DENVER — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may not agree with Colorado's decision to legalize recreational marijuana, but he said Saturday he will defend the state's right to make a hash of things.
Speaking at the Western Conservative Summit, Mr. Perry made a vigorous defense for the states' role as ...
The obsession with "millennials" continues to fascinate me. Despite being the most outspoken generation in history, people – very important and powerful people – claim they don't understand us. We make no sense apparently, as if the actions and career paths of our parents make total and complete sense. There are even consulting firms that specialize in teaching…
Robot writers are hot. No, that statement is not a call to fix their air conditioners, much less to date them. It's to acknowledge that pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI) and automated writing have gotten a lot of media attention (partly because it hits close to home; the deployments are public and noticeable and it invokes the perennial concern about job loss due to automation).
YC-backed Cymmetria, which is uncloaking from stealth now after around a year working its cyber security startup business, wants to tilt the traditional security odds so it's hackers who are left feeling vulnerable and on their guard — by giving the businesses whose systems are under attack a 'home advantage'.
The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple's streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. Again. It was around 2005 when I joined Warner Bros. Records as their new head of technology. I was the 20-something-year-old kid who was supposed to have every answer about all things digital.
Hearken to me, my fellow developers. We live in complex and confusing times. Once we sought to make things ever simpler. Then we discovered that simple isn't necessarily scalable, or efficient, or resilient, and turned to favoring composition over simplicity, deconstructing our systems into multiple independent services. And now–well–now it sometimes seems we have hit upon…
On the heels of Microsoft's acquisition of the Berlin startup darling 6Wunderkinder for a price between $100 and $200 million, the debate rages on about whether Berlin startups should be bolder and wait longer for an exit. The consensus in the Berlin startup ecosystem is that we are still missing one extraordinarily big success.