The year is 2030 and we are at the world’s largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is gathered to watch a big tech company unveil its new smartphone. The CEO comes to…
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The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when hit by a Tesla Model 3, which the driver claims was in “autopilot” mode.…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A drilling rig operates in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Lea County, New Mexico, U.S., February 10, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil…
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A number of high-profile whistleblowers in the technology industry have stepped into the spotlight in the past few years. For the most part, they have been revealing corporate practices that thwart the public interest: Frances…
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Rosa María Lastra and Lee Buchheit, Sovereign debt management, Oxford University Press, 2014, 487+ lvi pages These days, when elections in a southeastern European Union member state and discussions about the best ways to revitalise…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Overhead power lines are seen during record-breaking temperatures in Houston, Texas, U.S., February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – Power demand in Texas is set to break the…
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There has been a huge amount of concern about rising inflation in recent months, and it’s made worse by the fact that wage inflation has not been keeping up. A few workers in high-paid jobs…
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Recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) models are capable of many impressive feats, including recognising images and producing human-like language. But just because AI can perform human-like behaviours doesn’t mean it can think or understand like…
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© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – The U.S. job market isn’t giving up easily, meaning its ‘shadow’ — the oil market — won’t either. With neither slowing significantly, good luck to the Federal Reserve…
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The Central Bank of Nigeria recently announced an increase in the interest rate, from 11.5% to 13%, a 1.5 percentage point hike that took effect immediately. Whenever the Central Bank changes the monetary policy rate,…
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