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Amazon Echo will bring artificial intelligence into our lives much sooner than expected
By Mark Skilton, The Conversation From Business Insider What’s all the fuss about the voice-activated home speaker that Amazon is due to release in the UK and Germany in late September? This gadget has been available in the US for over…
Airlines have no idea what to do when people are sexually assaulted on flights
By Nora Caplan-Bricker, Slate From Business Insider Dana T. had never felt more excited about her life. In April, she’d landed what she calls her “dream job,” working in sales at a global travel company. Like every other employee, she would…
Finnish tax authorities to receive information about overseas bank accounts
From yle Uutiset Finnish tax authorities are set to broaden their collecting net on a global scale. The Tax Administration will soon have access to information about taxpayers’ foreign bank accounts. To date, 101 countries have agreed to release bank…
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Rio Games
By Tim Reynolds – AP Sports Writer From Wilmington News RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps won more medals than anyone else, again. And then he said farewell, also again. Usain Bolt kissed the finish line goodbye after enhancing…
Why Aren’t Businesses Investing?
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist Interest rates in developed economies have been declining for the past 40 years. At this point, 60 percent of global GDP is generated in countries that have negative or near-zero interest rates. Germany and…
Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks
From BBC Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help…
German train attack: IS releases video of ‘Afghan knifeman’
From BBC The so-called Islamic State has released a video purporting to show an Afghan asylum seeker making threats before attacking a German train. The 17-year-old injured four people with an axe and knife, one critically, in the attack in…
Funds buy German bonds with negative yields as choices narrow
From Newsmax Funds were the biggest buyers of the first negative-yielding euro bonds sold by a non-financial company, highlighting how central bank stimulus is distorting markets. Deutsche Bahn AG allocated 57 percent of the 350-million euro ($388 million) bond sale…
The liberating power of Brexit
By Isidoros Karderinis The referendum of June 23, 2016 regarding Britain’s remain at or exit from the European Union, through its subversive BREXIT result – the first major, painful defeat for the under German control European Union of the banks…
German Viernheim cinema complex attacker shot dead
From BBC Armed police have sealed off the complex A masked man who reportedly fired shots in a cinema complex in western Germany has been shot dead by police, the state’s interior minister has said. Peter Beuth told the state…
