Richard Sennett, interviewed by Tim Black (“The Intimate Lives of Others,” Spiked, January 2016)
To celebrate its 90th, PublicisGroupe has launched Publicis90, a global start-up initiative aimed at selecting 90 promising startups or projects in the digital field from around the world to mentor and fund
New Zealand plans to give everyone a ‘citizen’s wage’ and scrap benefits Independent
"Should All Research Papers Be Free?" Kate Murphy has this news analysis in the Sunday Review section of today's edition of The New York Times.
Robots aren’t people. So whom do we blame—and how do we
react—when they spy on, injure or even kill us? If you don’t make rules now, it
will be a very target-rich environment for litigators. It’s better to sort out
as many issues as you can in advance so you know who’s responsible. They can
buy insurance, they can make sure their engineers design as carefully as they
can. Somebody needs to own the problem Robot
Law: Preventing Serious—and Subtle—Threats
Using data to drive business intelligence
Huffington Post, 10/2/16. A Penn State study found that they could use Twitter data to predict the likelihood that someone would enrol on Obamacare, whilst another trawled social media to predict when someone might be tempted to join IS. This kind of behavioural analysis has been available after Twitter opened up its data pipe to researchers via projects such as Gnip, which is an open source repository for social data
Erectile robotics
Just what kind of CPA are you? Take this quiz from the AICPA and find out. You want to know!
Imagine a federal election where you could swap the school hall for a ballot booth at your local pub or snag a free burger just for showing up to vote. These are proposals that have been considered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in an internal report obtained by the ABC Voting in pubs, free burgers, troll mascot among changes proposed to get people to the polls
“Seven steps to ensure you become overregulated” include “#1 – Be Successful.” [Mark Jamison, Tech Policy Daily]
Using data to drive business intelligence
Huffington Post, 10/2/16. A Penn State study found that they could use Twitter data to predict the likelihood that someone would enrol on Obamacare, whilst another trawled social media to predict when someone might be tempted to join IS. This kind of behavioural analysis has been available after Twitter opened up its data pipe to researchers via projects such as Gnip, which is an open source repository for social data
Erectile robotics
Hybrid approach model for prevention of tax
evasion and fraud
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 213 ( 2015 ) 383 – 389. The theoretical research analyzes the interaction between the taxpayer behavior and their social status, and not only individual motivations reasons to explain the level of tax evasion.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 213 ( 2015 ) 383 – 389. The theoretical research analyzes the interaction between the taxpayer behavior and their social status, and not only individual motivations reasons to explain the level of tax evasion.
Just what kind of CPA are you? Take this quiz from the AICPA and find out. You want to know!
Puong Fei Yeh, CIA. Is it possible that automation could
determine the demand for intelligence analysts? The Open
Source Indicators project aims to “develop methods for continuous, automated
analysis of publicly available data in order to anticipate and/or detect
significant societal events...”
Imagine a federal election where you could swap the school hall for a ballot booth at your local pub or snag a free burger just for showing up to vote. These are proposals that have been considered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in an internal report obtained by the ABC Voting in pubs, free burgers, troll mascot among changes proposed to get people to the polls
“Seven steps to ensure you become overregulated” include “#1 – Be Successful.” [Mark Jamison, Tech Policy Daily]
Digital
by Default Findings report released
ATO: Thank you Australia, we received nearly 1,000 responses to our Digital by default Consultation Paper to guide our next steps in going digital. We’ve heard what you had to say on our proposed digital changes. Have a look at the results in our Digital by Default Findings report.
ATO: Thank you Australia, we received nearly 1,000 responses to our Digital by default Consultation Paper to guide our next steps in going digital. We’ve heard what you had to say on our proposed digital changes. Have a look at the results in our Digital by Default Findings report.
Amazon Echo gadgets reset an owner's thermostat and
went rogue after hearing a trigger word on a radio show
Business Insider, 11/3/16. After NPR mentioned the magic wake word on the air during the program, some Echo owners said that their gadgets began behaving strangely. Welcome to the future.
Also: New Amazon ‘Tap’ and ‘Echo Dot’ Gadgets Unleash Alexa on the World
Spray-on coating could ice-proof airplanes, power lines, windshields PhysOrgBusiness Insider, 11/3/16. After NPR mentioned the magic wake word on the air during the program, some Echo owners said that their gadgets began behaving strangely. Welcome to the future.
Also: New Amazon ‘Tap’ and ‘Echo Dot’ Gadgets Unleash Alexa on the World
WEF, Mar 2016.
Mercedes-Benz is firing robots and bringing in humans to do the job
instead. Robots can’t keep up with the changing pace and adaptation
required by the luxury car-maker; instead the flexibility and dexterity of
human workers is required.
How to detect a credit card cloner at the gas pump City Pages (Chuck L). A public service announcement
How Did This Happen? New York Review of Books. One caveat: political scientist Tom Ferguson says the “gerrymandering greatly favors Republicans” meme is incorrect, it only mildly favors Republicans. The Dems lost many seats in 2010 by two points or less, and better management of the economy could easily have turned many votes around.
