Madras Labs

05/27/2015

2015 Internet Trends -

KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2015 Internet Trends report, 20 years after the inaugural “The Internet Report” was first published in 1995. Since then, the nu…

05/26/2015

Liver cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to detect, but synthetic biologist Tal Danino had a left-field thought: What if we could create a probiotic, edible bacteria that was "programmed" to find liver tumors? His insight exploits something we're just beginning to understand about bacteria:…

05/03/2015

Elon Reeve Musk - Tesla's best kept secret revealed yesterday - Revolutionary Powerwall - http://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/teslaenergy - http://www.teslaenergy.com

Tesla Powerwall Keynote by Elon Musk "The Missing Piece"

04/18/2015

Use this system to create a work environment that encourages better decisions: http://s.hbr.org/1JQCAmd

04/16/2015

This infographic presents the results of a study recently completed by UTA Brand Studio that ranks automotive brands by their level/strength of consum

04/14/2015

Institute for the Future - Human Machine maphttp://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/th/2015IFTF_TH_HumanPlusMachine_map.pdf

04/12/2015

"By taking action when you're lonely, by changing your responses to failure, by protecting your self-esteem, by battling negative thinking, you won't just heal your psychological wounds, you will build emotional resilience, you will thrive."

We'll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch. But we don’t have to. He makes a compelling case to p…

04/12/2015

- The Huffington Post & Micheal Krigsman interview with Micheal Wu Lithium Technologies & Jeremy Stanley Sailthru - The original influence model on Klout for social influence deciphered - Credibility, Bandwidth, Relevance, Timing, Channel Alignment & Trust - All these six factors need to co-exist.

CXO-Talk brings you live conversations on leadership, innovation, and transformation with people shaping the future. Your hosts are Michael Krigsman and Vala...

04/10/2015

Jon Gosier : Riveting perspective of technologies unintended consequences -

"Technology and Innovation behaves lot like Wealth and Capital, they tend to consolidate in the hands of the few and in some times they find there way out to the hands of many."

"As engineers and technologist, we prefer efficiency over efficacy, we think more about doing things than the outcomes of what we are doing."

"The real innovation is in a way to find and include everyone.."

Hooray for technology! It makes everything better for everyone!! Right? Well, no. When a new technology, like ebooks or health trackers, is only available to some people, it has unintended consequences for all of us. Jon Gosier, a TED Fellow and tech investor, calls out the idea of "trickle-down tec…

04/10/2015

Unbundling a bank - Software is eating the world..

04/09/2015

What's actually inside a smart watch?

Have you ever actually considered everything that a smartphone does?! Viking have undertaken a gadget autopsy to show you what you can find in your sm

04/09/2015

Chamath Palihapitiya on growth hacking.. http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/09/features/growth-hacking