It was a fateful moment for Shelley Winner, an inmate at Dublin, a federal prison in California. She was preparing to pitch a start-up idea, Shark Tank style, to a group of successful entrepreneurs and budding business owners. Winner – a self-described “computer geek” who had aspirations to start her own repair service –spent hours […]
Read moreIf a worker loses a job to a robot, who pays the city and state tax revenue that the formerly employed worker paid in? Right now, nobody does. That’s where the idea of a “robot tax” comes in. In an interview with Quartz earlier this year, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates said he believes […]
Read moreChina’s anti-graft watchdog said roughly 1.34 million lower-ranking officials have been punishedsince 2013 under President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive. Xi, who is preparing for a major Communist Party leadership conference later this month, has made an anti-graft campaign targeting “tigers and flies,” both high and low ranking officials, a core policy priority during his five-year […]
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