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David Kennedy

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It takes 8 employees to generate $1 mn in sales among US department stores (blue). It takes less than one employee to generate the same amount of sales in e-commerce (red). What is surprising - unfortunately - is that brick & mortar retail isn't going out of business faster...

robin_j_brooks's tweet image. It takes 8 employees to generate $1 mn in sales among US department stores (blue). It takes less than one employee to generate the same amount of sales in e-commerce (red). What is surprising - unfortunately - is that brick & mortar retail isn't going out of business faster...

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Want a tangible example of China’s surging dual obsession with surveillance & AI? The world’s most valuable AI startup is a Chinese co that specialises in image & facial recognition, works closely with police & has TRIPLED its valuation in under a year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Biggest AI Startup Boosts Fundraising to $1.2 Billion

SenseTime Group Ltd. has raised $620 million at a valuation of more than $4.5 billion just months after scoring a similar amount from investors led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Singapore’s state...


This is certainly going to end well for us. "It was only when the Google team tested more and more complex forms of DeepMind that sabotage, greed, and aggression set in." sciencealert.com/google-deep-mi…


"The plural of anecdote is not data". When we have both, it is the data that needs to frame the anecdotes, not the other way around.

BREAKING: ACCC issues upbeat assessment of NBN RSP speed performance accc.gov.au/media-release/…



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The recent Netflix numbers showing 70% of viewing is via the telly has sent half my LinkedIn feed into meltdown. ‘Digital Strategists’ somehow flabbergasted that people like to watch television on a TV set and not a 4inch smartphone. On a different planet.

The_TrickyTree's tweet image. The recent Netflix numbers showing 70% of viewing is via the telly has sent half my LinkedIn feed into meltdown. ‘Digital Strategists’ somehow flabbergasted that people like to watch television on a TV set and not a 4inch smartphone. On a different planet.

I've been on NBN satellite for 3 months now, after years of ADSL at my old place. Consistent 20/4Mbps. Fastest and most reliable broadband I've ever had.


Great analysis of social media's role in America's crazy politics: Bad Boys vs Mean Girls. globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrill…


ICYMI: Australia "declared" telecommunications to be a utility when we nationalised the access network. Just sayin'. company.chorus.co.nz/introduction-o…


Facebook says only 3.57 degrees of separation now. Paradoxical result: faster communications but more polarisation. research.fb.com/three-and-a-ha…


100/40M over 200m of "decaying, rotting" copper. It turns out that copper ain't that bad.

Damn you government, Damn you NBN - that crappy old copper is a second rate network - NOT… Jesus folks, REALITY CHECK - FTTN:



NYU researchers show how moral reinforcement creates Twitter ghettoes. qz.com/1024117/one-vi…


Despite chat about Russia, it's the US that leads in social media manipulation. comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…


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"We are not in the era of build it and they will come anymore in the telco sector" Howard Watson @BT #5GWorld

Ovum's tweet image. "We are not in the era of build it and they will come anymore in the telco sector" Howard Watson @BT #5GWorld

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