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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO

This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. In 1995, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer and, by bundling it with its winning Windows 95 product, swiftly eclipsed Navigator as the leading browser. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

How Spain is waging Internet war on Catalan separatists. But finding that SiliVaccine was laced with the Jaku malware , which would enable North Korea to spy on the Internet activity of the users the software was ostensibly protecting, was enough to raise their eyebrows. Tom Ridge on how we should fight our ‘digital war’ (Q&A).

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond

CIO

Actual control over data, its collection, storage, use and management is becoming one of the key topics in discussions about the global internet. Each data center is also connected to the high-bandwidth transmission corridor connecting Frankfurt, Poznan, and Warsaw, as well as Europe’s largest internet exchange in Frankfurt (DE-CIX).

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO

The company has been a supporter of OpenAI’s quest to build an artificial general intelligence since its early days, beginning with its hosting of OpenAI experiments on specialized Azure servers in 2016. The risk there — aside from making the internet useless to humans — is that it will pollute the very resource needed to train better AIs.

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Dracula Technologies turns ambient light into energy with printed solar cells

TechCrunch

Internet of Things devices are proliferating, making daily tasks more convenient for many people—but that comes at cost. Chief executive officer Brice Cruchon saw the tech’s commercial potential and after six years of research and development, LAYER was launched through the Hello Tomorrow program for deep tech startups.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is best known for his operating systems, central processing units, and programming languages. Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. Contributions in the Field of the Internet. American computer Pioneer, David Andrew Patterson, was a professor of computer science at the University of California.