Intel has been the focus of a lot of attention in the last week due to the company’s major restructuring announcement which came on the heels of Intel’s most recent earnings announcement. The majority of analyses that immediately followed the company’s announcement focused singularly on the layoffs, which amount to 11% of the workforce or 12,000 employees, insinuated that Intel is walking away from the PC and asked questions about what this means for the future of the Intel. I know I did. I didn’t have to wait long for an answer.

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Are there any “transitional life forms” that have not been debunked by modern science? This question was originally answered on Quora by Glenn Anderson.

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Recently, the influential AP Stylebook decreed that “internet” should no longer be capitalized. This decision was not merely an acknowledgement that digital channels are poised to subsume most traditional media formats – from television and film to radio and print. It reflected a broader understanding that the internet isn’t just one thing, but rather, “part of the neutral universe of life,” as Joseph Turow, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, argues.

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Why have neurons evolved to send all-or-nothing action potentials over communicating with graded responses? This question was originally answered on Quora by Paul King.

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If Microsoft is indeed announcing new Xbox hardware at E3, the real question than becomes whether this is a “we’re working on it” sort of announcement or a “this is coming out in the fall.” Major platform holder announcements at E3 are often geared towards fall releases, and the manufacturing reports would support that. If Sony is showing up with both PSVR and the Neo in the fall, Microsoft will need something to counter with.

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As startup investing increasingly becomes a key investment strategy for many who are looking to add high-risk, high-potential-reward alternative assets to their portfolio, the next step is understanding what type of potential returns this uncorrelated asset class can yield. Some questions I hear a lot are; What type of returns can I expect to get from startup investing? How long will I wait until I can see returns? How can one opportunity be benchmarked against another?

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It all paints a picture of a company that has been far from dominant in the home console space for a very long time, raising the stakes with each successive generation. Today, we’ve got a company that’s largely viewed as an underdog, with a lot of goodwill from the gaming community, some of the most valuable IPs in the space, and two massive competitors in the form of Sony and Microsoft. That’s the situation we’re in right now: there are a lot of people that want the NX to succeed, but perhaps even more who are apprehensive after the Wii U. And frankly, I’m not sure how many times the company can lose that core audience and then take another crack at it. The NX has to reestablish Nintendo as a premier hardware manufacturer, earn back the trust of the core gaming community and, ideally, push things forward in a way that is just interesting enough to draw in both new customers and the generalized curious.

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