By Guest commentary / Friday, January 16th, 2015 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: The future is infinite at CES
The underlying message at this year’s show seemed to be “cut all cords” — or at least, keep cutting the cords, as ever-greater streaming speeds and bandwidth capacities allow for products and services to operate in millions of truly remote consumer settings.
By Guest commentary / Friday, November 14th, 2014 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Op/ed: The net-net of neutrality debate is that innovation may be a loser
One of the most comical features of the net-neutrality debate is that both sides say the other is trying to stifle innovation. Both are probably wrong.
Aptitude creates a special type of molecule called an aptamer, which it is using to develop a first-of-its-kind hand-held device that measures insulin concentrations in real-time and can diagnose pre-diabetes. The government’s interest in furthering such research is unsurprising as diabetes affects more than 9 percent of Americans.