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Q&A: Fintech expert: digital wallets need this tech ‘magic’ or they’ll fail
Bank after bank has unsuccessfully tried to compete with the likes of Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and other established digital wallet players. And now, a consortium of US banks, including three of the largest, hopes to cash in on digital wallets again. The problem: what they’re apparently pitching doesn’t offer any real advantage for…
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ACLU, public defenders push back against Google giving police your mobile data
The ACLU and eight federal public defenders are asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to exclude mobile device location data obtained from Google via a so-called geofence warrant that helped law enforcement catch a bank robbery suspect. The first geofence civil rights case to reach a federal court of appeals raises serious Fourth Amendment…
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6 surprising facts about ChatGPT nobody told you
Everybody’s talking about ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool that writes poetry, prose, and even software code like a human. The chatter mostly gravitates toward amazement, fear, and warning — amazement at what it can do, fear of cheating and replacement by “robots,” and warnings about the perils to humanity of outsourcing creativity to machines. All that…
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Apple wants to build a new computing platform with AR
Apple’s plan to create an App Store and an easy way to create mixed-reality apps offers an important insight into its strategy and confirms that the company sees these devices as platforms, not peripherals. And when considering the business case for them, we need to see whether they hit that mark. To read this article in…
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Microsoft’s mixed reality and generative AI moves — girding for war?
Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. Microsoft’s decision to move away from mixed reality (where it was arguably the leader and market-maker for augmented reality with HoloLens) was a big surprise. And its massive investment in OpenAI and ChatGPT was equally surprising, given the company’s advanced internal AI efforts. What we’re seeing, I…