We’ve been talking about technology and innovation so much the past week that we’ve half expected to come home and find more pamphlets and VR tech sitting on the kitchen table. The Onion is quite right – innovation is what SXSW is about, and maybe we’ve heard enough of the same themes to get along […]
People are having such trouble surviving in serious journalism and we happen to have the winning ticket. In an age of up and coming virtual reality content and high consumer expectations for the next new thing, audio content has surprisingly continued to thrive in the form of podcasting. Serial, the the incredibly successful investigative journalism […]
“Physicists ruin everything. All they want to talk about is limits, laws, and principles. They’re making space exploration challenging,” Jeff Norris, Mission Operations Innovation Lead of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab are doing the unthinkable and bringing an amazing new tool to space exploration. This is not an […]
We experience news in different ways, but 2016 is bringing us a new revolution by immersing us in stories through virtual reality. Hayley Pappas, Head of Films for RYOT, discussed the success of VR content that has been published from RYOT. ROYT is an immersive media company whose mandate is to connect every story with […]
One of the most complicated relationships that anybody has in their life is their relationship to time. Time requires constant management and must be constantly negotiated to make room for an endless parade of pursuits and tasks. Despite its paramount importance, there are many cultural assumptions about time that go unrecognized. At this year’s SXSW […]
Kendra Scott a very popular jewelry brand that became very popular in the lives of many women a couple years back. Kendra was featured at SXSW Interactive panel “Building a Philanthropic Fashion Empire.” Kendra is such an inspiration to many women starting a business and women entrepreneurs in general. But more importantly in her panel […]
We’ve already talked a bit about Maggie Gross and her SXSW Interactive session on her research project “Understanding Average” here at SXTXState. Now that the session has happened, however, it’s an appropriate moment to refresh our memories. Here are some of the highlights of her talk. Those who live in the top ten most populous […]