A new list of the world’s most valuable brands is out, and China has claimed two of the top spots for the first time. Alibaba has joined the top 10, alongside Chinese tech group Tencent, as well as stalwarts such…
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We are at the beginning of a new S-curve, one that will forever advance the way we make and trade goods enabling a new era of productivity. A new class of high-speed industrial 3D printers which are closer to a…
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In Canada, women working full-time still earn, on average, 74 cents for every dollar a man makes, and this country’s wage gap remains well above the average for Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation member countries. Every six days in…
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A campaign is pushing European supermarkets to ditch oil-based containers for recyclable or compostable alternatives. Will we ever see a world where plastic is eliminated from our shopping? In an Amsterdam supermarket, a new “plastic-free” aisle is a microcosm of the…
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Although the cloud, digitization, and the Internet of Things allow businesses to gather and analyze all sorts of data, few organizations today have a system in place to track the skills they have. And even fewer apply that knowledge to…
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Doctors widely prescribe opioids as painkillers. Common opioids include morphine, codeine, fentanyl, and oxycontin, as well as the illegal drug heroin.Virtual reality stands to make a huge impact in the field of pain management. Through the power of play and…
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energy & eco
Hawaii just passed a law to make the state carbon neutral by 2045 By Adele Peters
16 June 2018Views: 1,165Hawaii is already a leader on climate. In 2015, the state passed a law to move to 100% renewable electricity by 2045 . In 2017, days after Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate agreement,…
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tech for life
Is Blockchain the Swiss Army Knife to All of Our Cyber-Insecurities? By Jay Stanley
15 June 2018Views: 985Blockchain is expected to be so influential over the coming years that some technologists foresee it ushering in a new type of Internet, one that stores and authenticates information about every asset, device and individual, opening the door to a…
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The number of women at work across the Muslim world is swelling. Across the 30 largest emerging-market Muslim countries, 100 million women were working in 2002. Today, that number is 155 million. Economic necessity, more education, new technologies and changing…
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Capitalism’s greatest weakness? It confuses price with value By Mariana Mazzucato
13 June 2018Views: 1,386Unemployment is seen as related to the choice that workers make between working and leisure. And entrepreneurship is seen as a result of such individualized choices rather than of the productive system surrounding entrepreneurs – or, to put it another…