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Daniel Reuter
on Sidewalk Labs Chose Toronto Despite Pushback From Larry Page
“Is anyone else troubled by Google imagining that they can license the “technology” to other cities? I’m certainly open to them making money through transaction fees, advertising, selling tangible goods or software, etc. But, does it seem wrong to anyone else that they would try to keep ideas on how make cities better proprietary?”
Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach
on Big Data Strengthens China’s Grip
“China is implementing Obama’s plan on AI. Obama administration published three crucial papers on AI between Septemeber and December 2016. If you compare the Chinese plan of July 2017 with these documents, you will see a lot of “friendly borrowing”. China wants its AI market to grow to 150 bn USD by 2030. There are tight links between Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu with the Chinese government. ”
Monica Rogati
on The Crypto World’s Fake Advisers
“This happened to me, with an impersonation twist thrown in:
https://twitter.com/Crowd_indicator/status/908394731683635203”
Boris Renski
on When Docker Said No to Google
“Interesting to note that at about that same time Red Hat chose to say YES to Google. It then rebuilt its OpenShift platform-as-a-service product (a runner up to Cloud Foundry at the time) into, what I would argue, is the most effective monetization vehicle of the docker container standard that exists today.”
Stacey Giamalis
on Amazon Suspends TV and Movie Chief Roy Price
“Although these behaviors, if true, are terrible, what really troubles me is that this incident was investigated awhile ago and the executive left in place, only to be fired once the allegations were made public.”
Richard Reisman
on Numbers Show Skinny Bundles Underwhelm
“It is time for the TV industry to heed Peter Drucker: “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Current channel bundles are yesterday’s logic.
The problem with SVOD, skinny or fat, is obsolete channel-based pricing models. What sense does it make to choose ahead of time what channels I will watch in a given month?”