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Opinion | We shouldn’t listen to tech entrepreneurs on anything but technology

Opinion | We shouldn’t listen to tech entrepreneurs on anything but technology

In today’s noisy artificial intelligence marketplace, Adam Lashinsky’s query in his July 18 op-ed, “Why are we listening to tech moguls like Musk?,” resonated loudly. Why do we listen to only the loudest voices when some of the quieter voices might be echoing a truth we need to hear? Opinions are not truths, no matter who speaks them. And truths are only one component of wisdom, no matter their source.

Sorting out AI’s challenges and complexities must not be left only to those with the loudest voices. Tech giants whose profit motives encourage the rapid development of products and who sometimes ignore ethical standards are part of our world. There are other, quieter voices that also need to be heard, those for whom ethical responsibilities loom large. Their AI applications, although less well-known, might be equally important.

Take the recent spate of lawsuits against Big

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The tech products you shouldn’t buy or gift — even on Black Friday

The tech products you shouldn’t buy or gift — even on Black Friday

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During this Black Friday week, you’ll see pitches to BUY THIS AMAZING STUFF.

While experts may recommend the best products for everyone, we are all unique. A product that I love might be one that you hate.

So my colleagues and I are sharing five tech (-ish) purchases that we regretted. It’s a subjective guide to products you should not buy.

They include a keyboard tray that broke three times, a pair of wireless headphones that never fit right and pet technology that failed to help a dog “speak” to its human friend.

Our regrets show that even journalists who question everything can be swayed by what’s popular or what can seem too good to be

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29 Examples of Flawed Technology That Shouldn’t Exist

29 Examples of Flawed Technology That Shouldn’t Exist

There’s tech for everything. Need your daily steps measured? No problem. Need to know exactly how much money you have in the bank? Got it. Need to hover 65 feet off the ground and shoot lasers for miles? Okay, we don’t have that one yet, but it’s most assuredly coming.

In what is clearly a transparent grab to get you to buy new stuff, companies are constantly rolling out fancy new gadgets and technology. But because of that push, we’re surrounded by tech that either needs to be retired or never should have been invented in the first place. Even the most decent product now comes with features that add nothing to its usefulness, or, even more annoyingly, actually make it worse.

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WIRELESS AIRBUD Easiest way to lose S20. If only they had some sort of string that would keep them together...
CRACKED COM Bathrooms with stalls that use a motion sensor instead of a lightswitch are the worst. Constipation is hard enough, I don't need the extra

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CRACKED COM I shouldn't need dongles to make my laptop functional, but Apple decided to go all-in on USB-C.
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CRACKED COM THE ANALOG AUDIO CABLE IS STILL BEING USED BY MUSICIANS TODAY DESPITE ITS NOISY SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP. SAME MAKE IGr F: CRACHI SNAP NOTBE!
Look like a tourist! Expensive! Fundamentally unstable! Zero exercise! L nrnnnn SEGWAY PT Looking for a reason to exist since 2001

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TLESATOR XLERATOR Hand dryers seem sanitary, but they actually spread bacteria and fecal matter by blowing it around the air.
CRACKED.COM Car alarms go off arbitrarily sO often that no one takes them seriously anymore.
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A touch screen on a car is a distraction. RA It's basically an accident waiting to happen. CRACKED COM
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Whose bright idea was it to 'upgrade' the connectors for USB drives into something thin and flimsy? Rnr inesy They run the risk of breaking every time
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I love how my car stereo takes over music from my phone, but I hate that it does it with phone calls. The audio quality is always awful, and the volum
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Laptops that don't have USB ports. They think they're being sleek but they're being hugely inconvenient. Lots and lots of people still use USB devices
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