Energy
Is Hydrogen Car at the Dawn like the EV in 2008?
In 2019, Musk dubbed hydrogen "dumbest thing," yet some see it nearing a "hydrogen economy," akin to 2015's lithium era.
Innovation & Startups
Youtube Videos
The Next Innovation Clusters
Global cities rise as new tech hubs, challenging Silicon Valley from Sweden's Sustainability Valley to the City of Hefei in China.
eCommerce
Why SheIn is an Involution, not a Revolution?
SheIn, an e-Commerce hectorcorn, thrives on supply chain involution, not revolution, posing challenges for global e-commerce replication. 电商巨头希音的“内卷”革命
Zines
Solow Residual vs. Xi's Residual; What Tech the Pentagon is Buying; China Cancer Drug Breakthrough; Browser as an OS; 1st Chinese Published in Nature
Noteworthy in tech and capital
Silicon Valley
Can Silicon Valley Rebuild?
Answers from Silicon Valley insiders
Zines
Kiss and Fly; MSCI Debate, Continued; Ken Liu; Insurance FinTech; Deal, No Deal...
Notes for tech generalists
Robots
Aibo vs. Jibo: Inequality at Birth Redefined
Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last dance. Aibo, with a hefty price tag at $2,900, announced its envoy to the States and immediately received press attention a niche product can hope for. Two opposite events occuring at
Biotech Drug Anti-Aging
Removing Senescent Cells, the New North to the Battle on Aging?
Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement. According to this Guardian article, it was in in 2008, Novato, CA-based Buck Institute researcher Judith Campisi discovered secretion from senescent cells causes inflammation, the driver of almost every age-related diseases. This discovery shed light on scientists
Energy
Harnessing Energy from Ocean Wave? Let’s Look Further
[Update] This interview was conducted in August in 2018. On Nov. 1, 2018, we learned Tesla delivered first Powerpack project at tidal power station, which echos the theory in this interview. We will further investigate this topic with follow-on interviews. Earlier this year in June, Wales shelved a plan to
Autonomous Driving Battery EV
Autonomous Driving: Lidar, Vision or Fusion?
When it comes to the sensor technology for autonomous driving, there always seems two schools of thoughts: beliefs in Lidar/Radar OR beliefs in Vision. I asked two startup founders in autonomous-driving to get their point of views: * Amit Steinberg, CTO and co-founder of Innoviz, a leading provider of LiDAR
Autonomous Driving Battery EV
On Uber's Fatal Self-driving Accident, Two Technologists' Diverse Views
On recent Uber’s driverless car kill, I asked two experts for comments: – Vivek Wadhwa: Author of Driver in the Driverless Car, a distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Engineering at Silicon Valley (Menlo Park, CA) – Dr. Qufei Wang: Founder of EVSoft, building sharable driverless car (Guangzhou, China) Both Vivek
Culture & History
Conversations with TED Founder Richard Saul Wurman: Information Understanding, Innovation, Writing, China, and Beyond
My interview on Richard Saul Wurman, creator of TED