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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 […]

Crypto & Blockchain

4 reasons why museums aren’t cashing in on NFTs yet

October 28, 2021

The eye-popping sale price of US$69 million on March 11, 2021, for a non-fungible token created by the digital artist Beeple sent shock waves through the art world. More multimillion-dollar sales of these digital assets that exist on a blockchain and […]

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Economics & Business

Testosterone doesn’t affect men’s economic decisions, large study shows

Why higher tariffs on Canadian lumber may not be enough to stimulate long-term investments in US forestry

Why it is so hard to estimate the number of victims of modern slavery in the UK

Public trust in institutions falters amid weak regulation and digital misinformation

Why Wall Street is booming while Main Street is stagnating

Positive framing can steer shoppers toward premium products

The government wants more of us living in high rises. Here’s why Australians don’t want to

Is the customer still always right? Who CEOs listen to when innovation gets risky

Study outlines how it is important to convey rejection in a way that encourages a person to try again

Happiness is not found in fast fashion—reducing consumption can improve body image and well-being

Technology

AI chatbots routinely use user conversations for training, raising privacy concerns

Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms

Why large language models are bad at imitating people

Grokipedia: Elon Musk is right that Wikipedia is biased, but his AI alternative will be the same at best

VFF-Net algorithm provides promising alternative to backpropagation for AI training

Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects

The way we talk to chatbots affects their accuracy, new research reveals

Estates of Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland, Albert Einstein, to be protected against AI manipulation

A RADIANT future for cybersecurity

Federated learning AI developed for hospitals and banks without personal information sharing

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