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“You might think that women who leave money management up to their spouses is a 1950s stereotype, but according to a recent report from UBS Global Wealth Management, more than half of women today still defer to their male partners when it comes to money. And, surprisingly, the stats are even greater for younger women: 56 […]
The Apollo Masters plant in Banning, Calif., burned down on Feb. 6, eliminating the sole U.S. source of the blank lacquer master disks engineers cut on special lathes to create vinyl records. Manufacturing with the volatile lacquer used in the record business has become a concern of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and it’s unknown […]
“As a source of subsistence, let alone prosperity, work is now insufficient for whole social classes. In the U.K., almost two-thirds of those in poverty – around 8 million people – are in working households. In the US, the average wage has stagnated for half a century,” according to Andy Beckett for the Guardian. “As […]
While conducting a major renovation of the U.K. House of Commons in London, workers exploring the premises found a wall panel that opens to display a small hidden room. At one end of the room is a bricked-up wall that experts have determined was once a passageway used in the 17th century to secretly enter […]
According to this graphic by HootSuite for their annual report, Facebook still leads the world, but there is a lot in play, such as fewer minutes spent each day on Facebook and more on SnapChat, researchers found. Click the video for a discussion of the results or the source link for the original article by […]
Artificial intelligence is about to grow a conscience, thanks to innumerable experts the U.S. Department of Defense hired to study ethics in A.I. Fifteen months of consultations with academics, scientists and others led to the announcement. “Deliberate steps to minimize unintended bias in A.I. capabilities” are top priorities in the DoD’s work. “The Defense Department’s […]
The first multicellular organism known to live without ever taking its first breath has been found living completely free of oxygen inside salmon. The parsasite, Henneguya salminicola, is a jellyfish-like organism that doesn’t have a mitochondrial genome, marking the first time such an absence has been discovered. The tiny creature excites scientists who are now […]
Although we’ve been hearing about 5G for a long time, it’s hard to know what to expect once the rollout in 2020 starts to pick up speed and more people trade up their phones to 5G devices. “Until this point there have been a few sparse 5G networks available in cities, but with only a […]
“An emerging body of research is suggesting that soaring 35,000 feet (10 kilometers) above the ground inside a sealed metal tube can do strange things to our minds, altering our mood, changing how our senses work and even making us itch more,” according to Richard Gray for BBC Future. Frequent fliers may have found themselves […]
“It’s been nearly four decades since modern homelessness worked its way into our collective awareness. Unlike the Civil War or the Great Depression that caused massive waves of ‘itinerant poor,’ the rise in homelessness in the 1980s was borne of social politics and global economics. And in just 40 years, it has reached crisis proportions,” […]