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“Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.” Former US President George W Bush. It’s easy to laugh at someone who believes the Earth is flat. Dunking on pro-diseasers (AKA: antivaxxers) has become one of the internet’s favorite sports. And it’s pretty posh by social media standards to ridicule anyone who questions whether the climate-crisis is real. There’s always going to be a small, vocal contingency of people who simply cannot be convinced of a ground truth....

Connectivity, automation, electrification, and AI — these profound waves of change are all converging upon mobility right now. So, it’s only reasonable to wonder how legacy automakers will be able to transform as well, in order to meet the new needs of travelers. Speaking at TNW Conference this year,Usha Raghavachari, Innovation Lab Director at D-Ford, described how her team can bring a 118-year old brand into the future. D-Ford is a design startup within Motor Company, whose mission is to help the company learn and adopt new tools to create “what’s next....

Readers of The Next Web know that technology is breaking down borders, and bringing the world closer than ever. Social media tools allow us to communicate across any distance, and to form communities of interest no matter where we are in the world. More to the point, the cost and availability of tools needed to start successful companies make it unnecessary for teams to share the same space, or even time zone, so long as a quick Skype chat can be arranged....

It is always exciting to examine what is going on in your home country, especially in your own industry. As I am back in France for a few weeks, I wanted to see what was happening in the French tech scene. I heard a lot about the French incubator“Le Camping”,an accelerator program fromSilicon Sentierthat allows 12 teams to develop a project over 6 months, essentially letting entrepreneurs make their dreams into a reality....

Why getting peoples’ names wrong is costing you money It’s your problem, not mine For years, I tried really hard to ignore misspellings. Time and time again I told myself that people weren’t doing it on purpose (I know most don’t), that it wasn’t really a problem, and that I was over-reacting. The thing is, though. Itisa problem. Every Yassi, Yesso, or Yussi digs away at my identity. It’s othering — and what’s more, totally avoidable....