Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Wolf Richter: Where the Heck is Microsoft’s “Edge?” (Left Behind for Dead)

Users are spurning Microsoft’s Edge in favor of Google, in the privacy version of a beauty contest between Cinderalla’s ugly sisters.

Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies

Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.

LEAKED: Head Of FCC Mocks Impending Destruction Of The Internet

Ajit Pai, the head of the FCC, shows his true colors. Not a pretty sight.

Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching $5 Billion

Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.

MIT Professor Angrist Publishes Obviously Misleading Analysis of Uber Driver Economics….With Uber Chief Economist as Co-Author

More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.

Benign Effects of Automation: New Evidence from Patent Texts

A new study on automation suggests that even if the robots are coming for your job, they create even more jobs.

Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future

The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.

Gizmodo Echoes Naked Capitalism: “Don’t Buy Anyone an Echo”

Naked Capitalism is now in very good company in warning you to stay far far away from the Echo and its cousins.

Security Train Wreck Confirms Apple’s Crapification

A security meltdown confirms that Apple is running on brand fumes.

Is Bitcoin A Speculative Bubble?

Do Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have fundamental value?

The Web Began Dying in 2014 – Here’s How

The Internet has changed considerably since 2014, and not in a good way.

Judge Slams Uber for Withholding, Possibly Destroying Evidence in Waymo Trial; May Undermine Uber in Other Litigation

Uber is in serious hot water in the Waymo trial. If Uber did try pulling a fast one on the court, the blowback could extend to other cases.

The Cash Comeback: Evidence and Possible Explanations

Contrary to technologist hype, demand for cash across advanced economies has been rising.

Bitcoin -> Energy Use -> Pollution

Bitcoin uses a computation system to prevent fraud, but computation takes energy, which damages the environment, all at an increasing rate.

Be Thankful for the Internet as You Know It, Because It May Not Exist Much Longer

FCC Commissioner’s horrid plan to end “net neutrality” and make the Internet work like cable.