COVID-19 Is Posing Ethical Challenges For Policymakers
The dilemma can be framed as lives versus livelihoods; at its most pointed, lives versus lives.
Read MoreThe dilemma can be framed as lives versus livelihoods; at its most pointed, lives versus lives.
Read MoreBut a breakthrough in sub-atomic computing might be a while off.
Read MoreBut ethical and economic challenges could limit the benefits medtech brings to healthcare.
Read MorePolicymakers are cooling to a business model that lowers wages and skirts regulations.
Read MoreBut prolonging a recovery with stimulus could lead to a worse slump later.
Read MoreSigns have emerged that Netflix’s dominance is weakening even before the new competition lands. And it’s likely to get tougher for Netflix and others when the Hollywood household names arrive.
Read MoreTheir autonomy will prove superfluous in a low-inflation, stagnant world.
Read MoreSuch are the prospects for mainstream acceptance for something like Facebook’s Libra. But the hurdles are daunting too.
Read MoreThe telling blow is the damage wrought on local newspapers.
Read MoreThe response in time is likely to be more regulation.
Read MoreBut security and political concerns could delay, distort and add costs to its deployment.
Read MoreIn this article, Michael Collins from Magellan Asset Management discusses how another eurosceptic and indebted country is testing Brussels’s power over the eurozone project.
Read MoreFintechs, especially if big tech gets serious about finance, are likely to peck away over time at the oligopolistic industry structures protecting savings banks due to two key advantages.
Read MoreChina is achieving AI milestones in voice recognition, autonomous driving and manufacturing robotics. The country is amassing databases that no other country can for algorithm-based analysis, while ‘localising’ and directing them to where they might be most beneficial.
Read MoreWhere does the US café chain Starbucks have the largest of its 28,200 company-owned and licensed outlets that are found in 76 countries? In Shanghai, China.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, a motion to the European parliament recommends that autonomous robots be deemed “electronic persons”. The motion for resolution suggests that self-learning robots, those that make independent decisions and interact freely, be held to have an “electronic personality”.
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