Jamie Dimon on Tax-Hike Proposals: The Rich ‘Can Afford to Pay More’
By: Michelle Davis January 30, 2019 Billionaire CEO Jamie Dimon is OK with tax hikes on the rich, as long as the revenue goes where he thinks it’ll do the most good. “Individuals earning the most can afford to pay more, and I have no problem paying higher taxes to address some of the fundamental […]
Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of American mercenaries
By: Christopher Bing + Joel Schectman Jaunuary30, 2019 Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy. She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen […]
MIT researchers are training a robot arm to play Jenga
By: Brian Heater January 30, 2019 Turns out training a robotic arm to play Jenga is a surprisingly complex task. There are, so to speak, a lot of moving parts. Researchers at MIT are putting a modified ABB IRB 120 to work with the familiar tabletop game, utilizing a soft gripper, force-sensing wrist joint and […]
Microsoft taps London data science hub Pivigo to give UK businesses access to data on demand
By: Emily Nicolle January 30, 2019 Microsoft has today unveiled a partnership with London data science hub Pivigo, giving its customers access to a global network of data scientists on demand. Enabled alongside its Azure suite of machine-learning tools, Microsoft users will be able to tap into Pivigo’s 6,000-strong community of data scientists to help […]