Twenty-four people, including nine policemen, were injured when members of two communities pelted stones at each other believing a rumour in Jaipur, prompting authorities to use teargas to disperse the mob, police said on Tuesday. Following the communal tension, mobile internet services in 10 police station areas have been suspended till Wednesday night and five people have been arrested, they ... Read More »
PALESTINIAN ENTREPRENEURS attend a training session in the UCAS Technology Incubator office in Gaza.. (photo credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / REUTERS) This past summer we traveled all across the country as interns of the Ambassadors’ Club of Israel, and met a diverse group of people. In many of our conversations, we noticed one recurring issue when discussing any hope ... Read More »
Tristan Harris wants to reverse the harmful effects he believes technology has had on all of us. Harris, a former Google design ethicist, first rose to national awareness after a presentation he gave within Google in 2013 spread throughout the industry. In it, he argued that many tech products were designed to be addictive, causing people to spend too much ... Read More »
UPDATE: Social media influencer Ray Diaz has pleaded not guilty to having sex with a teenage girl as well as assaulting her and a young woman in separate incidents over the past year, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Raymundo Diaz was charged with two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, one count each of oral copulation of a person under ... Read More »
Charging elderly clients just one yuan or about 14 cents a day, little-known Lanchuang Network Technology Corp has embarked on one of the most ambitious undertakings in aged care by a private sector firm in China. Provided with a setup box, a webcam paired with a television set and “Xiaoyi”, a Siri-like voice assistant, customers gain access to telemedicine and ... Read More »
In 1996, General Mills began adding redemption offers to its line of cereals. Named Box Tops for Education, the program allowed consumers to clip the offer from the tops of products like Cheerios and forward them to their child’s school, which could redeem each slip for 10 cents; that money was then used to buy school supplies and fund educational events. In the ... Read More »
After two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Trump said his administration would ask social media companies to develop tools that could detect potential mass shooters. While delivering a speech on the recent violence, Trump said “we must do a better job of identifying and acting on early warning signs,” and he suggested social media ... Read More »
Workers and supporters protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice during hearings over the rights of Uber drivers, October 2018. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP Here is one of the great paradoxes of our time. The world is dominated by a few corporations that are among the most profitable companies in the history of capitalism. In the US (the home of these ... Read More »
It’s happening right before our eyes — robots have submitted their resumes and are taking over human jobs. Robotics is certainly the change that we can neither deny nor refuse, the very next thing in technology. The effect of this “next level” is not limited to any industry. Apart from the threat it poses to human labor, which might imply job loss for many, ... Read More »
Hong Kong : China’s new Nasdaq-style market has already propelled three tech executives to billionaire status. The three men hold stakes in companies that ballooned in value when the Star Market in Shanghai began trading Monday. The 25 stocks on the market gained 140% on average the day of the debut, before retreating slightly Tuesday. They were higher again Wednesday on optimism that US-China ... Read More »
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