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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

That list dropped by three last year when Remitly and Sana Biotechnology completed their initial public offerings and Auth0 sold to Okta for $6.5 Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). Enterprise software still rules the roost in the region. Industry : Gaming.

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What is 5G Technology: 5G Connectivity and Speed Explained

Galido

5G will help support the massive growth in the Internet of Things and enable devices to communicate with each other seamlessly through the convergence of center. Currently there are field tests and pilot programs that advance us what benefits 5G connections will offer us. By 2020, 50 billion smart devices are expected to be in use.

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5G Technology: Maximum Connectivity and Speed

Galido

5G will help support the massive growth in the Internet of Things and enable devices to communicate with each other seamlessly through the convergence of center. Currently there are field tests and pilot programs that advance us what benefits 5G connections will offer us. By 2020, 50 billion smart devices are expected to be in use.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. She has a solid understanding of technology and its ability to deliver business outcomes.

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AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

Vox

AI translation is now so advanced that it’s on the brink of obviating language barriers on the internet among the most widely spoken languages. With old approaches to AI, researchers carefully sculpted rules and processes they’d use to evaluate the data they were getting, just as we do with standard computer programs.

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Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5

The Verge

We tend to forget that there’s these enormously complicated manufacturing techniques in the background, enabling all of the internet, all of the digital world, to exist. I talk to a lot of consumer product CEOs on the show. I talk to a lot of software people. And then it kind of gets flattened to the chip shortage.

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