Technology
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Facebooks of this world by politicians across the planet. To many of us, this seems like government’s desperately trying to protect their turf and maintain control. Sam Volkering wrote an interesting article which I thought I would follow up on. In modern times, most empires have a life span of around 100 years. The American…
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Recently, I wrote about how artists receive very little income from streaming. A couple of million streams on YouTube will make you enough to buy a couple of cups of coffee. This led several people to ask how music royalties work. Multiplatinum artists like TLC and Toni Braxton have been forced to declare bankruptcy because their…
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Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. The platform, run by Amazon, offeres anyone the opportunity to earn money by completing quick, menial tasks posted by researchers: labelling images, taking surveys, transcribing receipts. These tasks can pay as little as $0.01. Today, a reported 500k workers on Mechanical…
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Nearly 50 million people in the US are traveling today. Travel safely and have a great 4th. A $1 million dollar robot is the future of fruit-picking. Each robot will be able to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers who manage about 15,000 in an eight-hour shift, according to Fieldwork Robotics,…
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Is your iPhone’s loading speed getting progressively slower? Our first thought is that it is a couple of years old and they have launched several new models since you bought it… and there is probably a new one next week. The second thought is that your network is slow. However, it is more likely that your iPhone is…