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Chris Graythen/Getty Images The wonky words infrastructure and resilience have circulated widely of late, particularly since Hurricanes Harvey and Irma struck paralyzing, costly blows in two of America’s fastest-growing states. Resilience is a property traditionally defined as the ability to bounce back. A host of engineers and urban planners have long warned this trait is […]
GOVERNMENTS do not always make the best budget managers. Assuming it avoids an accidental debt default, America will run a bigger budget deficit this year than the last, despite a booming economy. Germany runs a surplus—but scrimps on critical investments and annoys its euro-area neighbours in the process. Japan, cowering under a mammoth public-debt pile, […]
LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images America has always been a trailblazer. Whether it be Silicon Valley technology or a subprime debt disaster, last week’s U.S. news is this week’s global news. The latest export from America is the removal of controversial statues, and the world has responded with their own figures of hate. It began with the protests in […]
Given Apple’s original content track record thus far, the company might do just as well burning a pile of 1 billion dollar bills as it would buying original programming. The odious Planet of the Apps has proved to be every bit the cringeworthy crapfest that its very name suggested it would be the moment it […]
NBC Whether it’s office email, collaborative apps or the break room noticeboard, internal workplace communications have the potential to go very wrong, very quickly. Google engineer James Damore recently found this out to his cost after colleagues leaked a Google Doc he shared about the company’s approach to diversity, leading to his eventual dismissal. Of […]
It didn’t take long for Hershey to mention its push into e-commerce on Wednesday’s earnings call. In prepared remarks at the beginning of the conference call, president and CEO Michele Buck listed online retail as a major focus and potential growth area for the company. She mentioned collaboration with brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as efforts […]
When I reviewed the Steam Controller, I called it a “weird mutant with potential.” I still think it’s weird, but I had lost faith in the potential part … until I saw a lengthy documentary about the device on YouTube. In a two-part hour-long video, Steam Controller defender and YouTube creator James Minicki talks about […]
Reuters/RIA Novosti Ross Beaty — the man whose vision to create the world’s largest silver miner, Pan American Silver, was backed by Bill Gates — believes the world is in the middle of an energy revolution that could disrupt the global political power structure. “For sure we are in a fundamental transition right now,” declares […]
Bulldogs Riley Clarke and Redlynch’s James Mitchell. PICTURE: STEWART McLEAN. JORDAN GERRANSThe Cairns Post Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Email a friend TALL tale or true THE he said, she said in regards to Toowoomba Mountaineers pair Manylok Malek and Paul Aleer continues to intrigue. The Taipans […]
Thomson Reuters ABERDEEN, Scotland (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May, about to trigger Brexit, should think again about her refusal to discuss a new Scottish independence referendum, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon will tell her Scottish National Party on Saturday. May has stoked anger among the Scottish nationalists by blocking their demands for a new […]
