Play buttonU.S. House of Representatives House kills attempt to impeach Trump for 'disgracing' presidencyGuardian US - Tom McCarthy in WashingtonThe House of Representatives killed an attempt to impeach Donald Trump on Wednesday, with 137 Democrats joining Republicans to table a vote on articles of impeachment brought by the congressman Al Green
Politics 'Send her back!' chant shows Trump's ugly plan to get reelectedCNN - Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNNWashington (CNN) — In a moment of unrestrained demagoguery, President Donald Trump presided Wednesday over a crowd chanting "Send her back! Send her back!" about an American Muslim congresswoman who he
Play buttonArtificial Intelligence Watch Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott explain the meaning of democratizing AIVentureBeat - VB StaffAt Transform 2019 last week, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott sat down with Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn’s VP of artificial intelligence, to discuss a range of topics. He touched on how machine learning is much to
Science Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moodsfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Music as we know it may be on its way out, with bands and artists making way for personalized playlists and tunes generated by artificial …
6 AI technologies changing project managementTechRepublic - Alison DeNisco Rayome Some 81% of project managers said their organization is already being impacted by AI, according to PMI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting …
Play buttonNeuralink Elon Musk Announces Plan to 'Merge' Human Brains With AI - VICEVICE - Mitch Bowman,Jason KoeblerElon Musk announced late Tuesday night that the final goal of Neuralink, his brain-machine interface startup, is to allow humans to “achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence,” and that by “merging
Softbank SoftBank's Son says Japan lacks investment opportunities, is AI 'developing country'Business Insider - ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said on Thursday that there is a dearth of investment opportunities in Japan, which he said is lagging in the race to develop
U.S. House of Representatives House Holds Attorney General And Commerce Secretary In Contempt Over Census ProbeNPR - Tim MakThe House of Representatives escalated its confrontation with the executive branch Wednesday by holding two Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for not providing complete copies of subpoenaed
Climate Change Union of Concerned Scientists report warns of extreme heat coming for U.S. cities in less than 20 yearsMic News - Tebany Yune Within as little as 20 years, regions in the United States could be looking at a life-altering increase of days with extreme heat due to …
FaceApp Giving Your FaceApp Selfie to Russians Is a Really Bad IdeaPopular Mechanics - By Kristina LibbyAnother day, another social media challenge with potentially murky consequences. If you’re one of the millions of people who recently downloaded FaceApp to take part in the “#FaceApp Challenge” and show
Alzheimer's Disease Gum disease treatment for Alzheimer’s lowers signs of inflammation | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Clare Wilson Encouraging results have been announced from a small trial of a new kind of treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, which targets gum disease bacteria. …
Costa Rica Costa Rica is banning the use of polystyrene packaging from 2021 | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Chelsea Whyte Costa Rica will no longer allow the import or sales of expanded polystyrene – commonly known as Styrofoam in North America. The law prohibiting the …
Antarctica A drastic plan might prevent catastrophic Antarctic ice sheet collapse | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Adam Vaughan Pumping colossal amounts of ocean water onto the West Antarctic ice sheet could stop it collapsing and causing drastic sea level rise that would …
Gorillas Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggestssciencemag.org - Virginia Morell A bold claim about gorilla societies is drawing mixed reviews. Great apes, humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, were thought to lack our social …
Philanthropy A Group Reflection: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World | The Philanthropistthephilanthropist.ca - Juniper Glass, Julie Savaria and Clelia Cothier Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas. Knopf. New York, 2018; 304 pp: ISBN 9780451493248 Juniper Glass: I …
Open-Mindedness The Difference Between Open-Minded and Closed-Minded Peoplefs.blog Why is it that some people seem to make constant progress in their professional and personal lives, while others appear to be doomed to repeat the …
Ray Dalio Self-Made Billionaire Ray Dalio: 5 Words That Are a Sure Sign Someone Is Close MindedInc Magazine - Jessica StillmanAn open mind is the foundation of real intelligence. If people say this, they don't have one. Most of us wish we were smarter, but the best way to get smarter is to be willing to admit your ignorance your
Republicans Here's the real reason Trump is attacking 'the squad': he's scaredThe Guardian - Joshua LeiferAfter less than a year in office, the members of the Squad have greatly expanded the realm of political possibility in the United States What distinguishes them [the Squad] as much as who they are is they
Technology Elon Musk’s Neuralink says it’s nearly ready for the first human volunteersMIT Technology Review - Charlotte Jee During an event in San Francisco yesterday evening, the startup unveiled a sewing-machine-like robot used to implant ultrafine flexible electrodes …
Tech Industry Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Ready for Brain SurgeryBloomberg - Ashlee Vance Elon Musk has had a lot to show off over the past 25 years, including an early online bank, solar roof tiles, a tunnel-digging machine, an electric …
