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  1. Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar

    CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.

    Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.

    3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company

    This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.

    3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag

    I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.

    3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag

    In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.

    3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag

    My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.

    3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica

    I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.

    #AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines
  2. Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar

    CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.

    Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.

    3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company

    This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.

    3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag

    I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.

    3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag

    In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.

    3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag

    My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.

    3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica

    I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.

    #AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines
  3. Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar

    CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.

    Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.

    3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company

    This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.

    3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag

    I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.

    3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag

    In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.

    3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag

    My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.

    3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica

    I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.

    #AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines
  4. Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar

    CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.

    Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.

    3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company

    This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.

    3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag

    I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.

    3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag

    In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.

    3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag

    My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.

    3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica

    I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.

    #AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines
  5. Ballad of El Goodo

    March 20, 2010 ~ Just a few days after the death of Alex Chilton, his band Big Star plays at SXSW with many paying their respects by filling in on lead for their friend. #alexchilton #bigstar #sxsw #elgoodo #johndoe #chuckprophet #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic

    robinbannks.com/2026/03/20/bal

  6. Ballad of El Goodo

    March 20, 2010 ~ Just a few days after the death of Alex Chilton, his band Big Star plays at SXSW with many paying their respects by filling in on lead for their friend. #alexchilton #bigstar #sxsw #elgoodo #johndoe #chuckprophet #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2025

  7. @newyorktimes's veteran tech reporter @Markoff interviewed some of #TeamFediverse including @Gargron, @reckless1280 and our CEO @mike for a feature on the rise of decentralized social media. “It goes back to the original principles where the internet started out as decentralized,” Eugen Rochko told Markoff. Here's the full story [may be paywalled].

    We're so excited to develop these conversations further at SXSW this weekend — check out the itinerary and sign up to join us at #FediverseHouse at the second link.

    flip.it/NcjhLL

    lu.ma/xbve5fa0

    #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #SXSW #JohnMarkoff #EugenRochko #MikeMcCue #SXSW2025

  8. The AI honeymoon is over, but its impact has barely begun. What happens when we no longer interact with AI on discrete tasks, but it's pervasive in our work? We’ll reach that reality faster than we did with the digital revolution. Ian Beacraft explores the ability and practices of AI-enabled individuals and teams to provide exponential value.

    Billion Dollar Teams: The Future of an AI Powered Workforce | SXSW 2024
    youtube.com/watch?v=1MZoxuxAfT

    #AI #ExponentialGrowth #AcceleratingChange #SXSW

  9. The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode - The trailer for The Emoji Story.
    It's a shame that 2017's The Emoji Movie ... - arstechnica.com/?p=1753943 #gaming&culture #sxsw2019 #sxsw

  10. You call that EDM? Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make the most technical techno - Electronic engineer/robot-musician conductor Mo... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1484851 #moritzsimongeist #gaming&culture #makerculture #sxsw2019 #robots #music #sxsw

  11. New documentary has a good time asking how gene editing might change the world - Enlarge / An artist's representation of a Cas9 protein immediately interrupting and changing a livi... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1473053 #gaming&culture #moviereviews #filmreviews #moviereview #filmreview #sxsw2019 #science #sxsw

  12. SXSW 2019, from “Hey, is that McConaughey?” to a different Presidential library - Breathe in that calm Convention Center floor on... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1469743 #gaming&culture #arsgallery #sxsw2019 #gallery #sxsw

  13. It’s time to start caring about “VR cinema,” and SXSW’s stunners are proof - My pick for SXSW 2019's best VR film, Metro Vei... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1471085 #gaming&culture #virtualreality #oculusrift #features #oculusgo #sxsw2019 #htcvive #vrfilms #sxsw

  14. HBO’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary tells a bloody good story of a bad con job - Enlarge (credit: HBO)
    AUSTIN, Texas—While watching new documentary The Inventor: Out For Blood in... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1473801 #elizabethholmes #gaming&culture #moviereviews #filmreviews #moviereview #filmreview #sxsw2019 #theranos #sxsw

  15. Clowning on NASA: Impressionist James Adomian on his Bond-villain Elon Musk - Enlarge (credit: SXSW)
    AUSTIN, Texas—In 2018, Elon Musk showed up at South by Southwest to inspir... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1472701 #gaming&culture #elonmusk #sxsw2019 #spacex #sxsw

  16. Congress at SXSW: Yes, we’re dumb about tech, and here’s what we should do - Enlarge / The United States Capitol Building, the seat of Congress, on the National Mall in Washing... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1471803 #elizabethwarren #congress #sxsw2019 #policy #sxsw

  17. It’s definitely aliens: Teen girls save the world in genre-bending Snatchers - Enlarge / Sara (Mary Nepi) and Hayley (Gabrielle Elyse) team up to save their Arizona town from an ... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1471497 #gaming&culture #entertainment #snatchers #sxsw2019 #film #sxsw

  18. Stuffed documentary: Maybe taxidermy isn’t such a dead industry after all - The trailer for Stuffed, a taxidermy documentary.

    AUSTIN, Texas—Growing up in a suburb of... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1469775 #gaming&culture #documentaries #taxidermy #sxsw2019 #animals #stuffed #sxsw

  19. Breakthrough, the rare science documentary that feels like a miracle - The poster for Breakthrough, a 2019 SXSW docume... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1471471 #gaming&culture #medicalscience #dr.jimallison #nobelprize #sxsw2019 #science #cancer #sxsw

  20. SXSWarren: A day later, Elizabeth Warren defends her Big Tech breakup proposal - Enlarge / Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at SXSW 2019. (credit: Nathan Mattise)
    AUSTIN, Texa... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1471371 #sxsw2019 #policy #tech #sxsw

  21. In a golden age of SXSW brand activations, at least Game of Thrones draws blood - Uh, I'm here to donate blood? ... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1470539 #gaming&culture #gameofthrones #sxsw2019 #sxsw #hbo