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Robots are taking mid-level jobs, changing the economy
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Computers and robots will replace humans in enough jobs that they will dramatically change the economy, said industry watchers and MIT economists at a robotics symposium Monday. And, they said, the transition has already started. “What we’re finally seeing is that our digital helpers aren’t just catching...
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NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE END OF JOBS
Jeremy Rifkin A technology revolution is fast replacing human beings with machines in virtually every sector and industry in the global economy. Already, millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process, and whole work categories and job assignments have shrunk, been restructured, or disappeared. Global unemployment has...
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Economy shed jobs at year’s end
Unemployment remained steady at 5.2 per cent in December, despite the loss of almost 30,000 jobs in the month. The jobless rate was held steady by a substantial fall in the proportion of people who either working or are looking for a job, in a sign that some people are giving up the search for
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HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate
Introduction Mobile apps and HTML5 are two of the hottest technologies right now, and there’s plenty of overlap. Web apps run in mobile browsers and can also be re-packaged as native apps on the various mobile platforms. With the wide range of platforms to support, combined with the sheer power of mobile browsers, developers are
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Native vs. HTML5 Application Development
I imagine that many developers and even more entrepreneurs on the verge of creating a mobile application are contemplating whether to build it using native SDKs or using only HTML5. If you are having the same doubts, this article might help you. I will explain what both options mean, what are the implications of each,