Play buttonJoe Biden The Man Who Fell to Earthnewrepublic.com - Alex Shephard Joe Biden hoped to guard his frontrunner status and stay above the 2020 campaign fray. Now he'll have to run to keep up with the pack. For most of …
Environment ‘Off-the-charts’ heat to affect millions in U.S. in coming decadesNational Geographic - Stephen LeahyWithin 60 years, hot days in the U.S. could be so intense that the current heat index can’t measure them. In less than 20 years, millions of people in the United States could be exposed to dangerous “off-the-charts”
Blockchain How blockchain vendors keep spending billions chasing the wrong problemTechRepublic - Matt Asay Blockchain is often a solution in search of a problem, but it doesn't need to stay that way. The biggest clue that blockchain isn't ready for …
Fourth Industrial Revolution 10 expert predictions for the next decade in Chinese AIweforum.org - Nina Xiang Over the past several years, we have witnessed the blossoming of China's artificial intelligence industry. Thanks to generous government policy …
Success A 40-Year Scientific Study Reveals the Richest People Are Never the Most Talented (and Why That's a Really Good Thing)Inc Magazine - Jeff HadenSuccess: However you choose to define it -- because how you define "success" is definitely a choice -- we all hope to achieve it. Ask any incredibly successful person how they became successful and you'll
Technology Cloud-Based Music Mastering Platform Landr Raises $26 MillionVariety - Janko Roettgers Cloud-based music mastering and distribution platform Landr has raised a $26 million Series B round of funding. The new founding round was led by the …
Startups Near raises $100M for an AI that merges online and offline behavior to build consumer profilesTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenOne of the holy grails in the world of advertising and marketing has been finding a way to accurately capture and understand what consumers are doing throughout the day, regardless of whether it’s a digital
Housing What the City Didn’t Want the Public to Know: Its Policy Deepens SegregationThe New York Times - By J. DAVID GOODMAN[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] For more than two years, lawyers for New York City have fought to keep secret a report on the city’s affordable housing lotteries,
Julian Assange Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddlingCNN - By Marshall Cohen, Kay Guerrero and Arturo Torres, CNNAtlanta (CNN) — New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during
WhatsApp WhatsApp And Telegram Flaw Exposes Personal Media To Hackers, Check Settings NowForbes - Zak Doffmandisturbing update from the Modern OS team at cybersecurity company Symantec this week, with a detailed explanation as to how both platforms can be "exposed and manipulated by malicious actors" through
Play buttonU.S. House of Representatives House kills attempt to impeach Trump for 'disgracing' presidencyGuardian US - Tom McCarthy in WashingtonThe House of Representatives killed an attempt to impeach Donald Trump on Wednesday, with 137 Democrats joining Republicans to table a vote on articles of impeachment brought by the congressman Al Green
Politics 'Send her back!' chant shows Trump's ugly plan to get reelectedCNN - Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNNWashington (CNN) — In a moment of unrestrained demagoguery, President Donald Trump presided Wednesday over a crowd chanting "Send her back! Send her back!" about an American Muslim congresswoman who he
Play buttonArtificial Intelligence Watch Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott explain the meaning of democratizing AIVentureBeat - VB StaffAt Transform 2019 last week, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott sat down with Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn’s VP of artificial intelligence, to discuss a range of topics. He touched on how machine learning is much to
Science Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moodsfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Music as we know it may be on its way out, with bands and artists making way for personalized playlists and tunes generated by artificial …
6 AI technologies changing project managementTechRepublic - Alison DeNisco Rayome Some 81% of project managers said their organization is already being impacted by AI, according to PMI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting …
Play buttonNeuralink Elon Musk Announces Plan to 'Merge' Human Brains With AI - VICEVICE - Mitch Bowman,Jason KoeblerElon Musk announced late Tuesday night that the final goal of Neuralink, his brain-machine interface startup, is to allow humans to “achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence,” and that by “merging
Softbank SoftBank's Son says Japan lacks investment opportunities, is AI 'developing country'Business Insider - ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said on Thursday that there is a dearth of investment opportunities in Japan, which he said is lagging in the race to develop
U.S. House of Representatives House Holds Attorney General And Commerce Secretary In Contempt Over Census ProbeNPR - Tim MakThe House of Representatives escalated its confrontation with the executive branch Wednesday by holding two Trump administration officials in criminal contempt for not providing complete copies of subpoenaed
Climate Change Union of Concerned Scientists report warns of extreme heat coming for U.S. cities in less than 20 yearsMic News - Tebany Yune Within as little as 20 years, regions in the United States could be looking at a life-altering increase of days with extreme heat due to …
