“We’ve literally built an operating system for a 21st century school system,” says AltSchool’s founder. (Excerpted from Bloomberg Business, by Adam Satariano) Former Google executive Max Ventilla with $133 million from venture capitalists and Mark Zuckerberg has started a for-profit, $[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tech’
June 7th, 2015 - 7:39 am § in Uncategorized
“The internet wasn’t designed for this”
We’ve recently been inundated with reports of data breaches, and the latest is a doozy: More than 4 million present and former federal employees had their personal information stolen by anonymous hackers possibly working for China’s military. As a CNN guest columnist puts it, not exactly[...]
April 24th, 2015 - 9:29 pm § in The Ave Scene
How many Employees does Amazon have
A. 5,700 B. 12,100 C. 33,000 D. 97,000 E. 165,000[...]
April 14th, 2015 - 12:32 pm § in The Ave Scene
SPACE X (A Seattle Company) brings the free market to the iSS
WATCH to learn about Espresso in Space![...]
A BLOGGER CLAIMS OBAMACARE IS NOT WORKING
ObamaCare Is it working? Posted on March 20, 2015 by hughschwartz on his blog Our president and the Democratic Congress are singing the praises of Obama care. It definitely has given more people access to health care. It protects people with pre-existing conditions from losing their benefits when [...]
April 3rd, 2015 - 1:36 am § in America
APPLE WATCH: Fails to meet early hopes
From a post on TA, Apr 1, 2012. Apple has today announced release of its much rumored iBracelet. Going even beyond Apple’s legendary sense of design, the iBracelet is much more than a fashion accessory! Combining a gold bracelet with Apple’s new “Goldfinger” pointing device, [...]
March 28th, 2015 - 9:51 am § in The Ave Scene
HBO expanding Seattle engineering office in advance of HBO Now launch
I am impressed. HBO putting this here, along with SPACE X’s decision to put its headquarters here, means the Seattle MAY be achieving the sort of synergism you see in other intellectual/industrial centers (the Bay Area, Bostin, King of Prussia, Research Triangle, Cambridge (England),[...]
Can someone call a doctor?
While we complain about our broken healthcare system in the United States, there are 5 billion people worldwide who lack access to surgical care. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32452249 &nbs[...]