Alexa Voice App Activation Adds Convenience, but at What Cost?
Amazon is extending Alexa’s capabilities to enable app activation for iOS and Android devices, so now developers have another voice...
OCC Allows National Banks to Offer Cryptocurrency Custody Services
In April last year, Mercator Advisory Group published “How Banks Can Safely Do Cryptocurrency”, which suggested that financial institutions could...
Regulators Identify All the Ways AI Has Gone Bad
A global review of 25 regulatory reports by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has identified ways that AI can go...
Business between EU-US Goes Boom! EU Top Court Strikes down Current Cooperative Agreement
Companies that move personal data from the E.U. to process that data in the U.S. now have a problem. The...
Tax Software App Required for Companies Doing Business in China Is Sophisticated Spyware
Just two days ago I asked if there was proof that TikTok was stealing data. Well, this isn’t proof but...
Why Did Wells Fargo Tell Employees to Remove Tiktok from Company Owned Mobile Devices?
Companies have every right to tell employees what can and can’t be loaded on corporate owned devices, but it would...
A Lesson From the Failure of COVID-19 Mobile Tracing Apps
Two million downloads of the StopCovid app in France and 6 million downloads of COVIDSafe in Australia and only 14...
What Are the Ramifications of Crypto-Funded Transactions Over the Open Rails?
The cryptocurrency exchange Binance just acquired Swipe, the multi-currency digital wallet that operates on the Visa network as a debit...
Senate Ponders a U.S. Digital Dollar
In what is considered a knee-jerk reaction to Facebook’s Libra and China’s stated intent to deploy a digital currency, the...
If You Aren’t Thinking About Applying Robots During the Pandemic, Maybe You Should
This article in Texas A&M Today examines recent research into how the pandemic has increased robot usage. In most cases, the...
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