Microsoft is always coming from behind where it feels its competitive advantage or almost monopoly is threatened. That happened with browsers, that happened with search, that happened with cloud. Now that all Microsoft products are in the cloud, it is trying to integrate everything together - Office365 with search and with ChatGPT - to compete with Google.

Many people know NASA as the organization that builds satellites and sends them into space. It got people to the Moon (allegedly). It put a telescope at the second Lagrange point.Perhaps what is not known as much is how much research and development is happening at NASA and how much we benefit from it.

Brand, in the simplest of terms, is what people think or say about your company and product when you are not there with them. These people are either your customers or your detractors — or another group of people who have no clue about your brand.

It’s rare to expect anything exciting to come from government agencies. But, on occasion, you might get pleasantly surprised. On January 26, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0).

Your home — your castle — is under relentless attack. Every vendor under the sun is trying to infiltrate your fortress. The latest attack is coming from Apple with the re-launch of the HomePod. 

Last week, air traffic in the US and surrounding areas was disrupted. It was total travel chaos. Flights were either canceled or delayed. The culprit behind this? A malfunctioning system called NOTAM. (Don't mix it up with NORAD, whose primary mission is to track Santa Claus when he's delivering presents.)

OpenAI organization announced on November 30th, 2022 the availability of ChatGPT. This is the next version of GPT3, which supports a dialog between a user and machine. GPT3 is a language model, which provides answers to requests like 'write me a short story about a boy and his dog' or 'create a blog post about blockchain'. Unlike GPT3, ChatGPT is supposed to carry on a dialog as you dig deeper into a topic.

Last year, we uncovered quite a few tools to alleviate your hangovers — from noise canceling headphones to a morning recovery supplement. Let’s take a look at the latest anti-hangover tech.

As another year slowly comes to a close, I’d like to thank you for another year of conversations and explorations into recurrent patterns.

December 5th, 2022 will be remembered as a milestone in moving humanity closer to having an unlimited source of energy available to us. The scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a successful fusion experiment where they achieved an ignition. The most important outcome? It produced more energy than it consumed.