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‘There must be two Americas,’ wrote Mark Twain in 1901. ‘[O]ne that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.’ The quote is from Twain’s essay, ‘To the Person Sitting in Darkness’, in which the writer condemns Western imperialism in southeast Asia. The artist Stephanie Syjuco borrowed Twain’s title for her 2019 work: a flag for the then-US terri...

This notebook by Piorama helps fight deforestation Words by Staff writer The Paper Guardian notebook is designed to give bin paper a second life While office essentials such as calendars, journals and notebooks are often unnoticed, these small workplace must-haves, which form an integral part of the creative process for architects and designers, can have a big impact on the environment. As many often underestimate the carbon footprint small everyday items can have on the planet, notebooks in pa...

Will the real Simon Wu please stand up? There is only one Outsider but apparently there are two Simon Wus operating in the Australian funds management industry. Now Outsider has been around long enough to know that finding two people named Mike Taylor plying their trade as journalists is not unusual, it is unusual for the aforementioned two Mike Taylors to be both writing about financial services which, thankfully, they are not. Similarly, while there are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of Wu...

Blog World Exploration Trends 2021 Report Blog Blog 3 Feb, 2021 Author Tracy Hu With an unofficial ban by the Chinese government on Australian coal since 2020 impacting global trade flows of the bulk commodity, experts expect to see a more diversified structure for Chinas coal supply this year if the ban remains in place. In 2020, Chinas overall coal imports rose 1.5% to 303.99 million tonnes, according to data from the General Administration of Cust...

A s we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models built at a single institu...

The 7 Best Exhibitions in the EU From Nathalie Du Pasquier in Rome to Susan Philipsz in Berlin, these are the best shows in the Schengen With most European countries still in lockdown, the view from our own windows can be the closest we get to interacting with the outside world these days. Yet, while many museums and galleries remain closed, a wealth of digital programming – complemented by some creative installation solutions – mean we can still continue to enjoy that w...

Published December 19, 2020, 8:55 PM The Philippines has positioned artificial intelligence (AI), the cloud, and 5G as building blocks of its post-pandemic economic recovery, propelling the growth of emerging sectors like edutech, fintech, and insurtech.  Discussions on “Fintech 2021 Philippine Outlook: The Key to Unlocking the Economy Post-COVID” have identified AI and the cloud as key technologies underpinning the future of legacy sectors like banking, education, and insurance. During th...

Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more The rest of the world may be slowing down as we prepare for Christmas and the new year, but we are not taking our foot off the gas. Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX, the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 m...