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Fran Villalba Segarra, founder and CEO of Internxt shares how the company is building an internet where privacy and security come first.

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It’s unwise to take tech billionaires’ predictions about the future at face value. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s promises, very few of us have moved our work and social lives to the Metaverse. Aside from

Last summer, we prompted eight AI platforms to magic up a range of digital images (see issue 368, p78). This time we’ve returned to the subject with a focus on more general tasks, covering business wr