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Open-source software is eating the world

Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.

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The protein folding revolution

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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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Rise of online education in the corporate education sector

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Exporting surveillance

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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The intelligence of AI

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Technological momentum

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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The bigger picture economy

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Arbitrary decisions

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Europe's innovation horizon

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Galactic hegemony

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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy

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One grid to rule them all

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Narrative of Big Tech

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Fewer staff, more data

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The CRISPR’d era

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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The selfish ledger

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Who owns the data of the city?

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The API Economy

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Building memory in the information age

The Battle of Stacks (part 2)

A deep dive into the battle’s origins and the titans who shape it

The Battle of Stacks (part 1)

How digital superpowers redefine the political order

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