Moore's Law R.I.P., bouncing back from terrorism, unconscious bias and other top stories from the last seven days.
The internet: anywhere, anytime, any device. Except for the more than 4 billion people still offline.
How bad is your unconscious bias? Organizations founded on meritocratic values can be the most biased of all, new research finds.
How do you solve a problem like corruption? The answer to that question could save billions each year.
What can one of the most male-dominated industries teach about gender parity? Quite a lot, surprisingly.
Are 1.5 million jobs at risk of drying up? Yes, unless we start tackling the water crisis.
Overcoming terrorist attacks. The awful memories live on, but countries and people can bounce back.
Hypergrowth companies aim to disrupt an industry before existing players can respond. That requires a speed-at-all costs playbook, what Silicon Valley refers to as blitzscaling.
A robot beat a grandmaster at the world’s most difficult game. It used a form of intuition. Could computers develop common sense? Give it five years.
Booming sales of safes in Germany and Japan are one side-effect of negative interest rates. Might they also signal that the policy is undermining trust in the banks?
Moore’s Law – the doubling of computing power every two years – has enjoyed a 50-year run. But that era looks like it’s over. Computing is set to get far more complicated.
Prime numbers aren’t random. They hate to repeat themselves.
Robot CEOs. Could your next boss run on code? Cites The Future of Jobsreport. (Venture Beat)
A female-dominated economic advisory council in Canada. Including the Forum’s chief economist, Jennifer Blanke. (The Star)
23 Americans changing the world. From the Forum’s 2016 class of Young Global Leaders. (Business Insider)
15 years to empower women economically. That’s the task set by a high-level panel launched in Davos. (Guardian)
