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Checking in with the Cal*Neva construction
A historic revival on Lake Tahoe. Marilyn Monroe spent her last weekend there with her friend Frank Sinatra, original developer of the property. It was the first casino in America (1931) and the Prohibition-era secret tunnels are still in place, last used to move liquor discreetly across state lines and evade police raids. We are… Read More
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Shennon Bio’s T-Cell Therapy Accelerator AI
"The firm’s technology is called the TCELERATOR platform. Shennon said the platform works by profiling over 10 million single-cell interactions simultaneously and identifies functional leads in a single experiment. This integrated technology engine spans target discovery, ultra-high-throughput microfluidics-driven functional screening, computational binder prediction and optimization, and AI-enabled safety assessment." “’We’ve now disclosed three T cell… Read More
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The Apple Logo from Headquarters (1993 – 1998)
Another HQ Conservation — the original hand-painted curvy Apple rainbow logo display from the reception wall at 1 Infinite Loop Campus Store, before they went monochrome. I worked there in 1994.
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⌚ Watch Out
Some more unusual and unique analog watches, from microfluidics to my first Apple watch: 1)Top left: my first Omega, and aesthetically the most elegant to my eye, with a central co-axial titanium tourbillon. It’s the De Ville Tourbillon Master Chronometer, Serial Number 2 2)Top center: The Ressence Type 1 Slim HOD3 in titanium, one of… Read More
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Twitter’s Blue Bird of Happiness
The 63" tall illuminated logo from their NY Headquarters just arrived. I am saving it for posterity. It was the public face of the company before the 2023 rebrand as X.
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The network is the sensor
ZaiNar partnered with Nokia & NVIDIA to give geolocation to telcos— essential for physical AI and most 5G applications. ZaiNar ran live on Nokia’s AI-RAN in Oulu, Finland showing sub-meter positioning of phones from the network side — no new hardware, no phone app: video of the demo 80% of private 5G applications need positioning.… Read More
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Vironexis for ALL – the first clinical trial for AAV-delivered immunotherapy
Early signs that it’s working… with aggressive leukemia (ALL)… the first-ever clinical trial of an AAV-delivered cancer immunotherapy. With a single injection of instructions, the body does continuous manufacturing of complex therapeutic proteins internally. Instead of continuous protein infusions, it takes a single dose and is much less expensive than current gene therapies. “VNX-101 is… Read More
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Lake Tahoe Panorama from the Rim Trail peak
with Lyndon Rive, co-founder of Solar City. He is an intense athlete who does all the things. We went show shoeing when we first arrived in Incline, now eMTB, and more to come.
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🚴 Weekend Tracks
I’m loving this ridge line for my return to mountain biking, and Lyndon has me sold on an e-bike now. Climbing 2K ft at altitude was a breeze. A cool detail about Sand Harbor and the Lake Tahoe beaches. The sand comes from ice age glacier grinding down the valley, not the typical wave action… Read More
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NASDAQ opening bell for the SoaceX IPO
Another cool memento arrived today — the opening 🔔 Thank you NASDAQ. We were over the moon!
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