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Alibaba – Domain game

AliMe is no Google Assistant beater. Alibaba is making strides to develop its AI, and its voice assistant in particular, but despite a very impressive demonstration, I think it remains...

Lyft – Gift horse

Lyft should accept the gift Uber is offering. Lyft has filed confidential documents with the SEC signaling its intent to go public in 2019 but given the state of its...

Facebook – Broken valley pt. VIII.

The hits keep on coming. The UK government has opened up yet another front against Facebook with the publication of a series of e-mails dating back to before 2015 that...

Epic vs. app stores – Heavy metal glove.

Epic throws down the gauntlet to the app stores. In another direct challenge to the app stores, Epic has decided to launch its own app store for PCs, which if...

Google DeepMind – Genetic origami

A big step forward but still needs more work. DeepMind has convincingly won an academic competition that tests researchers’ ability to predict the structure of proteins from their genetic sequence...

Volvo & Ericsson – Scroogled?

Google’s automotive deals may be coming unstuck. Volvo and Ericsson have signed a 5-year digital automotive deal that leaves me wondering whether all the fanfare about Volvo using Android in...

Samsung vs. Huawei – Rivers of blood pt. V.

Samsung needs hardware differentiation more than ever. I think Samsung is undergoing a flurry of display innovation with its Infinity-O screen and it’s new folding screen form factor because it...

Autonomous driving – Trouble at the top.

The rest must be in a real pickle. Waymo is taking a step backwards in terms of the commercial readiness of its autonomous driving offering by reinstalling safety drivers and...

Spotify – The wrong 99.9.

99.9% of India will be free not $9.99. Hopes of edgy investors are being raised by the notion that Spotify is now in a position to launch in India, but...

Fixed Internet – Creeping obsolescence.

A Small light at the end of the 5G tunnel. The latest data confirms what RFM’s Digital Life Pie has been indicating for some time: namely that increasingly, mobile is...