Immigration: No visas for low-skilled workers, government says
Video caption The BBC’s Vicki Young asked people in Wanstead and Basildon for their opinions Low-skilled workers would not get visas under post-Brexit immigration plans unveiled by the government. It is urging employers to “move away” from relying on “cheap labour” from Europe and invest in...
IIT Kanpur alumnus Arvind Krishna to be IBM’s CEO — Quartz India
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Mass Timber, Not Steel, Is the Future of Construction
Fire-blocking mass timber construction could bring millions of pounds of carbon absorption to cities around the world. Wooden skyscraper designs are trendy around the world and reflect changing attitudes about wood construction. Making construction-grade timber can also cost less in carbon emissions than concrete and steel....
Automation is not a dirty word
‘The key to surviving the automation revolution is by simply getting back to be human.’ The automobile industry was on of the first to ‘go automated’. Source: Shutterstock As our world continuously evolves and the lines between offline and online continue to blur, change remains the only constant in our...
These are the world’s most innovative countries. The US isn’t even in the top 5.
Germany has been named the most innovative country in the world, according to Bloomberg’s latest Innovation Index. It only just beat South Korea, which has ranked first for six years. The US only came in ninth, while Singapore jumped from sixth place last year to third in 2020. Germany’s top score comes as a...
Google Is Going to Charge Cops for Your Data
Google announced that it was going to start charging law enforcement authorities for legal data disclosure requests, such as subpoenas and search warrants, related to its users. The company receives thousands of petitions from authorities every year and has decided to charge to help “ offset the costs ” associated...
Investors Are for the Weak: These Tech Entrepreneurs Chose Bootstrapping Over VC Affluence
Bootstrapped companies target quick profitability and avoid pressure from investors. Following WeWork’s crash and Uber’s and Lyft’s failure to take off, the time has come to look at business models that focus on more than just growth The equity industry is still processing WeWork’s IPO farse, but the business model that...
Like It or Not, Automation Is Coming
Credit: Getty Images More than a century ago, the great composer John Philip Sousa worried about the future of his profession. He feared that a new invention, the record player, would render obsolete “the ennobling discipline of learning music,” putting professional musicians out of work. Sousa’s works have stood the test...
Scientists Bring Concrete To Life & It Might Be The Future Of Construction
Today in weird news we didn’t expect to read: Researchers in Colorado have produced Franken-concrete. It’s alive, and it may be the future of green buildings. Concrete is, quite literally, all around us. It, or versions of it, has been used since 1300 B.C., meaning even a trip to Roman ruins is surrounded by...
AMD confirms ‘Nvidia killer’ graphics card will be out in 2020
AMD’s chief executive has confirmed that a high-end Navi graphics card will be released this year. In a video interview entitled ‘The Bring Up’ posted on YouTube by AMD (see below), Lisa Su noted that people were wondering about Big Navi – said high-end GPU, which has previously been referred to as the...
Daniel Susskind: ‘Automation of jobs is one of the greatest questions of our time’
Daniel Susskind is an economist and fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has held policy roles in the Blair and Cameron governments. His new book, A World Without Work , explores how society should respond to the increasing automation of employment. This isn’t an unexplored topic, so why did you write this book? My view...
In a rare move, Apple, Amazon, and Google just announced a major partnership
Amazon’s latest Echo smart speaker. Amazon , Apple , and Google make competing smart-home speakers: the Echo, the HomePod, and the Home. Despite this competition, the three tech giants are putting aside differences and forging a rare collaboration over smart-home standards, they announced on Wednesday . The plan:...
Rental properties are a ‘terrible investment,’ says fintech company with $22 billion in assets under management
A decade ago, John Paulson, coming off the absolute fortune he had made a few years earlier by shorting subprime mortgages, reportedly told a packed house in New York City to load up on real estate. “If you don’t own a home buy one,” the hedge-fund legend said at the time. “If you own one home, buy...
Hotel developers are pushing this Lego-like construction trend
Built section-by-section in a factory, hotel units are shipped to a site and stacked, sometimes practically overnight. Photo credit: Guerdon Modular Buildings. Modular construction is something like Legos — and hotel developers can’t get enough of the new building trend. Built section-by-section in a factory, hotel...
Shares of Tyson Foods climb after it wins approval to export poultry to China
Tyson Foods received approval to sell U.S. poultry products to China, according to Reuters. The Springdale, Arkansas-based company expects to start taking orders early next year and can start shipping from all 36 of its processing plants, Reuters reported. China banned American poultry in 2015 due to a U.S. outbreak of avian...
How Trump Lost His Trade War
President Trump walked away from his stated goals to make his China trade deal. Trade wars rarely have victors. They do, however, sometimes have losers. And Donald Trump has definitely turned out to be a loser. Of course, that’s not the way he and his team are portraying the tentative deal they’ve struck with China,...
Athletes eating a plant-based diet: What are the health risks and benefits?
Chris Pizzello / Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Plant-based diets have been receiving a lot of buzz lately with the recent release of the documentary The Game Changers , about the benefits of plant-based eating for athletes. Vegetarian diets are often based on ethical concerns and/or animal welfare. Vegetarian diets vary greatly on...
Poorest countries facing both obesity and malnutrition
A third of the poorest countries in the world are dealing with high levels of obesity as well as under-nourishment, which leaves people too thin, according to a report in The Lancet. It says the problem is caused by global access to ultra-processed foods, and people exercising less. The authors are calling for changes to the...
Erdogan Threatens to Recognize Genocide of Native Americans
FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia, 22 October 2019 ANKARA (Sputnik) – The Turkish President threatened Sunday to recognize mass killings of Native Americans during the colonial period as genocide after the US...
The chill ahead in the Second Cold War
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer, PIIE In the year 2018 — 99 years after the end of the First World War, 73 years after the end of the Second and 26 years after the end of the first Cold War — US Vice President Mike Pence announced a Second Cold War : This time with China. How and when it will end is anyone’s...
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