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Feudalism

SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott – Power is Power

Look for the forthcoming mixtape, No, My Name is JOFFERY… Julian Axelrod: In the interest of critical objectivity, I tried to hear this divorced from the context of Game of Thrones, a show that combines my indifference towards fantasy epics wi…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Who to sue when a robot loses millions?

Robots are getting more humanoid every day, but they still can't be sued. So a Hong Kong tycoon is doing the next best thing. He's going after the salesman who persuaded him to entrust a chunk of his fortune to the supercomputer whose trades cost him more tha…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Who to sue when a robot loses millions?

NEW DELHI: Robots are getting more humanoid every day, but they still can't be sued. So a Hong Kong tycoon is doing the next best thing. He's going after the salesman who persuaded him to entrust a chunk of his fortune to the supercomputer whose trades cost h…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Censored Internet

Word of Mouth: Shanghai

Tea shops in Tianzifang, soup dumplings in Huangpu Qu, and so much more in the electric city Possible the populous city in the world (most recently estimated at 25 million) and growing at an extraordinary rate of 700,000 to 800,000 people a year, Shanghai —th…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

NSA

Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 (New York Times)

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Alibaba

Xiaomi loses billion yuan bet, Bosch goes full throttle with hydrogen

Winner of the week: Bosch Bosch is a true jack-of-all-trades among the big names in industry. Founded in 1886, the company is particularly active in the automotive sector - and soon even stronger. Bosch has significantly stepped up its activities and investm…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Protectionism

Three questions about emerging economies

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzed the per capita GDP growth of 71 economies over 50 years. The results were striking. About one in four were “outperformers,” with real annual per capita GDP growth of 3.5 percent for the entire period…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Belt and Road

Internationalize hazard management of China’s chemical plants

The huge explosion in March at the Tianjiayi Chemical Companys plant in China could have been prevented had safety lessons been learnt from previous accidents (see Z. Tang et al. Nature 525, 455; 2015). Chinas chemical and petroleum industry has grown marke…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey cancels the opposition’s victory in the Istanbul election

BEFORE THE evening of May 6th, and despite the miserable state of their country's democracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turks could console themselves with the thought that, on election day, they could anyway vote freely. That assurance was dashed …

bubmagMay 7, 2019

China's Strategy

Change or suffer consequences: Trump dares China with trade tariffs

By threatening to raise taxes on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump is throwing down a challenge to Beijing: Agree to sweeping changes in China's government-dominated economic model or suffer the consequences. The unexpected ultimatum, delivered via twe…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott – Power is Power

Who to sue when a robot loses millions?

Who to sue when a robot loses millions?

Word of Mouth: Shanghai

Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 (New York Times)

Xiaomi loses billion yuan bet, Bosch goes full throttle with hydrogen

Three questions about emerging economies

Internationalize hazard management of China’s chemical plants

Turkey cancels the opposition’s victory in the Istanbul election

Change or suffer consequences: Trump dares China with trade tariffs

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