Toyota last week stopped sales on eight models and recalled millions of cars to correct their sticking accelerator pedals. The massive recall could cost the automaker billions, but what is the fuss all about?
YouTube channel Carquestions takes a look inside the gas pedal of a 2008 Sequoia to show how the pedal works.
Most people working in Silicon Valley can rattle off a list of influential venture capital firms and individual venture investors. But if you're wondering which of them are being the most actively discussed in the media, you'll find some interesting data available in a new report from ITMemos. (Disclosure: I am an adviser to ITDatabase, the parent company behind ITMemos.)
That Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Benchmark and Accel top the list of most quoted VC firms is not terribly surprising. However, Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures, a significantly smaller firm, tops the list as most … Read more
Probably the only race that Buick and Jaguar would finish in a tie is the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Vehicle Dependability StudySM (VDS), but both are on the top of the leader board this week. Each rank highest in vehicle dependability in a tie. Buick improves from a sixth-place ranking in 2008, while Jaguar improves from 10th place. Following in the top-five rankings this year are Lexus, Toyota and Mercury.
Toyota garners five segment awards for the Highlander, Prius, Sequoia, Solara, and Tundra. Lexus follows with four segment awards for the ES 330 (in a tie with the … Read more
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IBM plans to announce on Tuesday that it will supply the world's fastest supercomputer to the U.S. Department of Energy in the next few years, according to numerous reports.
Not only will the machine, called Sequoia, be the fastest supercomputer to date, it will blow the current record-holder out of the water. IBM's Roadrunner, located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, was the first system to reach 1.026 petaflops (a petaflop is equal to a quadrillion calculations per second; the "… Read more
An ignoble but much needed end to Web 2.0, marked by a party in Cyprus http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/an-ignoble-but-much-needed-end-to-web-20/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10063178-93.html
Sequoia Capital's 56 slide … Read more
Despite the threat of legal action by one voting machine vendor, Princeton University professor Ed Felten is continuing his independent investigation of perceived irregularities in New Jersey's February 5, 2008 presidential primary election. On Friday, a New Jersey state judge ruled that voting rights activists will also have the right to have their own independent expert examine the state's electronic voting machines.
The question is integrity. What Felten has found so far isn't enough to change the election results, but evidence presented on his blog site suggests there might be enough to undermine our confidence in the … Read more
Part of the Sequoia Voting Systems Web site was defaced and subsequently taken down on Thursday, according to a report in InfoWorld. As CNET prepared this blog, the entire Sequoia Voting System site was frequently inaccessible.
The defacement and subsequent takedown occurred Thursday morning on the company's Ballot Blog page. Sequoia is one of a handful of electronic voting companies used in the United States. It has in recent days come under fire for apparent discrepancies in voter tallies in last month's New Jersey primary election.
The Ballot Blog page on SequoiaVote.com had contained information from Sequoia … Read more
Ed Felten is a Princeton University computer scientist who became well-known in technology circles for a paper he co-authored that showed flaws in digital audio watermarks. More precisely, Felten became well-known for the legal threats he received at the time from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Now Sequoia Voting Systems, which is one of the largest e-voting machine manufacturers in the United States, is threatening Felten too.
On Tuesday, Felten posted e-mail he and fellow Princeton professor Andrew Appel received from Sequoia saying:
As you have likely read in the news media, certain New Jersey election officials have stated … Read more
Updated at 10:30 a.m. PDT with corrected total amount of investment.
Visual search engine Searchme has raised $31 million from early Google backer Sequoia Capital and other investors, according to the company.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has been in development for the last three years, launched a private beta of its search engine on Tuesday. The company also closed on a fourth round of funding worth $15 million led by Lehman Brothers, according to SearchMe CEO Randy Adams. That investment adds to the $16 million the company has raised since June 2005 from Sequoia, Dag … Read more
WASHINGTON--In a keynote address at this year's ShmooCon, an East Coast computer hacker conference, J. Alex Halderman said that electronic voting machines could be good for the electorate--with some modifications.
Halderman is a graduate student studying under Ed Felten, a professor of computer science at Princeton, who is best known for demonstrating that the electronic voting machines produced by Diebold and other companies are vulnerable to attack. Diebold has since changed the name of election equipment to Premier Election Solutions. Felten was to make the keynote address, but canceled at the last minute due to the flu. Halderman is … Read more
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