Thomas Cook customers to fly home after firm collapses – BBC News
The tour firm’s failure means more than 150,000 British tourists will need to be brought back. Source: Thomas Cook customers to fly home after firm collapses – BBC News
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Facebook announces Libra digital currency, Calibra digital wallet
Facebook will also create a new subsidiary, Calibra, to build a digital wallet for people to store and exchange the currency using apps. Source: Facebook announces Libra digital currency, Calibra digital wallet
Pepsi Drops Plans To Use Artificial Constellation To Promote An Energy Drink – Slashdot | + Opinion
Opinion: Slashdot reports that Pepsi has chosen to distance itself from the possibility of tacky orbiting space ads. I can’t believe that space ads are already a possibility. Perhaps Pepsi shrewdly realized that associating itself with an untested, controversial practice could be bad for business. If we say nothing against space ads, they will happen.… Read More Pepsi Drops Plans To Use Artificial Constellation To Promote An Energy Drink – Slashdot | + Opinion
‘space billboards’ could use satellite technology to create brand-sponsored constellations | + Opinion
The idea has prompted strong backlash on the internet with one twitter user describing the potential to pollute our skies as a ‘dystopian future‘. others have called for the sky to be protected as a public space and not uses to generate private revenue. Source: ‘space billboards’ could use satellite technology to create brand-sponsored constellations… Read More ‘space billboards’ could use satellite technology to create brand-sponsored constellations | + Opinion
Money laundering? There’s AI for that
Still, the industry is proceeding with caution. While banks feel emboldened by the December notice from regulators, they remain wary of a key stipulation. Source: Money laundering? There’s AI for that
Here is the future of car sharing, and carmakers have a lot to worry about | Business Standard News
Moscow’s sharing boom shows how quickly consumers can abandon the traditional car Source: Here is the future of car sharing, and carmakers have a lot to worry about | Business Standard News
John Stuart Mill – A progressive thinker but not without limits
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was a British social thinker and government man who advocated utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor, the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1747). A member of the Liberal Party, Mill was the first Member of Parliament to champion the cause of women’s suffrage. As a child, Mill was… Read More John Stuart Mill – A progressive thinker but not without limits
