Live Blog from Techonomy Detroit
Welcome to Techonomy Detroit—a one day conference about reigniting U.S. competitiveness and economic growth, creating jobs, and revitalizing cities in a technologized age. Participants include...
View ArticleHow Far Can Innovation Take Our Cities?
This session from Techonomy Detroit focuses on how tech and innovation drive productivity and efficiency in cities, and how cities in turn drive national and global economies. Speakers include Janet...
View ArticleTechnology Helps Germany Reconstruct Its Painful History
The Stasi, the police arm of the East German government that crumbled in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, attempted to destroy millions of documents chronicling decades of spying on its own...
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How Technology Has Failed Remote Workers
A 94-second Walter Cronkite video from 1967 has been making its way around Facebook and Twitter. Cronkite stands by a desk bristling with a half-dozen computer-ish devices and talks about the “home...
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The Real Key to Innovation: A Great Place to Work
In the echo chamber of discussion since Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ordered her employees to end telecommuting and move back into the office, there’s been a general consensus that telecommuting may make...
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Why Summly Matters: Software Will Become Your Research Assistant
When a company like Yahoo buys a web widget company for a few tens of millions, nobody usually pays much attention. This week, however, Yahoo’s purchase of Summly is making international headlines, but...
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Everything Changes with the Internet of Everything
If you get lost, your sneakers could help find you. The coming age of the Internet of Everything promises radical shifts in how we live, how we solve problems, and how we recover from difficulty. The...
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Do We Get Sick Like Rats? A New Philip Morris Prize Asks the Crowd
It might be surprising to hear a tobacco giant described as a tech innovator. But Philip Morris researchers are pioneering new territory with a crowdsourced approach to checking the accuracy of life...
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How to Take the Internet of Everything Mainsteam
(From left) Jon Brunner, Frank Chen, Kerrie Holley, Dave Icke, Trae Vassallo (photo: Asa Mathat) The big challenge ahead for the Internet of Everything (IoE) is to bring it to the mainstream—and a...
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Lenovo, Huawei Both Eye BlackBerry; Lenovo Could Buy It
As we get bombarded with a slew of quarterly reports from the likes of NetEase and Tencent about their health in the present, I want to turn my attention to the future with a look at an interesting...
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Ray Kelly’s Tech-Centric War on NY Crime
In the waning days of Bloomberg’s New York, I threaded my way past multiple checkpoints and up a private elevator in Police headquarters to visit Ray Kelly, who leaves office December 31 along with the...
View ArticleIBM CEO Ginni Rometty at Mobile World Congress
It is an exciting time, it is a disruptive time. So says the CEO of IBM, who believes “everyone in every industry” will be affected by today’s changing tech industry. Ginni Rometty appeared onstage at...
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How IBM’s Watson Will Advise Oncologists on Patient Care
Director of Computational Biology Ajay Royyuru points to a drawing of the chemical formula for DNA at IBM Research headquarters in Yorktown Heights, NY. (Courtesy IBM Research) We all know IBM’s Watson...
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China Targets IBM in Foreign Tech Crackdown
(Image: Patrick Heinecke via flickr) The latest reports that Beijing is pressuring Chinese banks to stop using high-end servers from computing giant IBM don’t come as a huge surprise, amid escalating...
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The Key to Blockchain Adoption: Make It Cheaper
Like elephants walking trunk to tail, each block in a Blockchain is tied to the next by special encoding. (Image via Shutterstock.) An awareness is dawning in the industry that blockchain—the...
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Endless Questions on AI at a Techonomy Dinner
The Techonomy dinner brought together an eminent group of leaders from business, tech, and government to wrestle with the myriad challenges and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence. (Photo by...
View ArticleTechnology Helps Germany Reconstruct Its Painful History
The Stasi, the police arm of the East German government that crumbled in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, attempted to destroy millions of documents chronicling decades of spying on its own...
View ArticleHow Technology Has Failed Remote Workers
A 94-second Walter Cronkite video from 1967 has been making its way around Facebook and Twitter. Cronkite stands by a desk bristling with a half-dozen computer-ish devices and talks about the “home...
View ArticleThe Real Key to Innovation: A Great Place to Work
In the echo chamber of discussion since Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ordered her employees to end telecommuting and move back into the office, there’s been a general consensus that telecommuting may make...
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Why Summly Matters: Software Will Become Your Research Assistant
When a company like Yahoo buys a web widget company for a few tens of millions, nobody usually pays much attention. This week, however, Yahoo’s purchase of Summly is making international headlines, but...
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