FaceApp Giving Your FaceApp Selfie to Russians Is a Really Bad IdeaPopular Mechanics - By Kristina LibbyAnother day, another social media challenge with potentially murky consequences. If you’re one of the millions of people who recently downloaded FaceApp to take part in the “#FaceApp Challenge” and show
Alzheimer's Disease Gum disease treatment for Alzheimer’s lowers signs of inflammation | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Clare Wilson Encouraging results have been announced from a small trial of a new kind of treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, which targets gum disease bacteria. …
Costa Rica Costa Rica is banning the use of polystyrene packaging from 2021 | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Chelsea Whyte Costa Rica will no longer allow the import or sales of expanded polystyrene – commonly known as Styrofoam in North America. The law prohibiting the …
Antarctica A drastic plan might prevent catastrophic Antarctic ice sheet collapse | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Adam Vaughan Pumping colossal amounts of ocean water onto the West Antarctic ice sheet could stop it collapsing and causing drastic sea level rise that would …
Gorillas Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggestssciencemag.org - Virginia Morell A bold claim about gorilla societies is drawing mixed reviews. Great apes, humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, were thought to lack our social …
Philanthropy A Group Reflection: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World | The Philanthropistthephilanthropist.ca - Juniper Glass, Julie Savaria and Clelia Cothier Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas. Knopf. New York, 2018; 304 pp: ISBN 9780451493248 Juniper Glass: I …
Open-Mindedness The Difference Between Open-Minded and Closed-Minded Peoplefs.blog Why is it that some people seem to make constant progress in their professional and personal lives, while others appear to be doomed to repeat the …
Ray Dalio Self-Made Billionaire Ray Dalio: 5 Words That Are a Sure Sign Someone Is Close MindedInc Magazine - Jessica StillmanAn open mind is the foundation of real intelligence. If people say this, they don't have one. Most of us wish we were smarter, but the best way to get smarter is to be willing to admit your ignorance your
Republicans Here's the real reason Trump is attacking 'the squad': he's scaredThe Guardian - Joshua LeiferAfter less than a year in office, the members of the Squad have greatly expanded the realm of political possibility in the United States What distinguishes them [the Squad] as much as who they are is they
Technology Elon Musk’s Neuralink says it’s nearly ready for the first human volunteersMIT Technology Review - Charlotte Jee During an event in San Francisco yesterday evening, the startup unveiled a sewing-machine-like robot used to implant ultrafine flexible electrodes …
Tech Industry Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Ready for Brain SurgeryBloomberg - Ashlee Vance Elon Musk has had a lot to show off over the past 25 years, including an early online bank, solar roof tiles, a tunnel-digging machine, an electric …
Play buttonJoe Biden The Man Who Fell to Earthnewrepublic.com - Alex Shephard Joe Biden hoped to guard his frontrunner status and stay above the 2020 campaign fray. Now he'll have to run to keep up with the pack. For most of …
Environment ‘Off-the-charts’ heat to affect millions in U.S. in coming decadesNational Geographic - Stephen LeahyWithin 60 years, hot days in the U.S. could be so intense that the current heat index can’t measure them. In less than 20 years, millions of people in the United States could be exposed to dangerous “off-the-charts”
Blockchain How blockchain vendors keep spending billions chasing the wrong problemTechRepublic - Matt Asay Blockchain is often a solution in search of a problem, but it doesn't need to stay that way. The biggest clue that blockchain isn't ready for …
Fourth Industrial Revolution 10 expert predictions for the next decade in Chinese AIweforum.org - Nina Xiang Over the past several years, we have witnessed the blossoming of China's artificial intelligence industry. Thanks to generous government policy …
Success A 40-Year Scientific Study Reveals the Richest People Are Never the Most Talented (and Why That's a Really Good Thing)Inc Magazine - Jeff HadenSuccess: However you choose to define it -- because how you define "success" is definitely a choice -- we all hope to achieve it. Ask any incredibly successful person how they became successful and you'll
Technology Cloud-Based Music Mastering Platform Landr Raises $26 MillionVariety - Janko Roettgers Cloud-based music mastering and distribution platform Landr has raised a $26 million Series B round of funding. The new founding round was led by the …
Startups Near raises $100M for an AI that merges online and offline behavior to build consumer profilesTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenOne of the holy grails in the world of advertising and marketing has been finding a way to accurately capture and understand what consumers are doing throughout the day, regardless of whether it’s a digital
Housing What the City Didn’t Want the Public to Know: Its Policy Deepens SegregationThe New York Times - By J. DAVID GOODMAN[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] For more than two years, lawyers for New York City have fought to keep secret a report on the city’s affordable housing lotteries,
Julian Assange Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddlingCNN - By Marshall Cohen, Kay Guerrero and Arturo Torres, CNNAtlanta (CNN) — New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during
WhatsApp WhatsApp And Telegram Flaw Exposes Personal Media To Hackers, Check Settings NowForbes - Zak Doffmandisturbing update from the Modern OS team at cybersecurity company Symantec this week, with a detailed explanation as to how both platforms can be "exposed and manipulated by malicious actors" through
