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Worried About Digital Fraud Now? Just Wait For The Implants.

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Consider the Wisconsin workers whose employer offered them the chance to embed chips to buy snacks, gain access to physical spaces and computers and other tasks. Those devices are not the microchips from those programs in Wisconsin and Sweden — nor, of course, the chips implanted into pets.

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32 Corporate Innovation Labs In Retail

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Key People: Anthony Gregorio, Innovation Lab Senior Manager; Prat Vemana, VP Online; Albert Vita, Director of Strategy Insights. Walmart’s innovation lab is designed to help them stay competitive in the increasingly online and mobile world. The Home Depot — The Home Depot Innovation Center. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2015.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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Why Facebook’s Business Model Isn’t Its Biggest Problem

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The firm’s more specific (and biggest) claim, however, is that it did just this sort of advanced voter modeling for the Trump organization during the 2016 election – and that it is was on the strength of those data models that Trump was able to turn swing states, like Michigan and Wisconsin, from blue to red. Cambridge Analytica.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congressional Panel

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“This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online,” Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) — the panel’s top Republican and Democrat, respectively — said in a statement. Beyond the U.S.

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