"Once you have a monopoly, new products don't help you, only better marketing. Soon, marketing people are running the company, and what made them great is gone..."
This new European privacy law, which took effect today, has caused several major U.S. news websites to suspend access across the region as privacy activists filed complaints and data-protection regulators prepared to brandish their new enforcement powers.
"Think about how uncomfortable the millions of people who own these things now feel. The real harm is the invasion into solitude people now experience in their homes."
“Amazon takes privacy very seriously. We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future."
"While after a hard fork your bitcoins might double in number, there’s a chance their collective value won’t be worth a lot more, and might even be worth less. And as the Bitcoin community grows,...many more forks will probably lie ahead."
Year over year usage numbers for April 2018 - the height of the scandal - were actually up 7%. And, to boot, the 583 million purged robot accounts made no difference to advertising audience reach...
“We demand that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure that poses a grave threat to customers and communities across the country. Amazon should not be in the business of providing surveillance systems like Rekognition to the government.”
“We’re going from talking about robots to actually building and fielding programs... Within five years, I have no doubt there will be robots in every Army formation...”
...in other words, the Pentagon is developing a program of high-tech cameras mounted on drones and other robots that monitor cities, which enable identification and discrimination between civilians and terrorists through machine learning computers.
In your everyday life, a minute might not seem like much. But, when it comes to the vast scale of the internet, a minute of time goes much further than you ever could have imagined...
"Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about how Web sites work could abuse the LocationSmart demo site to figure out how to conduct mobile number location lookups at will, all without ever having to supply a password or other credentials."
Knoxville, TN has the most country music fans, while Miami is home to the biggest rap fans. And Tulsa, a city of just 400,000 people, has the most passionate pop music fans in the country...But which city in America has the most passionate fans of live music?
