Leonid Bershidsky
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Jay-Z's Tidal Faces Probe Over Streaming Numbers
The Norwegian government is investigating rapper Jay-Z's music streaming service, Tidal, for the alleged manipulation of streaming numbers.
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Tech Giants Prove Stronger Than Paul McCartney
The EU parliament voted Thursday to send a draft Copyright Directive back to the drawing board; a new version will be debated in September.
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There May Be a Better Answer Than Electric Cars
If a paper published on Thursday correctly estimates the cost of extracting carbon dioxide from the air, regulators could do better to concentrate on that technology.
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Facebook, I Found, Doesn't Know Me at All
Unlike Google, Facebook provides a convenient interface to view the data files.
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Only a Tech Revolution Will Restore Privacy
One can't easily disable the constant data-sharing that occurs on every website that uses programmatic advertising (and lots of sites do).
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Uber May Be Paying Women Less for Driving Better
Uber is trying to defeat the gender pay gap by relying on an algorithm that has no idea whether drivers are men or women. But is it working?
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Opinion: How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program
Musk, with his crude salesmanship and nerdish cultural references, has a dream, described in a white paper he published last year: to colonize Mars. Musk admitted in the white paper that was his only motivation for getting rich.
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Meet the Man Who Believes the Google-Facebook Duopoly Is Ripe for Disruption
Today's Internet advertising model is a scam in which Google and Facebook are selling inflated user numbers and overhyped targeting opportunities.
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Uber Needs a Tim Cook. Can Its New CEO Deliver?
The reinvention process needed to turn Uber into a properly functioning, profitable business is a dangerous, lonely undertaking.
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Facebook and Twitter Are Too Big to Allow Fake Users
Social networks should be obliged to ban anonymous accounts. If they refuse to do so voluntarily, government regulators should force the issue.
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Poker-Winning Machine Is No Threat to Humans
Even with all the complexity-reducing shortcuts researchers have developed, beating a good poker player requires a huge amount of computing power.
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Social Networks Could Predict The Next Brexit
The failure of polls and bookmakers to predict the outcome of the Brexit referendum will push the financial sector, which relies on accurate information, to search for alternatives. Some claim they obtained good results from scraping social media, which may have been the best way to predict the June 23 vote result.
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Opinion: The Sun, Not The Rain, Tipped The U.K. Vote
Leighton Vaughan Williams, a professor at Nottingham Business School who specializes in betting research, has long held that betting markets are better predictors of election outcomes than polls. Yet ahead of the U.K. vote on whether to leave the European Union, the bookies failed as miserably as pollsters to predict the result -- actually, they di...
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Apple and Google Can't Stand App Store Chaos
Both Apple and Google are trying to nudge developers toward the most predictably lucrative business model - selling subscriptions.
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Are Tech Giants Making Money on the Cloud?
The answer is, "not really," and that's an issue that investors should raise with tech leaders.
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Jay-Z's Tidal Faces Probe Over Streaming Numbers
The Norwegian government is investigating rapper Jay-Z's music streaming service, Tidal, for the alleged manipulation of streaming numbers.
-
Tech Giants Prove Stronger Than Paul McCartney
The EU parliament voted Thursday to send a draft Copyright Directive back to the drawing board; a new version will be debated in September.
-
There May Be a Better Answer Than Electric Cars
If a paper published on Thursday correctly estimates the cost of extracting carbon dioxide from the air, regulators could do better to concentrate on that technology.
-
Facebook, I Found, Doesn't Know Me at All
Unlike Google, Facebook provides a convenient interface to view the data files.
-
Only a Tech Revolution Will Restore Privacy
One can't easily disable the constant data-sharing that occurs on every website that uses programmatic advertising (and lots of sites do).
-
Uber May Be Paying Women Less for Driving Better
Uber is trying to defeat the gender pay gap by relying on an algorithm that has no idea whether drivers are men or women. But is it working?
-
Opinion: How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program
Musk, with his crude salesmanship and nerdish cultural references, has a dream, described in a white paper he published last year: to colonize Mars. Musk admitted in the white paper that was his only motivation for getting rich.
-
Meet the Man Who Believes the Google-Facebook Duopoly Is Ripe for Disruption
Today's Internet advertising model is a scam in which Google and Facebook are selling inflated user numbers and overhyped targeting opportunities.
-
Uber Needs a Tim Cook. Can Its New CEO Deliver?
The reinvention process needed to turn Uber into a properly functioning, profitable business is a dangerous, lonely undertaking.
-
Facebook and Twitter Are Too Big to Allow Fake Users
Social networks should be obliged to ban anonymous accounts. If they refuse to do so voluntarily, government regulators should force the issue.
-
Poker-Winning Machine Is No Threat to Humans
Even with all the complexity-reducing shortcuts researchers have developed, beating a good poker player requires a huge amount of computing power.
-
Social Networks Could Predict The Next Brexit
The failure of polls and bookmakers to predict the outcome of the Brexit referendum will push the financial sector, which relies on accurate information, to search for alternatives. Some claim they obtained good results from scraping social media, which may have been the best way to predict the June 23 vote result.
-
Opinion: The Sun, Not The Rain, Tipped The U.K. Vote
Leighton Vaughan Williams, a professor at Nottingham Business School who specializes in betting research, has long held that betting markets are better predictors of election outcomes than polls. Yet ahead of the U.K. vote on whether to leave the European Union, the bookies failed as miserably as pollsters to predict the result -- actually, they di...
-
Apple and Google Can't Stand App Store Chaos
Both Apple and Google are trying to nudge developers toward the most predictably lucrative business model - selling subscriptions.
-
Are Tech Giants Making Money on the Cloud?
The answer is, "not really," and that's an issue that investors should raise with tech leaders.
