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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. But it is far from alone.

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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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Cryptic Trails to Blockchain Expertise: Exploring Lesser-Known Ethereum Avenues

Tech News Gather

represents a monumental shift in the network’s consensus mechanism. We will discuss how staking is revolutionizing Ethereum and the potential benefits for both stakers and the network. We will explore how Ethereum is contributing to this and facilitating communication between different blockchain networks.

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What is APM?

Dynatrace

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Increased time spent on innovation. What does APM stand for? Why businesses need APM.

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Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads

All Things Distributed

Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds. Modern applications need to quickly navigate connections in the physical world of people, cities, and public transit stations as well as the virtual world of search terms, social posts, and genetic code, for example. Graph databases at Amazon.

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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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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.