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Month: November 2021

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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 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

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 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

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 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

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 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

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 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

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, […]

Crypto & Blockchain

Crypto banks’ savings rates are ten times greater than high street, but are they safe?

November 2, 2021

Leading crypto banks such as BlockFi and Nexo are attracting a lot of attention. Customers can earn an APY (annual percentage yield) of up to 12%, dwarfing high-street savings accounts, whose interest rates are sub-1%. But before […]

Economics & Business

Competitive work culture fuels impostor feelings, studies find

Making AI the passenger for smarter tourism

Study highlights how perceived economic inequality undermines individual well-being across 71 countries

People who believe the world’s a social jungle more likely to admire aggressive bosses, study says

Returning to the office isn’t the answer to Canada’s productivity problem—and it will add pressure to urban housing

Black and minoritized people feel forced to disguise their identities

Tackling the chaos at home might be the secret to a more successful work life

Poll: Hispanic economic optimism falls

Free gifts can strengthen customer relationships when matched to relationship stage

US vacation renters waste $2 billion worth of food annually

Technology

First publicly available Japanese AI dialogue system can speak and listen simultaneously

AI that thinks like us? Researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior

Trump unveils investments to power AI boom

Survey reveals gap between worker desires and AI’s current workplace abilities

New method makes AI language model evaluations faster, fairer, and less costly

Pentagon inks contracts for Musk’s xAI, competitors

AI engineers don’t feel empowered to tackle sustainability crisis, new research suggests

Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds

AI-powered occupancy tracking system optimizes open-plan office design

The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet—and could help us survive AI

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