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Published time: 24 Jul, 2017 00:00 Edited time: 24 Jul, 2017 00:07 German carmakers are being investigated over allegations that it’s been operating a price-fixing cartel since the early ’90s – activities that may have laid the foundations for the 2015 diesel emissions scandal, Der Spiegel claims. A recent report in the magazine said antitrust […]
Charles Rex Arbogast/AP The Chicago Cubs have come out of nowhere to play like the best team in baseball, and it looks like they’re only going to get better. Surging since the All-Star break, the Cubs have won six consecutive games through Thursday before a loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday, and sit just one […]
SPONSORED: Presented by Raygun I’d assume, like me, you grew up in a very different world than we live in today when it comes to technology. Today software touches our lives constantly from the moment we wake up, go to work, and then hit the hay and the end of the day. But as software […]
Alas, poor Warrick BRIAN AUNSPACH thought he had a job for life. After six years at a smelter owned by Alcoa, America’s largest aluminium company, his work was hard but the benefits decent. Warning signs came with crashing aluminium prices in the summer of 2015 and murmurings about unfair Chinese competition. Then reality hit: in […]
Few were surprised this morning to learn of the resignation of Travis Kalanick from being the CEO of Uber. The company has endured scandal after scandal, many of which trace back to Kalanick in one way or the other, whether directly as a result of his behavior or his business choices, or less directly as […]
Shutterstock By the end of 2017, Apple will put its proprietary machines for fixing cracked iPhones in about 400 authorized third-party repair centers, including Best Buy. The company had previously restricted use of its so-called Horizon Machine to its nearly 500 retail stores and mail-in repair centers, and it has guarded the machine’s design closely. The […]
Shutterstock A broken smartphone is like a broken limb. Suddenly, something you rely on every day is a hobbled version of its former self, and the convenience and ease with how you got through life before it takes a severe step back. Naturally, capitalism ensures that those who stand to gain the most from making […]
Noreen Rodriguez, an assistant instructor at the University of Texas at Austin, was nominated for the OZY Educator Award by Mazher Ali, who wrote: “Noreen isn’t just a great teacher, she’s an archetype for who the modern, culturally curious and emotionally intelligent teacher should be.” Noreen Rodriguez, Texas I hated social studies as a kid, […]
As we’ve seen in the past, a strong password doesn’t automatically make people safe online. Often, a specially-crafted email is all that it takes for someone to hand over their digital life to a malicious third party. Although email services are doing more to filter phishing emails before they reach your inbox, a decades-old unicode […]
The author is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Is it time to throw up our hands and admit defeat on the vexing issue of inequality? Some thinkers seem to have concluded as much, as the rich get richer and average wages stagnate across the United States, Europe and China. The forces […]
