Facebook turns to real people to fix its violent video problem
May 04, 2017 12:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Facebook has recently been under fire for not doing enough to keep disturbing content out of our newsfeeds. It hopes a hiring spree will fix the problem. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, company founder and CEO Mark...
How Star Wars kick-started modern toy collecting
May 04, 2017 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Entertainment
On 25 May, 1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opened in movie theatres across America. The now iconic science fiction film has lasted the test of time, spawning two sequels Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and...
How universities can earn trust and share power in the bitter post-truth era
May 04, 2017 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
James Baldwin, the author, playwright and social critic, whose life is depicted in the remarkable 2016 film I Am Not Your Negro, once said: It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most...
How robots can help us embrace a more human view of disability
May 04, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and their legacy of them and us continues to this day. Two hundred years later, technologies offer us an...
Emmanuel Macron takes step closer to French presidency with strong performance in fiery debate
May 04, 2017 11:44 am UTC| Politics Insights & Views
Emmanuel Macron was a virtually unknown figure in French politics before 2012. Now, as leader of the new political movement En Marche! he finds himself in the position of being the defender of French liberal democratic...
FxWirePro: What do EUR risk reversals and delta hedges offer?
May 04, 2017 10:18 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
EUR-cross-risk-reversals have understandably re-priced sharply in the direction of EUR calls, especially against G10 commodity currencies that were among the worst performers on the week. We struggle to see severe...
May 04, 2017 08:58 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Well anticipated French election outcome on April 24th saw vols fall meaningfully below 1-day forward levels from last weeks close. Even adjusting for the sharp decline baked into forward vols to account for the passage of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects