Spring is particularly conducive for tornadoes in many parts of the United States. At the time of writing, survey teams were investigating possible tornado damage in parts of Texas. Tornadoes remain one of the most elusive and fascinating phenomena in meteorology. They can literally change the lives of families and entire cities. It is why I have a healthy dose of respect and fear of them. I don’t cheer for them. Scientists understand the general conditions that are conducive to the formation of tornadoes, but the lead time for warning for a specific tornado is still under 15 minutes. However, potentially breakthrough research published in the American Meteorological Society’s Monthly Weather Review by a team led by Dr. Victor Gensini of the College of Dupage offers the promise of forecasting tornadoes 2 to 3 weeks in advance. Sort of.  Dr. Gensini has forecasted above normal tornado activity in the United States through the first 3 weeks of March. How is this possible and what are the caveats? I decided to ask Dr. Gensini who happens to be a former doctoral student in our program at the University of Georgia (I was on his PhD committee). Here is my exclusive interview with him:

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I am old and uncool. What do I need to know about Snapchat to begin without faux pas? This question was originally answered on Quora by Sabrina Ali and Sabrina Li.

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Tape had always been the preferred medium for datacenter archive, even though it could be difficult to deal with and was a medium that (because it literally touched the recording head) degraded every time you recorded or read the tape. Plenty of enterprise information is archived on tape, but that is about to change. We all know that information is growing exponentially and now archiving is struggling to keep up. With the expectation of 44 zettabytes of data being created by 2020 and archive data being the fastest part of this growth, tape vendors should be in a great position. But, tape leaders like Oracle and IBM might have more to fear from this huge increase in data than they have to gain. And it may come from the most unlikely place of all: optical. We recently looked at Sony Optical Archive Inc. and how their entrance into enterprise archiving could give tape–and hard drives for that matter–a real run for the money. You can download our paper here.

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I just saw a man run through a wall. He simply disappeared as he met the bricks. And I’m not sure how he did it.

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I left off in Part I with TEPCO metaphorically treading water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. It continues to inject cooling water into the three damaged reactors and then deals with the contaminated drainage that mixes with incoming groundwater by partly cleansing it of most contaminants and storing it in huge steel tanks.

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Entrepreneurs should pay heed to the story of Coolest Cooler, which raised $13 million on Kickstarter for a high-tech cooler and then ran out of funds. Raising money is one thing, but logistics and production are what build a business.

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E-signatures can not only improve business process efficiency, they can also reduce several legal, compliance and security risks otherwise posed by ink signatures. Having led e-signature initiatives at two organizations, I’ve learned a lot about the right way to approach such a rollout — from our challenges to our solutions.

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In George Hotz’s fight to take on Tesla and Google in self-driving cars, his company is getting money from big name venture capitalist firms like Andreessen Horowitz.

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