Tag: Tech

  • Harley-Davidson’s electric LiveWire debuts in Italy

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    Harley-Davidson has revealed a little more information about the production version of its upcoming electric LiveWire at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, Italy. The bike on display at the show sports the same modern sporty design of the concept, with a trellis frame, mono-shock rear suspension and a low-slung electric motor painted silver to […]

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  • Robots Have a Diversity Problem

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    Most social robots today are white, feminine, and subservient. But a few are bucking the trend. She wants to garden, she has studied the concept of love, and she dreams of pizza. BINA48, as you might guess from her name, is not a human, but a robot. There’s something else that makes BINA48 truly distinct, and it has […]

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  • Why Uber and Lyft Want to Create Walled Gardens–and Why It’s Bad for Urban Mobility

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    As ride-hailing apps begin to control scooters and bike shares, they’re making it harder for people to make the best decisions about how to move around their cities If you’re not a techie, you may not have come across the term “walled garden” before. But it’s a critical concept these days in technology business strategy–and it […]

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  • The Dumb Device Counterculture

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    A true digital detox may be impossible to pull off, but it’s not our only option How would you define a dumb device? A piece of technology that is essentially “stupid,” it seems. The ultimate “dumbphone” eliminates almost all the procrastinating temptations of a smartphone while retaining the uses of a traditional device. In the […]

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  • Tesla rival Faraday has come unplugged

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    Battery-electric car company Faraday Future appears to be teetering on the brink of insolvency, according to one of its co-founders, who tendered his resignation Tuesday. Nick Sampson’s departure came barely a week after an unspecified number of Faraday employees were laid off, with a second mass “furlough” in the works at the beginning of November. […]

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  • Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

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    A lot of articles address the role of tech leads and engineering managers. One common theme we often come across is how to increase a team’s productivity. But before you focus your energy trying to increase their productivity, you might first want to consider what’s destroying it, to have a sound base on which you can […]

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  • Time to Kill the Tech Monopolies

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    What Is The Best Way To Improve Competition In Modern Capitalism? A comedian once quipped that “if poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets”. This is yet to happen, but the populist movements across the world are a good indication of the ongoing rejection of the liberal order […]

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  • Apple launches new MacBook Air with retina display

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    Fan favourite updated with Touch ID and new keyboard and launched alongside new Mac Mini Apple has finally updated its most popular laptop, the MacBook Air, with retina display and Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The new lower-cost Apple notebook adopts many of the technologies Apple introduced with the MacBook Pro in 2016, including a large Force […]

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  • Oracle is building a robot army to protect data

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    Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on the company’s growth, the success of the company’s cloud computing technology and how the company is tackling cyber security. The global cyber threatOpens a New Window. is getting more dangerous. Whether it is bad state actors looking to infiltrate a government or individual hackers looking to steal […]

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  • China’s ByteDance leapfrogs Uber to becomes world’s most valuable startup

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    That’s according to reports from Forbes and Bloomberg both of which claim that the company has completed a $3 billion investment that values the company at $75 billion. A source with knowledge of the deal confirmed the round to TechCrunch and suggested that the value is pre-money, which, adding the round, would put ByteDance’s valuation at $78 billion. That’s […]

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