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Automated Investment Portfolio Management Goes Mainstream
Discount brokerage firm Charles Schwab has announced that it will soon start a new free automated investment advisor service, “Schwab Intelligent Portfolios.” The Finance Buff is covering the topic: Like the other so-called robo-advisors such as Betterment and Wealthfront, Schwab’s computer algorithm is going to suggest … Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Generating New Ideas
Here’s a never before seen essay on creativity by Isaac Asimov, recovered from the files of Arthur Obermayer and reprinted in MIT’s Technology Review. The main recommendation: use informal meetings as a way to educate participants in new facts, and … Continue reading
Measure cosmic rays with your cell phone
CRAYFIS (Cosmic Rays Found in Smartphones) is a cool new project that plans to use the world-wide array of existing smartphones to detect low energy particles produced by high energy comic ray collisions in the atmosphere. From the project website: When … Continue reading
Super-Resolution Imaging
Today’s 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three pioneers in the area of super-resolution imaging: Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and W. E. Moerner. Super-resolution imaging is a set of techniques that allows light microscopes to detect incredibly small … Continue reading
What it’s like to drive a 3D-printed car
Mashable has Lance Ulanoff’s first person account of what it’s like to drive a 3-D printed car: “singularly awesome!” The Strati, made by Local Motors, has leather seats, Bridgestone Battlax (motorcycle) wheels, a small Renault Twizy electric motor and a 120 pound … Continue reading
Apple hits it out of the park again
Yes, other companies have been making smart watches and fitness monitors for a while now. Yes, they will have some advanced features that Apple’s will lack. Yes, Henry Blodget has called the Apple Watch “irrelevant“. But — just like with MP3 … Continue reading
The New Geography of Innovation
A dramatic shift in the geography of innovation is underway, according to a new report authored by Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner of the Brookings Institute, and Kendall Square is the poster child for the paradigm. Bruce and Tim Row of the … Continue reading
Posted in Boston-Cambridge, Innovation
Tagged Bruce Katz, Cambridge, Innovation Districts, Kendall Square
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Self-assembling robots that fold themselves and then walk away
Harvard researchers interested in creating self-assembling electromechanical systems are building miniature robots from a few motors, polystyrene sheets, and some paper. Inspired by origami and copying some of the properties of the kid’s toy Shrinky Dinks, the team created robots that start … Continue reading
Sam Altman of Y Combinator thinks biotech is one of the next hot areas for investing
In a recent interview Sam Altman (the current president of Y Combinator, the famous Silicon Valley startup incubator) was asked which areas of investing did he thing were really hot, yet under appreciated. Altman immediately brought up biotech — an area that he … Continue reading
Posted in Biotech, Innovation
Tagged Biotech, Sam Altman, Venture capital, Y Combinator
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The blackest black ever achieved – using carbon nanotubes
A British company, Surrey NanoSystems, has produced “Vantablack”, a “strange, alien” material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record, according to the UK Independent: To stare at the “super black” … Continue reading
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