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There’s more to smart cities than piling tech on top of them
Truly smart cities aren’t fancy tech projects – they must also understand and respond to the complex ecosystem of people who live in them. Read more…
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Where should Softbank re-list Arm? Preferably nowhere (for now)
The big question isn’t where to relist Arm, but how SoftBank is going to achieve $50 billion anywhere under current market conditions. Read more…
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AI could take renewable energy mainstream if anyone bothers to try
AI could help fight climate change by making renewable energy more affordable and reliable. One barrier: hardly anyone is working on it. Read more…
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Digital finance vision meets hard reality – now what?
The vision and the reality of digital finance are still very different. The paradigm shift is still coming but we need a realistic approach. Read more…
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Meta won’t pass metaverse Turing Test by throwing hardware at it
Meta is developing hardware designed to kickstart the metaverse by solving the visual Turing Test. But hardware is not the real problem. Read more…
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China metaverse sector is a minefield of legal risks
China’s metaverse market is a potential $8 trillion opportunity – provided punters can overcome the huge regulatory challenges in their way. Read more…
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IoT and wearables need the right balance to break down data silos
IoT and wearables need a solution to help them combine and use various data – but there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for all verticals. Read more…
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LaMDA isn’t sentient – actually, it’s not even close
A Google researcher says its LaMDA language model has become sentient. But all available evidence indicates that AI remains as dumb as ever. Read more…
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RedCap spec for Release 17 could expand 5G’s IoT horizons
The 3GPP has frozen coding protocols for the 5G NR RedCap spec, which could expand 5G’s IoT options beyond the usual LPWA apps. Read more…
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CarPlay upgrade is Apple’s declaration of war on OEMs
Apple says auto OEMs are “excited to bring this new vision of CarPlay to customers”. But any OEM in its right mind should view it with horror. Read more…
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Mobile services of the future must be headless and decentralized
5G and 6G will herald a major paradigm shift in mobile services, not least because current data and app models won’t work in the future. Read more…
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How a Web3 bubble bust could potentially tank the global economy
VCs are throwing money at Web3, but some fear the crypto aspect is creating the conditions for another Great Recession when the bubble bursts. Read more…
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DoCoMo and NTT unveil 6G partners – spot the metaverse reference!
NTT DoCoMo and NTT will partner with Fujitsu, NEC, and Nokia to conduct 6G experiments – which may or may not include the metaverse. Read more…
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India’s stumbling unicorns a sign of things to come for SPACs
India’s unicorns are scrambling to conserve cash, sending a clear sign of what is to come next in the ongoing SPAC crash. Read more…
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Physical neural networks aim to let the universe do the math
Digital neural networks don’t scale because of the massive computation involved. Could physical neural networks be the future instead? Read more…
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Open source solutions need finely balanced ecosystems
Open source solutions require an ecosystem that finds the right balance between being both genuinely open source and a sustainable business. Read more…
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Inmarsat conducts Orchestra port broadband test in Singapore
Inmarsat’s Orchestra aims to provide extra broadband capacity for ports and shipping lanes that can reach as far as 30 km offshore. Read more…
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Microsoft Build eschews metaverse glam – is that a bad thing?
Build 2022 offered metaverse placeholders that may lead to further speculation that Microsoft’s metaverse effort is in disarray. Read more…
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Researchers urge Chinese military to build anti-Starlink weapons
Chinese military researchers say China needs to develop “anti-satellite” capabilities to monitor (and maybe destroy) Starlink LEOsats. Read more…
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One network, any cloud, all software – no longer a pipe dream
“A new era for operators: one network, any cloud, all software”, a headline from MWC2022 caught my eye. A pipe dream or probability? Read more…
