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Enrique Dans
On the effects of technology on people, companies and society
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The metaverse: it’s still out there, somewhere…
The metaverse: it’s still out there, somewhere…
Anybody who doubted that Meta’s metaverse was a flash in the pan need only scan the headlines about Mark Zuckerberg’s company, which has…
Enrique Dans
Mar 20
Dear Replika: why doesn’t my chatbot love me anymore?
Dear Replika: why doesn’t my chatbot love me anymore?
It had to happen. Replika, an AI chatbot mobile app based on similar technology to Open AI’s ChatGPT where users can create avatars that…
Enrique Dans
Mar 19
Driving on sunshine…
Driving on sunshine…
As a Tesla owner, I am impressed by the company’s latest update to the vehicle app, which provides much more information about the…
Enrique Dans
Mar 18
Generative AI assistants: everything everywhere all at once
Generative AI assistants: everything everywhere all at once
Locked in a battle over the integration of their respective machine learning assistants into their office suites, Microsoft and Google have…
Enrique Dans
Mar 18
Why do Volkswagen’s new electric vehicles still look like their diesel and petrol forebears?
Why do Volkswagen’s new electric vehicles still look like their die...
Volkswagen has announced its ID.2, an electric vehicle designed to be “spacious as a Golf, as inexpensive as a Polo”, priced at around…
Enrique Dans
Mar 16
GPT-4: why your company needs a machine learning strategy
GPT-4: why your company needs a machine learning strategy
I’ve been thinking about the future of machine learning after the presentation of GPT-4, a tool that takes advantage of the resources made…
Enrique Dans
Mar 16
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Thanks, Samsung: it’s reality, just not as we knew it
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…
Enrique Dans
Mar 14
How the fediverse could shape the future of the web
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…
Enrique Dans
Mar 14
Here’s the problem with carbon dioxide capture
Here’s the problem with carbon dioxide capture
In September 2021, Swiss company Climeworks opened its first large atmospheric carbon dioxide capture plant, the largest in the world, in…
Enrique Dans
Mar 13
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
Amazon announced the opening of its first cashier-free Amazon Go store in Seattle on December 5, 2016, operating exclusively for employees…
Enrique Dans
Mar 12
Wing’s quiet success story once again shows that execution is everything
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…
Enrique Dans
Mar 11
ChatGPT is just the beginning: text assistants are going to get very personal
ChatGPT is just the beginning: text assistants are going to get very personal
Grammarly, an interesting company with Ukranian roots that has been helping people (including many of my students at IE University who come…
Enrique Dans
Mar 10
Is advertising a means or an end?
Is advertising a means or an end?
Given that it is created to be noticed, it’s little wonder that advertising is one of the most visible business models. For some, it’s the…
Enrique Dans
Mar 9
How credible are China’s complaints about US restrictions on TikTok?
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…
Enrique Dans
Mar 8
What does it take for a company to maintain innovation?
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…
Enrique Dans
Mar 6
Why more and more companies are issuing employees with work-only phones
Why more and more companies are issuing employees with work-only phones
Concerned about security issues, it seems a growing number of companies are issuing their employees a work phone rather than allowing…
Enrique Dans
Mar 5
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