Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Robots Take the Wheel as Autonomous Farm Machines Hit Fields
May 16th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming. The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks. Tractors will drive with no farmer in the cab, and specialized equipment will be able to spray, plant, plow […]
Half of Americans Are Just One Paycheck Away from Financial Disaster
May 16th, 2019Via: MarketWatch: Missing more than one paycheck is a one-way ticket to financial hardship for nearly half of the country’s workforce. A new study from NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent social research institution, found that 51% of working adults in the United States would need to access savings to cover necessities if […]
Driverless Electric Truck Starts Deliveries on Swedish Public Road
May 16th, 2019Via: Reuters: Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries on a public road in Sweden on Wednesday, in what developer Einride and logistics customer DB Schenker described as a world first. Robert Falck, the CEO of Swedish start-up Einride, said the company was in partnership talks […]
Drone Attack on Saudi Aramco Facilities
May 14th, 2019Via: Reuters: Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the world’s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones had attacked two pumping stations belonging to state oil company Aramco. … The Saudi state news agency quoted Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih as saying that Aramco had halted pumping on the East-West pipeline until the damage was […]
Amazon Rolls Out Machines That Pack Orders and Eliminate Jobs
May 13th, 2019Via: Reuters: Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years, which scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and envelopes them seconds later in boxes custom-built for each item, two […]
Drug Cartel: Lawsuit by 44 States Accuses Pharma Giants of ‘Multi-Year Conspiracy’ to Hike Drug Prices by Over 1,000%
May 13th, 2019Make sure to get shot up with vaccines being peddled by the perpetrators of, “One of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States.” Oh sure! You’d have to be out of your mind, and possibly a terrorist, or worse, if you don’t trust their statements about vaccine safety […]
Privacy Experts, Senators Demand Investigation of Amazon’s Child Data Collection Practices
May 12th, 2019Via: The Intercept: Last year, a coalition of privacy advocates and child psychologists warned against putting an Amazon Alexa speaker anywhere near your child on the fairly reasonable grounds that developing minds shouldn’t befriend always-on surveillance devices, no matter how cute the packaging. Now, a group of privacy researchers, attorneys, and U.S. senators are calling […]
Bitcoin’s First $1,000 Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High
May 12th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Bitcoin surged more than $1,000 this weekend to the highest level since August, as cryptocurrencies extended their rebound from a slump last month amid the New York attorney general’s investigation of a key part of the market. Bitcoin rose as much as 6.9% to $7,445, before trading at $7,323.86 as of 2:15 p.m. […]
Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same
May 11th, 2019And wreck the CIA’s illicit drug running business? I don’t think so. Imagine the whinging you’d hear from the militarized cop industrial complex. Also, what would become of the private prison industry? Oh no no no, Mexico, let’s not go there. Via: Newsweek: Mexico’s president released a new plan last week that called for radical […]
IBM: Use AI to Identify Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
May 8th, 2019Mmm hmm. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: IEEE: Growing skepticism toward vaccines has sparked a flareup of measles outbreaks affecting New York City neighborhoods, cruise ships, international airports and even Google’s Mountain View headquarters. To help family physicians reach out to […]
