The tax deal between the UK government and Google shows governments have a long way to go when sharing the benefits of the knowledge economy.
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The rest of society won’t see the benefits of innovation until governments figure out a way to effectively tax the knowledge economy.
The US government is asking Apple to effectively hack it’s own phone.
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If Apple concedes to the US government’s request to hack its own product, it could end up undermining security and privacy for all of us.
Opening the artificial mind to public review and improvement.
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The world’s largest technology companies are making public the programming and hardware designs at the center of their businesses.
EPA/Toni Albir
The gap between CEO pay and average wage has sky-rocketed in the last 20 years. It’s not just unfair, it’s bad for business.
Fly away on my Zephyr.
Airbus
Internet connections could one day come from solar-powered planes that fly for months or even longer at a time.
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The finger of blame has been pointed at HMRC over the multinational’s ‘sweetheart deal’. That’s not fair.
Technology can be used to abuse or harass women, but it can help them too.
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There are many recent cases of women being abused or harassed online. But technology can also play a role in preventing violence against women.
You’re wrong m'lawd.
Stefan Rousseau
Lord Lawson thinks companies should partly be taxed on their sales. He’s very wrong.
Meep meep.
Elijah Nouvelage
The search goliath has spent over $5bn on everything from driverless cars to smart contact lenses in the past three years. The UK tax hounds must be delighted.
Alphabet has surpassed Apple in earnings.
Reuters/Peter Power
Google’s new structure was supposed to provide more transparency about its loss-making venues, but it hasn’t delivered.
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Pointing the finger at multinationals for tax minimisation won’t change things – international tax law needs to changed.
Free, but at what cost?
Reuters
New York City is developing a ‘free’ public Wi-Fi network to be deployed throughout the city, but the poorly appreciated price is our privacy.
Even inventive companies have their day.
OptoScalpel
Motorola brought to market many features of mobile phones we take for granted, but it wasn’t enough.
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The move that will save Twitter – and improve public debate worldwide – is much more than adding 9,860 characters.
Akritasa
Graphics chips originally built for 3D computer games such as Quake now power our most advanced artificial intelligence software.
‘I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations. And this is my counterpart R2-D2.’
Gordon Tarpley
No Star Wars movie would be complete without the Universe’s two favourite droids. But now the race is on to turn them into fact.
Apple Pay launched in the US in 2014, but has yet to gain traction in Australia.
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Australians love to ‘tap and go’ for payments, but doing it with a mobile phone is being complicated by our card fee system.
Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan and Treasurer Scott Morrison have their sights set on multinational tax avoidance.
Paul Miller/AAP
The tax law established pre-internet is failing to keep up with the digital economy.
Keeping Googlers happy at the Googleplex office.
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Why asking potential employees “how many golf balls could you fit in a school bus?” won’t get you the best staff.
Google’s machine learning software already does some pretty amazing things, such as visual translations.
TensorFlow
Google’s decision to release its machine learning software as open source could be a major boost for the development of new Artificial Intelligence technologies.