Sentences with phrase «arms race for»

All of this has touched off an arms race for AI talent, and particularly Canadian machine learning researchers.
As a result, big companies in legal disputes race to enlist top economists on their side, paying top dollar in an arms race for talent.
It's a wide ranging, provocative and eye - opening conversation about «the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad - based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics»; and it has been bouncing around in my own mind since I happened upon this episode a bunch of weeks ago.
As soon as people crack the code in terms of making money from free - to - play, then you'll once again get this arms race for quality much like we have now.
The games industry has gained hugely from the use of data and looking at KPIs, ARPDAU, LTV... but in this arms race for the players attention we need to stop for a second and challenge our assumptions of what is possible.
While time had been kind to the plumber protagonist, the same couldn't quite be said about old Cranky, who lamented the ongoing virtual arms race for bigger and more sophisticated video games.
Earlier this year, SRT boss Ralph Gilles said the company had started something of an internal arms race for horsepower with its new V8 that could potentially overpower the Viper's massive V10.
Its engineers say the Megane's development was all about being fun to drive in corners, not in a straight line, that they prioritise torque delivery over outright power, and that they're not interested in joining the horsepower arms race for the sake of it.
But while an arms race for spectacle has engorged Hollywood action pictures to often grotesque proportions, «little» movies like this one become almost their own kind of unintentional criticism.
The two are in an arms race for team partnerships and new users.
LG has taken the high - def arms race for entertainment eyeballs up a notch with the world's biggest ultra-definition television to support next - level 4K picture format.
It's a concept another Canadian, Brad Katsuyama, has already championed on Wall Street, and one embraced by an emerging faction of securities markets participants beleaguered by the ongoing arms race for ever - faster trading technology.

Not exact matches

The war for tech talent has engendered a bit of a benefits arms race lately.
The arms race has already begun for selling headsets.
For more, read: Microsoft Touts New Cross-Ocean Fiber - Optic Cabling Deals as Cloud Arms Race Continues
The swinging arms may come back out during the final moments of the race to give the skater an extra boost for the finish.
Apple wouldn't introduce its iPhone for four more months, setting in motion a mobile device arms race that would give rise to Google Android and mobile - first communications tools like WeChat and Snapchat.
AT&T's $ 29 charge is steep, but it could kick off an arms race of sorts for privacy services that could ultimately lead to lower prices and better protections for all.
This has sparked an expensive arms race between technology giants as they try to outbid each other to stockpile on valuable patent portfolios up for grabs.
This mounting competition may certainly be considered the «arms race» that Keating was referring to, as companies — and even countries — jostle for position over a rapidly expanding market.
However, critics point out that the program is very expensive (largely paid for by the public), that the technologies are risky, that the threat rationale isn't very strong and that this will affect international relations, and could lead to an arms race.
Bitcoin mining will no longer reward new coins once 21 million coins have been mined, so the network's power draw could drop considerably once there is less incentive for the mining arms race.
Where the «MAD» acronym — mutually assured destruction — characterized the nuclear arms race, that acronym stands for «mutually assured doubt» in the cyber arms race, according to one researcher, because you can never be sure what attack will occur.
But they are caught in an increasingly expensive arms race to mint new franchises for a domestic audience that is seeking out original stuff beyond the cineplex.
Understanding this «evolutionary arms race» between bacteria and antibiotics allows us to develop strategies for minimizing resistance.
It was the soul of his entire race that had shuddered within him: an obscure memory of a first sudden awakening in the midst of beasts stronger, better - armed than he; a sad echo of the long struggle to tame the corn and to master the fire; a rancorous dread of the maleficent forces of nature, a lust for knowledge and possession... A moment ago, in the sweetness of the first contact, he had instinctively longed to lose himself in the warm wind which enfolded him.
For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.
Catholic proponents of traditional teaching about sex have also opposed the arms race and have advocated for the poor and the environment.
A world without our alliances would see multiple local nuclear arms races, proxy wars, and stateless regions that could become havens for terrorist groups, and refugee migrations.
For example, in «game theory,» an aptly named part of high academic economics, it has been discovered that games (such as the nuclear arms race or participation in an economy) can not be played with prudence - only rules.
Such «micromorality» is a distraction from the «macromorality» that focuses, for instance, on the arms race and capitalism's oppression of the third - world poor.
The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.
The following paragraph, from an address on «The Social - Psychological Dimension of the Arms Race» (reprinted in Search for Sanity [South End Press.
Girard's primary example of such hypocrisy was the mythological (according to his elaboration of myth as the perpetrator's justifications for violence) notion of Mutual Assured Destruction of the Cold War arms race that was contemporary with the writing of his book in the late 1970s.
Rather than viewing upheavals in Central America in isolation from those in the Middle East, for example, observers are inclined to ask how both may reflect debt patterns in the world economy or the competition among superpowers for energy supplies or the arms race.
At the hub of a concerned effort among Protestant churches for revitalization is the struggle for a just peace among the nations, It is the false use of money that continues to make the nuclear arms race possible, now again under the new nuclear doctrine.
Now it is time for our leaders to exercise their considerable talents in the «politics of self - interest» by stopping the nuclear arms race instead of continuing to justify and stockpile the means of mutual suicide.
In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)
But instead of vengeful invective, over the following minutes, days and years he spoke simple, principled sense, refusing to give up the struggle, armed if necessary, against injustice until Apartheid was dismantled, but articulating a sense of place for all races in South Africa.
As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beings.
It has been against SALT II, and its enthusiasm for the present military buildup is not tempered by a desire to control the arms race.
Ball clubs involved in the arms race think the answers are coming from outside North America, which explains the fierce bidding wars the past two years for righthander Hideki Irabu of Japan, righthander Livan Hernandez of Cuba and other foreigners.
The Oregon Ducks started an arms race with the development of multiple uniforms and other teams are looking for ways to compete and take their gear to the next level.
Drone racing in 2017 is tacitly training for armed conflict.
Derrick Henry burst through on third - and - short, nearly stiff - armed someone from behind, and raced 50 yards for the game's first score.
With the arms race of spending soon to begin amongst City, Manure and Checlsea why would Arsenals best players remain in the England to play for the least ambitious and most frugal club
before you bash me, I wish everyone of our players the very but I love the club more than any one individual, and ramsey injury is a big shot in the arm for our title race.
So the arms race has momentarily slowed down this year, as the sport's governing bodies compete for status and prestige over whose tournament doles out the most cash.
As for Chelsea does Abramovic want another arms race after he already dumped 1 billion into Chelsea.
The Players has been the most lucrative single event on the PGA Tour for several years now, but a 2013 announcement the PGA Tour made in conjunction with the PGA of America set off an arms race of sorts.
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