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Friday Futures: evolution on Mars, smelling bots and flying taxis
This week: evolution on Mars will not go well; AI as an extension of your mind; robots that smell, well; Salvador Dali and a flying taxi. Read more…
Articles by Alex Leslie
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Huawei was just the tip of the sanctions iceberg. Oh Joy!
Huawei is just the first of many, many companies that are hoping against hope that the US trade war with China doesn’t get any worse. Read more…
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Are the tech giants beginning to lose the privacy wars?
The privacy wars are raging on. Tech giants, particularly Facebook and its family and Google and its ecosystem are playing catch up now. Read more…
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Chatbots set to skyrocket – goodbye customer service
Juniper Research’s predicts that AI based chatbots are set to have 22 billion interactions in retail alone, by 2023, just four years away. Read more…
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Survey says consumers willing to pay 20% more for 5G. Really?
Ericsson, bless them, went to the trouble of interviewing 35,000 consumers about the perceived value of 5G and they will pay 20% extra for 5G. Really? Read more…
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Friday Futures: arsenic breathing creatures, graphene twisting
This week: arsenic breathing creatures; twisting graphene is amazing; quantum computers could wreck the internet and Jakarta is sinking – fast. Read more…
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Pollution: can we produce fuel from the waste we produce?
We tend to think of pollution as a problem, a cost centre, not a profit centre. And on the face of it, that is basically true. Read more…
Off the Wire
TechMahindra on change, the platform era and a new focus
Want to know the biggest challenge for telcos in the 5G era or why calling telcos Telecoms Service Providers is a mistake, ask Manish Vyas of TechMahindra. Read more…
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The IoT barometer is set to ‘fair and disruptive’: Vodafone report
It is not that surprising that the #IoT is enjoying robust growth. What is surprising is the extent to which it is changing how industries, operate. Read more…
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Advertising growth is slowing – blip, bump or honesty creeping in?
Advertising growth is slowing. Shares in Alphabet dropped significantly after the company announced that advertising on Google and particularly YouTube has slowed. Read more…