Tag: Tech and Transformations
Industrial espionage: how French Tech protects its manufacturing secrets
“In 2000-2004 at Harvard, there were no start-ups or incubators on campus and venture capitalists weren’t investing in students. Everyone pursued stable careers in law, medicine or finance”, says Divya…
AI, targeting and competition… How the online advertising business is changing
The popcorn is lightly caramelized and ready to eat. In the middle of the screen: the future of the main characters of the Internet, Google and Meta, the vast majority…
AI and the “polystyrene block”: the clash of two schools of thought
You are driving on a highway. A strong crosswind carries dust and twigs. Suddenly, a block of polystyrene the size of a shoebox leaps across the road. This is how…
TikTok: why the social network is directly targeted by the “Digital services act”
End clap for TikTok at the European Commission. On Thursday, February 23, the institution banned its employees from using the Chinese video-sharing social network until March 15, due to “data…
The giants of the Net before the Supreme Court: this “section 230” which protects them
Are the Internet giants responsible for the content posted by their users? The question has been around for a quarter of a century. It is officially examined for the first…
Bing ChatGPT: From JFK to love, when conversations with AI go off the rails
A good way to recognize whether or not a chatbot is trustworthy is to test its limits by breaking its chains. The idea: to make him write disrespectful, misleading or…
Space: why does a Soyuz shuttle have to rescue the ISS?
After several months of waiting, the Russian agency Roscosmos announced the departure of a Soyuz rescue vessel to the International Space Station (ISS) on February 24. Last December, a spectacular…
Facebook, Twitter… With the paid subscription, the end of a taboo
“It’s free and always will be.” Facebook will have kept its promise for almost twenty years. Just like almost all of the competing social networks. But the industry’s biggest taboo…
What is “Meta Verified”, the paid subscription offered by Mark Zuckerberg?
The paid model is gradually establishing itself in the most famous social networks in the world. After Twitter users, those in Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta group – that is, Facebook and…
Submarine cables: how the United States weaves its web against Beijing
It is an immense sea serpent which unrolls its rings between Asia and Europe. 19,200 kilometers long, the Sea-Me-We 6 submarine Internet cable will link France to Singapore by 2025…