Archive for the 'Economy' Category
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November 5th, 2014I saw this on SMA’s (English Language) Facebook page:
Dr. Toni Bark on Pediatric Health and Vaccination Status: The Kids with Chronic Illnesses Have All Been Vaccinated
November 4th, 2014Via: Age of Autism:
Malls Fill Vacant Stores With Server Rooms
November 3rd, 2014Via: Wall Street Journal: The Internet is moving to a shopping center near you. In Fort Wayne, Ind., a vacated Target store is about to be home to rows of computer servers, network routers and Ethernet cables courtesy of a local data-center operator. In Jackson, Miss., a former McRae’s department store will get the same […]
Flesh-and-Blood Advisers Face Threats from Robots
November 3rd, 2014Via: Reuters: Fidelity and Charles Schwab will be offering automated financial advice that’s low-cost or even free, pushing other advisers to be tech-savvy to compete. Last month, both Charles Schwab Corp and Fidelity Investments unveiled so-called “robo” advice programs that offer free or very cheap algorithm-driven portfolio management to investors. More Teen With Terminal Cancer […]
40KG of Cocaine Found on Ship Owned by Mitch McConnell’s Inlaws
November 3rd, 2014Via: The Nation: Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, could disembark from the port of Santa Marta en route to the Netherlands in late August, Colombian inspectors boarded the boat and made a discovery. Hidden in the ship’s chain locker, amidst its load of coal bound for Europe, were approximately 40 kilograms, or […]
New Zealand’s Electricity Bought and Sold in a “Phoney Market” which Represents Another Form of Taxation
November 3rd, 2014Via: Southland Times: The former Meridian Energy director, who is also Upoko of Awarua Runanga, said New Zealand’s electricity was bought and sold in a “phoney market” which represented another form of taxation. If the electricity market was genuinely competitive, every electricity company director and chief executive would be thrown in jail.
Eleven Countries Studied, One Inescapable Conclusion – The Drug Laws Don’t Work
October 31st, 2014Oh, drug laws work great if you’re a corporation that turns a profit on locking people up. Via: Guardian: The UK government’s comparison of international drug laws, published on Wednesday, represents the first official recognition since the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act that there is no direct link between being “tough on drugs” and tackling […]
Swiss Company to Build Utility-Scale Batteries in North Carolina
October 30th, 2014Via: Fortune: A Swiss maker of giant storage batteries for wind and solar farms is taking over a giant Philip Morris plant. The Philip Morris plant in Concord, North Carolina used to manufacture a billion cigarettes a year. But Americans are smoking less, and in the tobacco giant shuttered the factory’s doors years ago and […]
Verizon Wireless Injects Identifiers that Link Its Users to Web Requests
October 29th, 2014Via: Ars Technica: Cellular communications provider Verizon Wireless is adding cookie-like tokens to Web requests traveling over its network. These tokens are being used to build a detailed picture of users’ interests and to help clients tailor advertisements, according to researchers and Verizon’s own documentation. The profiling, part of Verizon’s Precision Market Insights division, kicked […]
Google Pill to Diagnose Disease
October 29th, 2014How about a Google suppository? Via: Wired: Google is attempting to develop a pill that would send microscopic particles into the bloodstream in an effort to identify cancers, imminent heart attacks, and other diseases. Andrew Conrad, the head of life sciences inside the company’s Google X research lab, revealed the project on Tuesday morning at […]
