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| May 28, 2025 | CNBC Daily Open: Elon Musk proves returning to the office has its benefits | U.S. stocks popped Tuesday. The S&P 500 soared 2.05% to snap its four-day losing streak.
The mood heading into the Nvidia’s earnings report, out Wednesday, is different than it’s been in recent quarters.
Elon Musk wrote in a post to his... |
| May 28, 2025 | CNBC Daily Open: Elon Musk orders himself to return to the office. Investors like that | U.S. stocks popped Tuesday. The S&P 500 soared 2.05% to snap its four-day losing streak.
The mood ahead of the Nvidia’s earnings report on Wednesday is different from that of recent quarters.
Elon Musk wrote in a post to his social medi... |
| May 26, 2025 | Don’t ‘feel guilty’ for spending on these 8 things, says expert: ‘Money can absolutely buy happiness’ | We’ve all heard the phrase a million times: “Money can’t buy happiness.” But let’s be honest, whoever coined that phrase probably wasn’t living paycheck to paycheck.
But scientists have found that money actually can absolutely buy happiness... |
| Jan 10, 2025 | The New Frontier of Job Hunting: AI Bots and the Human Touch | In the digital age, job hunting has transformed into a high-stakes game. Enter the AI bot, a new player that promises to revolutionize the way we apply for jobs. Imagine a tireless assistant, working while you sleep, sending out application... |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Роль когнитивных искажений в инвестиционных решениях и «разрывы поведения» в книге Карла Ричардса | У историй про доверие к фейковой аналитике, генерируемой подростком, и всенародного помешательства на акциях компании, десятилетиями не ведущей бизнес, есть одна общая черта. «Под капотом» исторических курьезов, связанных что с невероятным ... |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Excel — самый опасный софт на планете | В 80-е годы компании покупали компьютеры, чтобы запустить электронные таблицы. Автоматический расчёт налогов и зарплат казался чудом. Тысячи бухгалтеров оказались на улице, остальным пришлось осваивать работу ПК, а конкретно — Excel.
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| Jun 12, 2024 | Revive Therapeutics Provides Update on FDA Type C Meeting for Clinical Study of Bucillamine to Treat Long COVID | TORONTO, June 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Revive Therapeutics Ltd. (“Revive” or the “Company”) (OTCQB: RVVTF) (CSE: RVV) (FRANKFURT:31R), a specialty life sciences company focused on the research and development of therapeutics and diagnos... |
| May 2, 2024 | Harvard Historian Uncovers the Story of William Freeman and the Original Prison For Profit System in New Book | "Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" by Dr. Robin Bernstein
Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History at Harvard University
Award-winning historian Robin Bernstein tells a g... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Health | Why COVID patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it | Arthur Allen | KFF Health News (TNS)
Evangelical minister Eddie Hyatt believes in the healing power of prayer but “also the medical approach.” So on a February evening a week before scheduled prostate surgery, he had his sore throat checked... |
| Mar 9, 2024 | 'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian | Science 'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
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| Feb 8, 2024 | Moving from crisis response to crisis prevention in U.S. mental health systems | Despite widespread promises of reform after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, in 2023, police killed at least 1,246 people — the most in more than a decade. This police violence is intertwined with a parallel public policy disaster: Ameri... |
| Jan 14, 2024 | Stanford economist says workers should go to the office at least 3 days a week if they want to compete for a promotion | Careers Stanford economist says workers should go to the office at least 3 days a week if they want to compete for a promotion
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| Oct 24, 2023 | LeBron James' net worth: The billionaire superstar is entering what could be his final NBA season. Here's how he makes and spends his money. | Sports LeBron James' net worth: The billionaire superstar is entering what could be his final NBA season. Here's how he makes and spends his money.
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| Oct 18, 2023 | Pathize App Uses Biometrics To Help Long Covid Patients Manage Their Fatigue | FAIRFAX, VA- February 3 : Eve Efron, who has been struggling with long covid for nearly a year, ... [+] frequently has to rest on the couch in her home in Fairfax, VA on February 3, 2022. She was denied temporary disability by Mutual of Oma... |
| Oct 9, 2023 | A woman's chance for equal pay plummets when she has a kid — and never recovers, says the newest Harvard economist to win the Nobel Prize | Toddler and parent Strelciuc Dumitru / Getty
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Goldin has been studying women's labor and the gender wage gap for decades.
