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28/08/2017
The world has had enough of paper money.Now that consumers are done with physical wallets, the multi-billion-dollar mobile pay app market is minting new digital barons at breakneck speed.
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RACIST & SEXIST AI BOTS COULD DENY YOU JOB, INSURANCE & LOANS
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26/08/2017
Artificial intelligence programs designed to assess candidates for university places and bank loans may be inherently racist and sexist, according to technology experts.
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WALL STREET BANKS WARN DOWNTURN IS COMING
Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
24/08/2017
Just like they did in the run-up to the 2007 crisis, investors are pricing assets based on the risks specific to an individual security and industry, and shrugging off broader drivers, such as the latest release of manufacturing data, the model shows.
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Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
24/08/2017
DID you know that Google has been recording you without your knowledge?The technology giant has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices that can capture intimate conversations – even when they aren’t in the room.
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THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF WHITE SLAVES IN AMERICA
Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
24/08/2017
Did you know what white slaves existed in America for the past several centuries as well? While extremely rare compared to African or Native slaves, they did exist.
According to the Huffington Post:“In the early 1860s, photographs of children dubbed “white” slaves were circulated as part of a campaign to raise money for public schools for emancipated slaves.The group was first featured in an engraving of a photograph entitled “Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored” in an issue of Harper’s Weekly in January 1864. According to an article titled “Portraits of Slave Children,” the images were meant to evoke sympathy from wealthy Northerners for potential donations.”
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GERMAN CENTRAL BANK COMPLETES REPATRIATION OF $28 BILLION IN GOLD THREE YEARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
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24/08/2017
On January 16, 2013, the Bundesbank – one of the biggest gold holder in the world, with 3,378 tonnes – shocked the world: out of the blue, the German central bank announced that by December 31, 2020, it intends to store half of Germany’s gold reserves in its own vaults in Frankfurt, up from only 31% at the time.
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UK CONDEMNED OVER ‘SHOCKING’ EXPORT OF DEADLY WEEDKILLER TO POORER COUNTRIES
Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
24/08/2017
A highly toxic weedkiller not authorised for use in the EU is being exported to developing countries from a UK factory.Paraquat, a pesticide so lethal that a single sip can be fatal, has caused thousands of accidental deaths and suicides globally, and was outlawed by EU states in 2007.
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SCIENTISTS REMOTELY HACKED A BRAIN, CONTROLLING BODY MOVEMENTS
Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
24/08/2017
Imagine someone remotely controlling your brain, forcing your body’s central processing organ to send messages to your muscles that you didn’t authorize.
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COULD THIS BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR FACEBOOK?
Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
24/08/2017
“Facebook is for old people,” I was told by a 17-year-old last week in San Francisco at the Startup Societies Summit.
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KILLER ROBOTS: EXPERTS WARN OF ‘THIRD REVOLUTION IN WARFARE
Author: 7b7bc2512ee1fedcd76bdc68926d4f7b
22/08/2017
I was warning about this 15 years ago. Nowadays, I’m more into yawning and wondering why the mushroom clouds haven’t gone up yet.
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