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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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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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Announcing the Alpha Release of Percona Everest: An Open Source Private DBaaS

Percona

With limited freedom of choice and the burden of navigating complex infrastructures, companies often find themselves bound to single cloud providers, restricting their ability to take advantage of the best available tools and services. By default, Everest uses the kubeconfig file available under ~/.kube/config. kube/config.

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What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

How-to documentation is readily available. It’s well-suited for organizations that require mission-critical applications with high availability. Social media platforms: Companies use PostgreSQL to manage user profiles, posts, connections, and interactions. The challenges can slow down the pace of innovation.

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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. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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Super App Development: The Future Of Mobile Apps

Tech News Gather

In recent years, the mobile app industry has exploded in popularity, with millions of apps available for download on various app stores. Increased engagement: With multiple services available within the same app, users are more likely to spend more time on the app, increasing engagement levels.

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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. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. There’s no sense in attacking a hard target when a weaker one is available. Congratulations, you’re engaged!