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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

Auditors with uncommon names more likely to bend corporate auditing standards

Upper-middle-class women with college degrees use ‘free tours’ the most, study finds

Renter protection policies may reduce rental housing discrimination, research suggests

People in Nordic region are more satisfied than other EU citizens with big city life

Research reveals middle-class families hit hardest by South Korea’s cost-of-living crisis

Younger workers not adjusting to rising state pension age, study finds

Food trade regimes harm people and the planet: How the G20 can drive improvements

It’s harder than you think to become a top sports official in football, soccer and the rugby codes

Smarter, faster, stronger: AI fuels the rise of new productive forces

Women scientists promote their research online less often than men, study finds

Technology

Formal guidelines can enable AI to precisely maneuver and position medical needles

How LinkedIn’s algorithm can help us find new uses for existing medicines

Autonomous gallbladder removal: Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help

Humanoid robots in the operating room could address surgery delays and staff shortages

HUSH: Holistic panoramic 3D scene understanding using spherical harmonics

Researchers develop AI-powered radar technique for high-resolution 3D urban mapping

Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90%

Musk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments

New open-source language model offers multilingual support and public transparency

Deep-learning system teaches soft, bio-inspired robots to move using only a single camera

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