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By Mark Mayfield

Delaney May was my first grandchild.  That’s her first and middle name and the reason I'm not broadcasting her last name is because I'm sure some international modeling and/or talent agency is gonna want her, and she just doesn't need that kind of pressure right now.  She's too busy learning how to blow slobber bubbles for heaven's sake.  But I'm just so thankful that my daughter and son-in-law chose such a great name.  It's beautiful, even poetic, but most of all NORMAL!!!...

By Rohit Bhargava

Most weeks I tend to focus on stories about our culture, but this week my curation led more consistently toward technology with a wide range of articles about innovations, discoveries and new research. In the stories below you’ll find everything from human-animal embryo research to the cure for baldness. They may awaken your imagination or perhaps disturb you with their ambition, but they are all stories you should know about. If there is a theme among them, it is probably the reminder that technology continues to simultaneously be a great and scary thing....

By Mark Mayfield

Okay, enough.  Enough with the cell phone nonsense.  America, check that, the World needs a lesson in cell phone civility.   First of all let me say I'm a huge cell phone user.  I use my smart phone for texting, emailing, making reservations, driving directions, listening to music, and the other day actually made a call with it....

By Timothy Chou

If you’re the CEO or board member of a company that manufactures any healthcare, construction, agriculture, power generation, pharmaceutical or industrial machine you’ve probably heard about IoT, edge, AI, 5G and cloud computing. But why should you care?...

By Rohit Bhargava

All week I have been reading stories of award winning creative advertising from Cannes (see all the winners here), and so I wanted to share several insights this week from a few of my favorite award winning campaigns this year....

By Rohit Bhargava

There is a moment during a show at the Austin City Limits where Ed Sheeran finally starts to perform his biggest hit at the time: Shape of You. About 10 seconds into the performance, he breaks a guitar string. Watching what he does next is a master class in stage presence, preparation and perhaps the perfect example of why he is such an engaging stage performer:...

By Timothy Chou

It’s no secret that over the past 4 years there have been dramatic improvements in the usage of AI technology to recognize images, translate text, win the game of Go or talk to us in the kitchen. Whether it’s Google Translate, Facebook facial recognition or Amazon’s Alexa these innovations have largely been focused on the consumer....

By Aaron Carroll, MD

“Americans argue over insurance while Singaporeans keep perfecting the delivery of care.” says Dr. Aaron Carroll. The following originally appeared on TheUpshot (copyright 2019, The New York Times Company). Singapore’s health care system is sometimes held up as an example of excellence, and as a possible model for what could come next in the United States....

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