Tag: tech
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The advent of the mobile internet has massively accelerated the information revolution brewing since the start of the 20th century; the impact on civilization is staggering. https://medium.com/@sergesapiens/5g-unplugged-6cda0f078419 more ›
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Late one Wednesday in March 2015, an alarm sounded in the offices of GitHub, a San Francisco–based software firm. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612638/when-chinese-hackers-declared-war-on-the-rest-of-us/ more ›
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On Saturday, the Coinbase security team noticed something troubling. Someone had made a deep reorganization in the distributed ledger for Ethereum Classic, a smaller spinoff from the Ethereum coin. The… more ›
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There’s a new era of AI consumer-based apps spreading around the world, though starting from China. https://a16z.com/2018/12/03/when-ai-is-the-product-the-rise-of-ai-based-consumer-apps/ more ›
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Few things annoy me more than a random website asking me: “do you want to use the app instead?” Of course I don’t want to—that’s why I use your website. There are people… more ›
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Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand… more ›
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Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Identifying victims of human trafficking. Defeating chess grand masters and expert Dota 2 esports… more ›
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16 Ways to Measure Network Effects Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either… more ›
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Rethinking Retail: The Role of the Physical Store What technologies are essential to the future stores? According to the survey, both brands and retailers look at optimising the checkout process… more ›