Brian Gongol
January 29, 2015
If artificial intelligence development worries Bill Gates, it should worry the rest of us
IBM layoffs in Dubuque
The jobs were brought to Iowa through lots of incentives ($53 million worth) -- and now, 200 of them are going away
Mitt Romney's decision whether to run in 2016
Yahoo plans a spinoff of its Alibaba position
Is the AIB merger a good deal for the University of Iowa?
January 30, 2015
Pity the poor college students of China
The Communist government there, living in terror of leaving people with their own free thoughts, is pushing colleges to ban Western textbooks, especially if they speak ill of the Communist system
First estimate of 4th-quarter 2014 US GDP growth: 2.6%
Nothing phenomenal, but at least it's growth
AOL is closing "The Unofficial Apple Weblog"
Farewell to Dahl's
The bankruptcy sale now goes to a judge for evaluation
Bill Gates doesn't like Control-Alt-Delete, either
January 31, 2015
When politics trumps economics
An independent central bank is essential. The apparent non-independence of Russia's central bank is going to turn very, very costly.
Mitt Romney bows out of 2016 race
A wise country would put him to work fixing something like the State Department or running a venture-capital fund for social good. He's smart, and he has a lot more capacity to do good things.
Whose "brainchild" are you?
Sure, it's a promotional stunt by GE, but it's nice to see someone acknowledge that we're not just genetic children of our parents, but also intellectual descendants of other people
Google starts pushing mobile accessibility