Reviews

Crossing the Pond in LIMBO

LIMBO, released by the Danish folk over at Playdead [http://playdead.com/] all the way back in 2010 is one great game chucked full of hardcore obstacles. Yes, it exists only in Black

Programming

Frameworks are the New Programming

Peter Wayner [http://www.infoworld.com/author/Peter-Wayner/] in an eloquent piece for InfoWorld [http://www.infoworld.com/article/2902242/application-development/7-reasons-why-frameworks-are-the-new-programming-languages.html?page=2] expresses what has become the reality for programmers

Business

Be Crazy To Be As Big As Chobani

Kirk Hamilton has a brief chat with the billionaire founder of Chobani Yogurts at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in 2014

TED

Teaching Machines to Understand Pictures

Computer vision specialist Fei-Fei Li explains that listening is not hearing and seeing is not understanding. She demonstrates how her team used big data to build a database of millions of photos to teach computers to understand pictures.

Downloaded

When Failure Trumps Startup Success: Downloaded Review

Alex Winter's [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935664/] two year old documentary Downloaded [http://downloadedthemovie.com/] takes us back to a land of dial-up connection tones and gives us a chronicle

Microsoft

Whaat! Microsoft's Giving Software Away for Free?

This week at the Microsoft Convergence [http://news.microsoft.com/speeches/chris-capossela-convergence-2015/] conference, Chris Capossela [https://twitter.com/chriscapossela] the Chief Marketing Officer during his Modern Marketing presentation finally provided some clarity regarding

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Starts Walking

Is Yahoo! [https://yahoo.com/] having a nascent recovery or a prolonged requiem? Steven Levy [https://medium.com/backchannel/marissa-mayer-has-completed-step-one-71dc31912855] and Nicholas Carlson [http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-yahoo-nicholas-carlson-book-excerpt-2014-12] have given us the opposing

Technology

Technology's Stop Sign for the Underprivileged

Gerard O'Neill [https://medium.com/@GRardB] writes a great article [https://medium.com/backchannel/techs-high-barrier-to-entry-for-the-underprivileged-da254356547d] on Medium's Backchannel [https://medium.com/backchannel] about the high barriers to entry that

China

Chai Jing's Under the Dome - The Only Environmental Documentary You Ever Need to Watch

Chai Jing's Under the Dome is a remarkably well researched and unbelievably brave this documentary that demonstrates the real impact of China's smog.

Technology

Laptop Buying Guide 2015 - What Really Matters...

Lately, I have been fielding quite a few questions from friends and family wishing to finally upgrade that five year old PC or in the not so rare case replace that hangover laptop