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A Tech Company That Seeks Private Support

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What does a small tech company that seeks private support look like?  Often, we’ll not know, because those private companies seek the support of private venture capital, in thousands of encounters and presentations across America each day.  Sometimes, though, one sees more because a private tech startup looks to something like Kickstarter to win backing…

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What happens when a supercomputer runs a food truck?

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Food trucks are good for a community, but are they better when a supercomputer runs them? Let’s see: We know Watson has some Jeopardy skills, but putting IBM’s supercomputer in the kitchen? That’s a little different. Here at SXSW, the company’s set up a “Cognitive Cooking” food truck in partnership with the Institute for Culinary…

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The Secret Features of OS X Mavericks

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Most Mac users have available to them a free update to OS X, named Mavericks. (Inexplicably, they’ve stopped naming new versions of OS X after cats.) Lifehacker offers a video with information on features of Mavericks about which OS X users might not otherwise be aware.