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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

Progress on gender equality at work is slow and uneven, new index finds

How ‘build-to-rent-to-own’ could help more renters get a toehold in the housing market

AI makes measuring work performance a lot trickier. How do companies adapt?

How consumers react when they feel ‘betrayed’ by a brand

Experts find ‘sweet spot’ for crowdfunding success

Study investigates effects of organizational and occupational stress on forensic services staff

The hidden cost of supporting adult children

Rethinking happiness in the hybrid workplace

A sit-stand ratio ‘sweet spot’ may boost office productivity

Dangers of direct selling and network marketing are rarely mentioned in research

Technology

Anthropic, Microsoft announce new AI data center projects as industry’s construction push continues

AI language models show bias against regional German dialects

When AI draws our words: Study finds image generators fail basic instructions despite aesthetic success

New technologies like AI come with big claims. The scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

Self-adapting LLMs behave more like students to absorb new knowledge

Machine learning used to calibrate emissions control systems faster, more efficiently

Scientists just built a 1-kilometer resolution digital twin of Earth

Your chatbot doesn’t love you: The ‘illusion’ of social AI

Five minutes of training boosts ability to spot AI-generated fake faces

Humans can no longer tell AI music from the real thing: Survey

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