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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We need a separate command for the same reason that we need cyber or special operations as a separate command.

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FinCEN Weighs In

thebarefootvc

As if on cue, BTC prices are back over $6000 and not negatively impacted by the news of the Binance hack — Taiwan-based Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world by volume. Speaking of which, up until this morning, the Binance hack was the biggest news to hit the sector in the past week. crypto ATMs do qualify as MSBs.

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JD.com Celebrates a Decade of Non-stop Delivery Service During Spring Festival Holidays

The Startup Magazine

The sale also revealed what is popular for Chinese consumers during these new year’s festivities. Sales of the Chinese liquor baijiu in the middle to high-end market increased 11 times year-over-year on JD.com. Indicating a focus on health for the new year, sales of low-sugar pastry gift boxes increased by a multiple of six.

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Furniture CEO Finds Balance between Success and Staying Grounded

Hearpreneur

Throughout the year, Blake travels to China, Taiwan and Mexico to meet with manufacturers and negotiate pricing and development of new and innovative office and school furniture products. He studies and analyzes the latest trends in the industry by traveling around the nation and regularly attending trade shows.

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Nokia’s coopetition with carriers

BeyondVC

I wonder where this ends up in the long run but what is clear is that smart handset manufacturers understand that there may be potentially more revenue in the monthly subscription fee than one-time sale of hardware. We should certainly keep an eye out for Nokia and every new app they launch in the future. million tracks.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. This can improve indications and warnings for military operations and active cyber defense.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. The country that controls this manufacturing can throttle the military and economic power of others. In 2019, the U.S.

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