Within: Making VR a Truly Human Experience
credit: Jonny Ahdout / Within If you think back on any of your life’s most indelible experiences — meeting someone special for the first time; stepping off a plane in an utterly foreign place; a...
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Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the “sharing economy” (or “gig economy” and so on) is here to stay. And in fact, argues NYU Stern professor and researcher Arun Sundararajan, it...
View ArticleThe Elements of Stickers
Besides invisible messages, bigger and predictive emoji, full-screen effects, and movie/TV GIFs, Apple recently announced that stickers, too, are finally coming to its most popular app, iMessage. It’s...
View ArticleWhy Virtual Reality Will Be the Most Social Computing Platform Yet
The future of immersive virtual reality is often depicted as a dystopian view of millions of people spending hours alone each day, with huge gadgets stuck to their face, enraptured by fantastical...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
How far along are we towards the vision of a “cashless, cardless, walletless, frictionless future” for fintech? We’re not quite there yet, argued BuzzFeed News technology reporter Charlie Warzel in a...
View ArticleThe Lack of Options for (Startup Employees’) Options
One of the many tradeoffs that early startup employees choose to make is between cash, and options. For some employees however this may end up being a Faustian bargain of sorts. At first glance, the...
View ArticleQuantum Computing: A Primer
watch time: 28 minutes One of the key insights that legendary physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman had was that quantum mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with subatomic...
View Articlea16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, startups, or academia? Perhaps all three, especially as they work together when it comes to fields like this. One thing is clear...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options
Do we need a new pay system for the way startup employees are compensated? While many people agree that the current 90-day exercise practice — an outdated relic of when companies used to go public/get...
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