Here are the 21 jobs you may be doing in 10 years, now robots are here – Business Insider
By: Ruqayyah Moynihan and Jessica Lin October 27, 2018 Will your job be done by a robot 10 years from now? If so, what will you end up doing? Over and over, experts have assured us that robots are not going to take over the world in the foreseeable future, but for some industries, the […]
Google and Orange building cable between US and France
By: Alex Hern October 15, 2018 Telecoms firm Orange has teamed up with Google to work on a private undersea cable connecting the Atlantic coasts of France and the United States Measuring 6,600km in length, the undersea cable will be named Dunant after Henry Dunant, the first Nobel peace prize winner and founder of the […]
Don’t believe the World Bank – robots will steal our wages
By: Larry Elliott October 14,2018 The World Bank has a reassuring message for those fearful of being made obsolete by automation. The robot age is nothing to be worried about. Just like all previous waves of technological advance, the fourth industrial revolution will create rather than destroy jobs, so fears of mass unemployment are largely […]
John Hancock will include fitness tracking in all life insurance policies
By: Reuters September 19, 2019 (Reuters) — John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones, the company said on Wednesday. The move by the 156-year-old insurer, owned by […]
Robots in workplace ‘could create double the jobs they destroy’
By: Richard Partington September 17, 2018 The rise of machines, robots and algorithms in the workplace stands to create almost double the number of jobs for the global economy by the middle of the next decade than it puts at risk of being replaced. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), about 133m jobs globally […]
Amazon’s Cashier-Free Stores Are Going National. And It Might Just Change the Future of Retail.
By: Kristin Houser August 28, 2018 MORE CHOICES. If you live in Seattle and want to pick up a quick snack without having to wait in a checkout line, you’ve now got two options for where you can do so. On Monday, Amazon officially opened its second cashier-less convenience store in the Emerald City. To […]
More than 6m workers fear being replaced by machines – report
By: Richard Partington August 6, 2018 More than six million workers are worried their jobs could be replaced by machines over the next decade, according to a report urging trade unions and the government to provide more support for those at risk. The findings come as Yvette Cooper, the Labour chair of the Commons home […]
Businesses must address impact of next industrial revolution, says Siemens boss
By: The Guardian July 16, 2018 Global workforces will fall as the next industrial revolution gets under way, the head of one of Germany’s biggest firms has warned, unless workers are retrained with new skills. Joe Kaeser, global chief executive of the engineering giant Siemens, said up to almost a third of jobs could be […]
Here’s Why The Blockchain Might Change the Future (And Why It May Not Live Up To the Hype)
By: Victor Tangermann July 5, 2018 It’s 2018, and here are some things that people are obsessed with: fizzy water, sriracha, purple everything, and… blockchain. Yes, that blockchain. The thing that everyone — from that guy you know who is suddenly crypto rich, to John Oliver to, well, us — has tried to explain to […]