Like most academics, biology researcher Dr Jose Pastor-Pareja relies heavily on Google’s search engine, using it “every 10 minutes”, he says. But access to this resource is not guaranteed as he works at Tsinghua University in China – where the government has been tightening what are already among the strictest controls over the internet in […]
Read moreJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces a grilling in parliament on Monday over a suspected scandal that has cut his ratings to their lowest since taking office in 2012 and after a candidate from his ruling party lost a mayoral election. Several opinion polls have shown Abe’s support below 30 percent and, while this does […]
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There’s a trend lurking that could disrupt technology’s historic winning streak ahead of this week’s earnings burst. Longtime technician Louise Yamada recently made the observation based on a special chart of the Nasdaq. “You’ve got the event decline line for both the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange at new highs. Yes, there are […]
Read moreWorkers are frequently told robots are coming for their jobs, while fast food employees are already starting to see automation creep into their places of employment. Along with kiosks popping up at McDonald’s, diners in Japan have been treated to a sushi-making robot, while in California a robot flips burgers. So with machines on the […]
Read mores A few years ago, Raghupathy Sivakumar, a computer science professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, realized he had a problem. An undergraduate student had just won a prestigious business plan competition Sivakumar had helped organize, but the student had no idea how to advance his idea from concept to product, a major roadblock for […]
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Mon Dieu! Newly elected French President Macron suffers 10 point drop in popularity rating
French President Emmanuel Macron‘s popularity rating has slumped by 10 percentage points this month, according to an Ifop poll on Sunday—the biggest decline for a new president since 1995. The poll, published in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, said 54 percent of people in France were satisfied with Macron in July, compared with 64 percent […]
Read moreJust one day into his job as White House, communications director Anthony Scaramucci announced on Twitter that he’d be deleting past tweets. Not only is this a highly counterintuitive move for the person charged with communicating between the Trump administration and the press — not to mention a weird understanding of the term “full transparency” […]
Read moreWe’re far removed from the days when you’d see people at every city street corner being guided around by their smartphones to catch pokémon. But some people have loyally stuck with the hit mobile game months after its popularity waned. Pokémon Go Fest was supposed to be a reward and real-world celebration for those players. […]
Read moreWhatsApp, the standalone messaging app that Facebook bought for $19 billion back in early 2014, doesn’t make any money. That’s about to change — apparently soon — as WhatsApp is hiring for a number of key monetization roles, including a product manager position to “lead product development on our monetization efforts.” WhatsApp, which has more […]
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If you get a lot of packages delivered and want to keep an eye on them, buy the Ring Doorbell 2. If you’re frequently upstairs and don’t hear your current doorbell or prefer to know who’s at the door before answering it, buy the Ring Doorbell 2. If you want to just check in on […]
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