Curated Commons // Edition 173
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Outsourcing 2.0 - US jobs to UK
Companies are now looking to outsource jobs to the UK, thanks to acceptance of remote work coupled with depressed salaries and a weak currency in the UK. - Read here ($)
A successful startup is an incumbent in the making
Google’s struggles with AI, boiled down to something very familiar to people in big, fat companies… - Read here ($)
Moore’s Law and ASML
ASML’s role in enabling Moore’s Law has has largely been restricted to semi geeks. Needs to be more widely appreciated - Read here
Science, FTW
The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital. - Read here
Startups and the market for war
One startup found a lucrative foothold in the US Government’s “trillion-dollar war machine”. - Read here ($)
How much health data is too much data?
In an age where everyone swears by data, how much is too much in the hands of those who want to leverage it, but are probably not informed enough? A case for not using continuous glucose monitors for those who don’t have diabetes. - Read here($)
Will AI mean the death of learning languages?
If an app can takeover creating a version of every piece of content in a language you understand, will you need to learn a new one? What does that mean to the power of expression - will it be algorithmically augmented or constrained? - Read here ($)
Novo Nordisk, the Danish superstar, thanks to a broken healthcare system in the US?
Crazy new study suggesting that the blockbuster appetite suppressant drug can be made for under $5. While it retails for close to $1,000! - Read here
Our longing for days gone by is…real
A very good line in this piece… - Read here ($)
We weren’t designed to have the output of all of human history at our fingertips, nor to be contactable at all times — but that is the situation we now find ourselves in, and it’s both a great privilege and a damned curse.
A skincare boom in children, driven by social media
Apparently, anti-ageing skincare products are taking off in many markets. And children under 13 are turning to them! Sigh! - Read here
More Interesting Reads:
Laying bare the corruption in the global commodities industry - Read here ($)
Do universities have a computer science problem? - Read here($)
AI and hallucination and code poisoning. Crazy story! - Read here
Meet the ChatGPT for music - Suno.ai - Read here ($)
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