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As we can see from the comments excerpted from transcripts, Qualcomm had scrapped its $44 billion purchase of Dutch chip maker NXP after failing to…

Facebook is one big happy family of a “global community”. Image: NextSharkFacebook is showing its age, as Facebook’s miss in its Q2 results have…

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The author of a new book, ‘Antisocial Media,’ discusses whether the rise of Facebook was inevitableContinue reading on The Atlantic » Article…

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population remains unbanked. But mobile phones are helping to change that, writes Simon LongContinue reading on Medium…

I just returned from a fantastic week in Stockholm attending International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018. One of the most active informal…

So Why Are We So Scared of Cyborgs?Consider this: 79% of smartphone users have their phone on or near them for 22 hours a day (IDC). My cell phone is…

Big tech companies are asking themselves where their responsibilities start and stop. Sorting that out will be complicated and may end up…Continue…

Back in 1995, when Nicholas Negroponte wrote Being Digital, his seminal piece on technologically-driven life, facial recognition technology was still…

Why do we build decentralized technologies? How do we predict what will be successful, what will get shutdown, and what will end up as a science…