Editor Blogs
April 2020
We live in a very litigious society. This past weekend, I found myself at a funeral in Pennsylvania, where the official limit for public gatherings is 10 people. Even at something as emotional as a funeral, no one wanted to assume liability for too many people in one place – the funeral wouldn’t even officially co
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Date:
04/27/2020
A Toyota startup wants to make it easier for you to stay home – if you live in Irvine, California. The Chinese subsidiary, Pony.ai, plans to deploy autonomous delivery vehicles in a pilot program lasting through the summer.
In the past, we’ve covered autonomous delivery robots, a ride-share program that doubles
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Date:
04/19/2020
The Terrafugia Transition flying car prototype. It's definitely ... a thing.
The U.S. Air Force has a way for flying cars to bypass at least one layer of red tape – test them out on military ranges.
You can’t help but admire their chutzpah – the poster child for lumbering, bureaucratic beasts wants to help you skirt the rules. Anything off a military base faces the draconian scrutiny
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Date:
04/13/2020
IBM is stepping up to help address a problem that probably shouldn’t exist.
We previously mentioned New Jersey’s desperate plea for coders who understood COBOL, a 60-year-old, largely obsolete computer language. The “Garden State” hasn’t exactly kept with the times, and their 362,000 unemployment f
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Date:
04/12/2020
Turns out many New Jersey computers still run a programming language that predates the moon landing.
NJ Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL), a programming language that goes back to 1959. Most coders have moved away from it, but according to Reuter
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Date:
04/10/2020
Those door-to-door salesmen hawking residential solar panels might have a new hustle soon – a California startup wants to use windows to harvest energy.
The company has developed transparent solar cells to hopefully make their name a reality – Ubiquitous Energy. Their ClearView Power windows would essential
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Date:
04/06/2020
Do you need a license for this?
Coronavirus got ya down? Does the TP aisle at your local Walmart look like a George Romero flick? The Useless Duck Company has a solution.
Let’s face it – toilet paper is wasteful (and impossible to find in our new, post-apocalyptic reality), and bidets are inefficient. So the DIY superstars at UDC took a custom ci
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Date:
04/01/2020
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