Blog Posts
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People love burgers, even vegetarians and vegans want burgers. Veggie burgers, until now, all taste like overseasoned, underhydrated corrugated cardboard. Then came Ethan Brown, a 6-foot-5 vegan who sold his house and raided his family’s savings to fund a startup called Beyond Meat. Along the way he signed up Bill Gates and Twitter founders Biz…
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I am a business speaker, talking on subjects like disruption, how to market your business in this age of social media, customer service at retail in this time of online shopping etc. However, when I tell people I am a speaker, they always say ”A motivational speaker?” I respond with No, I am strictly business…
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Hundreds of companies and organizations use smartphone locations for a multitude of reasons. One thing is for sure, the information is certainly not anonymous. More than 1,000 popular apps contain location-sharing code. An app on your device gathers and records your location information as often as every two seconds. While your identity is not disclosed in…
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Russia’s parliament has approved a law that might allow the country to cordon off its internet from the rest of the world, creating an unprecedented “sovereign” internet. If Russia is able to pull this off, it will be the most tangible step yet towards fracturing the web. It could also be a harbinger of things…
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Last month, 19-year-old Santiago Lopez became the first person to earn $1m US as an “ethical” hacker. Santiago is the most successful professional hacker in the world. In his 4-year-long career, he’s exploited 1,748 vulnerabilities — and last year, his skills earned him more than forty times Argentina’s annual median salary. Hackers used to live…