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Shelly Palmer About 240 years ago, a great, nascent political experiment fought its way into being. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit...
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Shelly Palmer Tay is a combination chatbot and AI system designed by Microsoft to “engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation.” It was specifically “targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., the dominant users of mobile social...
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Encryption Apple v. FBI has started a serious debate about the line between security and privacy. The FBI says this is a case about the contents of one specific iPhone 5c. Apple says this is a case about securing data for everyone. I framed both arguments in a previous...
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All successful social media businesses have one thing in common: they are constantly growing their user bases. Sadly, Twitter reported 320 million users in the December quarter, flat with the previous quarter and up 9% YoY, missing analysts’ expectations by 5 million users. And to make matters worse, the...
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With the Super Bowl flying by like a bull in a china shop, I’d like to take a look back at all the games that took the concept of sports and kicked it up a notch. The 80’s and 90’s brought us an interesting twist to Sports games. With...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is in the hot seat; some investors are calling for her to step down, others want the company broken up and sold for parts, still others are concerned that the value of their investment is less than zero. First and foremost, Yahoo is not worthless....
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Shelly Palmer This past week Apple posted the highest quarterly earnings in American history. The reward for this incredible feat was a decline in share prices that chopped approximately $30 Billion off Apple’s market cap (that’s like wiping out the value of a company the size of FedEx overnight)....
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Shelly Palmer Hello Barbie! is an IoT-enabled (Internet of Things) Barbie Doll with blonde hair, blue eyes and a built-in surveillance system. She’s not the first of her kind (and she won’t be the last), but here’s what you should know about bringing it, or any connected device, into...
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With 20,000 new product announcements and 2.1 million square feet of floor space, it was hard to find the signal in the noise at CES 2016. Here are my top 10 favorite products. 1. LeTV Le Max Pro Another Android phone. No, not just another Android phone – an...
