Archive for the 'Economy' Category
‘Scientists Are Working On a Pill for Loneliness’
January 26th, 2019Mmm hmm. Via: Guardian: Modern life has led to greater isolation, which can fuel an array of disorders. If there are medications for social pains like depression and anxiety, why not loneliness?
EU Adds Saudi Arabia to Draft Terrorism Financing List
January 25th, 2019Via: Reuters: The European Commission has added Saudi Arabia to an EU draft list of countries that pose a threat to the bloc because of lax controls against terrorism financing and money laundering, two sources told Reuters on Friday.
Chefs and Truck Drivers Beware: AI Is Coming for Your Jobs
January 24th, 2019Via: Newsweek / AP: Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report. The report, published Thursday, says roughly 36 million Americans hold jobs with “high exposure” to automation — meaning at least 70 […]
Amazon Starts Testing ‘Scout’ Delivery Robots Near Seattle
January 24th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. will use robots to deliver packages in the suburbs north of Seattle, its latest experiment to automate the last-mile of delivery that’s a labor-intensive and costly component of buying products online. The e-commerce giant on Wednesday announced a trial of “Amazon Scout,” autonomous delivery devices the size of a cooler that […]
South Koreans Pamper Pets Instead of Having Kids
January 23rd, 2019Via: Reuters: Kang Sung-il buys Sancho, his Pomeranian, a toy every business trip and this Lunar New Year holiday will dress him up in a new $50 suit to visit ‘grandma’, Kang’s mother. Kang and his wife say children are too expensive and bring too much pressure. Instead they have opted to shower Sancho with […]
Google Will Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome
January 23rd, 2019For safety. *snort* Via: Register: Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers. Adblock Plus will most likely not be affected, though similar third-party plugins will, for reasons we will explain. The drafted changes will also limit the capabilities available to extension developers, ostensibly […]
Prescription Eyewear Scam
January 22nd, 2019Via: Los Angeles Times: Prescription eyewear represents perhaps the single biggest mass-market consumer ripoff to be found.
$1.2 Trillion in Risky Corporate Debt Ready to Blow
January 22nd, 2019Via: Los Angeles Times: Indebted borrowers increasingly take out high-interest, adjustable-rate loans that are packaged into securities and sold to investors eager for a better rate of return. Everything’s fine while the economy is growing. But when it slows, those borrowers could default, causing problems to cascade through the financial system. If this all sounds […]
Toyota and Panasonic to Build Electric Car Batteries Together
January 22nd, 2019Via: Nikkei: Toyota Motor and Panasonic plan to set up a joint venture in 2020 to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, joining forces to compete more effectively on cost and scale with rising Chinese players in a key area for the future of the auto industry, Nikkei has learned. The venture, in which Toyota is […]
Petro Canada Starts Deploying Its Own Electric Vehicle Chargers at Gas Stations
January 22nd, 2019Via: Electrek: Petro Canada, formerly a state-owned oil company in Canada but now part of Suncor, becomes the latest oil company to get involved in electric vehicle charging. … Shell is arguably leading the charge through its involvement in the new Ionity charging network in Europe. The company is building its own chargers at its […]
