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| How women are still left behind in the labor market Women and men often have very different labor market experiences. Women are paid less per hour, work fewer hours outside the home, and enter different occupations than men. These differing experiences in turn generate a host of other disparities, including lower levels of wealth, reduced retirement ...
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| Facebook is again criticized for failing to prevent religious conflict in Myanmar Away from the U.S. political capital, Zuckerberg is engaged in serious discussions about Myanmar with a group of six civil society organizations in the country who took umbrage at his claim that Facebook's systems had prevented messages aimed at inciting violence between Buddhists and Muslims last ...
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| Spectral Edge's image enhancing tech pulls in $5.3M As we've reported previously, their technology — which can be embedded in software or in silicon — is designed to enhance pictures and videos on mass-market devices. Mooted use cases include for enhancing low light smartphone images, improving security camera footage or even for drone ...
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| Digital license plates are set to be tested in Dubai Vehicle license plates haven't changed much in concept since the car itself was invented more than a century ago, but digital license plates have been talked about more in recent years. Now, drivers in Dubai are set to test them out. Dubai will start testing digital " smart plates" on some vehicles next ...
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| EU's highest court rules against Uber in France The European Court of Justice has ruled against Uber in France in a case that threatens to reduce the regulatory protection digital companies have in the EU. Judges at the EU's highest court on Tuesday said the French government was within its rights to pass a 2014 law banning some transport ...
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| This Pouched Rat Can Sniff Out Tuberculosis in Kids In fact, not only can they smell it, but they're also significantly better at sniffing out the illness than existing tests that doctors use to test for the disease in children. Current pediatric tuberculosis (TB) tests have a sensitivity of just 30 to 40 percent, meaning that if a doctor tests a child sick with TB for the ...
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| Israel has misjudged Russia in Syria. The consequences could be grave Clever wheezes in the Middle East have the tendency to not look very smart for very long. A case in point, as has become sharply evident this week, is the much-vaunted "deconfliction" arrangement between Russia and Israel after the former entered the war in Syria on the side of the Syrian president, ...
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| When it pays to continue working in retirement A 2017 Prudential Financial survey found that 31 percent of individuals who work exclusively in the gig economy are baby boomers, or those age 56 and up. Of those workers, 34 percent said they are retired. That reflects a growing trend, according to financial advisor Ric Edelman, founder and executive ...
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| Berlin takes lead: 2 million affordable apartments lacking in Germany The study, which was conducted by the Hans Böckler Foundation, found that 1.9 million affordable flats nationwide are lacking, a large portion of which are single-person households and less than 45 square metres in size. 310,000 of these missing flats are in Berlin, followed by Hamburg, which lacks ...
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| This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent This one's for the books: in a jaw-dropping study, a team just turned the human brain from a read-only memory device to a rewritable one. "What?" you might ask. Of course the brain is rewritable. It's constantly using electrical and chemical signals to encode our thoughts and memories. But that's biology.
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| Flaw in Emergency Alert Systems Could Allow Hackers to Trigger False Alarms A vulnerability has been discovered in "emergency alert systems" manufactured by Boston-based ATI Systems that could allow remote hackers to activate all the sirens and trigger false alarms.
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