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Interest rates: why the era of cheap money is finally ending

December 14, 2021

The Bank of England was widely expected to slightly increase its official bank rate on November 4, but it decided to stick to the all-time low of 0.1%. However, the bank has made it clear that a rise will […]

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Get ready for the invasion of smart building technologies following COVID-19

December 2, 2021

The past two years were a busy time for real estate professionals. While commercial buildings like office towers, shopping malls and hotels stood empty for months in a row as a result of the COVID-19 […]

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Why are investors so cocky? They often have a biased memory – and selectively forget their money-losing stocks

November 30, 2021

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Stock investors mistakenly remember their past investments as better than they actually were, which leads them to be overconfident about how they’ll perform […]

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What are NFTs and why are people paying millions for them?

November 29, 2021

Last week, Christie’s sold a digital collage of images called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for US$69.3 million dollars. This week, Elon Musk said he’s selling a tweet of his as an NFT, which contains a […]

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The Pandora Papers: How punishing tax cheats can serve as a deterrent

November 28, 2021

Law-abiding taxpayers look on with disappointment and disdain as details about the illicit financial arrangements of the ultra-wealthy surface — again. The latest leak of nearly 12 million offshore financial records — the so-called Pandora Papers — […]

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Worker shortage? Or poor work conditions? Here’s what’s really vexing Canadian restaurants

November 26, 2021

Restaurant operators across Canada are struggling to find enough staff to run their operations. This labour crisis has been highly publicized by Canadian media as a “labour shortage.” A recent survey by Restaurants Canada found that 80 per […]

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NFT performance art: Corporations could capitalize on protest

November 24, 2021

Russian artist Petr Davydtchenko made what what he claims was the first performance art NFT in February. According to an article in The Art Newspaper, in a digital recording, Davydtchenko “eats a live bat in front of the European Parliament […]

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What is Bitcoin’s fundamental value? That’s a good question

November 18, 2021

As it hits new highs, there is no shortage of bold predictions about Bitcoin reaching US$100,000 or more. Often these are based on not much more than extrapolations by people with vested interests: the price has gone […]

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Ethereum: the transformation that could see it overtake bitcoin

November 8, 2021

The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (£363 […]

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What is decentralized finance? An expert on bitcoins and blockchains explains the risks and rewards of DeFi

November 4, 2021

Fervent proponents of cryptocurrencies and the blockchains they run on have promised a lot. To them, these technologies represent salvation from corporate power over the internet, government intrusions on liberty, poverty and virtually everything else that ails society. But so far, […]

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Economics & Business

Millions of people in the UK are being drawn into bribery and money laundering, according to new study

Most Americans believe that migrant farmworkers should be allowed to remain in US, survey reveals

Middle-aged are the engine room of Australia but many risk burnout, report finds

AI innovation missing the mark for local communities, according to report

Retail rents decrease when a marijuana dispensary moves in

Forced ‘return to office’ initiatives could deepen regional divides across Europe

Why some adventurers chase danger to find meaning

From stadiums to cyberspace: How the metaverse will redefine sports fandom

Too much or too little AI adoption may lower workers’ job satisfaction

New study shows why clothing take-back programs fail—and what truly moves consumers to act

Technology

OpenAI and Taiwan’s Foxconn to partner in AI hardware design and manufacturing in the US

New modeling approach predicts errors in quantum computers before they occur

Data centers’ insatiable demand for electricity is changing the entire energy sector, say researchers

Machine learning algorithm rapidly reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data

AI combines physics and lab data to predict paper packaging’s permeability to volatile compounds

AI is providing emotional support for employees, but is it a valuable tool or privacy threat?

These dinner-plate sized computer chips are set to supercharge the next leap forward in AI

The cost of thinking: Reasoning models share aspects of information processing with human brains

Experts detect AI text by looking for human idiosyncrasies, like word variation and complex sentences

Meta AI pioneer LeCun announces exit, plans new startup

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