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Kyle Dent Contributor Kyle Dent is a Research Area Manager for PARC, a Xerox Company, focused on the interplay between people and technology. He also leads the ethics review committee at PARC. Artificial intelligence is now being used to make decisions about lives, livelihoods, and interactions in the real world in ways that pose real risks to people. We were all skeptics once.

Cryptocurrencies are a religion as much as they are a technology. They almost have to be, given their adherents’ gargantuan ambition of fundamentally changing how the world works. This means they attract charlatans, lunatics, frauds, and false prophets, and furious battles are waged over doctrinal hairspliitting; but it also means they inspire intransigent beliefs which can, and do, unify many thousands of wildly different people across continents and time zones. This occurred to me while I was rereading Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, as one does, and in particular its depictions of the early days of the Christian faith: But whatever difference of opinion might subsist between the Orthodox [church], the Ebionites, and the Gnostics, concerning the divinity or the obligation of the Mosaic law, they were all equally animated by the same exclusive zeal; and by the same abhorrence for idolatry ..,.

It was about 4:30 on a Friday afternoon when Matt, the owner of a furniture distribution company, was anxiously awaiting a response to his counter offer from Tom, a potential buyer. Tom had until 5 p.m. to respond. Tom had sent Matt a fourth revision to a Letter of Intent a week earlier.

Higher processing costs and lower commodity prices are crushing recyclers around the country, with no easy options for them to escape from the vise grip squeezing them. “This is the most difficult I have ever seen the market,” said Jamie Gormley, business development manager for Centennial Recycling, a metro Denver firm that connects recyclers with buyers for their materials. Gormley includes the Great Recession, when a rapid drop in demand caused prices for recycled materials to plummet.

Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I talked about Snap’s bizarre decision to keep pursuing hardware without really changing their overarching strategy. The big story Google isn’t so sweet these days. The company’s beloved naming scheme of alphabetizing sugary things dies with Android Pie.