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2020: Everything is Virtual

It’s like the dystopian future arrived out of the blue. From one year to the next we went from holing up in overly air-conditioned hotel ballrooms and actually meeting our fellow meatbags in the flesh, to huddling in our pods and staring at the screens. I’m looking for the taps to hook me in to

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    • Data from the US Census Bureau on 583,000 businesses in 2018 shows AI adoption is slow: 8.9% use AI in any form, 2.8% use ML, and 2.5% use voice recognition (Will Knight/Wired)

    Will Knight / Wired: Data from the US Census Bureau on 583,000 businesses in 2018 shows AI adoption is slow: 8.9% use AI in any form, 2.8% use ML, and 2.5% use voice recognition  —  A big study by the US Census Bureau finds that only about 9 percent of firms employ tools like machine

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    • Profile of ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, his early decision to make TikTok an international platform, and how TikTok's fate rests on US-China relations (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)

    Michael Schuman / The Atlantic: Profile of ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, his early decision to make TikTok an international platform, and how TikTok’s fate rests on US-China relations  —  Zhang Yiming embodies what the United States wanted China to be.  He is the founder and chief executive of a company, ByteDance … Profile of ByteDance

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    • Tencent offered to buy out and take private NYSE-listed Chinese search giant Sogou for $2.1B; Tencent owns about 39% of Sogou and has majority voting power (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Tencent offered to buy out and take private NYSE-listed Chinese search giant Sogou for $2.1B; Tencent owns about 39% of Sogou and has majority voting power  —  – The WeChat operator is bidding $9 per ADS for Sohu’s unit  — Chinese tech firms are increasingly exploring U.S. delistings Tencent offered to buy out and

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    Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a "union vulnerability index", to predict and squash organizing (Sarah Kessler/OneZero )

    {$inline_image} Sarah Kessler / OneZero : Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a “union vulnerability index”, to predict and squash organizing  —  Employee survey platforms allow employers to sort groups of employees by the departments, locations, and demographics most likely to unionize Companies are increasingly using employee survey data,

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    • A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

    Kevin Collier / NBC News: A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help  —  As election officials across the country prepare for November without knowing if they’ll receive additional federal funds … A look at Election Cyber Surge,

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