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Early Apple Retail Adventures

Early Apple Retail Adventures

This week, as we contemplate Apple’s first 40 years, we’ll take an early eighties dive into the company’s counter-intuitive retail…
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Jean-Louis Gassée5 days ago
Paid Or Ad-Supported: Pick One Model, And Stick With It

Paid Or Ad-Supported: Pick One Model, And Stick With It

Playing both sides of digital models is becoming increasingly perilous.
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Frederic Filloux5 days ago
Clickbait Obsession Devours Journalism

Clickbait Obsession Devours Journalism

Collecting eyeballs is a diversion of publisher resources.
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Frederic FillouxMar 27
40 Years Later: Apple 3.0

40 Years Later: Apple 3.0

Maturity doesn’t have to be boring. The 40-year old Apple doesn’t lack the challenges it needs, both external and internal, to stay…
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Jean-Louis GasséeMar 27
DeepMind Could Bring The Best News Recommendation Engine

DeepMind Could Bring The Best News Recommendation Engine

Reinforcement Learning, a key Google DeepMind algorithm, could overhaul news recommendation engines and greatly improve users stickiness.
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Frederic FillouxMar 20
Barack Obama’s Careful Encryption Stance

Barack Obama’s Careful Encryption Stance

In the FBI v. Apple fracas, the epithets that have been hurled at President Obama range from hopeless naïf to devilish schemer, to name but…
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Jean-Louis GasséeMar 20
Google AMP Is Also A Mobile Ads Revolution 

Google AMP Is Also A Mobile Ads Revolution 

The staff of Relay Media working on AMP-ignited ads (photo: Nasa) by Frederic Filloux Beyond contents, Google’s Accelerated Mobile…
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Frederic FillouxMar 6
Vote For The Crook. Sure. But Which One?

Vote For The Crook. Sure. But Which One?

Image: Trumpdonald.org Just this once, a digression into our unusual 2016 presidential campaign.
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Jean-Louis GasséeMar 6
News bots As Appetence Engines

News bots As Appetence Engines

News bots will require a new approach to sensitive notions such as user profiling and opt-in systems.
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Frederic FillouxFeb 28
The GovtOS Show

The GovtOS Show

The tech world has (finally) come out against the FBI’s attempt to backdoor all smartphones, rightly characterizing the move as a sincere…
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Jean-Louis GasséeFeb 28
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