When the Earth Roared, and Nobody Heard Let’s talk about a quiet morning in Alaska. August 10, 2025, 5:26 AM local time. Most of us were asleep, or maybe just brewing coffee. But in Tracy Arm fjord, Read More
The Roar That Almost No One Heard It was 5:26 AM on August 10, 2025. A date and time that, for most of the world, passed unnoticed. But in the remote, majestic solitude of Alaska’s Tracy Arm Read More
A Marathon in Miniature, a Mystery in the Making I’ve seen a lot of things come and go in tech and science. I’ve watched companies chase digital ghosts, and others build empires on Read More
The Anatomy of an Ouster: Political Winds and Regulatory Whiplash It’s a familiar dance, isn’t it? The news hit late, whispered first by anonymous sources to The Wall Street Journal, then confirmed in Read More
The ‘Lilypad’ We Deserve, and the One We’re Getting Pixar, bless its heart, had the right idea with Lilypad, the fictional frog-shaped AI tablet villain in Toy Story 5. A genius concept, really. But what Read More
The Quantum Tightrope: Building Beyond the Brittle It’s been a long road, hasn’t it? Decades of promises, a Cambrian explosion of physics papers, and a parade of well-funded startups, all chasing the same Read More
The Shifting Sands of Power: A Familiar Tune There’s a news cycle unfolding around President Trump’s reported plan to oust FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and if you’re only glancing at the headlines, Read More
The Coming Deluge: More Games, Faster? Hideaki Nishino, the head honcho over at Sony Interactive Entertainment, dropped a line last week that probably didn’t surprise anyone who’s been watching the video game industry Read More
Another Hype Cycle, Another Children’s Crusade? In the cinematic universe, a villain like Lilypad, the frog-shaped AI tablet from this summer’s Toy Story 5, makes for compelling storytelling. A truly genius antagonist. But if Read More
When AI Plays with Our Kids: The Unregulated Frontier Pixar, in its infinite wisdom, has conjured a new digital villain for Toy Story 5: a menacing frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad. It’s a clever conceit, Read More