12, 2016 - I’m sitting here watching Yuri Milner’s Starshot announcement, and it’s pretty exciting. Not necessarily new ideas (think von Neumann probes) but inspiring to see some level of commitment to the idea. And I like that Avi Loeb brought up the idea of using them “locally” as well. Think of being able to quickly scramble a small, cheap, fast probe to a point in the solar system when we see something interesting about to happen, and not needing years of travel and development time. I’m pragmatic about this possibilities of this project, but it’s an exciting time!
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Weekend Ramble - A Rough Week For The Cloud And Internet Of Things

April 9, 2016 - About a month ago Revolv announced it was ending support for their Revolv home automation hub, and this week a number of sites have picked up on this, starting a discussion of just what this means for cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). What has a lot of people concerned is that, unlike many devices, the Revolv is COMPLETELY dependent on the Revolv service to do ANYTHING. Without that service, users will on May 15th have a brick, and a non-functional home automation system. And we’re in a world where things we have purchased can stop working with little or no warning.
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