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Your car is spying on you
Will AI make everyone dumber?
Your face for sale
Pedigree is overrated
Your car is spying on you
Every trip you take, digital goblins capture where you go, how far you drive, how fast you drive, do you speed or take any red lights, how hard you break and thousands of other data points. If its a GM, Honda, KIA, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, or a few others, they send all that data to your manufacturer and they in turn sell and share it with 3rd party companies like LexusNexus who then sell it again to insurance companies. If those insurance companies don't like what they see in your data, y
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Edwin Marcial
Will AI make everyone dumber?
There is a new commercial about Apple Intelligence called “Write Smarter” which helps an office worker write a very basic email to his boss. The boss reads the simple email incredulously while the employee rejoices triumphantly and the music blasts “Genius” lyrically in the background. This commercial reminded me of one of my concerns about AI I’ve been thinking since everyone started using AI to do everything for themselves ... Will we stop thinking for ourselves and relying on AI for basic
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Edwin Marcial
Hackers have all of your personal data
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Edwin Marcial
The Crowdstrike and Microsoft Debacle
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Edwin Marcial
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Your face for sale
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Edwin Marcial
Pedigree is overrated
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Edwin Marcial
Mama, don't let your kids listen to Mark Cuban
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Edwin Marcial
How Close Are We to a Fully Autonomous Car?
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Edwin Marcial
Bitcoin and Blockchain: 8 Burning Questions
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Edwin Marcial
Robinhood shut down buying in GameStop, and no, the markets are NOT rigged
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Edwin Marcial
Payment for Order Flow: How Robinhood sustains its ‘free’ trading app
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Edwin Marcial
Edwin Marcial
Are NFTs the first killer blockchain apps?
One of the latest hot topics in the crypto world are NFTs or Non Fungible Tokens. NFTs are attempting to become the key identifier for the ownership of digital assets including digital art, music, movies, sports cards, images, even blog posts — just about anything digital.