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| Sep 14, 2023 | Long Covid is a new name for an old syndrome | Long Covid goes by many names. Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma, but the outlook for sufferers is no better than when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. Although its prevalence has recently decreased to 6% of... |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Has Globalization Peaked? | (Yicai Global) July 31 -- In 2010, Bruce Nussbaum published a prescient essay in the Harvard Business Review entitled “Peak Globalization”. He argued that as countries prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over internat... |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Hate speech posted on economics website EJMR is traced to leading universities, research finds | More On: hate speech
Smearing conservatives for money: the Southern Poverty Law Center’s MO Group urges CUNY to let feds probe antisemitism on its campuses Trans Miss Netherlands winner slams backlash from Dylan Mulvaney’s partnership with ... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | The cult of Emily Oster | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Emily Oster is sitting in the back of a car, checking her Garmin watch as we lurch through rush-hour traffic toward the Holland ... |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Want Your Business To Grow And Thrive? Get Out Of The Weeds, And Focus On The Vision | Bill Keen is the Founder and CEO of Keen Wealth Advisors and the Best-Selling Author of Keen on Retirement. |
| Feb 13, 2023 | ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here? | The notion that people will regularly use computers to diagnose their own illnesses has been discussed for decades. Of course, millions of people try to do that today, consulting Dr. Google, though often with little success. Given the low q... |
| Feb 11, 2023 | Good news about global warming: The public’s paying attention | How can the world forge the cooperation needed to manage climate change? Most answers to that question hinge on the challenge of enforcement. It is easy to dream up bold agreements but hard to make them stick.
Over the last decade, there ha... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | I outsourced my memory to AI for 3 weeks | On a recent late afternoon, I was having trouble remembering. My browsing history for the day suggested I'd read over a dozen news articles, numerous Slack messages, plenty of Twitter threads, and a bunch of notes for my next assignment. Ye... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | I get overwhelmed by how much stuff I read online. So I outsourced my memory to an AI app. | On a recent late afternoon, I was having trouble remembering. My browsing history for the day suggested I'd read over a dozen news articles, numerous Slack messages, plenty of Twitter threads, and a bunch of notes for my next assignment. Ye... |
| Jan 14, 2023 | Первые переговоры фрилансера с потенциальным клиентом | Когда денег не хватает даже на то, чтобы накормить кота, то на переговорах хочется сказать всё, что угодно, лишь бы клиент стал с тобой работать. Читаю главу из «Книги нормального фрилансера» о таких структуре и целях первого разговора с по... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Bridging Physical And Virtual Worlds To Clear Path For Immersive Education | Web3 and the metaverse are actively providing a canvas for education to paint. getty |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Supporting The #Landback Movement This Indigenous Heritage Month Can Help Mend The Planet | November is Native American Heritage Month, and a great time to fill in the many gaps most Americans have when learning about Indigenous history and supporting Indigenous dreams for the future. Indigenous Peoples' stories in the US and glob... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Generational Poverty: How to Break the Cycle of Poverty | Are you familiar with escape rooms? The only way you can escape is to solve a complicated problem. But what happens if you fail to escape the room on time? Having lost, you are then “imprisoned” in the room. OK, not literally. However, you ... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Как разговаривать с потенциальным клиентом на фрилансе | Это глава из «Книги нормального фрилансера», в которой я делюсь опытом проектировщика интерфейсов, работающего на себя.
Опоздай минут на десять, сядь в местечке пошумнее,
Закажи себе покушать, будет трудный разговор!
На повестке три вопроса... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Only 2 Women Awarded Nobel Prizes This Year, With Snubs In Economics—Again | Stanford Professor Carolyn Bertozzi was one of two women to win Nobel Prizes this year. (AP ... [+] Photo/Noah Berger)Associated Press |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Puerto Rico to get $60M to prep for future hurricanes, Biden announces | WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday landed in Ponce, Puerto Rico to survey the damage from Hurricane Fiona and announce $60 million in funding to help the island prepare for future hurricanes.
