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Alibaba is one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world with 755 million active users. Its founder, Jack Ma, who retired last year, is as famous as the Chinese web giant itself. The brand, created by Jack Ma while he was a teacher and born out of the combinations of the discipline of Chinese culture, Ma‘s own vision and the opportunities he has encountered throughout his life, is also one of the few international…
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Eight years ago, when I first met famous Japanese roboticist professor Hiroshi Ishiguro I asked him why he had made a humanoid that looked exactly like himself, to which he replied: “I wanted to question existence.” “OK, but isn’t this robot going commercial?” I followed up. “No, I do not possess such a purpose,” Ishiguro had said. There was neither Sophia at that time nor the ingenious humanoid robots of Boston Dynamics. What I have…
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It would not be wrong to say that the spirit of entrepreneurship has spread all over Turkey. With each passing day, we can see that smart ideas from different provinces in our country are being turned into promising projects with advanced technology and therefore contributing to both the economy and society. One such idea recently emerged from Kocaeli. The project, created by two engineering graduates from Gebze Technical University, became Turkey‘s first level five fully…
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The zeppelin was considered an exciting development in the 1920s, bringing hopes of mass, international transit and heavy freight transport covering large distances. However, things did not go according to plan. Following the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, in which a zeppelin exploded into flames upon landing, all hopes for a revolutionary flight age were suddenly turned to ashes. In the 1940s, American. and European governments shelved the method en masse, leaving only a vague recollection…
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When it comes to technology, many products used in Turkey are of foreign origin. For this reason, many startups in both the public and private sectors are trying to increase domestic production, including international brands such as Microsoft. While Turkey’s location, which connects the East to the West, increases its importance and export potential of domestic production, international brands are also attempting to uncover this potential. Onur Koç, the chief technology officer (CTO) of Microsoft,…