Posts by Marcellino Nehme
Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. Click here to read the full article.
Read MoreThe stock market boomed in 2019. Here’s how it happened
Twelve months ago, few could have imagined the S&P 500 delivering a gain of more than 28% in 2019. It was a year filled with fears that were never realized: a global economic slowdown, disruptive trade wars and potential missteps from Federal Reserve policy. A hot technology sector and easy money from the Fed repeatedly…
Read MoreThis Brain Region Lights Up When People Display Confirmation Bias
Humans have a hard time changing their minds. A chief culprit is often confirmation bias — the tendency to reject new information that counteracts our beliefs and pay attention to information that supports them. Now, a new brain imaging study provides some insights into the specific regions that give rise to confirmation bias. Click here…
Read MoreFrom Bill Gates to Warren Buffett: 5 lessons from billionaires in 2019
There are only about 2,604 billionaires in the world — or 0.0002% of planet’s population — and more than 67% of those billionaires are self-made. Throughout 2019 some of those self-made billionaires shared lessons on life and how they found success. Here are five that stood out. Click here to read the full article.
Read More5G is coming. Here’s one way to invest in the telecom boom
New York (CNN Business)5G wireless is a reality, and it’s gearing up for broad adoption. So it should come as no surprise that there is now a fund solely dedicated to the red hot technology. The Defiance Next Gen Connectivity ETF (FIVG) — ticker symbol FIVG — launched earlier this year. The fund is a…
Read MoreThese will be the most important cities by 2035
Cities are the engines of the modern economy. Over half of the world now lives in urban areas, and urbanization continues to shape the trajectory of global growth in unprecedented ways. However, the most important cities of today may be quite different than those leading the charge in the future. This week’s chart looks forward…
Read More5 things Apple got right in 2019—and 5 it got wrong
In recent years, Apple has become a more cautious company. Maybe even a more boring one. It’s evolved from producing world-changing tech products to selling cloud-based services that run on more than a billion Apple devices active in the wild. This year, Apple proved masterful at staying out of the way of powerful external forces…
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