What Blockchain Means for Ad Tech Not long ago, possession meant holding something in your hand. Over the past two decades, a series of disruptors created a digital society, where the most salient feature is the ability to copy. (…) Read full article

Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future One persistent criticism of Silicon Valley is that it no longer works on big, world-changing ideas. Every few months, a dumb start-up will make the news — most recently the one selling a $700 juicer — and folks outside the tech industry will begin singing I-told-you-sos. (…) Read full article

Apple Wants to Bring Augmented Reality to the Masses Tim Cook has talked up a lot of technologies since becoming Apple Inc.’s chief executive in 2011. Driverless cars. Artificial intelligence. Streaming television. But no technology has fired up Cook quite like augmented reality, which overlays images, video and games on the real world. (…) Read full article

Amazon is invading Apple and Google’s home turf in the war over the future of computing Apple, Amazon, and Google are at war over the future of personal computing, and now Amazon is taking the battle to its rivals’ home turf: the smartphone. All three are convinced that voice-controlled virtual assistants have the potential to transform how we interact with …