Senior editor at IEEE Spectrum Magazine, covering consumer electronics, startups, people-in-tech, and Silicon Valley. Blogs at View from the Valley

Joined August 2011
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#Spryng active compression is restoring my tired #CES2023 legs
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visiting the mothership #CES2023 #IEEE booth 18299 ⁦@IEEESpectrum
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Pretty impressed with #hovergym (a lot of weight training options in a very small space) #CES2023
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#Samsung's contribution to accessibility: Relumino Mode on TVs with specific image enhancements designed for people with low vision. #CES2023
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#HARMON ReadyCare for driver safety: As I get it from a quick snapshot, your smart watch tells your car when you are about to lose it and your car tries to calm you down by changing temp, lighting, or music volume. #Samsung #CES2023
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Lots of talk at #CES2023 about sustainability, recycling, and reducing plastics in oceans, but first related product comes from #Samsung -- a washing machine that reduces release of microplastics in wastewater by a claimed 54 percent, developed with @patagonia
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Reducing the number of devices hanging around is a good thing, but a merger of electric razor and toothbrush? @panasonic #CES2023
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@panasonic⁩ trots the stars out to talk about climate change ⁦@kalpenn⁩ & Nathan Chen #CES2023
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Mood ring in fridge form from LG. #CES2023
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LG Press Conference at #CES2023 Big focus on making consumer devices accessible through voice, sign language recognition, and other controls.
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The inside story of how @Pixar went from an academic research group to Toy Story. buff.ly/3fnFmaH

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A particularly interesting article since I kind of know the author
With differing practices on retrieving bullet fragments, Nee et al nicely demonstrates the complications of these fragments and the necessity for further studies on toxicity. What cases have you encountered where you had to retrieve the bullet?
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Computing the trajectory of an incoming missile is a complicated task for a human brain--not so for a dragonfly's brain--or a neural network modeled on one buff.ly/3C0jpIs

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Perhaps big brains are overrated--at least when it comes to tracking and capturing prey, like, perhaps, an incoming missile. A researcher looks to the dragonfly for the next big thing in AI spectrum.ieee.org/fast-effic… #ArtificialIntelligence #missiledefense @IEEESpectrum
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The @ComputerHistory Museum this week saw wagers placed by computer pioneers on the viability of a universal, real-time translator, aka a Babel Fish. spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-… @IEEESpectrum

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I never knew that chocolate is better when it's freshly made (from the bean).. Or that you can do it at home without much effort. But OMG.... thank you, technology! spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-… #chocolate #chocolatelovers #Entrepreneurship @ieeespectrum @CocoTerraCo

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