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The Automation Of Jobs And The Beach...
About a year or more ago I was at an event that featured a panel of top Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts. It was held at SRI International — Silicon Valley’s famous and at times, infamous research...
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CultureWatch: A Crowded Bus All To Myself
When I was commuting to Menlo Park last year my journey would start on the San Francisco 38 Geary bus. It was always crowded and I’d be fortunate to squeeze in.I remember one particular gorgeous sunny...
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Rent the Runway CEO: Gender Discrimination Is Larger Workplace issue Than...
Jennifer Hyman, CEO of Rent the Runway clothing service said that she was the victim of sexual harassment but that gender discrimination is the larger issue and it’s not being addressed.Hyman was...
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Big Drop in Tech, Media And Telecoms Deals
Europe’s Brexit problem could be to blame…There's a big slowdown in dealmaking in the global Technology, Media &Telecommunications (TTM) sector with the value dropping by $92 billion or nearly a...
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$GOOG: AI And Auto-Cars Can't Help A Rapidly Narrowing Future
Alphabet/$GOOG reported strong earnings per share for its third quarter handily beating Wall Street estimates as revenues per click fell faster than expected and traffic costs rose...
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Facebook Fake News Problem: It's A Media Company
Facebook (and Google) is finding it harder and harder to avoid being seen as a media company. I’ve called Facebook, Google, Yahoo and many others — high-tech enabled media companies for more than a...
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Taste Of Science: Meet Marie Skłodowska Curie In 'Humanity Needs Dreamers'
This evening (November 9) you can see a free showing of “Humanity Needs Dreamers” an immersive science film in which you meet Marie Skłodowska Curie - the two-time Nobel prize winner — played by Susan...
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Facebook's Fake News Problem: It's A Media Company Run By Engineers
During the recent hearings in Washington representatives of Facebook, Google and Twitter were asked if they were media companies-- they replied that they identify as technology companies.Facebook and...
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Arc Publishing: The Washington Post's Software Startup
Harry McCracken has written an excellent profile of the Washington Post's Arc Publishing business which sells access to the same technology that is used to publish the online newspaper. [Arc...
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Media Disruption: Is the Race To The Bottom Bottoming Out?
The media industry continues to be disrupted and former high flying new media companies are being hit as revenues from advertising continue to fall despite increased readership.Monika Bauerlein, CEO of...
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Study: No Shortcuts From SEO — Old Web Dominates Google Search
Old web pages dominate the first page of Google’s search results and new pages less than one year old represent only 0.3 percent of the top ten Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) for 2 million...
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Silicon Valley Ties To Russian Fake News Tops Tech Scandals List
What do you get if you ask 600 tech industry news readers to rank the top tech scandals of 2017? You get a very long infographic!Here’s the nutshell details of the survey courtesy of Brionna Lewis at...
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Deloitte's crystal ball: These tech trends will create the Symphonic Enterprise
Deloitte sees a future where businesses are able to use new technologies in concert rather than trying to master each one individually.In its just released ninth annual Tech Trends report Deloitte...
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Ben Bradlee Documentary Shows How To Create A Fearless Newsroom Culture
Above, still from the film, Ben Bradlee talking about newspapers being allowed “..to go about our business. Which is not to be loved …but to go after the truth.” The Ben Bradlee documentary on HBO is...
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Event: The Atlantic Fights The Backlash Against Inclusion In Tech Industry
This coming Tuesday in San Francisco, The Atlantic magazine is hosting a free day-long event about diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.Women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups...
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Be Prepared To Be Judged Today ...By The Higher Standards Of The Future
Peggy Noonan WSJ writes :“The Franken case represents not a collapse of tolerance for flawed human behavior but a rise of judgment about what is acceptable.”This means that you always have to choose a...
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The endangered iconic hyperlink...
"Hey, send me that link!" You'll hear that phrase everywhere and in every language around the world. The hyperlink is as core part of our global culture as it is core to the Internet itself.It's how we...
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Media Disruption: HubPages Sold To Maven - 'No Future For Mom-and-Pop...
From Palm Springs Art Museum: Duane Hansen - “Old Couple on a Bench" 1995Ari Levy at CNBC writes about HubPages, an independent online publisher being acquired by publisher Maven.HubPages sells to...
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You Are Where? TEDxBerkeley Is Coming Up And Maps Is The Theme — Here's A...
TEDxBerkeley is one of my favorite regional TEDx events. It has its own flavor and character. The next one is coming up very soon: February 17th at Zellerbach Hall from 10am to 5pm. Here’s a 15%...
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