The visit came after the Category 1 hurr... |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Vaccine guarantees can help prevent the resurgence of polio | The first case of polio in the U.S. in a decade has triggered intense debate and unease. On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a disaster after polio virus was detected in the wastewater of a third county in the state.
Health offic... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Long Covid Is Keeping Millions Of People Out Of Work | Long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work. Getty Images |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Startup detects COVID-19 using spit, light, and a computer built to analyze patterns | Pattern Computer’s ProSpectral device for detecting COVID-19. (Pattern Computer Photo)
A Seattle-area startup called Pattern Computer is developing a rapid COVID-19 test based on patterns in light from spit, one of several projects moving a... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Northwestern University Announces Three 2022 Nemmers Prize Winners | |
| Jul 13, 2022 | Kunal Shah-backed Hyperface raises $9 million in seed funding led by 3one4Capital, Flipkart Ventures | Credit card as a service platform Hyperface on July 13 raised $9 million in seed funding led by 3one4Capital and Flipkart Ventures joined by existing investors including Better Capital and Global Founders Capital.
The company also added inv... |
| May 27, 2022 | Can America’s Cities Make a Post-Pandemic Comeback? | Before Covid came to America in January 2020, only 5% of the U.S. labor force worked remotely all the time. Within a few months of the pandemic setting in, however, nearly every American who could work from home was doing so. Today remote w... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | ‘I need evidence yesterday’: Gesund raises $2 million to provide algorithm-validating data | It’s one thing to develop a medical algorithm, quite another to prove that it actually works. To do that, you need one crucial thing that’s hard to come by: medical data. And one startup is ready to provide that in spades, along with the to... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Качество, блокчейн и другие тренды EdTech 2022 года | EdTech — отрасль, живущая по заветам Льюиса Кэрролла. Чтобы не отстать от современных технологий, нужно бежать изо всех сил. Но перед тем, как начать гонку, хорошо бы разобраться, в какую сторону двигаться. Вот что стоит держать в голове, е... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Formerly-Incarcerated People And The Employment Gap: Expanding Opportunities | Certified diversity executive, host of Diversity: Beyond the Checkbox podcast and Head of Content for The Diversity Movement. |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Using a zero-discount rate could help choose better projects and help get to net zero carbon | Choosing the right discount rates matters for selecting good projects. The authors of this blog provide strong reasons why a rate of zero is appropriate for discounting costs and benefits of most investment projects - and especially climate... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | 3 ways remote work could remake America | It’s not just another perk in a benefits package — remote work could fundamentally reshape the urban geography of the United States.
Where we live has been dictated by where we can find a good job. That truism has defined much of where Amer... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Financial Stability Report - December 2021 | Financial Policy Summary
The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) seeks to ensure the UK financial system is prepared for, and resilient to, the wide range of risks it could face - so that the system can serve UK households and businesses in ba... |
| Nov 14, 2021 | 140,000 kids had a parent or caregiver die from COVID. If we don’t help them, America is going to end up with a lost generation. | 140,000 children have lost a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 crisis.
Ignoring this and returning society to normal won’t help these kids.
Addressing the mental and physical health of these children will require real investments.
Abd... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | The collapse of French exports in the Covid crisis: mainly those of large business units | Post n°238 The collapse of French exports in the Covid crisis: mainly those of large business units
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| Nov 8, 2021 | What's the Latest Research in Development Economics? A Roundup from NEUDC 2021 | Email
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Last weekend was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. Researchers-mostly economists-presented nearly 200 papers on topics from agriculture to COVID to marriage to microfinance... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | 7 Steps to Facilitate Effective One-to-One Support for Teachers | We know from research, practice, and even personal experience that teachers who receive high-quality, ongoing support teach more effectively. Specifically, 1-1 coaching, with the help of high-quality pedagogical leaders (i.e., coach, princi... |
| Oct 23, 2021 | The housing crisis and the labor shortage are linked: People can’t take jobs if there aren’t affordable homes nearby | A ‘Help Wanted’ sign hangs in the window of Gino’s Pizza on Main Street in Patchogue, New York on August 24, 2021. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM/Getty Images
The housing crisis and the labor shortage are linked. Fighting the former could help solv... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Merck is set to make billions off a COVID-19 pill that could change the pandemic. Here’s why some countries will pay more than others. | Molnupiravir is an experimental oral antiviral developed by and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics that could treat COVID-19. Merck
Merck’s COVID-19 pill holds tremendous promise in fighting the pandemic.
