While grocery-shopping robots don’t seem to be on the immediate horizon, Austin, Texas, food writer and blogger Addie Broyles and Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert will shed some light on what our food-buying futures do hold in their upcoming session “Grocery Wars: The Future of Buying Food.” “I am a grocery nerd,” Broyles said. “I love […]
According to Lisa Woods and the rest of the ‘Doing It in Public’ panelists, beacons, or Bluetooth Low Energy devices, will be the next big trend in the Internet of Things. BLE technology has primarily been used in retail and advertising, but with the Asunder project, this group suggests beacons be used for storytelling purposes. […]
As part of whetting your appetite for all things cosmic at SXSWi, I had the opportunity to talk with one of my former colleagues from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci). Without further ado below is the little chat I had with Tony Darnell. As part of our full disclosure that we worked together, he […]
This week we had Super Bowl 49, which set the world of social media on fire. According to Keith Shaw of networkworld.com, Twitter reported more than 28.4 million tweets regarding the Super Bowl or its half time show, and on Spotify halftime performer Katy Perry streamed music increased by 85%. Also in the news this […]
While for the time being Silicon Valley, startup culture and the expected face of tech, whether geek or chic, remain overwhelmingly male – specifically young, white and male – and even exposés on women’s experience in this climate sometimes fail to get past their over-sexualized cover graphics to the meat of the issue, SXSW’s 2015 Interactive lineup […]
Dustin Kirkland is the Cloud Solutions Product Manager for Canonical, the company behind the open-source software platform Ubuntu. He will be appearing at SXSW Interactive as a solo speaker on the topic of biometrics in technology. His panel is titled Fingerprints are Usernames not Passwords. Q. Can you give me a brief overview of why […]
For the first time since the project was created, SXTXState participants had the opportunity to sit down with a few members of the SXSW Interactive team. Director Hugh Forrest, Senior Festival Programmer Sarah Garcia and Festival Coordinator Andrew McNeill provided insight into this year’s festival, and offered advice for event newcomers and veterans alike. According […]