Archive for the 'Economy' Category
America’s Aging Population Is Leading to a Doctor Shortage Crisis
September 8th, 2019Via: CNBC: As America’s population ages and demand outpaces supply, a physician shortage is intensifying. Projections from the Association of American Medical Colleges say the U.S. will see a shortage of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians by 2032 in primary and specialty care. The aging of America’s population is slicing the health-care industry in multiple ways. […]
‘The Neoliberal Takeover of the Human Body’
September 8th, 2019Via: MarketWatch: Biometric mobile wallets — payment technologies using our faces, fingerprints or retinas — already exist. Notable technology companies including Apple and Amazon await a day when a critical mass of consumers is sufficiently comfortable walking into a store and paying for goods without a card or device, according to Sinnreich, author of “The […]
Shift to Electric Vehicles Will Radically Change Auto Factories
September 6th, 2019Via: The Detroit News: The flood of electric vehicles rolling out over the next decade will have many fewer parts and assemblies than today’s gas-powered cars and trucks. And that will radically change the auto factory floor, with fewer jobs and the real possibility that the batteries and electric motors that power the new vehicles […]
Social Credit Score USA
September 5th, 2019Via: Paul Watson:
Amazon Tests Whole Foods Payment System that Uses Hands as ID
September 4th, 2019Via: New York Post: Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain […]
Fire Did Not Cause 3rd Tower’s Collapse on 9/11, New Study Finds
September 3rd, 2019Via: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction. Despite calls for the evidence to be preserved, New York City officials had […]
Scammer Successfully Deepfaked CEO’s Voice To Fool Underling Into Transferring $243,000
September 3rd, 2019I don’t entirely believe this one, but it’s interesting if true. When I’ve been in a position to spend tens of thousands of dollars of a company’s money, it never happened based on just a phone call with the CEO. But, hey, these kids today… Via: Gizmodo: The CEO of an energy firm based in […]
Ford Is Bringing All-Electric F150 Pickup to Market ‘Before 2022’
September 3rd, 2019The Oh Shit! moment seems to have finally arrived at Ford. I wonder from where they’re planning to get the batteries? Via: Electrek: Ford has already confirmed that it is finally making an all-electric version of its best-selling F150 pickup truck, but it wasn’t clear when it would be available until now. The automaker says […]
America’s Wealth Hinges on Its Ability to Borrow Big – or Else
September 1st, 2019Ponzi schemes. Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. economy is consistently ranked among the world’s strongest. But cut off its addiction to debt and exhaust its gold and currency reserves, and a very different picture would emerge. The nation’s health as measured by gross domestic product per capita would plunge into negative territory without its dependence on […]
Biohackers Are Pirating a Cheap Version of a Million-Dollar Gene Therapy
August 30th, 2019Via: MIT Technology Review: Citing the tremendous cost of new drugs, an international group of biohackers say they are creating a knock-off of a million-dollar gene therapy. The drug being copied is Glybera, a gene therapy that was the world’s most expensive drug when it came on the market in Europe in 2015 with a […]