Industry analysts expect Merck to make billi... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Merck to make billions off Covid pill that could change the pandemic. Some countries will pay more. | Molnupiravir is an experimental oral antiviral developed by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics that could treat COVID-19.
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Merck's Covid-19 pill holds tremendous promise in fighting the pandemic.
Industry analysts expect Merck to make... |
| Oct 10, 2021 | Who Bought $1.6B in Bitcoin Wednesday, and Why? | Like a toddler in a car seat on a long drive, last week the cryptocurrency market persistently asked the gnawing and annoying question, “Why?”
Specifically, why did someone make a massive purchase of $1.6 billion worth of bitcoin on Wednesd... |
| Jul 18, 2021 | If we all agreed to buy less stuff, we could be happier and work fewer hours | Buying less stuff could make for a happier America. NurPhoto/Getty Images
Politicians and business leaders are obsessed with economic recovery, largely driven by consumer spending.
And Americans are answering the call, buying clothes and fu... |
| Jul 16, 2021 | The pandemic-fueled decline of cash | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Jul 10, 2021 | A Harvard researcher says working out with friends is the best way to meet your goals | If you want to stay motivated to exercise, find a workout buddy, according to a Harvard expert.
Exercising with another person can help provide positive reinforcement and accountability.
That can help you stay committed to fitness, even if ... |
| Jul 6, 2021 | The saving habits of millionaires generate debt for 90% of the population: Study | July 6, 2021 2 min read
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
According to a Harvard University study that came out this year, the fact that millionaires are saving... |
| May 19, 2021 | Why 14,000 people are interested in these 200 new San Diego homes | The first homes at San Diego’s newest residential community haven’t even been built yet but the interest list is growing by the minute.
3Roots in Mira Mesa plans to build 1,800 homes by 2025 to 2026. Just 200 homes are anticipated to open t... |
| May 19, 2021 | Ending the pandemic can’t happen without ending evictions, which needlessly increase infections | Americans protested a wave of evictions and foreclosures at the end of last year as protections aiding people who couldn’t afford rent or mortgage payments was close to expiring. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
The CDC eviction moratorium... |
| May 9, 2021 | How the U.S. Government Can Learn to See the Future | Editor’s Note: Intelligence assessments are made under tremendous time pressure with imperfect information, so it is no surprise that they are often wrong. They can be better, but the intelligence community often fails to use the best analy... |
| May 4, 2021 | Teacher pay for performance: Does it really work? | A few months ago, a team of education specialists from the World Bank met with the dynamic Education Minister of a large country. Since taking office, the Minister has wanted to transform teacher performance in schools. We were asked: were ... |
| Apr 28, 2021 | The 2021 Class Of Andrew Carnegie Fellows Has Been Announced | The Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program was created under the direction of the late Vartan Gregorian, ... [+] President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Aurora Humanitarian Prize)Getty Images f... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Issues an Executive Order to Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 for Federal Contractors | Today, President Biden is issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to hundreds of thousands of workers who are working on federal contracts. These workers are critical to the functioning of the fede... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Jamie Dimon launching coalition that aims to boost hiring of ex-cons | More On: jpmorgan chase
Half of JPMorgan, Robinhood workers admit smoking weed on the clock: survey JPMorgan earnings drop 42 percent as Ukraine invasion, inflation shake economy Peter Thiel slams Warren Buffett as ‘sociopathic grandpa’ Gol... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | Kunal Shah's CRED raises $215 million to be India's latest unicorn with a valuation of $2.2 billion | Members-only credit card management and bill payments platform CRED on Tuesday said it has raised $215 million (about Rs 1,579 crore) in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $2.2 billion.
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| Mar 28, 2021 | How will people act after getting vaccinated? The complex psychology of safety | A friend invited me to her home for a birthday party. “Ten of us will be there,” she wrote. “I’m pretty sure we’ve all been vaccinated, so we should be OK.”
It was the first invitation to an indoor dinner I had received in almost a year.
