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• Luckily, AI still needs humans to succeed

  Humans look at AI in both awe and fear. When I tell folks that I work for a company that builds AI-powered virtual assistants, they frequently ask me if AI is close to becoming sentient. Is it close to becoming human? Are we fast approaching a future where Skynet from the Terminator ...

  • James Freeze

• Google, Facebook, and Amazon’s not-so-secret weapon for success: M&A

  Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an established CEO, growing your business is always job number one. It’s how you’ll conquer an industry, make a name for yourself, and truly change the world. You may have staked your money on one big idea that paid off, but the next crucial ...

  • Robert Koven

• Think about death when you start your next company

  Back in high school, my favorite teacher said to me: ”Jonathan. Remember to die a little every day.” Back then, I thought it was a strange thing to say. Both him and I were and are generally optimistic people, so why even bother thinking about such a sad thing as death? And ...

  • Jonathan Løw

• 3 types of AI that represent our fears for the future

  The AI icon Andrew Ng is quoted as saying, “Artificial intelligence is the new electricity.”  For anyone reading this, that’s a powerful analogy. Electricity empowers our surge in science and globalization over the past 100+ years, but the analogy falters in one overlooked ...

  • Gant Laborde

• Taylor Swift is watching you watching her

  In 2018, face recognition technology (“FRT”) stumbled from childhood into adolescence in commercial applications. It evolved from being used primarily as a gimmick to unlock your phone or retrieve pictures of specific persons within your 60K pictures, to being used in an almost ...

  • Brahim Bénichou

• 15 strategies everyone should know to protect their online information

  As technology increases at an ever-faster rate, so too do the ways in which our information can be put at risk. With the constant growth of internet of things, it’s now more important than ever to make sure all aspects of our lives are protected from online dangers. To find out ...

  • Scott Gerber

• Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think

  Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can also get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! On January 1st, 1997, Nicolas Negroponte ...

  • Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

• Your company is losing mobile customers - here are three ways to optimize mobile experiences right now

  When’s the last time you booked a Lyft or Uber or ordered a meal on DoorDash using your laptop? Many popular apps and services are changing the dynamics of how customers communicate, share, discover, and shop. Through their smart phones, they’re learning how to quickly and ...

  • Brian Solis

• 4 simple (yet brilliant) ways to nurture leads without being ‘pushy’

  Nurturing leads along the buyer’s journey and turning them into paying customers is a vital part of successful entrepreneurship ...

  • Nathan Resnick

• Where automotive cybersecurity is headed in 2019

  There are more connected cars than ever -- manufacturers are making more of them than ever, more people are driving them ...

  • Yossi Vardi

• CMS platforms and web designers should be partners, not competitors

  When web designing platforms give people the ability to create something incredible on their own -- coupled with a professional-looking ...

  • Hagit Kaufman

• Facebook sucks for privacy, but how good are advertisers at targeting me?

  Amid the massive hue and cry about Facebook’s utter disregard for data privacy, and the illicit use of personally identifiable ...

  • Preetish Panda