April 08, 2024
MIT Engineers Aim to Advance Household Robots With AI Integration
Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence, household robots are getting smarter and could soon evolve far beyond their current roles as mostly self-guided vacuum cleaners. MIT engineers are working on...
April 08, 2024
Biden Offers New Debt Relief to Student Loan Borrowers
The White House has unveiled its latest effort to offer relief to student loan borrowers. The plan, President Joe Biden announced Monday (April 8), targets borrowers who owe more now than when...
April 07, 2024
The Challenges of Shifting Landscapes
By Brad Staples & Rachel Brandenburger1 Introduction Businesses are facing unprecedented challenges. Changes in the geopolitical landscape call into question (and even reverse) many of the key assumptions that...
April 03, 2024
Messaging Platform Telegram Pivots to Crypto Payments for Ads
Throughout nearly their entire history, cryptocurrencies have represented the archetypal innovation in search of a problem. And while they’ve succeeded as an unregulated store of value, as well as a tool for scammers,...
April 03, 2024
DraftKings and MGM Find New Gaming Frontier in Brazil
Some of the sports betting world’s biggest players have reportedly turned their sights on Brazil. Companies such as DraftKings and MGM Resorts International are exploring entry into Latin America’s largest economy and its new, and regulated,...
April 01, 2024
Pocket FM Looks to Create — and Own — a...
We know that the connected consumer has certainly embraced binge watching since the pandemic. If Pocket FM gets its way, there will be a new streaming category to obsess about:...
March 31, 2024
Detained Binance Execs Sue Nigeria for Rights Violations
Two Binance executives have sued the Nigerian government following their detention by the African nation. The cryptocurrency execs filed suit last week against Nigeria’s national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and country’s Economic Financial...
March 31, 2024
Argentina’s Leniency Program: A Proposed Regulation
By Alexis German Pirchio1 In May 2018, Argentina enacted Act No. 27.442 on the Defence of Competition (“LDC,” for its acronym in Spanish), the first antitrust law in the...
March 29, 2024
Rising Fraud Casts Shadow Over Voice Commerce Potential
The proliferation of voice-activated technology, from virtual shopping assistants to speech recognition in smartphones and smart homes, is reshaping how consumers interact with devices. Advancements in this field are continually expanding the possibilities...