Even if privacy is popularly perceived to contain monetary worth, is it justifiable for tech firms to capitalize on that perspective?
Read MoreIn 2016-2017 alone, mobile ad-block usage increased… [by] 350%, while computers saw an even greater increase: a 700% increase overall.
Read MoreLast October, Amazon unveiled Amazon Key, a product that quite literally lets the company inside your home, in a move that sees Amazon progress steadily into the smart-home business.
Read MoreBy linking consumers with service providers, these tech-based companies churn profit by facilitating a simple connection, time and time again.
Read MoreThe founder of Zozo, Yusaku Maezawa, strives to venture to the moon in 2023 through SpaceX, in a project he has called “Dear Moon.”
Read MoreImagine being able to order takeout, shuffle your music playlist or book a flight with nothing more than the utterance of a few words. Not so hard anymore, is it?
Read MoreAlthough facial recognition technology provides a plethora of benefits to producers, this technology can eventually be deemed illegal; Illinois and Texas already have laws that act against this use of technology.
Read MoreIf entering a company already diminishes pluralism, then what good is the individual destruction of pluralism on the very platforms which encourage it?
Read MoreInnovation thrives when there exist low barriers to entry and a large amount of competition, but regulation like GDPR has already proven to act against forthcoming disruptors.
In an announcement endowed with just a smidge of irony, Facebook admitted to wanting to learn even more intimate bits of users’ personal data. However strange this may at first sound, it seems that Facebook is very serious about the project.
Read MoreWhat does it actually mean for a crop to be genetically modified and where does the concern come from?
Read MoreAlthough genetic testing allowed the Golden State Killer to be found and arrested, it seems to be an egregious breach of information when knowledge of our basic biological building blocks can be analyzed by complete strangers, all without our permission.
Read MoreAlongside American claims that Huawei’s technology poses the threat of insidious surveillance, Huawei is feared by American policymakers because its dominance over 5G would allow China to essentially supersede Silicon Valley as the world’s tech hub.
Read MoreIt is important to keep in consideration the question of whether or not e-commerce is ‘destroying’ this nation's economy, or if it’s simply changing it to a new, more efficient form of service.
Read MoreFacebook is not a monopoly in the traditional sense as it neither controls exclusive supply of a good or service nor does it technically have a high barrier to entry to start the business.
Read MoreWhat has made these companies unique is that they also provide information and market directly to the consumer.
Read MoreThe ample discussion surrounding e-krona, as well as other forms of cryptocurrency, points to a greater phenomenon. Students should be aware of the changing culture of money. The prevalence of technology in our everyday lives means that change will likely arise with regards to the way we handle our finances, and the US government is no stranger to technology’s effects.
Read MoreWith Silicon Valley continually innovating, playing with big data and artificial intelligence, the plausibility of another Cambridge Analytica breach is likely. Despite this threat, Washington DC cannot be farther away, both in geography and understanding, of novel technology developments.
Read MoreWith its technological prowess and sense for revolutionizing industries, Amazon may be able to apply its powerful voice recognition products like Alexa, ruthless cost-cutting measures, and widely used cloud computing infrastructure to improve efficiency and service in the healthcare space.
Read MoreWhen companies as large as Amazon and Google fight, someone is bound to take some hits, and that person is usually the consumer.
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