With America’s national debt sitting comfortably over the $36.2 trillion mark, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is warning the burden could one day be the reason the dollar is dethroned as the reserve currency of the world. He argues that decentralized currencies like Bitcoin could replace the dollar as worldwide organizations Read more…
Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang hi-tech zone, marking the latest sign of the US tech giant’s retreat from China amid rising geopolitical tensions. The Shanghai lab, meant to help with domestic development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, Read more…
Some scientists believe life on earth originated in organic matter in earth’s bodies of water more than 3.5 billion years ago, but where did that organic material come from…? Maybe electrical energy sparked the beginnings of life on earth — just like in Frankenstein: Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning Read more…
After sitting below 4% for more than two years, the overall unemployment rate has topped that threshold since May… “We’re seeing a meaningful transition in the way work is done in the white-collar world, I tell people a wave is coming….” Thousands of video game workers lost jobs last year Read more…
The U.S. and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker. Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries. “The time has come for robots,” Nvidia’s chief executive said at a conference in March, adding “This could very well be the largest industry of all.” China’s Read more…
Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, after a passenger could not locate their cellphone. Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew couldn’t find the phone — the Boeing 777 turned Read more…
If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That’s because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically, shutting out those whose skills Read more…