Roundup: Layoffs hit Flickr, Apple’s 3D desktop, and more
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Yahoo troubles hit Flickr — George Oates, one of the Yahoo-owned photo site’s early employees, is among the latest layoffs.
Apple to build 3D desktop? — It’s exploring the possibility, according to patent filings published by MacRumors.
Palm may unveil new operating system at Consumer Electronics… Continue Reading
More on drug discovery and comparable industries
Anyone interested in exploring better analogies for the drug industry — better, that is, than Andy Grove’s forced comparison to semiconductors — should just check out Derek Lowe’s blog In the Pipeline. In followup items, he’s already drawn analogies to Hollywood and oil wildcatting —… Continue Reading
What Andy Grove still gets wrong about the life sciences — and how he could help fix them
(UPDATED: See below.)
Like DNA co-discoverer James Watson, whose career ended last month after he linked genetic intelligence differences to race, former Intel chairman Andrew Grove seems to be falling into the trap of assuming that expertise in one field automatically translates into wisdom in others. In… Continue Reading