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Interesting observations from the world of technology and software that caught my attention

Posted June 9, 2017 Newsmarks

Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun

Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid. Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.

Posted June 5, 2017 Newsmarks

What Ello/Theranos can teach – HBR

Good article from Harvard Business Review on the hubris of courting too much media attention too early on in a startup.

Posted June 4, 2017 Newsmarks

Tim Armstrong on being a CEO

30 min interview with Tim on how he stepped up to the challenge of taking over as CEO of AOL.

Posted June 4, 2017 Newsmarks

Get Android on Windows 10

Digital Trends has a comprehensive guide on the various emulators and distributions that will let you run Android Apps on your Windows desktop, including playing nice with Windows Apps.

Posted June 3, 2017 Newsmarks

Heating the home with heat from servers

Placing cloud servers in individual homes, and turning them into heating systems. Your house will serve as a data center for companies that depend on cloud computing

Posted June 2, 2017 Newsmarks

US military data found unprotected on Amazon S3

This is definitely one of those situations where someone forgot to throw the switch and make an Amazon S3 bucket secure. Easy done, but grave consequences.