Nasdaq-ICGN Conference: The Governance of Big Tech
CFU’s chair, Di, presented last week at the Nasdaq-ICGN conference, highlighting systematic issues influencing the social impacts of tech, and the Digital Age as a holistic structural shift. She also contributed to governance issues pertaining to technology companies, their boards and the boards of all companies going through digital transformation. She concluded with remarks […]
Governments Have Identified Commodities Essential to Economic and Military Security
By: The Economist March 31, 2021 Cut deep into the desert rock of southern California are the jagged tiers of an open-pit mine. Mountain Pass is North America’s only mine of rare-earth metals, used in everything from fighter jets to the drive-trains of electric cars. In 2015 Mountain Pass shut, unable to compete with […]
Trust In Tech Craters
By: Axios March 31, 2021 Trust in tech — including companies specializing in AI, VR, 5G and the internet of things — fell all around the world last year, the Edelman Trust Barometer found in a massive survey of 31,000 people in 27 countries. Driving the news: The study, provided first to Axios, […]
Microsoft Wins $21B Army Contract To Supply HoloLens Augmented Reality Headsets
By: Fox Business March 31, 2021 The Pentagon awarded a long-term contract to Microsoft to build more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets for the U.S. Army, officials said on Wednesday. Microsoft will produce Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets equipped with its HoloLens technology. The contract is worth up to $21.88 billion over a 10-year period, according […]