What took so long? This isn’t hidden info. I found Cambridge Analytica and its methods over a year ago. I tweeted. I told friends in the hopes they would stop…
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Funny Money A funny thing happens when a place inside of America makes a lot of money. Politicians take notice. With the 2014 midterm elections just around the corner, Silicon Valley is quickly becoming a goto place for political…
The scientists are strongly behind this one now. It wasn’t always so. But people don’t seem to care..too much. The Federal Communications Commission announced this year it would review its maximum Specific Absorption Rate for cell phones. SAR is a measure…
Theranos has a clever sign. Nice. I like it. It is sitting in front of its new home, under construction on Page Mill Rd in Palo Alto. It’s a large campus. Very large. Biggest start up building I have…
Two issues here. 23andme’s marketing strategy changed dramatically in the recent past. It became “in your face” in a retail consumer manner, morphing quickly from a more subtle place. Genetic testing was more mainstream now than even a year…
Yesterday I found out the CIA hangs around in unmarked cars by Philz Coffee in downtown Palo Alto. Philz is on the same block as Palantir on the Alma Street side. See my post on Palantir, the CIA funded start…
I said it before: Big money follows big data follows big disruption. The Silicon Valley Business Journal recently wrote about Sequoia Capital Investor Michael Moritz arguing the position that collectively we are creating a massive data factory by our willingness…
Damage Control for your DNA? Yes! Welcome to Exogen and MyDNABreaks(r) a DNA damage test. I’m in love here, just falling in love….first Theranos and its nanosecond microtesting and now my broken DNA has a kit for testing also…