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Open data empowerment

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From bits to atoms

Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?

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The age of genetic information

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Google predicts a rising Chinese internet

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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain

Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?

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Technical hurdles towards the cryptoworld

Arief Hühn outlines possible solutions to the current limitations of the crypto world.

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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The CRISPR’d era

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Fewer staff, more data

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Narrative of Big Tech

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One grid to rule them all

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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy

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Galactic hegemony

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Europe's innovation horizon

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Arbitrary decisions

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The bigger picture economy

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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Technological momentum

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The intelligence of AI

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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Exporting surveillance

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Rise of online education in the corporate education sector

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The selfish ledger

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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Who owns the data of the city?

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Can E-learning bridge Africa’s education gap?

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The medium is (liable for) the message

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The walls of the home are breaking down

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing

The AI chips race (part II)

Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack

The AI chips race (part I)

How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events