Vehicle data is more profitable than the car itself
By: CNN February 7, 2017 Forget the engine. Or the shiny rims. The money is in vehicles’ data. People have made fortunes selling cars and trucks. For many of us, a car is the second most expensive thing we’ll ever buy. (A home being Number 1.) But experts say the value of vehicles will likely […]
Poverty is now so visible that even the richest can see it
By: The Guardian February 17, 2018 Officially, it’s not a guilt tax. Westminster council prefers the term “community contribution” to describe the idea that its millionaire residents might like to make a voluntary donation on top of council tax. It is, they say, merely a chance for the wealthiest to “invest in their neighbourhood”. Perish […]
Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study
By: Alex Hern February 06, 2018 Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. The study, from the university’s “computational propaganda project”, looked at the most significant sources of “junk news” shared in […]
Nearly half of current jobs could be automated by 2055, according to a new report
By: Patrick Caughill February 03, 2018 According to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, nearly half of all the work we do will be able to be automated by the year 2055. However, a variety of factors, including politics and public sentiment toward the technology, could push that back by as many as […]
The two big uncertainties shaping our future
By: Olivier Woeffray January 18, 2018 When we think about the future, most of us try to predict it by extrapolating from a wide range of assumptions that we make about today. But most predictions tend to be wrong, from the automobile being written off as a “fad” in 1903 to a 1977 article querying […]
A Blueprint for Integrating ESG into Equity Portfolios
By: Jennifer Bender, Todd Arthur Bridges, Chen He, Anna Lester, Xiaole Sun January 16, 2018 Environmental, social and governance (ESG) offers a source of new and potentially valuable information for investors, impacting both potential returns and risk. Growing data availability has created the opportunity to integrate ESG into equity portfolios for a variety of investment […]
The next frontier Using thought to control machines
By: The Economist- Print edition January 4, 2018 TECHNOLOGIES are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a cycling accident, yet has managed to feed himself by his own hand. This remarkable feat is partly thanks to electrodes, implanted in his right arm, […]
The rise of of the robots: risks to more jobs as minimum wage increase warns IFS
By: CITY A.M January 04, 2018 Higher minimum wage levels could tempt British employers to automate more jobs, risking a rise in unemployment, respected economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) will today warn. In research to be published today, the IFS will call for “extremely careful monitoring” of the effects of government increases […]
Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the goal of human enhancement
By: The Guardian January 1, 2018 At the World Government Summit in Dubai in February, Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said that people would need to become cyborgs to be relevant in an artificial intelligence age. He said that a “merger of biological intelligence and machine intelligence” would be necessary to ensure we […]