from Foreign Policy Rongcheng was built for the future. Its broad streets and suburban communities were constructed with an eye to future expansion, as the city sprawls on the eastern tip of China’s Shandong province overlooking the Yellow Sea. Colorful billboards depicting swans bank on the birds — one of the city’s tourist attractions — […]
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I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
from NYTs When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call a Facebook “lurker.”) But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box. […]
What Keeps Female Freelancers From Closing The Gender Pay Gap
from Forbes The gender pay gap remains a debated issue and is still a hotly contested matter within the freelance community as well. As I mentioned in a previous article, statistics are still lacking on gender pay discrepancy within many freelance niches, but what is known is this: in those niches studied, the pay gap is […]
Future Of Work: Research Shows Millennials, Gen Xers And Baby Boomers Make Better Decisions Together
from Forbes Is it better to have “up-and-comers” or “more seasoned” employees making decisions at your company? It turns out the best answer is a mix of generations, and it’s a wake-up call to companies everywhere, from a tech industry enamored of young workers to global enterprises managing large aging workforces: Decision-making teams that include […]
Amazon Spent Nearly $23 Billion On R&D Last Year — More Than Any Other U.S. Company
from recode Tech companies claimed the top five spots in the U.S. for research and development spending again last year, investing a combined total of $76 billion. Amazon was at the top of the list, spending $22.6 billion in 2017, 41 percent more than in 2016 (when it also topped the list). Amazon has poured […]
‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances
from NYTs Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. Civil libertarians are horrified, viewing the program, called Aadhaar, as Orwell’s Big Brother brought to life. To the government, […]
Two Founders Of Cryptocurrency Offering Arrested, Charged With Fraud
from ars technica The creators of an initial coin offering (ICO) once endorsed by Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled have been arrested and indicted on separate federal securities fraud charges brought by federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Earlier this year, the SEC shut down another ICO, known as AriseBank. In 2017, according […]
Spotify Relies On The Big Labels For Most Of Its Music. It Thinks That Will Change.
from recode Spotify is 12 years old and has never been profitable. Last year, it posted an operating loss of $461 million. Today, as it goes public, it wants investors to value it at something above $20 billion. In order to believe that’s a good idea, you have to believe that Spotify has figured out […]
When You Merge The Message With The Medium, You Make A Messium
from Wired THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION saw it coming. In a stunning January 1974 report, the Nixon White House Cable Committee foretold that the new telecom platform known as cable would, eventually, be a monopoly service wherever it was offered. The committee, whose membership included Mitt Romney’s dad, George, and which was staffed by a young […]
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Talking About Privacy For 15 Years — Here’s A Rundown
from Yahoo News Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out on Wednesday after days of silence amid a firestorm of privacy concerns and government probes following reports of massive data mishandling. Research firm Cambridge Analytica is accused of improperly gaining access to the personal data of 50 million Facebook users, and the social media network is […]