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Watch TechDroverVisit My OWL Tech™The cost to build an app is only the beginning. Hosting, APIs, monitoring, security, support, upgrades, and maintenance continue after launch. This Decision Minute asks a better question: what does the business cost to operate? TechDrover™ Decision Minute looks at recurring patterns I've seen across companies, industri
Quantum computing gets described as everything from the future of computing to technology that’s mostly hype. I wanted to understand it for myself. In this first TechDrover™ Horizons video, I’m starting an engineer’s exploration of quantum computing: what makes it fundamentally different from digital computing, what pr
What if a weather forecast could do more than tell you the temperature or chance of rain? In this presentation, Rob Mayer, Founder of My OWL Tech LLC, introduces the My OWL Outdoor Intelligence Platform and explains how hyperlocal weather, location, activity, and personal preferences work together to provide personaliz
The warm-up’s over — time to dig into real tech that people actually use. I’ve got an app in the works to make activities safer, some embedded experiments, and a few myths to bust. Got tech that frustrates you or falls short? Send it my way — it might get the TechDrover treatment. Every app, every update, every line of
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