A Kid In A Refugee Camp Thought Video Games Fell From Heaven. Now He Makes Them
By: National Public Radio Dec 11, 2019 Lual Mayen, a video game developer based in Washington, D.C., remembers the first time he saw a computer. He was just a kid at the time. It was 2007, and his family was registering for benefits at a refugee camp in Uganda, where they’d settled after fleeing civil […]
Winner-takes-all digital economy poses risk for capital markets
By: Financial Times Dec 10, 2020 The trend of human tasks being replaced by algorithms is a perennial and understandable focus for the debate about how technology is changing capital markets. Policymakers, however, are already focusing on a longer-term trend: how the benefits of scale in digital industries will concentrate activity among a smaller […]
The Individual & the Collective, Politics, & the UN, with Jean-Marie Guéhenno
By: Carnegie Council Audio Podcast December 10, 2019 Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former head of United Nations peacekeeping operations, discusses the tensions between the individual and the collective in a world filled with political tension, pervasive surveillance, and fear of risk. What is the role of the UN in this environment? How can […]
Jobs of the future are clustering in a handful of U.S. cities, study finds
By: Reuters Dec 09, 2019 Divergence in job growth, incomes and future prospects between strong-performing cities and the rest of the country is an emerging focus of political debate and economic research. It is seen as a source of social stress, particularly since President Donald Trump tapped the resentment of left-behind areas in his 2016 […]
UK Government Gives NHS Data to Amazon for Free
By: Pcmag Dec 09, 2019 Earlier this year, the UK government announced a partnership with Amazon that let Alexa tap into information available on the National Health Service (NHS) website to answer health questions. The idea was that UK residents could get health information from Amazon’s voice assistant instead of overloading NHS hotlines with simple queries. But […]
Defiant Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook Policy to Allow False Ads
By: The national digest December 07, 2019 Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has defended the company’s decision to not take down political advertising that contains false information – and compared the alternative to censorship. Challenged on CBS over the policy, which has raised concerns over misinformation campaigns that could distort elections, Zuckerberg refused to commit […]
UK bribery investigation adds to Glencore’s legal headaches
By: Reuters Dec 06, 2019 The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a bribery investigation into Glencore (GLEN.L), adding to legal troubles that have hit the shares of one of the world’s biggest miners and commodity traders. The SFO said on Thursday it had opened an investigation into suspicions of bribery in the conduct […]
Why America’s 1-Percenters Are Richer Than Europe’s
By: Npr Dec 05, 2019 A new Gilded Age has emerged in America — a 21st century version. The wealth of the top 1% of Americans has grown dramatically in the past four decades, squeezing both the middle class and the poor. This is in sharp contrast to Europe and Asia, where the wealth of […]
Monetising hate: covert enterprise co-opts far-right Facebook pages to churn out anti-Islamic posts
By: The Guardian Dec 05, 2018 A mysterious group has used some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages to create a commercial enterprise that harvests anti-Islamic hate for profit and influences politics across the globe, a Guardian investigation has revealed. For the past two years the Israel-based group has co-opted at least 21 organically grown far-right […]