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To get our regular email updates, simply click here.The battle for your TV racheted up August 4 when the U.S. Copyright Office said it did not want the federal government to unlock cable TV boxes. The fight to set TV boxes free from operators is more important that it might seem. Cable television is one of the few remaining parts of the economy...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.In dystopian science fiction movies, it always starts this way: The Pentagon funds a contest of machines built to play war games using artificially intelligent software. End of civilization ensues.This time, in real life, teams of enthusiastic young hackers met in Las Vegas at Defcon. Taking...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Verily Life Sciences unit of Alphabet (GOOGL) believe they can stand traditional medicine on its head with tiny implantable robots. The pharmaceutical industry has made tremendous gains in medicine through better chemistry. That’s the basis of...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.The future of selling cars is bleak. At least that’s what the leading car makers seem to believe because they’re furiously gobbling up alternative mobility businesses. The latest move came in late July as Daimler AG (DDAIF), the company that owns Mercedes-Benz, bought 60% ...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Like so many Internet companies, Twitter (TWTR) is now in a game it probably can’t win. So July 26, it announced a deal to live stream baseball and hockey games. It’s a Hail Mary pass. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. From the beginning, the promise of the Internet was nimble, smart,...

The virality of social media is changing the way we communicate. By all accounts, it changed the course of a political coup on the edge of Europe. Turkey is no stranger to armed insurrection. Uniquely perched between the Middle East and Europe, it is quite literally where the East meets the West. This clash of cultures has led to four...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Precision medicine promises to change health sciences by using data analytics and what we know about ourselves to tailor personal therapies and treatments. Like most of the awesome ideas changing the current technology landscape, precision medicine is rooted in a fundamentally simple concept:...

General Electric ( GE) announced a partnership with China’s Huawei on July 20 as it continues to build out its Internet of Things ecosystem. The Internet of Things is a natural fit for GE. As the world’s largest maker of jet engines, diesel trains and other large industrial goods, finding ways to make things cheaper is in its DNA. Sensors...