Just got this email regarding an article I published in December about America losing ground in supercomputing. In the print edition the article appeared under the headline, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” Hi. Your article in Dec. 5, 2011, is disturbing to me. “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” Why do you feel the need to [...]

The name is Cocomo, he tells the Boston Globe. Something to do with collaboration and mobile. My guess is that three years from now a beta ships, and six years from now Ray will still be trying to explain what the stuff actually does.

Marc Andreessen tells the Wall Street Journal he has “taken a step back” from investing in tech startups because some deals are “definitely on the expensive side.” Turns out Andreessen hasn’t made any big investments since July. Which is weird because last July someone using the same name as Marc Andreessen told the New York [...]

Amazing.

Whatever the reason, she’s out.

How soon until someone does something with this video from North Korea?

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas on March 31, 2011, explaining why he was upgrading Tesla stock to “overweight” status and projecting sales of $9.5 billion by 2020, and declaring Tesla to be “America’s Fourth Auto-maker”: The confluence of structural industry change, disruptive technology, changing consumer tastes and heightened national security creates an opportunity for significant [...]

Just a reminder that we’ll be doing a Newsweek Daily Beast Hangout on Google+ today at 4:30 Eastern time. Our guest will be Matias Duarte, the head of design for the Android project at Google. Matias is a really great guy with an interesting background — he studied fine arts in college, and aspired to [...]

I’m not talking about the abortion stuff, which was ridiculous. But I’m starting to see grumbling about the simple fact that Siri just doesn’t work all that well. In the latest pieces the writers aren’t willing to say, as Jordan Crook of TechCrunch did recently, that while Siri is disappointing, “in the end it’s my [...]

My colleagues at Newsweek Daily Beast are trying to arrange some Google+ Hangouts with interesting tech industry folks. First one we’ve scheduled is this Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 4:30 p.m. East Coast time with Matias Duarte, a renowned computer interface designer who runs the user experience team for Android. I spoke with him recently during [...]