There are about 70,000 Google searches each second. Those searches happen every day, every week, every month and every year. That's how much we want to know, learn and ask about things we don't know. It includes searches for everything from the closest restaurant to the misspelled name of artists to everything else. Sometimes, Google finds it. Sometimes it doesn't. But in all cases, it provides an educated guess about what you are looking for and what is the best answer for your question.

People love using the word AI. Isn’t it strange that there’s still so much disagreement about what it is? You are led to believe that AI is something mysterious which will become so powerful and overtake us. Some believe we are headed to a future where the computer will decide – and it will simply says 'no'.

Twitter, the decade plus old company, is still trying to define what it is and how to make money. It is trapped in a business model of providing free service in exchange for our souls and friends.

How many times have you read a news story, an article, or a post on Twitter or Facebook and were left confused? On the one hand, you wanted to believe that information was accurate. It would fit in your carefully-built narrative. At the same time, it was 'hard to believe' that something like this was possible. Also at that moment you realized that the effort to dig deeper and find out more was not the best use of your time and energy, and you left it at that.

Sometimes it is good to pause for a moment and check where technology research is addressing real world problems. Where are researchers attempting to help people on a large scale? How will this make a positive impact on our lives?

What happens when an invite to Chatbot Conference in the Metaverse arrives at your inbox.

A brief overview of the state of the industry.

We all know Walmart. It’s the place where even people trapped in a hostage situation will deny that they were shopping there. It’s also the largest company by revenue and by number of employees - and it has reported another successful year.Walmart is rarely mentioned as an innovator. Usually, the glory for that goes to its rival Amazon.

But Walmart has grown into a global behemoth by mastering logistics on a large scale. It has built over 10,500 locations since 1962. And it’s not stopping: while the world is focused on bitcoin and Ether and NFTs and Metaverse, Walmart decided to use the underlying blockchain technology to solve a big business problem.

You have most likely uttered one or all of these phrases in the recent past: 'Hey Siri' or 'Hello Google' or 'Alexa'. (Sorry, we’re not going to count 'Cortana' in this.)

If you’ve spoken these magic words, it means that you have a phone or a device which on occasion answers your question. Maybe it starts playing music, or opens a garage door, or orders food from a nearest restaurant.

Here is the bad news. Together with email, any of your devices which are controlled by voice are the hackable, exploitable targets.

We’ve all had this feeling. You start thinking about a problem, which appears so trivial. And in that moment you come up with a solution - using technology - which will solve the problem once and for all.

Facebook has left a string of sad, angry or mystified ex-es behind. Even Facebook is no longer Facebook, but Meta, the entity which wants to dominate the Metaverse.