Si... |
| Mar 20, 2021 | Why the gender gap in economics is even larger than in STEM | The lack of female role models may be one of the reasons fewer women study economics. 10’000 Hours/Getty Images
Women represent fewer than 15% of full professors in economics departments, according to a recent study.
Economist Veronika Dola... |
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| Jan 31, 2021 | See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Police No Evil | Editor’s Note: One of the many upsetting aspects of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was the passive police performance, which stands in stark contrast to the aggressive security response to Black Lives Matter protests, among oth... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | With New Executive Order, President Biden Gives Uninsured Americans More Health Insurance Options | President Joe Biden signs healthcare executive actions in the Oval Office of the White House on ... [+] January 28, 2021 Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Financial happiness starts at $85,000 per year | A new study says money can buy happiness. Weeraya Siankulpatanakij /EyeEm/Getty Images
Americans earning more than $US85,000 a year are happier than those who earn less.
A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that ... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | The Biden Administration and International Climate Change Policy and Action | On Jan. 20, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. He will face an unprecedented set of challenges, including global climate change—one of four stated policy priorities of his administration (along with th... |
| Nov 27, 2020 | This year has taught me women entrepreneurs need an inner circle, says Verve Super’s Christina Hobbs | Verve Super co-founders Alex Andrews, Christina Hobbs and Zoe Lamont (L to R). Source: supplied.
If this year has taught me anything, it’s that female entrepreneurs need an inner circle. I survived 2020 by leaning on others, and I know our ... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Don’t Blame Gender Inequity On Our Ancestors, Ancient Women Were Big-Game Hunters Too | New research suggests both ancient men and women were big-game hunters.getty |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Joe Biden must not let anti-capitalist climate zealots capture his presidency | As the world prepares for the coming Biden administration, a fundamental question looms both for Americans and for the wider world: which Joe Biden will govern as President? |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Network effect maintains racial inequality. What do investors need to do about it? | You know the tiny kindnesses, courtesies and extensions you offer the ones you know? These are the blessings of community. They are the transactional side of having a strong network of relationships.
Technical.ly DC Market Editor Michelai G... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Traveling For Labor Day Weekend? Here’s What To Expect | If you are looking to travel this Labor Day Weekend expect extra safety and sanitary measures from ... [+] airlines and hotels.getty |
| Jun 1, 2020 | AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes | As a teacher in Harlem, Peter Bergman, like some of his peers, wondered what he could do to help students show up to class or do their homework on time. That led him to his current career in academia, where much of his research focuses on h... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Kierkegaard on the Psychology of a Risk-Averse Society | Kierkegaard, in The Present Age:
“If the jewel which every one desired to possess lay far out on a frozen lake where the ice was very thin, watched over by the danger of death, while, closer in, the ice was perfectly safe, then in a passio... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Market And Macro Data Signal COVID-19 Economic Crisis Will Be Worse Than In 2008 | Unemployed during the Great DepressionPBS |
| Mar 29, 2020 | How to mitigate mild symptoms of Covid-19 at home, according to doctors | Most people who are sick with COVID-19 have mild symptoms and are advised to stay home and take the time to recover.
Doctors recommend Tylenol to manage any fever, fluids to stay hydrated, lots of rest, and above-all-else self-isolation.
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| Mar 18, 2020 | The economic rationale for strong action now against Covid-19 | As governments and communities struggle to figure out the best way to deal with the novel coronavirus, a major concern is how to balance the risk to lives versus the risk to livelihoods. In short, how do we balance the public health versus ... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | 2019 Nobel Prize Recipient, Abhijit Banerjee, Reflects On Leadership In The Social Sector | Last week I had the good fortune to sit down for lunch with MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee — one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences — just hours before he was to board a flight to Sweden. Upon arrival... |
| Dec 7, 2019 | U.S. Needs to Raise Taxes to Fight Poverty, Nobel Laureate Says
U.S. Needs to Raise Taxes to Fight Poverty, Nobel Laureate Says | (Bloomberg) --
The U.S. needs to raise taxes considerably if it’s going to tackle poverty, according to Abhijit Banerjee, a winner of this year’s Nobel prize in economics.
