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In the winds of crypto winter
Well, it was surreal while it lasted, by which I mean the 2017-18 cryptocurrency bubble. For a while there, Coinbase…
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Tech
Tumblr’s ‘female-presenting nipples’ language isn’t semantic — it’s oppression
Tumblr‘s whiplash-inducing ban on “all adult content” has been about as well-received as a tequila-fart in a car full of…
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JIRA is an antipattern
Atlassian’s JIRA began life as a bug-tracking tool. Today, though, it has become an agile planning suite, “to plan,…
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Welcome to the stochastic age
In 1990, Kleiner Perkins rejected 99.4% of the proposals it received, while investing in 12 new companies a year. Those…
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Finance
The economics and tradeoffs of ad-funded smart city tech
In order to have innovative smart city applications, cities first need to build out the connected infrastructure, which can be…
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The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies
Alex Lazarow Contributor Alex Lazarow works at the intersection of investing, innovation and economic development across the public, private and…
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It’s time to kill off follower counts on social networks
Over the past couple of weeks, Twitter and Instagram have begun testing ways to reduce visual emphasis on users’…
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The slow corrosion of techno-optimism
Two weeks from now, the Swahilipot Hub, a hackerspace / makerspace / center for techies and artists in Mombasa, Kenya,…
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Mattereum, perhaps the world’s weirdest and most daring startup, intends to own literally everything
How’s this for eyebrow-raising? In London, for the last year and a half, a team of lawyers, cryptographers, software engineers,…
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