Tony Hue

Is this a step forward in iPad keyboard design? 

brycedotvc:

There’s been a lot of lip service of late given to the lack of innovation in startupland. My favorite cheeky quip  comes from Peter Thiel and his partners at Founders Fund:

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

Yet, there are many big thinkers out there and Sebastian Thrun is one of them. But, unlike many big thinkers who grab headlines and spotlights at TED or other heady gatherings of the intelligentsia, Sebastian talks the talk AND walks the walk.

Last year he walked away from a very comfortable tenured position at Stanford to both take a leading role at Google X as well as found a company, Udacity, to build upon the success of he and Peter Norvig’s ground breaking Stanford course on Artificial Intelligence. 

In this short interview with Charlie Rose he demonstrates Google Glass, discusses the potential of self driving cars and the need to bring high quality education to the 99% of the globe for whom this level of learning is either unaffordable or inaccessible. Most anyone would be thrilled to lead just one project with such impactful promise in their lifetime, Sebastian is doing all three at the same time- and it’s only April.

Which is why his interview with Charlie Rose is required weekend viewing.

Imagine having this on your resume:

• Built self-driving car
• Founded Udacity, an online education destination
• Taught at Stanford
• Currently building glasses with advanced augmented reality 
• Gave a Ted Talk

These credentials belong to Sebastian Thrun. Incredible. 

danielhope:

9 year old Caine sets up an arcade in his father’s used car parts store in East L.A., using only cardboard boxes his dad had lying around and a ton of ingenuity.  Watch his dreams come true when this filmmaker sets up a flash mob to come and play.

Just watching this may make you a better person.

$82,000 has already been raised for Caine’s scholarship fund!

Great story. This kid is going places.