AI is an exciting growth area, but the investing opportunities are not always obvious. Here’s how to integrate this theme. One of the most exciting themes in science, technology and economics today is the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, but finding the best way to invest in this theme is not always... Continue Reading →

India will reportedly pay for Iranian oil in rupees as the two countries seek to bypass the US economic pressure on Tehran, industry officials have told the Sputnik news agency. Under the deal, the payments for oil will be made through India’s state-run UCO Bank, which has no US exposure. The countries are also discussing... Continue Reading →

There is one main reason that most robbery crimes are happening that often, people have no access to basic survival money. Of course, there are thefts and criminals which do that anyway, that’s why with UBI we should have more strict laws for criminals, but the majority of the everyday thefts are poor people who just... Continue Reading →

Thanks in part to email, Facebook, and Twitter, mail carriers may be all but obsolete in the not-so-distant future. By 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 28% decline in postal-service jobs, about 136,000 fewer positions than 2014. But mail carriers aren't the only ones whose jobs are disappearing. Technology and market shifts have... Continue Reading →

In a move welcomed by conservationists, the executive arm of the European Union (EU) on Monday proposed a ban on 10 common single-use plastics that, together with fishing gear, account for about 70 percent of marine litter across Europe. European Commission 500,000 tonnes of EU plastic waste end up in the sea every year. Building on our... Continue Reading →

How many whales have died as a result of ingesting plastic? Who really knows, but one thing we do know for certain is that the number is quite high, and there is no shortage of examples to prove that. A couple of months ago, a sperm whale was found dead. Again, it’s not the first... Continue Reading →

The idea of a universal basic income has already become a major debate all around the world, including the United States. California Stockton is a city outside of Silicon Valley that is testing a universal basic income trial program  to a group of its low-income residents in a pilot version of universal basic income. Universal basic income... Continue Reading →

Finally, Walmart got the message: no one likes self-checkout machines. Forbes reports: "Walmart has given up replacing store cashiers with machines. That’s according to a recent Bloomberg report, which reveals that the retail giant is getting rid of 'Mobile Scan & Go' technology, which allowed customers to ring up their own purchases. Apparently, the technology... Continue Reading →

Ingestible sensors—pill-sized electronics that ping your smartphone with data after you pop and swallow—have started to arrive on the market. They don’t do much yet: Mostly they measure pH, temperature, and pressure or monitor whether or not patients have taken their meds. But researchers are cooking up novel sensing technologies to detect a much broader... Continue Reading →

Do you think you have a pretty good idea of what the world looks like? Most people can draw a general globe or map, with some blue bits for the water, and some patchy green bits for the land. But have you ever wondered what the world looked like 300 million years ago? You couldn’t... Continue Reading →