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Enrique Dans
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Could growing demand for data centers help drive growth in Spain’s rural economies?
Could growing demand for data centers help drive growth in Spain’s ...
Recent months have seen several large companies known as hyperscalers, which are capable of providing and aggregating memory, network and…
Enrique Dans
Aug 28
What the arrest of Pavel Durov tells us about freedom of expression in the West
What the arrest of Pavel Durov tells us about freedom of expression...
The arrest in France of Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram — and formerly of VKontakte, known as VK, puts me in the strange situation of…
Enrique Dans
Aug 26
It looks like China is the place where we’ll be buying our humanoid robots
It looks like China is the place where we’ll be buying our humanoid...
A notable addition to the World Robot Conference this week in Beijing has been the number of Chinese companies, almost 30, that have…
Enrique Dans
Aug 25
Why two NASA astronauts faced added danger because of incompatible spacesuits
Why two NASA astronauts faced added danger because of incompatible ...
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, will now return to Earth on a SpaceX…
Enrique Dans
Aug 25
Can cryptographically authenticating content help prevent fake news?
Can cryptographically authenticating content help prevent fake news?
In November 2019, Adobe, The New York Times and Twitter, concerned about the spread of fake news and the ease of producing it, founded the…
Enrique Dans
Aug 23
Disney’s magical world of terms and conditions
Disney’s magical world of terms and conditions
A married couple, one of whom, a doctor, is allergic to nuts and dairy products, sit down to eat at a Disney World restaurant. Following…
Enrique Dans
Aug 22
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Three home truths about the car that we just can’t accept
Three home truths about the car that we just can’t accept
Ever since Henry Ford began marketing his mass-produced Ford Model T in 1908 with an ambitious low-price strategy to give every American an…
Enrique Dans
Aug 21
Developing AI could be turning into a zero-sum game with some major losers
Developing AI could be turning into a zero-sum game with some major losers
It seems increasingly apparent that the companies developing generative AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the like face a long…
Enrique Dans
Aug 20
Could open source provide a better, more accessible AI?
Could open source provide a better, more accessible AI?
The Open Model Initiative, recently created by three artificial intelligence companies, Invoke, Comfy Org and Civitai, as a…
Enrique Dans
Aug 19
Nvidia and the nature of copyright
Nvidia and the nature of copyright
In March of this year, three writers, Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan began legal proceedings against Nvidia because some of…
Enrique Dans
Aug 18
Google and the nature of the beast
Google and the nature of the beast
As the discussion continues about where the data used to train generative algorithms should come from and how much the companies developing…
Enrique Dans
Aug 17
US police recognize the arresting qualities of the EV
US police recognize the arresting qualities of the EV
A well-documented article in The Atlantic, “Get ready for Tesla cops”, is about how more and more police departments in the United States…
Enrique Dans
Aug 16
Are you more likely to buy a property if you can first take a virtual tour of it?
Are you more likely to buy a property if you can first take a virtual tour of it?
A study just published in one of the best information systems journals, Information Systems Research entitled “Does virtual reality help…
Enrique Dans
Aug 15
Self-driving cars: slow but steady progress, at least outside Europe
Self-driving cars: slow but steady progress, at least outside Europe
The autonomous vehicle revolution continues quietly in the United States and China, with self-driving cars an increasingly regular site in…
Enrique Dans
Aug 15
Invasive anti-theft measures in stores are driving customers online
Invasive anti-theft measures in stores are driving customers online
The shoplifting epidemic that has hit big retail outlets and supermarkets is prompting more and more stores to place many of their products…
Enrique Dans
Aug 14
Conspiratorial algorithms! Whatever next?
Conspiratorial algorithms! Whatever next?
As a growing number of algorithms take over more tasks in companies of all kinds, we are starting to see some interesting consequences that…
Enrique Dans
Aug 12
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