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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #2: Recap with Alla Gringaus

Rigor

She also shared tips on who to follow on social media for the most recent news and innovations in the web performance space. She explains, “The most sophisticated monitoring tool can alert you and give you enough data to diagnose what might be causing poor network performance. Check out some highlights: Alla Gringaus on….

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. In one camp are those arguing that IT has become largely irrelevant.

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Defusing propaganda feedback loops on the social web

O'Reilly

Knowing how that control happens, and how it fails, will help us to understand the breakdown of social media. Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable.