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Kevin Maney
Technology Columnist
Kevin Maney is a best-selling author, award-winning columnist, and musician still waiting for his big break.Maney co-authored, with Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson and Christopher Lochhead, the 2015 book Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets, published by Harper Business. Maney’s other books include The...
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Spotify, IBM and Google Using AI to Make Human Musicians Extinct?
AI is learning to write pop music. Hide your ears.
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AI Promises Life-Changing Alzheimer’s Drug Breakthrough
An AI breakthrough could lead to a silver bullet for Alzheimer’s and offer a faster, cheaper way to find life-changing drugs.
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By 2020, We’ll Have Flying Cars and Robot Bellboys—Along With Crippling Depression and Unemployment
Companies are making bold forecasts about all the wonderful goodies that will be in our stockings by 2020.
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Need a Job? Why Artificial Intelligence Will Help Human Workers, Not Hurt Them
The fear that robots will put millions out of work has it all wrong. Data is the new oil, fueling a boom that is churning up new investors, new industries and thousands of new jobs.
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3D-Printed Custom-Fit Condoms Are the Future of Sex
Custom-fit condoms are coming to a 3-D printer near you, thanks to the unscaled economy.
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Big Tech: Hate Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google? Get in Line
Amazon needs tax breaks and incentives about as much as you need to steal a quarter from your grandmother.
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Make Friends With Robots or They Will Destroy You
“You’ll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots.”
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Alexa, Google Home and Smartphones Could Make Illiteracy Unimportant
Even implying that a machine can comprehend what Bob Dylan is saying is groundbreaking.
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Emojis Are Everywhere, But For How Long? Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Replace Our Smiley Face Friends
Emoji might be another sign of the growing anti-intellectual, anti-science movement in America.
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How Uber’s Smackdown of Travis Kalanick Is Great for Silicon Valley
The high-profile CEO had embodied the tech industry’s worst excesses.
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Amazon Bought Whole Foods Because It Eats Data
To understand why Amazon bought Whole Foods, you need only look at how Bezos boxed out Walmart.
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Autonomous Cars Will Transform Everyday Life, From Jobs to Parenting to Sex
What will become of parking lots? Gas stations? Traffic signals? Society stands to look much different in just a few decades.
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Solar Energy is Revolutionizing Markets While Trump Tries to Prop Up a Dying Coal Industry
Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement makes it more likely the solar Silicon Valley will be located overseas.
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The New American Dream? Bringing Silicon Valley to a Town (and Entrepreneur) Near You
Entrepreneurs come in all shapes, sizes and cities. There’s no reason they have to move to California to disrupt the world.
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Apple’s Potential Fatal Flaw? It Doesn’t Know Enough About You
Data, as pundits like to say, is the new oil. And Apple is falling behind its competitors, just as it moves into a gleaming $5 billion headquarters.
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Cure America’s Sick Health Care System
Trumpcare was DOA. Congress isn’t going to fix Obamacare. The only prescription for better (and cheaper) health care: ‘Take two apps and call me in the morning.’
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North Korean Hackers Are Scarier Than North Korean Nukes
Cyberwar “has the whiff of 1945. It’s a new class of weapon, never before used.”
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Busted by Your Fitbit: How Smart Devices Can Solve Crimes
The best crime-solving detective in the world might be sitting in your living room right now.
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Why United Airlines Would Rather Beat You Than Pamper You
The internet made flying hell but may have a nice escape slide.
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Will AI Robots Turn Humans Into Pets?
Technology industry leaders came to the U.N. to discuss the future of artificial intelligence which may revolutionize everything—or not.
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How a 94-Year-Old Genius May Save the Planet
John Goodenough’s lithium-ion batteries changed consumer electronics in the 1980s. Can his new, glass-based batteries spur the electric car revolution?
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