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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/4/2020 11:41:47 AM
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Why private micro-networks could be the future of how we connect Forget amassing likes or cultivating your online persona. Apps like Cocoon are all about being your true self with just a select few people. On paper, Cocoon sounds a lot like Facebook: it wants to connect people in virtual space. The difference is that it only wants to connect family members in small, distinct groups. Imagine a feed of updates from family members—your brother announcing that he’d landed on his work trip, a video of your niece learning to walk, a location cursor on a cousin backpacking through Europe—all attached to a messaging capability that threads conversations, and all restricted to the members of your group (12 is the current maximum). *Read More – MIT Technology Review*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/4/2020 11:45:02 AM
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Facebook’s Chief Scientist - Mass Adoption of AR Is Years Away Five to 10 years. That’s how long Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Facebook, predicts it will take before augmented reality glasses—which will display digital images and data on wearable devices that people view through—is ready for the masses. Abrash leads Facebook Reality Labs, a Redmond, Washington–based research group that includes teams of academics and engineers working on new generations of consumer hardware devices, including virtual reality and AR products. His cautious timeline for AR eyewear reflects a series of technical breakthroughs in everything from batteries to user interfaces that will need to happen before large numbers of people are willing to wear computers on their faces. *Read More - $The Information*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/4/2020 11:50:05 AM
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Why Slack Will Be Acquired This time last year, Slack Technologies, the popular workplace chat provider, was one of the most eagerly anticipated public tech debuts of 2019. That seems like a long time ago. Since Slack went public in June, its stock has dropped about 40%. The reason for the slump: Revenue growth at Slack is slowing and competition is intensifying, especially from Microsoft. The tech giant is relying on a familiar tactic—bundling a Slack killer with a widely used existing product, its Office 365 suite of apps. Given that competitive pressure, I predict 2020 will be the year that—after years of acquisition speculation—a larger tech company will finally buy Slack. Potential suitors could include Amazon—which has reportedly eyed Slack in the past—and Google. Both companies are top providers of cloud computing services and could plug Slack into their cloud units to increase the revenue they generate from online applications. *Read More - $The Information*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/4/2020 11:52:55 AM
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Why Is TSLA Surging The controversy regarding the Telsa story is far from over. While the company is no longer at risk of running out of money, the debate around justified market cap continues, given the company is now worth more than Ford and GM combined. The timing of EV adoption, profitability, Elon Musk’s suitability as CEO, and competition continue to be relevant to the Tesla investing conversation. We were surprised to find recently reported trading data in the month of December that short interest only decreased from 15% to 14.3% as Tesla shares increased 17% from 12/13 to 12/31. In other words, contrary to our earlier belief, much of the move in December appears to be related to an increase in long shareholder positions vs short covering. This 14.3% short interest remains higher than typical tech stocks of 1-6%. Given the trajectory of today’s gains, it is likely that short covering is the primary factor in the move. *Read More - $Loup Ventures*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/4/2020 11:56:38 AM
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This Has Been the Best Year Ever If you’re depressed by the state of the world, let me toss out an idea: In the long arc of human history, 2019 has been the best year ever. The bad things that you fret about are true. But it’s also true that since modern humans emerged about 200,000 years ago, 2019 was probably the year in which children were least likely to die, adults were least likely to be illiterate and people were least likely to suffer excruciating and disfiguring diseases. Every single day in recent years, another 325,000 people got their first access to electricity. Each day, more than 200,000 got piped water for the first time. And some 650,000 went online for the first time, every single day. *Read More – NY Times*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/4/2020 12:00:41 PM
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The Last Decade Was All About the Smartphone Economy I have always felt that the economic benefit and impact of the smartphone was much broader than the smartphone itself but had never seen its economic impact quantified until I received this Statista chart below in an email over the weekend. It comes from a Deloitte analysis of Apps Annie and others and states that the smartphone economy is estimated to be almost a trillion-dollar business by 2020. *Read More - $Tech.pinions*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/6/2020 12:26:49 PM
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The Mini-Short Video Revolution-Fad or Growth Opportunity About 18 months ago, I was told by Hollywood insiders I know that Jeffrey Katzenberg was working on a concept where he would develop high-quality stories in short bites. What was described to me was short novella’s that focused on delivering them on smartphones. AT CES this year, Katzenberg and his partner in this venture, former HP CEO Meg Whitman, talked about their Quibi Venture. In their keynote, they told this CES audience the following: “What’s the next big opportunity in entertainment?” asked Jeffrey Katzenberg, founder of Quibi. “We’re living through another revolution in entertainment. Mobile phones are the most widely distributed, democratized entertainment platform the world has ever seen.” Collaborating with A-list celebrities and directors the likes of Steven Spielberg and Reese Witherspoon, as well as major news and sports studios, Quibi promises fresh and original content that is different from what the streaming and entertainment industry already has. “We fill a niche [other platforms] don’t. We provide content for people on the go,” said Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi, who was also previously CEO of Hewlett-Packard and eBay. *Read More - $ Tech.pinions*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/7/2020 10:45:46 AM
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AI could help design better drugs that don’t clash with other medication A new system that can predict a proposed drug’s chemical structure could help prevent adverse drug interactions, one of the leading causes of patient death. Why it matters: According to the FDA, serious adverse drug interactions could kill more than 100,000 hospitalized people in the US every year. But traditional ways of avoiding such interactions during drug development require expensive and laborious physical testing and clinical trials to catalogue all the proposed drug’s possible chemical interactions with existing ones. *Read More - $MIT Technology Review*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/7/2020 1:03:31 PM
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Could Photonic Chips Outpace the Fastest Supercomputers There’s been a lot of talk about quantum computers being able to solve far more complex problems than conventional supercomputers. The authors of a new paper say they’re on the path to showing an optical computer can do so, too. The idea of using light to carry out computing has a long pedigree, and it has gained traction in recent years with the advent of silicon photonics, which makes it possible to build optical circuits using the same underlying technology used for electronics. The technology shows particular promise for accelerating deep learning, and is being actively pursued by Intel and a number of startups. Now Chinese researchers have put a photonic chip to work tackling a fiendishly complex computer science challenge called the subset sum problem in a paper in Science Advances. It has some potential applications in cryptography and resource allocation, but primarily it’s used as a benchmark to test the limits of computing. *Read More – Singularity Hub*

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From: Paul H. Christiansen	2/7/2020 1:12:34 PM
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Alphabet Has a Second, Secretive Quantum Computing Team In October, Google celebrated a breakthrough that CEO Sundar Pichai likened to the Wright brothers’ first flight. Company researchers in Santa Barbara, California, 300 miles from the Googleplex, had achieved quantum supremacy—the moment that a quantum computer performs a calculation impossible for any conventional computer. That was both notable science and a chance for Google to show prominence in a contest among big tech companies, including IBM and Microsoft, to deliver the wild new power promised by quantum computing. The usually low-profile Pichai threw himself into marking the moment, penning a blog post, taking part in a rare media interview, and posting an Instagram photo of himself alongside the shiny machine that scored the result. *Read More - Wired*

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