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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
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The AI chips race (part 2)
Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack
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The AI chips race (part 1)
How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events
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The internet is in need of a transition
What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food
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Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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