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Epic Games – Impeccable strategy.

Another strategic masterstroke from Epic Games. Epic Games is showing no signs of being surprised by Fortnite’s success and has made yet another brilliant move to oust what it sees...

Sharing economy – The agony of history.

The cautionary tale of bike sharing. The cautionary tale of the bike sharing companies should give the scooter companies pause for thought as I suspect that exactly the same issues...

Artificial Intelligence – Cognition conundrum

Deep Learning’s limitations laid bare. Work on analysing how deep learning neural networks work clearly shows that these systems have no real understanding of what it is they are doing....

Facebook – Smokescreen

Under the rhetoric, very little changes. While Zuckerberg’s manifesto (see here) implies that a huge overhaul is on the way, the reality is that very little is going to change....

Artificial Intelligence – Practitioners, pretenders & tricksters.

Taxonomy separates the men from the boys in AI. With 40% of “AI” companies not even attempting to use AI in their products and the likelihood of serious disappointment in...

Lyft – Self-flagellation

Lyft’s IPO is a rod for its own back Lyft’s IPO document reveals a company that I think will give its founders joy and validation when they ring the Nasdaq...

Apple Automotive – Final shoe

A Titan falls. It looks like the final shoe is being dropped on Apple’s automotive aspirations as 190 Project Titan members are being let go or transferred into other roles...

MWC Day 3 – 5G: No nonsense

No party means no hangover. MWC is almost over and while the stages have seen some confident predictions (eg Cisco: “hype is going to be reflected in the reality”), the...

MWC Day 2 – The floor & 5G: Not a Demo pt. II

The floor: software takes a back seat With the 5G cycle in full swing, MWC has gone fully back to its roots as an equipment show. Boxes with lots of...

MWC Day 1 – 5G – Not a demo.

ZTE has the best handset demonstration of 5G. Doing a round of the 5G demonstrations revealed a disappointing situation which also did not hold up well to close inspection or...