11 September 2016 (12:40 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Shahrivar 1395/08 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/11 Ding-You 4714
NEC (formerly known as Nippon Electric Company) created artificial intelligence software used to sort resumes, job applications and employment test results. Now the company wants to create a robot interviewer!
NEC claims their employee screening AI tech will reduce the chances of […] Continue Reading…
11 September 2016 (11:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Shahrivar 1395/08 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/11 Ding-You 4714
“….what does this mean about the employee and employer relationship that they need to be so closely monitored? What does it say about the sense of trust or respect?”-Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute
Hitachi calls it Human […] Continue Reading…
10 September 2016 (17:50 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Shahrivar 1395/07 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/10 Ding-You 4714
“The security situation has changed.”-Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of Deutschland, 02 September 2016
“I welcome…. the proposals by Minister Steinmeier…. …We need to avoid a new cold war, we need to avoid a new arms race… …NATO and the European […] Continue Reading…
10 September 2016 (15:32 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Shahrivar 1395/07 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/10 Ding-You 4714
North Carolina Air National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Monica Ebert.Apparently the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense (DoD) think the 2018 fire season is gonna’ be big because they’ve just added another MAFFS […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for August 2016:
Bill & Hillary Clinton claim they paid 34.2% of their income to federal income taxes. They also claim they paid 9.8% of their ‘adjusted’ income to charity, mostly to their own charity informally called Clinton Family Foundation (which, by the way, is how they keep […] Continue Reading…
08 September 2016 / 20:49 UTC-07 Tango 01 (19 Shahrivar 1395/06 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/09 Ding-You 4714)
“I’m learning everything for the first time, including working with the U. S. Soldiers. This was a great opportunity. I’ve never shot my rifle off of a building from a distance.”-Sergeant Yuasa Yuichi
Japanese snipers getting […] Continue Reading…
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in August 2016:
California: San Francisco based internet ‘ride sharing service’ Uber lost $1.3-billion USD in the first half of 2016! Uber pays its ‘contracted’ drivers a subsidy in order to keep […] Continue Reading…
07 September 2016 (03:58 UTC-07 Tango 01) 17 Shahrivar 1395/04 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/07 Ding-You 4714
Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company announced plans to create an artificial inteligence (AI) program to predict a person’s likeliness to get sick and die. Electronics company Hitachi is working on the ‘minority report’ program for the insurance company.
Japan’s Dai-ichi Life […] Continue Reading…
06 September 2016 (03:01 UTC-07 Tango 01) 16 Shahrivar 1395/03 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/06 Ding-You 4714
You might know that the United States has an Africa Command and you might know that U.S. puppet Japan has troops deployed in South Sudan, but did you know that neo-imperialist Japan has a base in the Republic of Djibouti?
It’s called […] Continue Reading…
06 September 2016 (02:40 UTC-07 Tango 01) 16 Shahrivar 1395/03 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/06 Ding-You 4714
U.S. Africa Command’s (AfriCom) Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa is fighting “violent extremist” terrorists by targeting an increasing source of revenue for those terrorist; poaching endangered wild animals. The latest anti-poaching training took place in the Republic of Djibouti: