FP TrendsJune 24, 2020 1:03:04 PM IST To provide high-speed broadband Internet to remote locations, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched a series of satellites known as Starlink satellites. Promised to guarantee fast, low-delay internet in the northern areas of the United States and Canada by 2020, the company promises global …
Read More »AI experts say research into algorithms that purport to predict crime must end
A coalition of AI researchers, data scientists, and sociologists has called on the academic world to stop publishing studies that purport to predict an individual’s criminality using data-trained algorithms like facial scans and criminal statistics. Such work is not only illiterate science, says the Coalition for Critical Technology, but it …
Read More »Why gold can continue to rise as long as US stocks do
The Nasdaq COMP, heavy on technology, + 0.74% continues to set new records, and gold is GC00, + 0.54% on a streak, closing at its highest level since 2012. That’s not the typical correlation, but these are not typical times. Chris Weston, head of research at Australian broker Pepperstone, says …
Read More »Amazon’s New $ 2 Billion Venture Capital Climate Fund
Amazon is creating a $ 2 billion venture fund that will involve companies working on climate-friendly technologies in transportation, warehousing, food, power generation, waste and more, the tech giant said Tuesday. Because it is important: The new fund will help Amazon and other companies deliver on the “climate promise” Amazon …
Read More »Trump’s foreign friends compete for profit
At least some of the 9,500 permanently based troops in Germany, several hundred miles to the east, could move to Poland as part of a cut that Trump abruptly announced last week. National security adviser Robert O’Brien wrote in an opinion piece Monday that troops can redeploy to other countries …
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