Smart phone driven valet parking app! $15 day $5/gal for gasoline fill 5-7 minute pick up or deliver car. ZIRX is an on-demand valet startup that charges $15 a day to park your car (and bring it back to you)… And it just raised $6.4 million from Norwest Venture Partners and Trinity Vent[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tech’
November 29th, 2014 - 10:47 am § in The Ave Scene
FACEBOOK: No Sales Tax on Electric Cars
Reuven Carlyle on Governor Inslee’s Proposal for a Sales Tax Exemption for Electric Cars Let’s have an authentic conversation: Electric vehicles rock and our nation’s massive subsidy of fossil fuels does not. I even admit I dream in Tesla red, and I led the fight against the anti-T[...]
November 17th, 2014 - 10:17 am § in Uncategorized
Applesauce
Touch-screen Mac unlikely, says Apple’s Federighi The head of Apple’s software business explains to CNET why we won’t be seeing an iMac or other Apple computers with a touch screen.[...]
Science: Why Science Can be Wrong
A paper (really more a news piece) in Nature launches a major attack on the commonly used and taught statistical methods. The focus is on Fisher and the T test, the pervasive “p” values students from high school to grad school learn to sue as a measure of reality. Everyone from politi[...]
November 3rd, 2014 - 8:48 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Microsoft Opens a Garage
The legend of the garage is part of the reason so many people are Apple fans. Google has a similar policy, touting the release time it allows Goolgeoids to work on their own projects. How to respond if you are stodgy Microsoft? Five years ago, Microsoft created its own Garage. Not a ph[...]
October 15th, 2014 - 1:47 pm § in America
Applesauce: Google aims more missles at Cupertino
Just in time for Xmas, Apple is about to launch their latest iPad. It better be great because iPad sales are falling. While the Apple’s pad has 32 percent of the market, last year it held 40 percent. Samsung tablets, which run Android, have gained ground this year with 22 percent of the m[...]
October 15th, 2014 - 7:52 am § in Uncategorized
Lockheed Claims Fusion Power ‘Breakthrough’
Lockheed’s fabled “Skunk Works,” which notoriously concocted iconic Cold War gadgets like the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes (and probably some satellites and other stuff we don’t know about, and maybe even flying saucers), apparently has been tinkering with fusion power, I assume [...]
October 14th, 2014 - 8:34 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Amazon Does Not Like Seattle?
Amazon opening second retail store in San Francisco Errrr … so Mr. Bezos seems to think Seatle is not a good place for a store? Having opened an Amazon retail store in Manhattan now he is setting up shop in San Francisco ! Wassup Jeff? You don’t like selling stuff to you[...]
Satya Nadella gets dissed for wrong reason.
The breathless hype about Satya Nadella’s remarks utterly missed the BIG point. Nadella was not saying women should be paid less or accept lower pay. He was saying that workers need to trust the management system to promote the best. A similar idea motivates the Catholic Church.[...]
Reuven Carlyle: Massive Expansion of the UW School of Medicine
Reuven Carlyle Thinks Big: Let the University of Washington Buy The Amgen Campus First it was Washington State University proposing to create a new medical school in Spokane for the absurdly low annual cost of 24 million dollars. Now, over at his blog, State Representative Reuven Carlyle h[...]