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Hacking Will Make Bitcoin, Ethereum And XRP Stronger Hacking will cool off the hype for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, and other cryptocurrencies in the short-run, but in the long-run, it will make them stronger. These are the world’s most future-proof cities As technology changes the way people live and work, cities are undergoing an unprecedented…

How AI Is Making An Entry Into The Freelance Economy Not only are AI-related skills more in demand than ever, AI is impacting everything from hiring to project management. How Fitbit is trying to transform healthcare, and itself Your physical and even mental health is a growing focus for Fitbit as it tries to fill…

Chile, keen to become a knowledge society, creates a ministry of science Scientists in Chile have welcomed last week’s decision by Congress to create a science ministry. Many researchers hope that a dedicated ministry will give science more prominence and better-coordinated policies—provided the ministry’s budget matches the government’s ambitions to “bring Chile towards an information…

How and Where the Population Will Age The percentage of people over 60 years old is growing worldwide due to falling fertility rates and an increasing life expectancy. The United Nations projects that one in five people will be over age 60 by 2050, up from 13 percent of the world’s population today. Man-made risks forecast…

The Politics of Seeing Within the Global City Following the template of NYC, the primary way of seeing in the global city remains, above all, “move on there’s nothing to see here,” and the deprivation of sight is commensurate with a new kind of colonialism. ‘Carbon bubble’ could spark global financial crisis, study warns Advances…

The trends driving Chinese tech: Highlights from Mary Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends Report These insights form part of famed venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends Report. The document contains everything from global e-commerce trends to internet policy, and more importantly, China’s rising influence in internet-related markets. 24 global cities set for 24 hour one-mile run…

What living abroad will cost you in these 13 cities MOVING TO ANOTHER city is an exciting step. A new culture, new cuisine, new language and a whole new world of opportunities greet you. But how do different cities around the globe compare to one another in terms of cost? Scaling startups are setting up secondary…

South Korean apps are outsourcing academic fraud to freelance ghostwriters Ghostwriting has become a lucrative market as more South Korean university graduates go on to graduate school to gain an edge, or buy themselves more time to look for a job in the country’s competitive job market. There’s even more evidence that 2 forms of exercise…

How The Growth Of New Cities Is Becoming A Global Economic Driver When emerging markets step onto the global stage they are often clad in new cities. Indonesia has 28 new cities in the works, Morocco is building nine, while even little Kuwait is at work constructing 12 new cities of their own. Introduction to…

Why New York beats Silicon Valley as a destination for some startup founders Zola’s Shan-Lyn Ma on the five reasons she started her company on the East Coast. Dutch student offers up all his personal data to highest bidder Shawn Buckles is a student from the Netherlands who wants to sell you his soul. Or…