Can CRISPR Help Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Shots – Health News NPR
By: Rob Stein October 10, 2019 Victoria Gray slides open a closet door, pulls out a suitcase and starts packing piles of clothes. “My goodness,” says Gray. “Did I really bring all this?” Gray, who has sickle cell disease, is the first patient with a genetic disorder whom doctors in the United States have tried […]
After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used By Hong Kong Protesters
By: Scott Neuman October 10, 2019 Apple has removed from its App Store a smartphone app used by Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to crowdsource the location of protesters and police, after Chinese state media suggested the tech giant was aiding “rioters.” Apple initially rejected the app last week, saying that it “encourages an activity that […]
OECD takes aim at tech giants with plan to shake up global tax
By: Chris Giles October 9, 2019 The OECD has proposed a global shake-up of corporate taxation, overturning a century of rules that have allowed digital groups such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google to shift profits around the world to minimise their tax bills. The proposals, which were unveiled on Wednesday after months of […]
AI is not a technology change but a cultural one
By: Chris Skinner October 9, 2019 I just picked up a Financial Times article talking about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the way you deal with money. It’s actually more about the Chinese internet giant Ping An, and how they’re changing finance using AI. If you are a customer of Chinese financial services group […]
VR At Work Employers Embrace Virtual Reality For Workplace Training
By: Yuki Noguchi October 8, 2019 Virtual reality — long touted as the next big thing in tech — hasn’t taken off as a consumer product, but employers are embracing it as a more efficient and effective tool for on-the-job training. This year, Walmart is training more than 1 million employees using virtual reality. And […]
OECD reform weak on corporate tax havens, harsh on poorer countries
By: Tax Justice Network October 7, 2019 The OECD’s highly anticipated proposal for reform of international tax rules will likely further intensify global inequalities and fail to curb rampant tax abuse, new analysis reveals. The OECD’s reform plan is expected to reduce profits booked in corporate tax havens by just 5 per cent, and redistribute […]
‘We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology
Email Us! Twitter Linkedin By: Hannah Devlin October 5, 2019 It can pick out shoplifters, international criminals and lost children in seconds. But as the cameras proliferate, who’s watching the watchers? Gordon’s wine bar is reached through a discreet side-door, a few paces from the slipstream of London theatregoers and suited professionals powering towards their […]
Met police admits it lacks records of King’s Cross face matches
By: Leo Kelion October 4, 2019 London’s Metropolitan Police Service says it does not have any records of the outcomes of a facial recognition tie-up with a private firm in the city. Last month, it acknowledged it had shared people’s pictures with the managers of the city’s King’s Cross Estate development. It had previously denied […]
Basic Income Recipients Spent the Money on “Literal Necessities”
By: Natalie Coleman October 4, 2019 A popular argument levied by opponents of universal basic income (UBI) — an unconditional, periodic payment given to all members of a society — is that recipients will use the money on frivolous purchases. But the first data is finally trickling in from a UBI experiment in Stockton, California […]