Tag: tech

• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

  December 31, 2018

  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 ›

• Fjord Trends 2019

  December 18, 2018

  Fjord Trends 2019 Loading… https://trends.fjordnet.com/?utm_source=Benedict%27s%20newsletter&utm_campaign=3293695b6b-Benedict%27s%20Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-3293695b6b-70754709 more ›

• 16 Ways to Measure Network Effects

  December 18, 2018

  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 ›

• Rethinking Retail: The Role of the Physical Store

  December 2, 2018

  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 ›

• Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot

  November 30, 2018

  Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot Fifteen years ago, cybersecurity could be boiled down to a simple strategy: Secure the perimeter. Experts fought against malware and other nefarious code by implementing… more ›

• November 13, 2018

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• An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

  July 22, 2018

  An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code https://youtu.be/jIKNCD3wDgI more ›

• The World Needs Netflix Minis

  June 22, 2018

  The World Needs Netflix Minis » At 10 p.m. on the final Wednesday of May, shrouded in the darkness of our basement, my wife and I did something we used… more ›

• Apple's Airpods Are an Omen

  June 17, 2018

  Apple's Airpods Are an Omen » The moment I put the Apple AirPods in my ears, I feel like I’ve already dropped them in the toilet. They are so small… more ›

• GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button

  June 9, 2018

  GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button » Oh, GitHub, we knew ye … pretty well, actually, over the past decade. At least programmers did. more ›