By: New York Times July 24, 2020 For several years now, the police and other authorities in China have been collecting across the country DNA samples from millions of men and boys who aren’t suspected of having committed any crime. In a report published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute last month, we exposed the extent of …
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By: Wired July 24, 2020 HE CALF WAS late. His due date, March 30, had come and gone. At first, Alison Van Eenennaam chalked it up to male calves tending to arrive a day or two on the tardy side. As the week wore on, the animal geneticist reminded herself that gene-edited embryos—like the one that had been …
By: Financial Times July 23, 2020 Morgan Stanley is taking an extra security step that singled it out from other global financial companies. While a large number of workers around the globe have had to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, interns in China haven’t had the same access. The company is blocking its interns in China from accessing …
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By: Financial Times July 23, 2020 A group of US tech investors has launched an ambitious plan to buy TikTok from its Chinese owner, as the popular short video app tries to escape being banned by the White House. The investors, led by the venture capital firms General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, are in discussions …
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By: The Gurdian July 22, 2020 Facebook is launching an investigation into whether its algorithms discriminate against minority ethnic groups, after internal protests forced the company to reassess the possibility that its machine learning systems could have picked up on real-world bias. The company’s new “equity and inclusion” teams will be tasked with assessing the algorithms …
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By: BBC July 19, 2020 TikTok’s plan to base its international HQ in the UK has been thrown into doubt following pressure by Washington over the Chinese firm’s future in the US. ByteDance, owner of the video sharing app, has had talks with the government about basing its HQ in London. But the US is …
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By: BBC July 18, 2020 The world is facing a staggering jobs challenge with a quarter of a billion people set to lose their job this year, the president of Microsoft has said. Brad Smith says millions will need to learn new skills to get jobs, or even to hang on to their old one, …
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Creating Future Us Putting ESG at the heart of Digital Transformation Palantir Technologies – An ESG-worthy IPO? As Palantir confidentially files to go public, responsible investors might viably ask: Is this a company that has credible ESG credentials inviting participation, if it proceeds with its IPO? Considering that Palantir Technologies has been highly secretive about …
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By: Financial Times July 10, 2020 Asset managers are gearing up for a battle with the Trump administration over a new proposal that threatens investors’ ability to incorporate environmental, social and governance principles into pension portfolios. Late last month, the Department of Labor proposed a new rule that would require private pension administrators to prove …
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By: AP News July 09, 2020 Efforts by the United Arab Emirates to fight the coronavirus have renewed questions about mass surveillance in this U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms. Experts believe the UAE has one of the highest per capita concentrations of surveillance cameras in the world. From the streets of the capital of Abu …
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