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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

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

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

Is AI still artificial?

Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial

Will generative AI favor the underdog?

The implications of generative AI for tech and talent

The future of crypto is coming: what will it look like?

Regulation, decentralization and combined approaches battle for the crypto throne

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.

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.

"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.