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What could go wrong with Vinod Khosla’s techno-optimistic vision of the future

VC Cafe

Project ‘Sfera’ is a recent example from Russia. What makes something go viral on TikTok (like Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ did recently ), is still a black box. The US Airforce successfully conducted a Dogfight between an autonomously controlled fighter jet and a human pilot last year. Time will tell.

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia. In Russia, the Hades group is a well-known hacking group. Cybersecurity experts warn that it’s not only individual or small groups of hackers that pose a danger to your organization.

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Americans are Better Off Without TikTok But Banning It is Bad Policy

This is going to be BIG.

If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on with regards to the future of TikTok in the United States, it is that congressional leaders have embarrassed themselves during the questioning of TikTok’s US CEO as the government considers whether or not to ban the popular app. From questions like, “Does TikTok access my home wifi network?”

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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