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Courtney Myers
Meet Gordon, a robot controlled by a living brain. The future of treatment for stroke and brain disease may never be the same.Kevin Warwick was a normal English teenager who liked riding motorcycles after seeing Steve McQueen jump the barbed wire fence in the film The Great Escape. In 1970, at 16, he left school for an apprenticeship at British Telecom installing and planning telephone systems. He studied electronic engineering at Aston University when microprocessors were first introduced. At 28 he received a Ph.D. in computer engineering and held a research post at Imperial College in London. He taught robotics and computing at three different universities prior to being awarded a prestigious chair in cybernetics at the University of Reading at the age of 33.
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Buying Binge Slams to Halt
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By DAVID LEONHARDT
Just as one crisis of confidence may be ending, another may be coming.
The panic on Wall Street has eased in the last few weeks, and banks have become somewhat more willing to make loans. But in those same few weeks, American households appear to have fallen into their own defensive crouch. Suddenly, our consumer society is doing a lot less consuming. The numbers are pretty incredible. Sales of new vehicles have dropped 32 percent in the third quarter. Consumer spending appears likely to fall next year for the first time since 1980 and perhaps by the largest amount since 1942. |
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Tech Industry, Long Insulated, Feels a Slump
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By ASHLEE VANCE
The technology industry, which resisted the economy’s growing weakness over the last year as customers kept buying laptops and iPhones, has finally succumbed to the slowdown.
In the span of just a few weeks, orders for both business and consumer tech products have collapsed, and technology companies have begun laying off workers. The plunge is so severe that some executives are comparing it with the dot-com bust in 2000, when hundreds of companies disappeared and Silicon Valley lost nearly a fifth of its jobs.
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Europe in recession, U.S. in pain as world leaders meet
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By Bill Rigby NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe officially fell into recession on Friday and the U.S. economy suffered thousands more layoffs and the biggest retail sales dip on record as world leaders headed to Washington to address the worst financial crisis in 80 years. Leaders of the world's 20 most important economies are not expected to make any breakthroughs at the meeting in the U.S. capital, given the absence of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, whose involvement will be key to any global initiatives.
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Recent unemployment numbers shocked economists and sent the markets falling. Don't expect positive news for a long time.The October unemployment rate of 6.5% is just the beginning. Author David P. Bernstein notes that this 6.5% is actually higher than the unemployment figures for all but one of the 10 post World War II domestic recessions. The exception was the recession of July 1981-November 1982, which started at 7.5% unemployment and rose to 10.8%. Nine months after the recession ended, America still had a 9.5% unemployment rate. |
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Pyetje: Numerohen disa raste qe ne Shqiperi eshte perdorur nga bizneset forma e reklamave "surprize", cfare karakteristikasht kane keto reklama? Pergjigje: Reklamat surprise jane nje fenomen i kahershem ne boten e marketingut. Sipas disa shkollareve, ato u perdoren se pari ne vitin 1948 ne SHBA. Por studime te tjera europiane rrahin te provojne se ne nivel historik, koncepti i surprizes ne marketing eshte perdorur ende shume me perpara per te popullarizuar dhe familjarizuar publikun me data apo festa te caktuara, duke perfshire ngjarjet me karakter religjioz. A nuk eshte pema e Krishtlindjeve me dhuratat e saj “te panjohura” poshte saj, nje surprize qe femijet mezi presin te permbushet çdo vit? Ne kete drejtim surpriza ka vlejtur si teknike promocionale e marketingut social, brenda kornizes se gjere te cognitive learning.
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Global Crisis Transforms Capitalism
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Thanks to the financial crisis, the economic model driven by financial market liberalization is apparently being replaced by a system in which the state is involved as a significant shareholder in major banking firms, and where more extensive regulation is likely to ensue. In a bid to address both the credit crisis and the economic downturn, governments also appear willing to engage in borrowing and spending on a major scale.
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How Obamas Internet Campaign Changed Politics
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By CLAIRE CAIN MILLEROne of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet. “Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president. Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee,” said Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. |
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PR i Organik i Presidentit Obama
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Nga Alban Bala
Në Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës zgjedhjet i fitoi kandidati që dominoi
mbi krizën. Publiku amerikan kishte nevojë të besonte në diçka pozitive, sado
iluzive, pas muajsh agonie dhe presioni në tregje. Kjo shpjegon pse në kulmin e
një ngushtice ekonomike mbarë-popullore, kandidatët presidencialë i dhanë vetes
luksin të realizojnë fushatën më të shtrenjtë në histori, e cila i kaloi 2
miljard dollarët. Në themel gara e tyre ishte vetëm një garë PR-i.
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By Andrew F. Tully
WASHINGTON -- He should have been a perfect candidate.
Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona) was a certified
war hero, a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War who was captured by the enemy,
imprisoned -- and tortured -- in a camp outside Hanoi. He championed
initiatives such as reform of the country's campaigns to ensure that no
politician could simply "buy" an election.
And in an election year when his Republican Party had lost
prestige because the party's leader, George W. Bush, was waging an unpopular
war in Iraq and had presided over a failing economy, his reputation as an
independent thinker should have made him immune to anti-Republican sentiment.
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