Wired: Self Driving Car Hype Crashes Into Harsh Realities
Why self driving cars are not coming any time soon.
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Matt Stoller: “Monopoly is a Form of Lawlessness”
A high-level talk of the ebb and flow of monopoly power over the past century and what to do about them now.
Read more...Net Neutrality, Technical Solutions: A New, Neutral, Corporate Net, Municipal Broadband, Mesh Networks (and Gamers)
If Google doesn’t come to the rescue, perhaps municipal broadband or “mesh networks” can save net neutrality.
Read more...Next Phase in Forcing Biometric Tracking on Consumers
Ironically, banks in Mexico lead the way.
Read more...The Bitcoin Bubble
As bitcoin has become a mania, it is also becoming a risk to the real economy.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...MIT Professor Angrist Publishes Obviously Misleading Analysis of Uber Driver Economics….With Uber Chief Economist as Co-Author
More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.
Read more...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.
Read more...Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.
Read more...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.
Read more...Security Train Wreck Confirms Apple’s Crapification
A security meltdown confirms that Apple is running on brand fumes.
Read more...Is Bitcoin A Speculative Bubble?
Do Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have fundamental value?
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