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The US is threatening the EU with $11 billion in sanctions...
The US has threatened tariffs on $11.2 billion worth of European Union products, citing subsidies to Europe's largest aircraft maker, among other issues.The US trade representative on Monday said the World Trade Organization "repeatedly" found that EU subsidies to the French plane maker Airbus "caused adverse effects" to the US.The move continues a long-running rivalry…
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California’s new data privacy law brings U.S. closer to GDPR
The requirements aren’t insignificant, and the fines could add up Dimitri Sirota Contributor Dimitri Sirota is CEO and cofounder of data protection and privacy software company BigID. Sirota is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and strategist in the technology and cyber security space. Data privacy has become one of the defining business and cultural…
The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies
HBR Staff/Pexels If it seems like every week there’s a new scandal about ethics and the tech industry, it’s not your imagination. Even as the tech industry is trying to establish concrete practices and institutions around tech ethics, hard lessons are being learned about the wide gap between the practices of “doing ethics” and what…
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How WhatsApp Fuels Fake News and Violence in India
belies the frenzy of violence that unfolded. Videos published by local media outlets show men stomping on one of the victims as he pleads for help. Two other men lift chairs above their heads then bring them crashing down, repeatedly striking the injured man. One chair can be seen breaking apart from the force of…
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Messaging app Kik closes down as it battles SEC lawsuit over its cryptocurrency plans
Popular Canadian messaging app Kik is shutting down.In a blog post on Tuesday, Kik's CEO Ted Livingston confirmed that the company would be closing Kik to focus on Kin, its cryptocurrency business.It launched Kin in 2017 with an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), and it is currently the focus of an SEC lawsuit.Livingston said in the…
KPMG is in the middle of an unbelievably dirty cheating scandal that keeps on...
KPMG is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms: that means that whenever a plan for a business or a public project has a box that says, "Make sure no one is cheating," it means that you hire KPMG or one of its rivals to come in and check the books and make sure that…
The US just sent a guided-missile destroyer to challenge Russia at sea as tensions...
Sailors aboard to the forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) prepare the ship for port during sea and anchor maneuvers. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy Graham/Released told CNN. The Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet is headquartered in the eastern port city of Vladivostok, located in Peter the Great…
Fiddler raises $10.2 million for AI that explains its reasoning
Explainable AI, which refers to techniques that attempt to bring transparency to traditionally opaque AI models and their predictions, is a burgeoning subfield of machine learning research. It’s no wonder — models sometimes learn undesirable tricks to accomplish goals on training data, or they develop biases with the potential to cause harm if left unaddressed.…
An environmental-advocacy group graded 16 cruise lines on how well they limit pollution. Every...
Carnival's Carnival Ecstasy ship. Joe Skipper/Reuters The environmental-advocacy group Friends of the Earth graded 16 cruise lines on how well they limit pollution from their ships. The cruise lines were evaluated on how they treat their sewage, the steps they've taken to limit air pollution at ports, whether they follow water-pollution rules in Alaska, and…
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CBD In Food: Is It Safe (And Legal) To Eat?
Feeling anxious? Down? In pain? Cannabidiol — better known as CBD ― claims to relieve what ails you, or at least that’s the message being broadcast from celebrities to Facebook mom groups across the country.As state and federal cannabis laws continue to relax, you can now buy CBD in everything from jelly beans to carbonated…
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