The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography
On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. — He had just one meeting to go. — That meetin...
Windows 8.1 is ready for its October 17th release
Microsoft has finalized its Windows 8.1 update. Sources familiar with the company's Windows plans have revealed to The Verge that the software maker completed the development of Windows 8.1 earlier t...
Motorola Moto X Teardown
What does $12.5 billion dollars buy you nowadays? In Google's case, it buys Motorola, Inc. and all of its designs and patents. Is it what we would have spent the money on? Probably not, but the res...
My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander
On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I ha...
Your Future iPhone May Be Stuffed With Wax
Inside a research lab at the University of Michigan, there's an Intel chip covered in wax. — It's a Core i7 microprocessor — the same chip that runs many of today's desktop and laptop PCs — and the ...