by Don Basile | Apr 18, 2016 | Business, Media, Technology
In 2011 venture capitalist Marc Andreessen correctly predicted that software and online services would soon take over large sectors of the economy. In 2016 we can expect to see software again revolutionizing the economy, this time by eating the storage world....
by Don Basile | Mar 22, 2016 | Technology
In 2000, a relatively unknown entrepreneur at the Intel Developer Forum said he’d like to take the entire Internet, which then existed as bits on hard drives scattered around the world, and put it on memory to speed it up. “The Web, a good part of the Web, is a few...
by Don Basile | Feb 23, 2016 | Graphene, Technology
The wonder material graphene has recently led to another exciting scientific breakthrough, this time involving the building blocks of life. Whereas the process of reading DNA has so far been a laborious, expensive, and time consuming chemical process, a new...
by Don Basile | Feb 22, 2016 | Graphene, Technology
Nanoparticles are so small that they remain undetected by the human eye, but we interact with them in the products we use everyday. From cosmetics to sunscreen to plastics, we’ve become heavily reliant on these tiny particles to strengthen and prolong the shelf life...
by Don Basile | Jan 24, 2016 | Digital, Technology
Over the past decade, data science has unlocked huge stores of information that enables companies to tailor specifically to their consumers. Big data has allowed companies like Amazon and Alibaba to create complex algorithms that can predict consumer shopping patterns...
by Don Basile | Jan 19, 2016 | Digital, Technology
Nearly every aspect of our modern lives have become intertwined with computer data, so it makes sense that scientists would take this coupling one step further eventually. We are about to witness a data storage breakthrough in which digital information could be...
