2014年8月21日 星期四

2014-08-22 U.K. Spotlight


US may be a gamble too far for Masayoshi Son's SoftBank  Financial Times
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of the telecommunications group SoftBank and perhaps Japan's most successful example of an American-style entrepreneur, has made a career out of beating the odds. He casts himself in the mould of his hero, Soichiro ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
What £20bn of tax cuts tell us about Ukip's priorities – and the Conservative ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
“We want to take low earners out of income tax altogether. No tax on the minimum wage,” says Aker,. Observation: Expensive. Very expensive. According to the IFS Green Budget, applying that policy this year would mean pushing up the starting point of ...


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  The Economist   
Facial-recognition systems are getting better  The Economist
WITH some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency's facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly ...


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'Terrorist' is too big a word for the deranged killers of Isis  Financial Times
He spoke with a British accent. That made the graphic video footage of an Isis militant slaying the American journalist James Foley all the more chilling. A warning between the lines: the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq will soon come home. But the killer's spiel ...


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Nobel guru fears it may be nigh impossible to stop deflation  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
A quick word from Lindau, where half the world's Nobel economists are gathered on a beautiful island with cobbled streets on Lake Constance, looking out across the Alps. It is a Wittlesbach jewel. Christopher Sims – a monetary expert, who now thinks money ...


   

  The Economist   
Disease transmission Seals of doom  The Economist
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...


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Dramas to match scenery at Jackson Hole  Financial Times
The annual August summits of the world's top central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, have a dramatic mountain backdrop, but the conference titles are not exactly works of blockbuster film writers. “Re-evaluating labour market dynamics”, the topic of this ...


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Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank  New Scientist
GOOGLE is building the largest store of knowledge in human history – and it's doing so without any human help. Instead, Knowledge Vault autonomously gathers and merges information from across the web into a single base of facts about the world, and the ...


   

  The Economist   
Disease transmission  The Economist
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...


   

  BBC News   
Samsung-made Nook tablet announced by Barnes & Noble  BBC News
Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD+, which it manufactured itself. The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", ...


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