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In 2019, your smartphone will no longer be king

By Molly Wood
January 01, 2019
"We spent the past two decades converging into one device," says Amy Webb, founder of The Future Today Institute. "We're going to spend the next two decades branching back out."
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But it will rule more devices.

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Blackberry users don't care what analysts say

By Meghan McCarty Carino
December 19, 2018
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Mock it all you want. Blackberry has staying power.

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Amazon's Alexa was a surprise hit, but what's its next play?

By Molly Wood
December 18, 2018
“We take privacy and security very seriously," Toni Reid, right, of Amazon, told Molly Wood last week at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen conference in Laguna Niguel, California.
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As its popularity increases, so do questions about privacy and security.

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Smart homes for the holidays?

By Molly Wood
November 20, 2018
The Vivint doorbell camera, a smart home device, is displayed at CES 2016 in Las Vegas.
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Consumers aren’t stopping at just one connected device.

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90: Are we in a new gilded age?

By Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal
November 14, 2018
An Amazon fulfillment center warehouse in Peterborough, England. 
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And, uh, how'd the last one end again?

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86: What it's like to live in 2043

By Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal
October 16, 2018
One of the many features of David Wilts' smart home: a living room that transforms into a screening room.
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... and what data we have to fork over to get there.

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What to worry about when you worry about smart speakers

By Molly Wood
October 12, 2018
An assortment of recently launched Amazon devices, including an Echo Input, Echo Show, Echo Plus, Echo Sub, Echo Auto and Fire TV Recast are pictured at the company headquarters in Seattle in September.
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No, they're not recording your every word.

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85: Expl4inathon

By Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
October 09, 2018
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Two hosts. Thirty minutes. We're answering as many of your questions as we can.

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The rise in "interactive insurance" could make you healthier — and more scrutinized

By Jed Kim
September 20, 2018
Participants who wear monitoring devices like the ones above can get cheaper premiums or rewards from John Hancock.
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John Hancock is the latest insurer to offer policies with discounted premiums if policyholders agree to be monitored.

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