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1 in 4 voters believe robots would make better politicians

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“Findings from the report reveal that consumers would entrust the running of the country to robots. 66 percent of UK citizens expect that robots will be working within the government by 2037, with 16 percent believing this could happen in the next one to two years.  A further finding which may cause concern for Number 10 is that one in four think robots will make better decisions that elected government representatives, mainly in regards to the economy.”

Read more: http://www.cbronline.com/news/internet-of-things/cognitive-computing/1-4-believe-robots-make-better-politicians/

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American Citizens: U.S. Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone

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“Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.  According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.  ‘That’s shocking,’ said Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the Department of Homeland Security. She wrote the rules and restrictions on how CBP should conduct electronic searches back in 2009. ‘That [increase] was clearly a conscious strategy, that’s not happenstance.'”

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/traveling-while-brown-u-s-border-agents-can-search-your-n732746

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The Trump Laptop Ban and What It Means for Air Travel

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“Middle East airports and passengers are grappling with new U.S. and British rules barring laptops and other electronic gadgets in carry-on luggage. Both governments prohibited large electronic devices in the cabins of flights headed to their countries. In announcing the rules, officials cited security reasons but didn’t supply many specifics.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-21/the-laptop-ban-and-what-it-means-for-air-travel-quicktake-q-a

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Chinese Hotel: 6 Days to Build

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“Pay attention to how few workers are visible in any stage of production.  There is no way that these techniques will not be adopted all over the world. Nobody is going to give China this kind of competitive edge. These techniques are going to be imitated.  It means the end of today’s technology. Today’s technology is labor-intensive. This will not be true by 2030.  The next step will be the adoption of these techniques for housing developments. The construction industry will work out the bugs in high-level projects. Then these techniques will be adopted by housing developers as the price of the tools continues to drop.”

Read more: http://teapartyeconomist.com/2017/03/11/chinese-hotel-6-days-to-build/

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Snapchat’s young users snap up stock — and want more IPOs

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“Online stock trading app Robinhood, whose core demographic has an average age of 30, says that Thursday was its biggest day ever, and that 43% of all its traders that day went for Snap stock.  ‘Snap’s IPO revitalized investing among the younger generation,’ notes Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder of Robinhood. ‘We also saw a surge in new accounts, with many new customers opening up their first brokerage account.’  The median age of Robinhood investors buying Snap on Robinhood has been 26, the same age as Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.”

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/03/06/snapchats-young-users-snap-up-stock-and-want-more-ipos/98710988/

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Startup Seeks To Replace College Debt With Tech Apprenticeships

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“Meet Isaac Morehouse, founder of the apprenticeship program, the Praxis, built on the belief that college degrees are less valuable than work experience. He tells Tucker how he helps people who don’t go to college with apprenticeships.”

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How to save 51 billion lives for 68 cents

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“I met with Manu Prakash from Stanford to talk about 2 of his labs’ inventions the Foldscope and the Paperfuge. Combined these cost only 68 cents and they can be used to diagnose Malaria. Both of these are examples not only of simple, brilliant design, but of how engineering is used to make a positive dent in the world.”

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What an Engineer Looks Like

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“A finalist in the U.S. State Department’s Science & Technology competition and the first software developer at Konga, Nigeria’s largest e-commerce site, Celestine was flying to New York from Lagos to work with one of Andela’s partner companies.  While it had been a long trip, things had gone fairly smoothly. When Celestine got to customs, however, that all changed. Although he had complied with all visa and immigration protocols, he was brought into a small room where he was told he didn’t look like a software engineer and was asked to take a coding exam — after 23 hours of travel — to prove it. Upon his release three hours later, Celestine tweeted about his ordeal of trying to enter the U.S. as an African engineer.”

Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-engineer-looks-like-jeremy-johnson

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What Do You Call a Tool to Help Uber Avoid Gov’t Stings? A Good Start.

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“The defense always seems to be ‘Uber needs to follow the same rules as everybody else,’ and never ‘Everybody else should have the same freedom as Uber.'”

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2017/03/03/what-do-you-call-a-tool-to-help-uber-avo

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Multiple Canadians denied entry to U.S. based on phone searches

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In at least two separate incidents, Canadian citizens of Moroccan heritage were denied entry to the U.S. based on CBP searches of their smartphones and social media accounts.  One was refused on the basis of an old school photo in which he was “tagged” on his Facebook profile, while the other was refused on the apparent basis of videos of Muslim daily prayers on her phone.

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