FutureFest
By: Nesta October 25, 2019 FutureFest is back FutureFest is a celebration of our power to shape the future. The future is not something that happens to us, but something we can create. FutureFest offers audiences a space to push the boundaries, to connect with other thinkers and to find their own visions for what […]
Elephants Under Attack Have An Unlikely Ally: Artificial Intelligence
By: Dina Temple-Raston October 25, 2019 A few years ago, Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, published the results of something called the Great Elephant Census, which counted all the savanna elephants in Africa. What it found rocked the conservation world: In the seven years between 2007 and 2014, Africa’s savanna elephant population decreased by […]
The Future Means Business
By: Pgim Oct 24, 2019 PGIM India Asset Management is a wholly owned business of PGIM, the global investment management business of the US based Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI). With operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America, PFI has provided customers with a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, […]
BlackRock’s Institutional Clients Moving to Private Capital
By: Bloomberg Oct 24, 2020 Almost half of BlackRock Inc.’s institutional clients plan to increase their allocation to private asset classes, said Mark Wiseman, the firm’s global head of active equities. “This is profound,” Wiseman said Thursday at the C4K Investors Conference in Toronto. “We’ve never seen numbers like this before.” Wiseman said the firm conducted […]
A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients
By: Tom Simonite October 24, 2019 Care for some of the sickest Americans is decided in part by algorithm. New research shows that software guiding care for tens of millions of people systematically privileges white patients over black patients. Analysis of records from a major US hospital revealed that the algorithm used effectively let whites […]
Revised and strengthened UK Stewardship Code sets new world-leading benchmark
By: Financial Reporting Council October 24, 2019 The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today launched a substantial and ambitious revision to the UK Stewardship Code. The new Code substantially raises expectations for how money is invested on behalf of UK savers and pensioners. In particular, the new Code establishes a clear benchmark for stewardship as […]
Pentagon report predicts collapse of us military within 20 years
By: Futurism Oct 24, 2019 Faced with the challenges of global climate change as well as the refugee crisis and armed conflicts it will create, the U.S. military may very well collapse. That’s the dire conclusion of a Pentagon-commissioned report about the future of the military, first published online in August with little fanfare and recently surfaced by Motherboard. The […]
Google Claims To Achieve Quantum Supremacy — IBM Pushes Back Facebook Twitter Flipboard
By: Paolo Zialcita October 23, 2019 Google says it has built a computer that is capable of solving problems that classical computers practically cannot. According to a report published in the scientific journal Nature, Google’s processor, Sycamore, performed a truly random-number generation in 200 seconds. That same task would take about 10,000 years for a […]
CubeSats Are Small Yet Mighty Important In Space Exploration
By: Joe Palca October 23, 2019 Tiny satellites are taking on a big-time role in space exploration. CubeSats are small, only about twice the size of a Rubik’s Cube. As the name suggests, they’re cube-shaped, 4 inches on each side, and weigh in at about 3 pounds. But with the miniaturization of electronics, it’s become […]