Curated articles from various sources.
The scope of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s vision – on par with the breadth of Tesla’s ambitions – is limitless to say the least. Bloomberg gives us an exclusive look inside Musk’s latest billion-dollar venture here, that goes by the name of Gigafactory 1. Born of the necessity to build a voluminous amount of batteries, the…
ByTED
Entrepreneur, inventor, author and the head of X (formerly Google X), Astro Teller is a man on a mission with ideas that could reshape our lives and help make the world a wonderful place through technology. In this amazing TED talk, he gives us an insider look into what is called the “moonshot factory,” where he…
ByHBR.org
What exactly defines a great leader? Answers that come to mind include good judgment, integrity, and people skills, and so forth. But although is it true that the main ingredients of leadership are universal, the full leadership recipe is also dependent on specific and varying cultures. This, in turn, is because cultural differences impact on implicit…
As the Economist says, a pair of straight and gleaming teeth makes for a beautiful smile. But how many people who have undergone a little dental maintenance realize that they may have some of the first products of a new industrial revolution inside their mouths? Who would’ve though that if you combine 3D printing and…
Although the idea of quantum computing to carry out tasks far faster than any conventional machine goes back decades, such super machines were yet to reach the masses – until now. It was originally proposed in the early 1980s and subsequently adopted by Google, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM – who have each dedicated quantum-computing research groups….
One would think that the assets of a company with headquarters that encompasses around 1 million square feet with 3500 employees and an e-mail service with 250 million users – would add up to something. But things are not exactly as they seem with Yahoo. From a certain perspective, Yahoo is worth approximately – $8 billion. And no,…
