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Forget recalls, it’s toy hacking you should be concerned with this holiday...
It was not an auspicious beginning to the holiday season. On Black Friday, we learned that a hacker had broken into the servers of Chinese toymaker VTech and lifted the personal information of nearly...
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How Apple’s Trojan horse will eat the credit card industry
Apple Pay was launched last year, with lots of fanfare and support by the credit-card industry. Partnering with the banks that issue credit cards overcame the resistance that early entrants in mobile...
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2015 was a tipping point for six technologies that will change the world
To the average person, it may seem that the biggest technology advances of 2015 were the larger smartphone screens and small app updates. But a lot more happened than that. A broad range of...
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India deserves better than Mark Zuckerberg’s watered-down Internet
Mark Zuckerberg is taking intense fire in India over an initiative that his organization Internet.org launched, to provide limited Internet access to the masses. He seems genuine in his desire to bring...
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These 6 technologies will define 2016
For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its...
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R.I.P. Bitcoin. It’s time to move on.
Not long ago, venture capitalists were talking about how Bitcoin was going to transform the global currency system and render governments powerless to police monetary transactions. Now the...
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The many reasons to be excited about America’s future
Every 30 or 40 years, Americans become incredibly pessimistic. They begin to believe the nation is falling behind in competitiveness and innovation, that their children will not be as well off as they...
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How I realized the incredible impact that great bosses have
“I don’t care if you have to take drugs, you have to build it in six months,” said my boss, Khurshed Birdie, when I told him that he was on drugs if he thought my team could create a software...
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The urgent need for Silicon Valley to lead a smart and civil conversation on...
There are very few issues that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton all agree on. One of them is the growing problem of inequality in income and wealth. From the extreme left...
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Apple picked the wrong battle in privacy war
Imagine if the government required you to have a combination lock on your door and to give it the key. It would create security and privacy risks for you and your family. This is what could happen if...
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Apple vs. FBI: The tip of the iceberg as laws can’t keep up with tech
The battle between the FBI and Apple over the unlocking of a terrorist’s iPhone will likely require Congress to create new legislation. That’s because there really aren’t any existing laws which...
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What New Delhi’s free clinics can teach America about fixing its broken...
Rupandeep Kaur, 20 weeks pregnant, arrived at a medical clinic looking fatigued and ready to collapse. After being asked her name and address, she was taken to see a physician who reviewed her medical...
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It’s time to admit that the emperor has no clothes. Apple’s last big innovation was 9 years ago–my interview on CNBC. Facebook is set to release its virtual reality headset, Oculus, next week. It will...
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Here’s the advantage that keeps Silicon Valley ahead of the world
A trait shared by the fastest growing and most disruptive companies in history — Google, Amazon, Uber, AirBnb, and eBay—is that they aren’t focused on selling products, they are building platforms. The...
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How open science can help solve Zika and prepare us for the next pandemic
With the advent of synthetic biology and gene editing tools, there are amazing breakthroughs being made in medicine, energy and food. Within a few years, we will see cures for debilitating diseases,...
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Why Tesla is the spark that Apple needs
Apple’s dismal earnings announcement shows why it badly needs to rethink its innovation model and leadership. Its last breakthrough innovation was the iPhone — which was released in 2007. Since then,...
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How crowdfunding can help save Silicon Valley from its harebrained investors
There are fears that another Ice Age is about to hit Silicon Valley because of the implosion of its unicorns — start-ups valued at more than one billion dollars. By one estimate there were 229 such...
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Trump’s demand that Apple must make iPhones in the U.S. actually isn’t that...
Donald Trump has promised that “we’re gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries.” He said this at a speech at Virginia’s Liberty...
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Theranos teaches Silicon Valley a hard lesson about accountability
By Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld and Vivek Wadhwa The Theranos saga hit another low last week when the company informed regulators that it was voiding two years of tests from its Edison blood testing devices...
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The chilling effect Peter Thiel’s battle with Gawker could have on Silicon...
Gawker infringes on privacy and publishes tabloid-like stories that damage reputations. It is one of the most sensationalist and objectionable media outlets in the country. It also has not been kind to...
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