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"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations" - Adam Smith

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"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Restarting tourism Europe's attempt to restart tourism will need to be accompanied by interoperable contact-tracing apps, the European Commission has said. Each EU country is building its own contact-tracing app, and there are two diverging approaches being taken—which would hamper the...

Who pays? Who pays for the pandemic when insurance companies will not? That's the question delved into by Fortune 's Jeff John Roberts, who writes: "As many businesses are belatedly discovering, most policies contain language requiring the loss to be a consequence of physical events...

Russian hacking German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed Russia for the "outrageous" hacking attack on her country's parliament back in 2015. "I can honestly say that it hurts me," said Merkel (who speaks fluent Russian and has had an amicable relationship with Putin). "On the one hand, I try...

Facebook settlement Facebook has paid $52 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought about by its content moderators, over the heavy psychological consequences of their jobs, i.e. reviewing videos of things like rape or terrorism to keep them off the social network. The settlement only...

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“Be tenacious. The world will change, things will go wrong. Life is messy.” - Ann Sherry

CHARTED TERRITORY One humble software platform is behind all those coronavirus dashboards They’re a common player in our fits of doomscrolling these days: digital displays that show how the coronavirus crisis is spreading across the globe. Your anxiety probably wants you to give the people who...

Remember Wall Street’s Viral Laughingstock, OptionSeller.com? His ex-investors sure do. Leanna Orr May 13, 2020 James Cordier, in a video posted last year. (via YouTube/Illustration by II) At least one former investor in the blown-up OptionSeller.com died awaiting restitution, and lawyers...

Evolution of the hedge fund industry since 2008 SUBMITTED 13/05/2020 - 5:00PM Agecroft Partners Contact Form Contact Company By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Recent news headlines state that the hedge fund industry saw its highest level of redemptions during the first quarter of 2020 in...

“To know others is perspective, to know yourself is wise. To conquer others is forceful, to conquer yourself is strong.” - Lao Tzu

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“REVERSION IS THE MOTION OF THE TAO.” -Lao Zi, Tao Te Ching

WFH Twitter will allow its employees to work from home indefinitely, even post-lockdown, unless their jobs require a physical presence. A few other companies such as Nationwide have made similar moves. In Twitter's case, the company does not expect its offices to reopen until September anyway...

Twitter added deep-learning expert Fei-Fei Li to the company's board of directors. Li, a co-director of Stanford University's Human-Centered AI Institute, oversaw the milestone ImageNet computer-vision contest that helped spur a renaissance in deep learning. She was also previously the chief...

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