Mark de Wolf

1 week ago | techopedia.com | Mark de Wolf

Some firms never learn – or do they? Google’s first high-profile foray into intelligent eyewear, Google Glass, was a much-ridiculed bomb; so badly received it coined a new pop culture epithet (glassholes) for people who used their tech spectacles to film others on the sly.

1 week ago | techopedia.com | Mark de Wolf

The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has been long on buzz but short on reliable performance measures. GenAI is a new world with new business models. How do investors know if a great idea will result in long-term growth? To cut through the noise, VCs are increasingly looking at net revenue retention (NRR). It measures loyalty and captures a startup’s ability to keep customers coming back while growing their average spend. Will a new model be sticky or become another victim of try-and-abandon?

2 weeks ago | techopedia.com | Mark de Wolf

Artificial intelligence (AI), inflation, engineering advances, and a political push for greater energy security have put nuclear power back on the agenda. The Trump administration is making it easier to build new reactors and for investors to fund atomic tech startups. It’s already having an impact. Big tech and big nuke are forging a partnership that could change the energy picture. The next phase of the renewables transition looks like a case of going back to the future.

2 weeks ago | esportsinsider.com | Mark de Wolf

In esports, games are built on ones and zeroes. That provides huge volumes of data for study. Coaches are applying AI tools to training regimens while teams hire data scientists to uncover the most winning strategies. Analytics are used to improve performance, identify weaknesses in opposing teams and even stop cheating. These changes alter how coaches develop strategy, determine match rosters, and alter gameplay tactics in real time. Seconds count in esports.

2 weeks ago | techopedia.com | Mark de Wolf

Ten years ago, Amazon paid big bucks for an unknown Israeli chip startup. Today, custom silicon maker Annapurna makes the specialized AI processors that power AWS, the cash cow underpinning Amazon’s entire business model. The firm – which still operates as an independent unit – is so vital to growth that analysts call its processors the secret sauce behind AWS. What’s so special about the company, and how has it displaced Nvidia inside one of the digital economy’s cornerstone firms?