Banerjee, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | The pitfalls of a ‘retrofit human’ in AI systems | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Power in AI.
Stanislav Petrov is not a famous name in the computer science space, like Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper, but his story serves as a critical lesson for develo... |
| Aug 5, 2019 | Is the Threat of ‘Fake Science’ Real? | In the early 1980s, Soviet intelligence began Operation Infektion—a campaign to erode trust in the U.S. government by orchestrating a series of scientific papers and news articles arguing that the U.S. government created the HIV/AIDS virus.... |
| Jun 16, 2019 | How States Foster Violent Extremism and What the United States Should Do About It | Over the past two decades, extremists have successfully exploited both intrastate politics and interstate relations to further their own state-building projects. In particular, they have targeted marginalized, peripheral regions of fragile ... |
| Apr 18, 2019 | Naviance Wields Much ‘Power and Influence’ in College Admissions, Harvard Researcher Finds | For decades, the college-admissions process has been shrouded in mystery. But these days, big data, and a popular college planning tool, are taking much of the guesswork out of applying to college.
That was a major takeaway from Christine M... |
| Sep 10, 2018 | Cryptic Labs adds 2 Nobel laureates as advisers for blockchain security research | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cryptic Labs, a research institute that wants to ... |
| Sep 10, 2018 | Cryptic Labs adds 2 Nobel laureates as advisers for blockchain security research | Cryptic Labs, a research institute that wants to use blockchain technology to solve security problems, has announced the addition of two Nobel laureates in economics — Eric Maskin and Christopher Pissarides — to its economic advisory board.... |
| Jul 29, 2018 | Must Reads: A ‘unique’ opportunity for investors spells mass eviction for tenants | Life at The Driftwood apartments was far from perfect. Tenants said the plumbing was prone to leaks and once in a while a cockroach might scamper through the kitchen.
But rent, at $800 or less a month, was doable. And the cream-colored buil... |
| Jul 1, 2018 | Wars of None: AI, Big Data, and the Future of Insurgency | Editor’s Note: The rapid pace of technological innovation is changing the nature of warfare, and futurists are busy spinning out scenarios of a U.S.-China clash in twenty years involving nano-technology and fully autonomous weapons systems.... |
| May 7, 2018 | A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains what Milton Friedman got wrong | Oliver Hart is a professor of economics at Harvard University. Hart won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2016 for his work in contract theory and is the author of "Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure." Hart sat down with Busi... |
| Mar 15, 2018 | To achieve more equity in the tech industry, we must reframe diversity | By Patricia Baum Salgado, Fielding Graduate University
There is a lot of fear among men in the tech industry about speaking out and trying to overcome declining female participation and sexual harassment, according to my ongoing research.
D... |
| Feb 12, 2018 | Column: Employers say gig workers should have better retirements — as long as they’re not ‘employees’ | The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants you to know that it’s deeply concerned about the retirement prospects of workers in the “gig economy,” especially those drivers, housecleaners and other such menials who make their living by connecting wit... |
| Sep 14, 2017 | I’m the perfect person to price shop for an operation. But the process went terribly | After three months of using hot compresses to shrink the stye on my daughter’s eyelid, it wasn’t getting any smaller. My daughter is prone to this sort of growth, called a chalazion. This one would have to be removed surgically, like the on... |
| Sep 12, 2017 | China’s ICO ban makes more sense in light of its history with fintech | Nik Milanovic Contributor
Nik Milanovic is a fintech and financial inclusion enthusiast, with a decade of work across mobile payments, online lending, credit and microfinance. The opinions expressed in his articles do not reflect those of h... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Medication Adherence Tech: A dynamic and crowded market, but where are the winners in the space? (Part 1 of 2) | About the Authors: @DanGebremedhin is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm. He is a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, previously served as a Medical D... |
| Jun 28, 2017 | Business planning in uncertain times: forget technology | Business planning in uncertain times: forget technology
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| Apr 11, 2017 | Chinese Investment in the United States: Time for New Rules? | Last month, Tesla announced that it sold a 5% stake to Tencent, a Chinese conglomerate that might best be described as a cross between Facebook and Zynga, with the Huffington Post, Pay-Pal (two Pay-Pals, to be precise), and VC-giant Andreis... |
