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How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy? by http://bit.ly/2sO3BFe

This post is adapted from the blog of Earnest, a Priceonomics Data Studio customer.

Coined shortly after the financial crisis in 2009, the so-called “gig economy” or “sharing economy” refers to the growing cadre of companies like Airbnb, Lyft, and TaskRabbit—platforms that employ temporary workers who provide a wide variety of services: delivery, ridesharing, rentals, and odd jobs. A recent Pew study estimated that nearly a quarter of all Americans earn some money through these platforms.

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Tilos, Greece: the first island in the Med to run entirely on wind and solar power by http://ift.tt/2rzek4x

Tiny Tilos, in the Dodecanese, is a pioneering nature reserve. Now, Greece’s ‘green island’ is set to be powered by renewable energy Tiny Tilos, in the Dodecanese, is a pioneering nature reserve. Now, Greece’s ‘green island’ is set to be powered by renewable energy

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Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago by https://is.gd/pim1gM

Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz.

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Google open-sources object detection tech that powers Nest Cam, Image Search, and Street View by https://is.gd/4EhIoC

Google handed a new set of intelligent object detection capabilities over to the open source community as part of a continued development of its TensorFlow framework.

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Narro Reading of Columbus could be the next startup city

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Ever since I wrote about the Midwest last year I’ve been keeping my eyes on Columbus. I decided to hold a small pitch-off to meet some of the startups I saw..

How Facebook Messenger Bots Work (And If They’re Right For You) by https://is.gd/S4hAjA

Remember back in the ’80s, when we all thought that by the year 2000, we’d own flying cars and have legit robot maids like the Jetsons did? It felt like the future was just around the corner!

Fast forward to today – Siri, Cortana, and Alexa have showed up in our phones and living rooms, listening to our voices and doing their very best to carry out our demands.

If you paid attention to a little announcement earlier this year, you might think that Facebook chat bots (or “chat extensions”) are the next part of the future – the future future? – and they’re taking over social media marketing.

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Narro Reading of Against objectivity

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Editor’s note: Tom Warhover is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. From 2001 to 2017, Warhover was also executive editor of the Columbia Missourian, a community newsp…

Narro Reading of The Problems I Want AI To Fix

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Looking through my RSS feeds, the media releases I receive in my email, and the headlines in the tech press and on social media, there’s one thing that…

Narro Reading of These Companies Are Helping Put Chicago on the Cutting Edge of Emerging Tech

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Their work includes innovating in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, Internet of Things and voice recognition.

Narro Reading of The secret rules of the internet

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Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University, Chico, Mora-Blanco had majored in art, minored in…