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How America's rich betrayed their fellow citizens
April 25th, 2016 | Source: The Guardian
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Africa’s Diaspora Remittances Rise To $35.2 Bn In 2015
April 22nd, 2016 | Source: New Africa Business News.com
The World Bank and other development partners have revealed that the total money transfers by African migrants to their region or country of origin surged by 3.4% to $35.2 billion, in 2015.
The sum which includes intra-African transfers, represents 6 percent of total transfers by migrants worldwide to their region or country of origin, Ecofin agency reports.
The total migrants transfers worldwide, though lesser compared to the previous year is estimated at $581.6 billion.
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Twilight of the Central Bankers
April 21st, 2016 | Source: Strategy + Business
Mohamed A. El-Erian argues that the world’s masters of monetary policy have reached the peak of their ability to influence the course of the global economy.
The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
by Mohamed A. El-Erian, Random House, 2016
One of the more peculiar features of the past decade has been the transformation of a formerly quiet, behind-the-scenes cohort of central bankers into the most visible and consequential players in shaping the arc of the global economy.
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How 4/20, the stoner’s holiday, went mainstream
April 20th, 2016 | Source: Marketwatch.com
As legalization progresses, a counterculture movement becomes commercialized
April 20 is the national holiday for marijuana fans. It’s Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year’s Eve all rolled into one joint-filled day.
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Clinton vs. Sanders: Who’s the Real ‘New Yorker’?
April 19th, 2016 | Source: PS Magazine
The New York Primary is not just a competition for votes; it’s a test to see which candidate is the stronger representative of the city’s culture.
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How Non-Profits Help Close the Digital Divide
April 18th, 2016 | Source: PS Magazine
A tour through the nitty gritty details of getting as many people as possible connected to the Internet.
Picture the digital divide as a literal gap: a ragged canyon running through a desert. One side’s population has Internet access. They bring laptops to cafes, walk down the street with their phones out, stream Netflix, and have corners in their living room dedicated to their unwieldy desktop computers. The folks on the other side of the canyon have no access and live in an entirely different world.
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Understanding Consciousness by Altering It
April 15th, 2016 | Source: PS Magazine
On Monday, an international team of researchers published images of the effects of LSD on the human brain, providing the world with the most accurate representation to date of your brain on drugs.
Researchers have long been interested in the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs for humans, but moral panic over hallucinogens in the 1960s stymied research on the substances until recently.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Prevent the Next Financial Crash?
April 14th, 2016 | Source: Medium.com Frog Design
The subprime financial crisis revealed that our data is only as good as our ability to analyze and understand it. AI will be necessary to helping prevent the next crisis before it happens.
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FBI paid professional hackers to gain access to San Bernardino iPhone
April 13th, 2016 | Source: The Guardian
Hackers reportedly supply zero-day exploit to allow US law enforcement entry to device, which may put older iPhones at risk of cyber criminals
The FBI reportedly bought a previously unknown security bug from a group of professional hackers to gain entry to the San Bernardino iPhone 5C, according tothe Washington Post.
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Please hold, a hacker will be with you shortly
April 12th, 2016 | Source: Reuters
Ransomware: Extortionist hackers borrow customer-service tactics
When hackers set out to extort the town of Tewksbury, Massachusetts with "ransomware," they followed up with an FAQ explaining the attack and easy instructions for online payment.
After balking for several days, Tewksbury officials decided that paying the modest ransom of about $600 was better than struggling to unlock its own systems, said police chief Timothy Sheehan.
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