The Twitter CEO talks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson about how the social media service is different today than 12 years ago. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bc64f3f91b99b2d21c6f8ba/master/pass/amy-lombard-WIRED_MG_9760.jpg
Tag: Bubbles
The US cities with the biggest housing bubbles
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for October, released this morning, jumped 6.2% year-over-year (not-seasonally-adjusted), up from 6.1% in September. The index has now surpassed by 6.0% the crazy peak in July 2006 of Housing Bubble 1 and is up 46% from the trough of Housing Bust 1: Real estate prices are subject […]
CITRON RESEARCH: ‘Time to pop some real bubbles. $ROKU, total joke’ (ROKU)
Bloomberg Roku shares have soared more than 200% since their initial public offering in September to more than $ 45 apiece. Short seller Andrew Left’s Citron Research says the stock is a “total joke” and that it will slide back below $ 40. Shares of Roku slumped as much as 2.5% on Tuesday afternoon following […]
Tiny Bubbles wins 3 indie mobile game contests but still needs a publisher
Tiny Bubbles has scored well in three separate indie mobile game contests. I’ve had the honor of judging the game from Pine Street Codeworks in those contests, and each time, the physics-based simulation of bubbles in liquid has come out a winner. It has fluid, natural gameplay where you try to match four bubbles of […]
Here are the 5 biggest bubbles in markets today
Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Bubbles aren’t new—they’ve been around since Dutch tulips—but it’s only recently that they’ve worked their way into the average investor’s lexicon. That’s probably because bubbles happen much more frequently these days. We never used to get a giant speculative bubble every 7–8 years. But that has been the case since the new millennia. […]
Google Play’s top indie games: Flipping Legend, Slayaway Camp, and Tiny Bubbles
Google Play picked its top three independent games in the U.S. on Saturday at its Indie Games Festival in San Francisco. The winners included Flipping Legend, Slayaway Camp, and Tiny Bubbles. The three Android-based winners emerged from a list of 10 audience favorites and a total of 20 finalists selected from a grand total of […]
Warren Buffett turns 87 on Wednesday — here’s his brilliant explanation of how bubbles are formed
Jason Reed/Reuters Warren Buffett turns 87 on Wednesday, August 30, 2017. In honor of his birthday, we decided to look back at one of his brilliant insights. Back in 2010, in an interview with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), Buffett answered several questions about what he thought caused the housing and credit bubble. The […]
How Hackers Can Use ‘Evil Bubbles’ to Destroy Industrial Pumps
One demonstration at the Black Hat conference shows how insidious physical infrastructure hacking could be. https://media.wired.com/photos/597b80ea81c49267751c04a5/master/pass/evilbubble-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
‘Future of medicine’: Broken pig bones healed using tiny bubbles & ultrasound
A team of scientists has successfully repaired the broken bones of lab animals without invasive surgery, by using microbubbles and ultrasound to stimulate the growth of stem cells. In a study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday, Maxim Bez and a team of Cedars Sinai-led scientists were able to facilitate the natural […]
Pine Street Codeworks makes a prize-winning game out of matching soap bubbles
Tiny bubbles just might turn into big cash for Stuart Denman and his indie game studio Pine Street Codeworks. The company won $ 2,500 on Thursday night at the Intel Buzz Workshop game event in Bellevue, Wash. I was one of the judges of the competition, which was co-sponsored by the Power of Play 2017 game […]
