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Companies Betting on Pot May Be Worse Off When the Smoke Clears (#GotBitcoin)

Beer and liquor companies are investing in marijuana in case customers imbibe less as legalization spreads, but their cannabis push might be a lose-lose proposition. Companies Betting on Pot May Be Worse Off When the Smoke Clears The cannabis investing frenzy has reached a fever pitch. With recreational marijuana use becoming…

Meet The Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From The Dead (#GotBitcoin)

New gene-editing technology could revive everything from the passenger pigeon to the woolly mammoth. But should scientists be playing God? Meet The Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From The Dead (#GotBitcoin) The pigeons are outwardly unremarkable. Thirteen birds, ages two weeks to three months, occupy a coop at an animal…

Emerging Field of Social Physics Shows Promise In Cybercrime Detection (#GotBitcoin?)

A few weeks ago I wrote about social physics, a new discipline that aims to help us better understand and predict the behavior of human groups. Social physics is based on the premise that all event-data representing human activity contain a special set of group behavior patterns. As long as…

Poor Cyber Practices Plague The Pentagon (#GotBitcoin?)

Good day, CIOs. Or perhaps we should say, goodbye, because the results are in from a U.S. Government Accountability Office cybersecurity study of the Defense Department's newest weapons systems. They are not encouraging. "DOD likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity,"…

Don’t Be Haunted by Digital Ghosts: Delete Your Old Accounts (#GotBitcoin?)

We face constant reminders that our personal data is scattered all over the internet. Here’s how to reduce your exposure. Don’t Be Haunted by Digital Ghosts: Delete Your Old Accounts The recent revelations of exposed Google+ data and compromised Facebook security serve as stark reminders that many of us have a…

The $210 Billion Risk In Your 401(k) (#GotBitcoin?)

Annual defaults on loans taken against investors’ 401(k)s threaten to reduce the wealth in U.S. retirement accounts by about $210 billion when the lost savings are compounded over employees’ careers. The $210 Billion Risk In Your 401(k) (#GotBitcoin?) Annual defaults on loans taken against investors’ 401(k)s threaten to reduce the…

Inheritance Planning For Cryptocurrencies (#GotBitcoin?)

Inheritance Planning For Cryptocurrencies: 3 Steps In 3 Minutes. Inheritance Planning For Cryptocurrencies (#GotBitcoin?) I’ll be expanding these ideas in a forthcoming article and book but with prices skyrocketing, and so many new people owning tokens for the first time, I want to provide a quick reference guide that you…

The U.S.-China Trade Battle Spawns a New Era of Tariff Dodges (#GotBitcoin?)

Switching around the 18,927 codes that identify imported goods is an increasingly popular way some Chinese exporters are ducking American tariffs. The U.S.-China Trade Battle Spawns a New Era of Tariff Dodges One day in June, seven months after the U.S. imposed stiff tariffs on plywood from China, a wood importer…

Google Exposed User Data, Feared Impact Of Public Disclosure (#GotBitcoin?)

Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network, though it didn’t find evidence of misuse.     The company opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny. Google opted not…

Goldman Is Looking To Reduce “Marcus” Lending Goal On Credit (Recession) Caution (#GotBitcoin?)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is looking to restrain the rapid expansion of its online lending platform as the firm grows more cautious on the consumer debt market that’s a key area of growth. Goldman Is Looking To Reduce "Marcus" Lending Goal On Credit (Recession) Caution (#GotBitcoin?) The firm’s Marcus unit…

A Retirement Wealth Gap Adds A New Indignity To Old Age (#GotBitcoin?)

Many middle-class Americans are financially unprepared for retirement—and that is leading to an array of social tensions. A Retirement Wealth Gap Adds A New Indignity To Old Age Oakmont residents play pickleball—a game that’s like a gentler version of tennis, played with a paddle and a plastic ball with holes on…

Robots Head For The Fields (#GotBitcoin?)

The agricultural industry is coping with a labor shortage. Can AI come to the rescue? Robots Head For The Fields Americans like their berries. They consume more than 8 pounds of fresh strawberries a year per person, almost twice as much as 15 years ago, according to 2017 data from the…