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Amazon’s moves could start a price war among music streaming services

Music as a loss leader is back.

The PC that would not die

At 35, the personal computer is not only not dead, it has never been stronger or more attractive.

The gig economy has grown big, fast — and that’s a problem for workers

It’s not about “sharing” — it’s about service, and it clearly demarcates the served and the servants.

Why hundreds of websites went down on Friday and why outages will keep happening

The “new normal” of that massive attack, and other takeaways.

Connected devices are easily hacked. Why aren’t we holding manufacturers accountable?

We’ve allowed just about anyone to ship new attack vectors (a.k.a. IoT devices) with zero responsibility for making them secure.

Platforms like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web

Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s.

We took a new car for a spin and now we’re hooked on Siri

Experiencing Apple’s auto ecosystem with CarPlay, Apple Watch — and even Maps.

How to solve for the lack of women in technology

Why is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S. — which is predicted to provide more job opportunities than all other professional sectors — still failing to attract and retain women?

Older workers can be more reliable and productive than their younger counterparts

It’s a real mistake to assume that “old” and “tech” are opposites.

Peter Thiel’s $1.25 million donation to Donald Trump is a lot more than ‘free speech’

Today, we struggle to rationalize Thiel’s power and influence as he moves further and further out there.

The Samsung Galaxy 7 fiasco may have begun with a tiny mistake on the assembly line

Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences.

Money2020 will show off what’s next for the payments industry

In 2013, it was tokenization; 2014 was Apple Pay; and 2015 was MCX (R.I.P.). What are we in for in 2017 and beyond?

A new generation of 5G will change everything from platforms to self-driving cars

The high-speed wireless network will be a critical component in the federal government’s agenda to develop the next level of U.S. innovation.

I’m done pretending that Silicon Valley tech is visionary

We’re smart enough to solve real problems, but we don’t.

Donald Trump’s got his eye on the real prize: A new media network

Imagine a firebrand TV star and a presidential platform through which to solidify the next would-be Fox News brand. That’s the most compelling set of ingredients for a new OTT service that I’ve ever seen.

The death of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 leaves lots of unanswered questions

The recalled smartphone is getting probably the most negative publicity a tech product has ever seen.

Facebook is going to have a hard time getting people to shop through its app

Why a company’s customers don’t pick up on new features the way they’re “supposed to.”

What a venture capitalist sees in the virtual and augmented reality market

A VC straps on his headset and hunts for opportunity and potential in the AR/VR entertainment landscape.

Cable service providers need to offer more than ‘dumb pipes’

Nondescript, indistiguishable telcos and ISPs should look to Spotify, Uber and Amazon, which build and sell services that consumers are more than happy to pay for.

Google’s hardware event was really all about its AI software

The search giant wants to beat Apple and Amazon to a fully voice-enabled interface.

We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail

Apps are getting bigger. But you don’t often hear about the impact of app size on installs and usage.

Consumer technology companies want a stake in enterprise

After a decade of tech going from the consumer world into the enterprise, we’re now seeing it going back the other way.

Google’s Andromeda: One OS to rule them all

Google’s new OS is expected to bring some of the desktop-like capabilities of Chrome into Android to form a super OS that will be able to compete directly with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

EarPods and AirPods and the power of ‘good enough’

It’s notable that Apple chose not to ship its Bluetooth AirPods in the box with new iPhones, even though its vision for the future is a wireless one.

The future of mobile payments is here, it’s just not evenly distributed

Consumers are ready for tap-to-pay, but retailers and banks need to catch up to demand.

The Yahoo breach proves we need ways to hit the attackers before they strike

We need to enter the age of preemptive cyber security.

Apple Watch speaks the only language wearable consumers understand: Fitness

Wearables are not a must-have. This means consumers need to be convinced to invest in them.

Cash isn’t going away, but it will become digital

Startups and banks are racing to remove cash from our lives, with apps that help us pay quicker and watches that access money straight from our wrists. But is the end result quick, thoughtless spending?

What I learned spending the summer with startups

One of the balancing acts of running an accelerator: Keeping Target’s big corporate machine from crushing seedling companies.

'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real

Behind the scenes of the Emmy-winning series with its real-life information security consultant.

What the iPhone 7 reveals about Apple’s augmented-reality plans

Tim Cook can’t stop talking about how big an opportunity augmented reality represents.

Code, girl! Setting my own bar prepared me for an unexpected Silicon Valley career.

Becoming an expert in the male-dominated fields of virtualization and cloud was a surprise even to me.