70,000 retail jobs lost in 2018, says trade body BRC
By: Sebastian McCarthy January 24, 2019 Panic over further troubles on the high street has been underlined this morning, with new figures showing that some 70,000 retail jobs were lost last year. A retail employment monitor out today from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has found that the total number of jobs was down 2.2 […]
Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places
By: Brookings January 24, 2019 At first, technologists issued dystopian alarms about the power of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to destroy jobs. Then came a correction, with a wave of reassurances. Now, the discourse appears to be arriving at a more complicated understanding, suggesting that automation will bring neither apocalypse nor utopia, but instead […]
Young Voters Keep Moving To The Left On Social Issues, Republicans Included
By: Conspiracy Inquirer January 23, 2019 As a self-described political conservative, Reagan Larson might seem to be a natural fit for the Republican Party. The 19-year-old college student from South Dakota grew up in a Catholic household that objected to same-sex marriage, and she remains firmly opposed to abortion. But in many ways, that is where […]
The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything
By: The Guardian January 22, 2019 A successful society is a progress machine. It takes in the raw material of innovations and produces broad human advancement. America’s machine is broken. The same could be said of others around the world. And now many of the people who broke the progress machine are trying to sell […]
This is the digital future we need
By: Jim Smith, Lynn St. Amour 18 Jan 2019 Today almost half of the world’s population are connected to the Internet, fifty years since it was invented and thirty since the creation of the World Wide Web. Regardless of whether we see this as a success story or terribly slow progress, the questions are: […]
World’s Biggest Investor Tells C.E.O.s Purpose Is the ‘Animating Force’ for Profits
By: New York Times January 17, 2019 Larry Fink, the investment manager who oversees nearly $6 trillion at BlackRock, set off a yearlong conversation among business leaders and policymakers last January when he wrote a letter to chief executives declaring that companies needed to do more than make profits. Mr. Fink wrote that it was […]
CB-Insights_Quantum-Computing
By: CB-Insights January 17, 2019 What is quantum computing? Quantum computers can process massive and complex datasets more efficiently than classical computers. They use the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to speed up the process of solving complex computations. Often those computations incorporate a seemingly unlimited number of variables, and the potential applications span industries from […]
The outlook is dim for Americans without college degrees
By: The Economist January 10, 2019 AMERICA’S AGEING economic boom can still produce pleasant surprises. Companies added an astonishing 312,000 new jobs in December, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported on January 4th, and raised pay at the fastest clip in years. For the third of working-age Americans without any college education, such spells of […]
DARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaos
By:Devin Coldewey January 7, 2019 That most famous characterization of the complexity causality, a butterfly beating its wings and causing a hurricane on the other side of the world, is thought-provoking but ultimately not helpful. What we really need is to look at a hurricane and figure out which butterfly caused it — or perhaps […]