Enrique Dans
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Thanks, Samsung: it’s reality, just not as we knew it
This just blew me away: it turns out that someone has come up with an experiment to prove that the photos his Samsung smartphone took of the moon, which appeared incredibly detailed as if they’d been… → Read More
How the fediverse could shape the future of the web
Mastodon was launched in October 2016, and I set up an account on it shortly after. But the decentralized social network remained the preserve of a relatively small group of users until Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, with nearly half a million people joining it in a week, taking the number of active monthly users to one million in early November and more than two million by mid-December. → Read More
Amazon Go’s faltering start doesn’t mean cashier-free stores are no-go
Amazon Go’s faltering start doesn’t mean cashier-free stores are no-go IMAGE: Simon Bak — UnsplashAmazon announced the opening of its first cashier-free Amazon Go store in Seattle on December 5, 2016, operating exclusively for employees, finally opening it to the public on January 22, 2018, after a long period of testing and training its algorithms, as well as ironing out glitches → Read More
Wing’s quiet success story once again shows that execution is everything
Wing continues developing drone logistics as it moves to its next level of scalability: creating a network of pickup and drop-off stations that can be used by virtually any store and user whose… → Read More
How credible are China’s complaints about US restrictions on TikTok?
On Monday, Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, gave a press conference where she stated that the various bans and restrictions in the United States on TikTok, are an attempt to deprive his country of “its development rights and perpetuate its own hegemony” as well as to “steal its technological autonomy” by “suppressing” its technology companies. → Read More
What does it take for a company to maintain innovation?
After reading an interesting article in Harvard Business Review, “How Microsoft became innovative again”, I wasn’t so much prompted to wonder how the company has managed to transition from selling… → Read More
How are we going to stop machine learning assistants from spreading fake news?
A race is underway to incorporate machine learning into search engines so they can answer queries with a paragraph as well as a list of links: the pioneer, the still relatively unknown You.com, was… → Read More
Here’s what’s important about Tesla Investor Day
I should start by saying that I’m not a Tesla investor — or maybe I am, I don’t know. My investments have been managed through an index fund for a long time now, not only because it seems to me the… → Read More
Do the latest emissions figures suggest we’re finally taking climate change seriously?
The climate emergency is undoubtedly the greatest problem we face. Some uninformed people may play it down or pretend it doesn’t exist, but this is an unparalleled disaster: humanity has modified our… → Read More
Why is checking in and out of a hotel such a pain in the lobby?
As a frequent traveler, I never fail to be disappointed by the hassle of checking-in and out at hotels, a task that could surely be made quicker and more efficient by applying a little digital common… → Read More
It was twenty years ago today…. I couldn’t resist using a line from one…
I couldn’t resist using a line from one of my favorite Beatles albums to celebrate two decades of writing my blog (the Spanish version), and although I may not be old and 64 yet, as the photo from… → Read More
The interesting implications of user verification as a product
Meta is to copy Elon Musk’s move at Twitter and has announced it will start charging for a verification mark on Instagram and Facebook profiles, a process that will require some form of official ID… → Read More
Why Beijing’s threat of invading Taiwan should concentrate minds everywhere
The UK is conducting scenario analyses of the economic impact of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, given the country’s isolation in the post-Brexit era and one year on from Russia’s war in Ukraine… → Read More
What happens when people with no moral compass go into business?
I’m sorry if this seems simplistic, but throughout my career, there is one thing I have always been very clear about: the moral standards and behavior of the founder(s) of a company condition that… → Read More
The Meta metaverse is shrinking
An interesting article in the Financial Times, “Whatever happened to the metaverse?”, reflects waning interest in parallel with Facebook’s name change to Meta in a bid to associate itself irrevocably… → Read More
Most data brokers should be behind bars
It’s all very well to say that what is not explicitly forbidden — de jure — is, de facto, allowed, but there are companies, so-called data brokers, out there whose very existence is a stain on society, and whose CEOs and management should be locked up in jail. → Read More
In today’s car industry, every nanometer counts: just ask Tesla
A flurry of recent news stories provides a clear understanding of who’s who in the global chip industry… and the automotive sector. → Read More
How Microsoft caught Google napping
Google’s launch event on Wednesday, a rapid response to Microsoft’s presentation of its Bing ChatGPT feature, was a flop that prompted a nearly 10% drop in the company’s share price. What did Google… → Read More
How the markets ruin great companies
It gives me no pleasure to once again have to discuss the long-standing issue of the way companies are capitalized, which in practice is a disincentive to good management and innovation. This can be… → Read More
Microsoft and Google are now locked in an arms race
The race between Microsoft and Google to be the first to include a machine learning conversational assistant as part of its search engines is hotting up: in a post on its corporate blog signed by CEO… → Read More