Customers simply use their cellphones to unlock the door with a
swipe of the finger and scan their purchases. All they need to do is to register
for the service and download an app. They get charged for their purchases in a
monthly invoice.How Did This Happen? New York Review of Books. One caveat: political scientist Tom Ferguson says the “gerrymandering greatly favors Republicans” meme is incorrect, it only mildly favors Republicans. The Dems lost many seats in 2010 by two points or less, and better management of the economy could easily have turned many votes around.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens received £31.6 million in British government tax subsidies, which means it was “certified as culturally British.”
The Thai movie Cemetery of Splendor is likely to end up as the best of the year, review here
Sweden's 1st unstaffed food shop, all you need is a phone
Privately owned and wealthy groups demographics
Robots are better investors than people Financial Times. By the same logic, I would assume robots are better central bankers than central bankers….
Dr Krikorian and colleagues reported in 2010 that blueberries may improve memory in older people. High levels of anthocyanin
One of the few naturally blue-hued foods humans eat, blueberries are packed with antioxidant power, which comes from high levels of anthocyanins, a type of flavonoid or plant compound. They also contain significant amounts of micronutrients and fibre Blueberries may help prevent Alzheimer's, researchers say
Korporaal, Glenda. The Australian 9 Mar 2016:
24. Australian Securities & Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft
has called on market regulators around the world to "start thinking
about" the challenges of blockchain, the technology behind cyber-currency
bitcoin.
CPA
Australia is preparing to practise what it preaches
Professional Planner, 4/3/16. It will not be long before CPA Australia, the body that represents some 150,000 accountants in Australia, reveals more details of its keenly anticipated foray into financial planning. This is a potential game-changer for financial advice in Australia, if the association gets it right, and the industry’s incumbents would be well-advised themselves to sit up and take close notice of what it’s doing.
Professional Planner, 4/3/16. It will not be long before CPA Australia, the body that represents some 150,000 accountants in Australia, reveals more details of its keenly anticipated foray into financial planning. This is a potential game-changer for financial advice in Australia, if the association gets it right, and the industry’s incumbents would be well-advised themselves to sit up and take close notice of what it’s doing.
Stephanie Hunter McMahon (Cincinnati), The Perfect Process is the Enemy of the Good Tax: Tax's Exceptional Regulatory Process, 36 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2016):
Many courts and academics critique existing tax exceptionalism or the ability of the federal income tax to be created, applied, or interpreted differently from other laws. Critics have successfully complained that the Treasury Department, and the IRS as a bureau of the Department, issues guidance implementing the Internal Revenue Code using different processes from those required by the Administrative Procedure Act. At the same time, courts are increasing the level of deference given to this guidance to conform to that given other agencies. This article responds to these critics by urging they re-focus their attention on the objectives of administrative law and comparisons to other agencies’ procedures as opposed to limiting their assessment to the APA.
Tom Burton: why we
need a robust digital trust system now
The Mandarin, 7/3/16. The backbone of any new ID regime has to be government led. And that may be part of the problem. Already the bigger players — the Department of Human Services, the Australian Taxation Office, Medicare, Australia Post, the NSW government — are pushing their own strategies and solutions. Without a strong, centrally driven or at least highly co-ordinated approach, there is a high risk of agency turf wars stymieing and stalling the adoption of a national system everyone buys into.
The Mandarin, 7/3/16. The backbone of any new ID regime has to be government led. And that may be part of the problem. Already the bigger players — the Department of Human Services, the Australian Taxation Office, Medicare, Australia Post, the NSW government — are pushing their own strategies and solutions. Without a strong, centrally driven or at least highly co-ordinated approach, there is a high risk of agency turf wars stymieing and stalling the adoption of a national system everyone buys into.
EXCLUSIVE: HMRC consultations on digital tax plans include questions around stock takes, adjustments and data pre-population
CCH Daily, 7/3/16. In an exclusive interview Theresa Middleton, HMRC director of Business Customer and Strategy, told Accountancy the question would be raised in several consultations which will be issued after the Budget, to take on board the views of businesses and individuals who would use the digital tax accounts and would be scooped up into mandatory quarterly reporting requirements.
NextGov, 7/3/16. A researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab has trained a neural network—a learning AI system modeled after the structure of the human brain that can be taught to find patterns in information on its own—to create sentences based on Donald Trump’s victory speeches in the presidential primary elections
CBInsights, 1/3/16. As the "Uber for
X" trend explodes, a growing set of behind-the-scenes companies is
providing the tools and services that make the on-demand economy possible. Eg. Startups
like Checkr, are leveraging APIs to automate background checks, enabling a
quicker screening process for on-demand workers.
Government News, 1/3/16. New figures released
by Airbnb reveal the ‘sharing economy’ juggernaut so loved by tourists could be
having a more serious displacement effect on traditional city residential
rental markets than policymakers and local regulators had first thought.
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U.S. Secret Service: Data Analyses Could Better Inform the Domestic Field Office Structure, GAO-16-288: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016
“There Is Regulatory Capture, But It Is By No Means Complete” ProMarket
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