Several California police departments have stopped using “predictive policing” software but not because they want to protect your basic human rights and dignity. The reason the software won’t be used is that it isn’t effective enough...yet.
67 percent of Chinese companies are expecting a reduction in the number of employees due to automation, along with 60 percent in Poland and 57 percent in Japan...
...this is how we can save Main Street from the menace of monopoly money, transcend the dismal science of stagnation and decline, and restore the American mission and dream.
It should be "quite concerning to the commission that Amazon and Google control the majority of all internet product search, and can very easily affect whether and how price and product information reaches consumers."
"Some view it as an extension of the surveillance capitalism model of Facebook. Others view it as a pipe dream that can’t possibly work... we believe there is potential for Libra to change the world – in ways most don’t expect."
"Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires. Thus it is now necessary to replace these empires with decentralized networks of independent individuals, as in the first decades of the Internet."
If 87 is the final number for the second quarter, it will mark the second highest number of S&P 500 companies issuing negative EPS guidance for a quarter since FactSet began tracking this data in 2006