The biggest challenge with electronic medical records is that EMR systems in the US use proprietary data formats. The lack of open standards and APIs prevents third-parties from offering real solutions for aggregating medical records. Google tried and failed—mostly because people don’t want to go through the effort of…

You could say the same thing about the spells at Harry Potter World, but it was really fun being able to interact with the environment. I imagine that this will be the ultimate purpose—and you’ll have to buy a special, expensive light saber from Disney for it to work (at $75-100 a pop).

I used to pay $140/mo. for cable and Internet with TWC in NYC. We were paying for more than we needed and they kept raising the price. We unbundled a year ago and now pay ~$100 each month:

I used to pay $140/mo. for cable and Internet with TWC in NYC. We were paying for more than we needed and they kept…

My wife and I tried Sling for the past year on our Roku. We recently switched to PlayStation Vue on the Roku. Sling has a better interface (though still garbage), but content options are limited, there’s no DVR service, and the “look back” feature only applies to a handful of channels and is pretty much useless.

My wife and I tried Sling for the past year on our Roku. We recently switched to PlayStation Vue on the Roku. Sling…

At Denver StarCon in 1999 or 2000, one of the panelists said that a Star Fleet Academy show was once pitched to Gene Roddenberry. The show would have featured Kirk and Spock as cadets. The script was apparently rejected because it featured a scene in which another cadet scrawled anti-Vulcan epithets on Spock’s locker…

The history behind the regulation of Marijuana is actually very interesting. Prior to the Spanish-American War, the US didn’t have a comprehensive drug regime. However, as soldiers returned from the Philippines addicted to opiates, the US enacted its first narcotics prohibitions. The Federal and state regimes…

Yes. You can script using JavaScript in Google Docs. You can also access third-party APIs and use them to extend capabilities. I recently wrote a web crawler and search engine in Google Sheets.

I am a licensed attorney with an LL.M. In Space Law.

As I understood it a couple of years ago, Sprint was way behind because a significant portion of its spectrum was tied up in PTT and WiMAX, which it invested in heavily. Now that it has wound down its PTT and upgraded to LTE+, Sprint’s spectrum holdings are actually better than Verizon’s, but don’t have the regulatory…

We cut the cord 1 year ago and use OTA broadcast and SlingTV, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon. My wife wanted to be able to integrate them into a single DVR-like list, so we use a TiVo Roamio, which is simple to use and aggregates all of our shows.

Just moved back from Melbourne. Go Tiges! #Strong&Bold

Under the 4th amendment, they can surveil your backyard as long as they are not trespassing or using technology not widely available. With your neighbor’s permission they could look into your backyard from the neighbor’s house without a warrant or they could watch it from a plane or a drone. Building a fence is not…

A couple of clarifications:

This just makes GoPro a more attractive company for an acquisition, which would be a sensible strategic move given the relatively limited target customer base and increasing competition from smart phones (1080 with slow-motion). There is likely high revenue synergies from the broad application of the company’s…

If it was a British Billion, everyone would get $4,330.

VR goggles will ultimately prove to be a niche product that generates a lot of excitement (and over zealous market evaluations like Oculus), but is ultimately a dud. Gaming is the best bet, but the average consumer doesn’t want to wear goggles at a theater (what’s the point of going to the theater) or to binge watch…

I’ll put it out there: I thought the movie was great. There were gasps when it was revealed that Kylo Ren was Han and Leia’s son. Apparently, one guy in the back of the theater missed this—not sure how—and exclaimed “WHAT!?” when Leia asked Han to bring back their son. People cheered. People laughed. It was fun.

I’m going to try the abridged Machete: 4, 5, “A Phantom Edit”, 6. In full disclosure, I’ve never watched one of the fan edits, but I understand that they combine 1-3 into a narrative singly focused on the Darth Vader origin and will shorten the marathon leading up to Thursday night.

Let’s be clear, this is about TWC’s costs, not about the customer. By pushing customers to Roku and their TWC app, they’re saving costs on (a) developing the next generation set top box, (b) technical service (no more sending someone out to your house to set up the device or replace it when it breaks, call center,…

Can we stop calling them selfie sticks and call them narcissisticks instead?