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Please consider Automation Could Take Your Skills — and Your Job by Patrick Thibodeau. The Glass Cage examines the possibility that businesses are moving too quickly to automate white collar jobs, sophisticated tasks and mental work, and are increasingly reliant on automated decision-making and predictive analytics.
The Mercatus Center put the "cuts" in perspective on August 21, 2012 (see above chart) in its report Defense Spending Will Continue To Grow In Spite of Automatic Cuts Set By BCA . As a result of Congress’s failure to come up with a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction plan, automatic spending cuts or “sequestration†set by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) is set to take place from 2013 to 2021. As the threat of sequestration looms, concerns about cutbacks in defense spending have become a significant issue surrounding debates tied to national security and American jobs.
9-to-5 Google reports Google-owned Boston Dynamics debuts new video of Atlas robot mimicking ‘The Karate Kid’ . Google-owned robotics lab Boston Dynanics has debuted new video of its 6’2″ Atlas robot, also known as “Ian.†The hulking mass of metal, which weighs a whopping 330 lbs, has been programmed to recreate a key scene from the 1984 film The Karate Kid
I picked up the video above from Reason.Com Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Explain Why "Lack of Transparency" Was Key to Passing the Health Care Law . Complete Quote Gruber: "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes.
The Financial Times reports Catalan Leaders Hope Poll Turnout Will Send Independence Signal .
Bloomberg reports Climate Model Predicts Very Cold Winter in Northern Hemisphere . About 14.1 million square kilometers of snow blanketed Siberia at the end of October, the second most in records going back to 1967, according to Rutgers University’s Global Snow Lab
It seems the Council on Foreign Affairs left out some key sentences in its transcript of A Conversation With Alan Greenspan . The conversation is between Alan Greenspan and Gillian Tett, U.S
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