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With the robot economy looming large in the coming decades, one solution to vanishing jobs may simply be to give people money regardless of whether or not they work.

That idea is called "basic income," and it just gained the support of one of the tech world's founding fathers, Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee.

"I think a basic income is one of the ways of addressing massive global inequality," Berners-Lee, who founded the Web in 1989, explained on a recent episode of The Economist podcast. Читать дальше...

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Actor Michael Jace was convicted of murder by a Los Angeles jury in the 2014 shooting death of his wife.

The US administration cannot confirm reports of alleged Russian airstrikes on a hospital in Syria’s Idlib province, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stated in a briefing on Tuesday.

(ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead) SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- Bondholders of Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. on Tuesday approved a 630 billion won (US$529 million) worth of debt rescheduling proposal by the financially shaky shipper amid growing pressure from

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It's just a better risk to bet on the Cavs.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, May 31 (UPI) -- Losing a 3-1 series lead in the conference finals can only be explained by witchcraft.

New research confirms that relying on emergency room data to estimate the prevalence of childhood concussions doesn't deliver a complete picture because many seek treatment in primary care. The study, from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia health network, included about 8,000 kids who sought concussion treatment there over four years.

It has been almost 102 years since Civil War veteran Alvah Nichols was laid to rest. A brand new tombstone marks his grave site, decorated with wreaths, flowers and an American flag. But not too long ago, there were no such decorations. In fact, there was not even a tombstone to mark the soldier's grave.

Lord King offers a novel alternative to the alchemy of banking

About 1,000 die in seven days, with 2,510 lost in 2016, as the crisis worsens.

– A canister of tear gas was shot inside a banking hall following a dispute between a soldier and four mobile policemen in Calabar – Armed mobile and regular policemen arrived the bank in trucks demanding for the soldier who was inside the bank – A deployment of soldiers in trucks also arrived few minutes […]

With weddings increasingly public and expensive, calling it off is costly.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In an apparent policy U-turn, Hungary says it's not aiming to drive Uber from the country. Instead, the government wants to ensure that the ride-sharing app sticks to rules ensuring fair competition for all taxi companies.

[...] the government wants to ensure that the ride-sharing app sticks to rules ensuring fair competition for all taxi companies. Fonagy praised the company's "exceptionally modern" innovations, which he said have been mostly adopted by other taxi firms but said all companies had to obey the rules.

Millions of viewers tuned into the new remake of the 1977 hit television miniseries Roots when it premiered on May 30th - but not rapper Snoop Dogg. He made that clear Monday in a video he posted on Instagram. “….I can’t watch no more black movies where n****s getting dogged out,“ he says in the video. How they gonna put Roots on Memorial Day?” Snoop’s problem with Roots and other recent TV series and movies that take a look back at slavery and chronicle the black experiences of the past?

The deputy crown prince’s urgent plan to wean the kingdom from petroleum will mean deep changes in a conservative society long accustomed to handouts.

A jury has convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife in Los Angeles. A prosecutor, however, told jurors that Jace was upset because his wife wanted a divorce and shot her in the back before taunting her and shooting her in the legs two years ago. The panel of six men and six women informed a judge Tuesday that it had reached the decision in the case against Michael Jace, who played a police officer on the television series "The... Читать дальше...

Judge decided that the defendant can be furloughed whenever military obligations require. The prosecution objected to the sentence.

The New Haven Register reports (http://bit.ly/25xvn5I ) the protests come as the city's public schools have acknowledged they need to "accelerate and expand" hiring of diverse candidates. The charter school's assistant superintendent says leadership plans to meet with protesters.

Podesta, the chairman of the campaign, was reacting to an inspector general report from last week

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie says he believes in quarterback Sam Bradford, but also believes trading up to get Carson Wentz was a wise investment in the team’s future. Lurie told TheMMQB.com that the Eagles think Bradford is the quarterback of the present while Wentz is the quarterback of the future, and the team had to…

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New research has revealed some surprising findings about who develops celiac disease in the United States.