TSMC: How a Taiwanese Chipmaker Became a Linchpin of the Global Economy
By: The Financial Times March 24, 2021 When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The […]
What a Gambling App Knows About You
By: New York Times March 24, 2021 LONDON — When Gregg finally stopped gambling in late 2018, he was in a dire financial position. He had lost nearly $15,000 during a nine-month betting binge, on top of two outstanding loans totaling more than $70,000 and a mortgage of more than $150,000 on his small […]
Facebook: The Billion Dollar Bot Problem
By: The Financial Times March 23, 2021 Facebook or Fakebook? In the last quarter of 2020 the US social media giant disabled 1.3bn fake accounts — a tally equal to almost half its real monthly active users. User accounts are the basis for advertising sales that make up almost all of Facebook’s revenues. If […]
Privacy Is Not Dead; It’s Powerful
By: IAPP Date: March 23, 2021 For decades, people have proclaimed a now-common refrain that “privacy is dead.” So get on with it, they say. You probably know some of the most famous of the post-privacy pundits. No doubt, the oft-quoted Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, eternally quipped, “You have zero […]
Italians Urged To Boycott Amazon To Support Day Of Strikes
By: The Guardian March 22 2021 Italian consumers were urged by unions to refrain from buying from Amazon for the day on Monday as about 40,000 of the online shopping giant’s logistical workers held a national strike over working conditions. It is the first walkout in Italy to affect Amazon’s entire supply chain and involves warehouse and […]
New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
By: NPR March 21, 2020 A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. The more […]
Facebook Building a Version of Instagram For Children Under 13
By: Guardian March 19, 2021 Facebook is considering launching a version of its popular photo social media platform, Instagram, for children under the age of 13. BuzzFeed News first reported Facebook announced in an internal company post that the company would begin building a version of Instagram for people under the age of […]
Bonus Reforms ‘Biggest Shake-Up Of UK Corporate Governance In Years’
By: The Guardian March 18, 2021 The government plans to make it easier to claw back bonuses paid to executives of failed companies in what is being billed as the biggest shake-up of Britain’s corporate governance rules in decades, with ministers vowing to target negligent auditors and rogue directors. Part of a sweeping […]
Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos
By: NPR March 17, 2021 For decades, science has been trying to unlock the mysteries of how a single cell becomes a fully formed human being and what goes wrong to cause genetic diseases, miscarriages and infertility. Now, scientists have created living entities in their labs that resemble human embryos; the results of […]