Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, used to put …
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There were three big winners at the 2024 Hi-Tech Awards, staged in front of a record audience of 1300 at Auckland’s Spark Arena tonight. Peter Beck’s Rocket Lab was named Company of the Year. The Kiwi-American firm has undergone major expansion recently, including the opening of a new factory in …
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New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): New India will not remain a mere consumer of technology but will play an active role in its development and implementation, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday after launching 5G services at the 6th India Mobile Congress. We will lead the technological advancements …
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In a tightly-guarded factory in a suburb of Istanbul, workers are attaching parts to the belly of a Bayraktar TB2 drone. he ash-grey craft, no bigger than a motorboat, sits in the middle of a gigantic space filled with hundreds of bustling engineers. Wings have been stacked side-by-side around the …
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Conspiracy theories are everywhere online. Few are shockingly true, most are not, but one shared trait among all conspiracy theories is that a simple truth could be mixed up in a murky sludge of fact and fiction. This is especially true for conspiracy theories related to search, Big Tech and …
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When Indian and Chinese forces were engaged in Ladakh last year, the Indian Army realised it needed better vigilance. The army floated an order for a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly called drones. Last week, the army signed a $20-million contract with home-grown drone …
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2020 was a volatile and unpredictable year for businesses large and small. In a sink-or-swim situation, the swimmers were those who responded fairly quickly to the pandemic and managed to come up with creative and innovative solutions. This often involved pivoting to an entirely new model, according to Shoreditch-based Chris …
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Wichowski is the author of “The Information Trade: How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World,” serves as deputy CTO for innovation and acting DCTO for broadband for the City of New York, and teaches at Columbia University. When the Justice Department announced its antitrust suit …
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[theme music] – When you walk in the room do you have Sway? kara swisher I love disaster movies, and I love action movies. I especially love movies where someone knows before anyone else that something bad is about to strike humanity. clip from “tomb raider” 1 It could kill …
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The House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee this week released the 400-page findings of its 16-month investigation into the “state of competition in the digital economy.” WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 29: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies via video conference during the House … [+] Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative …
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