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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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If you laughed when 50 Cent went bankrupt, you don’t understand hip-hop When a rapper with as high a profile as 50 Cent declares bankruptcy, you could power a small nation with the schadenfreude. Twitter wags – inevitably – weighed… more ›
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shihlun: George Uvedale Price, Amoy, China, 1890s. more ›
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Yanis Varoufakis full transcript: our battle to save Greece Read the report from Greece of our interview with Varoufakis here. This conversation took place before the deal. from http://ift.tt/1HpGK4m more ›
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Platform Creep The platforms: they’re creeping. There’s Twitter: On Twitter’s mobile app, there will be a new button in the center of the home row. Press it and you’ll be taken to a screen that will show various events taking… more ›
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Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl? In February, at the Code/Media* conference in Dana Point, California, some of the most powerful people in media found themselves discussing an unsettling story published two weeks prior. from… more ›
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Why Does the Mob Want to Erase This Writer? Meeting Roberto Saviano, the Italian investigative journalist and anti-Mafia crusader, is no simple matter. from http://ift.tt/1Ge3tw7 more ›
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A new east Africa campaign SAFARICOM is among the most innovative firms in the telecoms industry worldwide, and east Africa’s biggest company. Incumbency has now put the Kenya-based mobile-phone operator in the crosshairs of insurgent rivals. from http://ift.tt/1HoNFYp more ›
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I was an Invisible Girlfriend for a month A few months ago, the Internet was obsessed with Invisible Girlfriend/Boyfriend, a new start-up that allows users to “build” a significant other with whom they can exchange text messages. The founders said… more ›
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Na rua. / #boxinglisboa // #boxe // #Lisboa http://ift.tt/1SascZj more ›
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Make it Reign: How an Atlanta Strip Club Runs the Music Industry The first dude I really talked to at Magic City was a man who goes by the name City Dollars. He was installed at a table in the… more ›