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 […]
Your phone isn’t really spying on your conversations—the truth might be even creepier
By: Corinne Purtill January 5, 2019 If you have a smartphone, you have had this unnerving experience at some point: After having a face-to-face conversation with a friend or a partner in a private setting, you pick up your phone and see ads on social media that echo the details of your chat to an […]
Robots Aren’t Yet Killing Off All Our Jobs, World Bank Says
By: Natalia Drozdiak January 3, 2019 The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be replaced by machines. While advanced economies have shed industrial jobs over the last two decades, the […]
How robots change the world Oxford Economics
By: Oxford Economics June 2019 The robotics revolution is rapidly accelerating, as fast-paced technological advances in automation, engineering, energy storage, artificial intelligence and machine learning converge. The far-reaching results will transform the capabilities of robots and their ability to take over tasks once carried out by humans. Already, the number of robots in use worldwide […]
The Guardian view on the gig economy: rights need enforcing
By: The Guardian Editorial December 30, 2018 The increased level of intervention by the government in the labour market since Theresa May became prime minister is both rational and humane. The UK economy is too reliant on low-wage, low-skilled jobs, many of which are also insecure. While unemployment remains low, and in-work poverty is a […]
‘It’s essential to life’: Ofwat’s Rachel Fletcher sets a new course for water
By: Will Hutton December 15, 2018 When a regulator looks at you unblinkingly and says she wants the companies she regulates to understand they are part of a social contract, you catch your breath. Yes, replies Rachel Fletcher, chief executive of water regulator Ofwat, as I press her about the term “social contract”. The news […]
How the 0.001% invest
By: The Economist December 15, 2018 THINK OF THE upper echelons of the money-management business, and the image that springs to mind is of fusty private banks in Geneva or London’s Mayfair, with marble lobbies and fake country-house meeting-rooms designed to make their super-rich clients feel at home. But that picture is out of date. […]