Kai RiemerAsia Why Cruise Lines Keep Cutting Their Ships in Half Bloomberg - Fran Golden The economics of cruising are as fascinating as they are counterintuitive. The economics of cruising are as fascinating as they are counterintuitive. A …
Kai RiemerTikTok Wie Tiktok seine Nutzer überwacht sueddeutsche.de - Süddeutsche Zeitung Scherze, Tanzschritte, lustige Filmchen: Die Videoplattform Tiktok ist vor allem bei Jugendlichen derzeit der Hit. Weltweit sind einem internen …
Kai RiemerLong-form Journalism How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company VICE - Caroline HaskinsThis is the first of a three-part series, where we’ll explore how Ring transformed from start-up pitch to the technology powering Amazon's privatized surveillance network throughout the United States.
Kai RiemerClimate Change Twelve themes experts predict will shape the world in 50 years Quartz - Alexandra OssolaIf you had to imagine what we will be obsessing over in 50 years, what would top your list? We put versions of that question to dozens of entrepreneurs, scientists, academics, and artists, including Richard
Kai RiemerTechnology Facebook built a chatbot to help employees deflect criticism over the holidays The Verge - Nick StattFacebook’s public image is in such a disastrous state that the company’s public relations team built an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to help its employees deflect criticism from family members
Sandra PeterAsia China’s Insurance Giant Is Morphing Into a Tech Company Bloomberg Ping An Co-CEOs Jessica Tan and Lee Yuan Siong describe the path from finance to technology. Ping An Co-CEOs Jessica Tan and Lee Yuan Siong describe …
Sandra PeterICIJ China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West The New York Times - Sui-Lee Wee and Paul MozurTUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science. With a million or more ethnic Uighurs and others from predominantly
Kai RiemerScience The Accidental Experiment That Changed Men’s Lives The Atlantic - Tim JohnsonDalton ConleyChristopher T. DawesThe Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects. Festooned with mustard-yellow drapes and a dangling American flag,
Sandra PeterAdvertising Industry Renaming climate change: Can a new name finally make us take action? Ad Age - Aaron Hall. As a professional namer, I create names for companies, products and services. After the global climate strike this past September, I found myself …
Kai RiemerU.S. Presidential Election Opponents of Elizabeth Warren spread a doctored photo on Twitter. Her campaign couldn’t stop its spread. The Washington Post - Isaac Stanley-BeckerTwitter users seized on a side-by-side comparison of the doctored version and the original, assailing the Warren campaign for the apparent misrepresentation. What they did not realize was that the account
Kai RiemerRetirement The decade of the "young old" begins The Economist THE YEAR 2020 will mark the beginning of the decade of the yold, or the “young old”, as the Japanese call people aged between 65 and 75. The height …
Kai RiemerLong-form Journalism Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City The New York Times - Scott ShanePrime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City BALTIMORE — Another big Prime Air 767 takes off from Baltimore-Washington International Airport — where Amazon’s shipping last year
Kai RiemerHealth Care Australia a 'treasure island' for medical device giants: ex-hospital boss smh.com.au - Patrick Hatch, Dana McCauley Mr Hunt last week rejected the insurers' proposal to increase their premiums by an average of 3.5 per cent next year, saying he was determined to …
Kai RiemerHome Security Don't Buy Anyone a Ring Camera Gizmodo - Adam Clark Estes There’s a chance you had never heard of Ring cameras before Amazon bought the company for as much as $1.8 billion last year. It’s possible that Ring …
Kai RiemerElectric Bicycles This is why so many car companies are making electric scooters and e-bikes Electrek - Micah TollWe’ve all seen how electric scooters from companies like Bird and Lime are taking over cities. But now we’re watching big car companies like BMW, VW, GM, Peugot, Skoda and more enter the two-wheeled EV
Sandra PeterTechnology Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible The Verge - James VincentThe South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired from professional play, telling Yonhap news agency that his decision was motivated by the ascendancy of AI. “With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve that
Sandra PeterBusiness A Nobel Prize Winner on Rethinking Poverty (and Business) Harvard Business ReviewEsther Duflo, an MIT economist, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Duflo’s early life working at a non-governmental organization
Sandra PeterTechnology Machine learning has revealed exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes …
Kai RiemerOpinion Three Ways To Use Edge Computing To Your Advantage Forbes - Vinay NathanVery often, the best vantage point is the front line. Watching a parade or attending a ball game – you want to be right there at the edge of the crowd, as close as you can be to the center of the action.
Kai RiemerVirtual Reality Headset Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know why The Verge - James VincentLet’s just be up front here: yes, these pictures seem to show a cow wearing a virtual reality headset, and no, we don’t really know what’s going on here. You may have seen these images floating around
Sandra PeterCulture Is AI Coming for High-Skill Jobs? CityLab - Richard FloridaA new study uses artificial intelligence to find that jobs done by highly skilled workers are the most likely to be affected by AI. When most people think of the connection between technology and jobs,
Sandra PeterTransportation Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection CityLab - Sarah HolderA startup called Firefly puts sensor-equipped advertising screens on top of Uber and Lyft vehicles. Now they do more than marketing: They collect data. Atop most New York City taxis are advertising screens—flashing
Sandra PeterTransportation Uber Lost Its License in London, Again CityLab - Feargus O'SullivanThe ride-hailing company could be banned from its largest European market after passenger security concerns trigger a new crackdown by Transport for London. On Monday, London City Hall issued a statement
Kai RiemerAutos Lego pokes fun at Elon Musk with its own version of the Tesla Cybertruck Digital Trends - Allison Matyus If Tesla’s $40,000 Cybertruck is a bit out of your budget, Lego has re-created the electric pickup truck in a much simpler and cheaper brick …
Kai RiemerOpinion The ‘crisis of capitalism’ is not the one Europeans think it is The Guardian - Branko MilanovićWhile politics as entrepreneurship was often seen to afflict only less developed countries, it has now spread to Europe An avalanche of recent books and articles about the “crisis of capitalism” is predicting
Sandra PeterTechnology Chicago approves traffic congestion tax on ride-hailing services Reuters - Reuters EditorialFILE PHOTO: Lori Lightfoot speaks after being sworn in as Chicago's 56th mayor by Judge Susan E. Cox during an inauguration ceremony at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kamil
Sandra PeterTechnology A Massachusetts police department just became the first in the nation to test a robot dog named Spot CNN - By Christina Zdanowicz, Julia Jones(CNN) — Using robots in dangerous police situations is common these days, but one police department has been quietly testing a special robot that looks like a dog. Massachusetts State Police became the
Kai RiemerTechnology Facebook was mystery firm bidding against Google to buy Fitbit, sources say CNBC - Alex Sherman and Christina Farr and Salvador Rodriguez Facebook is the mystery "Party A" revealed in an SEC filing that bid several times to acquire health wearables maker Fitbit, including a best and …
Kai RiemerInnovation 5 Technologies That Will Change Everything Inc Magazine - Joel CommHow to know where the ball is moving. Sometimes a technology comes along and changes the way we live forever. It often starts quietly. The tech might have to pass through a few iterations before its value
