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Coronavirus Takes Toll on Bitcoin Halving, but Pandemic Won’t Steal the Show Black Thursday

Coronavirus Takes Toll on Bitcoin Halving, but Pandemic Won’t Steal the Show

Normally, little is unexpected concerning the regular, pre-programmed adjustment of the Bitcoin network’s mining reward size, otherwise known as halving. Baked into the digital currency’s original protocol, the anti-inflationary mechanism gets triggered once every 210,000 blocks mined — or roughly every four years — providing all the interested parties with…
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May 11, 2020
Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open Monsanto

Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open

Image courtesy of Sam Falconer/theispot.com New digital technologies have upended conventional business models, organizational structures, and operating processes in most industries. Almost every aspect of business — customer relations, supply chain management, after-sales service — has been radically altered. Nowhere is that more evident than in brick-and-mortar companies’ innovation processes.…
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May 11, 2020
Google’s Monopoly on Speech Be Evil

Google’s Monopoly on Speech

“Don’t be evil” was explicit to Google’s motto and code of conduct for some 15 years. In 2015, Google updated its motto to “Do the right thing.” Today, Google, which owns YouTube, seems to have altered its motto to “Be evil” or “Do the wrong thing”—including censoring free speech of…
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May 11, 2020
When models are everywhere Filter Bubble

When models are everywhere

You probably interact with fifty to a hundred machine learning products every day, from your social media feeds and YouTube recommendations to your email spam filter and the updates that the New York Times, CNN, or Fox News decide to push, not to mention the hidden models that place ads…
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May 11, 2020