More Than Half of UK’s Furloughed Jobs at Risk of Automation – Report
By: The Guardian December 15, 2020 More than half of furloughed jobs in the UK are at the highest risk of automation as the Covid crisis accelerates workplace technology change, driving up redundancies and inequality across the country, according to a report. The two-year commission on workers and technology, chaired by the Labour […]
There’s Rich, And Then There’s Jeff Bezos Rich: Meet The World’s Centibillionaires
By: NPR.org December 10, 2020 You probably think 2020 has turned out to be a pretty lousy year, what with the coronavirus pandemic, a global recession and unceasing partisan warfare in Washington. Then again, you’re not Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. Thanks to soaring stock prices at Tesla, the company Musk founded, […]
More Than 1,200 Google Workers Condemn Firing of AI Scientist Timnit Gebru
By: The Guardian December 4, 2020 More than 1,200 Google employees and more than 1,500 academic researchers are speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired by Google after the company attempted to suppress her research and she criticized its diversity efforts. Timnit Gebru, who was […]
A Formidable Alliance Takes on Facebook
By: The Economist December 14, 2020 Letitia james, New York’s attorney-general, couldn’t be blunter in describing the antitrust case lodged on December 9th against the world’s biggest social network. “By using its vast troves of data and money Facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived as potential threats. They’ve reduced choices for […]
Why the Path From Public Service to Private Riches Erodes Trust
By: The FT December 14, 2020 From a certain point of view, Doug Band, who started out in Washington as a lowly personal assistant and last week quit the 800-person company he built from scratch, is living proof that America rewards big dreams and hard work. But because Mr Band’s early work was in […]
US Agencies, Companies Secure Networks After Huge Hack
By: AP December 15, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government agencies and private companies rushed Monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage intrusion suspected of being carried out by Russian hackers. The full extent of the damage is not yet clear. But the potential threat […]