How to Hire Fake Friends and Family

Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance.

How blockchain will change major industries

By removing the need for trusted third parties, blockchain has the potential to make interactions within massive networks more efficient.

How Your Mindset Determines Your Success, Well-being, And Love Life

I always thought you coped with failure or you didn’t cope with failure. I never thought anyone loved failure. The way you relate to a challenge reveals your mindset, the view you have of yourself. GREAT BOOK!

The three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global warming

One of the biggest resulting threats to cities around the world is sea-level rise.

A Look Inside Shenzhen’s High-Tech Empire

Shenzhen has a complete ecosystem that contains everything needed for all stages of electronics production all in one place! Now, it is a 12 million person megalopolis that can rival its more established neighbor in almost every way. No city in history has ever grown so large so quickly.

World’s witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires’ wealth swells to $6tn

Not since the time of the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts at the turn of the 20th century was so much owned by so few.

WELCOME TO THE ERA OF THE AI COWORKER

As deep learning burgeons, many industries are coming to grips with the fact that AI is indeed capable of tasks that were once regarded as deeply human. This presents workers with a choice: Set aside your ego and embrace your new AI coworker, or get left behind.

AI is now powerful enough to make a solid first attempt at countless complex tasks, but it’s not so powerful that it seems threatening.