Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
China Opening “The World’s Biggest Animal Cloning Factory”
November 24th, 2015Via: Telegraph: The world’s biggest animal “cloning factory” is due to open in China, producing one million calves a year, sniffer dogs and even genetic copies of the family pet. … The factory, which will include a 15,000 square metre laboratory, an animal centre, a gene bank and an exhibition hall, is currently being built […]
Bank of England: Automation to Eliminate Roughly Half of U.S. and British Jobs
November 13th, 2015Via: CNBC: One central bank has some frightening predictions when it comes to job stability in the future. 80 million jobs in the United States are at risk of being taken over by robots in the next few decades, a Bank of England (BoE) official warned on Thursday. With U.S. data showing that total nonfarm […]
Maintenance of U.S. Passenger Planes Outsourced to El Salvador, Mexico and China
November 10th, 2015Via: The Atlantic: Over the past decade, nearly all large U.S. airlines have shifted heavy maintenance work on their airplanes to repair shops thousands of miles away, in developing countries, where the mechanics who take the planes apart (completely) and put them back together (or almost) may not even be able to read or speak […]
Details of UK Website Visits to Be Stored for Year
November 4th, 2015Via: BBC: The internet activity of everyone in Britain will have to be stored for a year by service providers, under new surveillance law plans. Police and intelligence officers will be able to see the names of sites people have visited without a warrant, Home Secretary Theresa May said. But there would be new safeguards […]
Government of South Korea and Samsung Developing Robots to Manufacture Consumer Electronics
October 19th, 2015Via: The Korea Herald: South Korea’s government said Monday that it will join forces with Samsung Electronics Co. to develop precision manufacturing robots that could open new horizons for the local manufacturing sector. The plan calls for 16.75 billion won ($14.8 million) worth of taxpayers’ money to be invested in the next three years to […]
Social Skills Are Last Line of Defense for Humans Seeking Work
October 19th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: David Deming, an associate professor of education and economics at Harvard University, has found that jobs requiring social interaction are growing relative to work that doesn’t, and such skills may offer some protection from robotic takeover. Certain high-level professions that demand technical expertise and low-skill work that can be done by a greater […]
CITE: The $1 Billion City That Nobody Calls Home
October 7th, 2015Via: CNN: In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert, between the site of the first atomic bomb test and the U.S.-Mexico border, a new city is rising from the sand. Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown, and neat rows of terraced housing in […]
A Robot at Best Buy Sells CDs, DVDs, Games
October 5th, 2015Service with a smile. Via: Fox 5: Best Buy is experimenting with full automation — in the form of a robot — to sell a decidedly old-fashioned medium: CDs and DVDs. I’m in my 40s, so yes I remember vinyl records, tapes and even 8-tracks. So I still do like buying at least some of […]
Pentagon Halts Work with Bioterror Germs at 9 Labs
September 4th, 2015Via: USA Today: The discovery of live anthrax outside a containment area at a military lab in Utah prompted military officials to order an immediate freeze on operations at nine biodefense laboratories that work with dangerous viruses, toxins and bacteria, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The moratorium, first reported by USA TODAY, came after officials took […]
Frederick Forsyth Reveals MI6 Spying Past
August 30th, 2015Via: BBC: The Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth has revealed he was working for MI6 for more than 20 years. The disclosure comes with the publication of the author’s autobiography The Outsider: My Life. Fans have long suspected that Forsyth, 77, acclaimed for his highly realistic spy novels, may have been involved with […]
