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E-sports on steroids
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The future of globalization
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Making sense of automation tax
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Limits to facial recognition
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Smart home care for our second adulthood
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The elemental evolution of media
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Every bit has a price
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Could we live without a job?
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Computers need a language for causal reasoning
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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?
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Visual search tools are building a bridge
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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature
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Reinventing urban waterways
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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism
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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard
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Building bridges to the crypto space
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Online language is better language
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The European Stack is taking shape
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Apple’s silent transition into the next computing paradigm
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The quest for autonomy in the digital age
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The internet of thoughts
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Reality is holding back self-driving cars
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Precautionary screening for the masses?
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Our cities as AR gaming arenas
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Will China become a sustainability leader?
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Libra’s next hurdle: financial regulators and governments
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Learning to waste
All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management
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Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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Is AI still artificial?
Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial
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Will generative AI favor the underdog?
The implications of generative AI for tech and talent
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The future of crypto is coming: what will it look like?
Regulation, decentralization and combined approaches battle for the crypto throne
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EU's digital strategy: where are we now and where do we go from here?
We should be strategic as we make strides toward digital sovereignty.
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Is artificial intelligence smart enough to create a sustainable future?
Despite a hefty ecological footprint of its own, digital technology has the potential to contribute to a more sustainable future.
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"Creative" AI is recreating the creative industry
In the past few months, creative AI systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney have taken the internet by storm with their “artistic” creations.
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