California Voters May Force Meat And Egg Producers Across The Country To Go Cage-Free

California voters will soon decide whether to ban the sale of all veal, pork and eggs from farm animals raised in cages, even when raised in other states.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/660605016/california-voters-may-force-meat-and-egg-producers-across-the-country-to-go-cage?source=Snapzu

What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?

Economists traditionally dominate policy making in Washington, but they don’t have all the answers. Sociologists have a lot to teach us.
Read more: https://nyti.ms/2m9eYYh?source=Snapzu

AmazonSmile has raised $100 million for charity

A little good press goes a long way for a company like Amazon. The company routinely gets knocked for things like warehouse conditions, tax breaks and impact on smaller retail outlets. AmazonSmile’s helped to counteract that a bit, raising money for legitimately good causes.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/amazonsmile-has-raised-100-million-for-charity/?source=Snapzu

How Bhutan Avoids Being Overrun by Tourists

The Himalayan kingdom has managed to avoid the crowded, tourist-infested fate that befell many other picturesque destinations.
Read more: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-bhutan-avoids-being-overrun-by-tourists?source=Snapzu

Steve Mnuchin stole Cesar Sayoc's house

Before Steve Mnuchin was in charge of the nation's economy, he was a foreclosure kingpin who left Goldman Sachs to found OneWest Bank (with money from George Soros!) in 2008; after the crisis, OneWest Bank acquired busted mortgage lender IndyMac, and became a notorious foreclosure mill, using robo-signed, back-dated, fraudulent documents to steal peoples' houses.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/26/roosting-chicken-bomber.html?source=Snapzu

Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads

In a new study of the most downloaded apps for children ages 5 and younger, researchers found advertising in almost all of them.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.html?source=Snapzu

The meat industry is hiding a dark secret, as workers at 'America's worst job' wade through seas of blood, guts, and grease

A recent report from Bloomberg highlights the awful working conditions that sanitation workers experience in the meat industry.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/meat-industry-sanitation-workers-2018-1?source=Snapzu

The Surprising Power of The Long Game

In everything we do, we play the long or the short game. The short game is easy, pleasurable, and offers visible and immediate benefits. But it almost never leads to success. Here's how to play the long game.
Read more: https://fs.blog/2018/10/long-game/?source=Snapzu

Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games - TorrentFreak

The US Copyright Office has published a list of new exemptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules. Several new freedoms were granted this year, including the right for preservation institutions to break DRM to play abandoned online games. It's a small change that only applies if the server code is legally obtained, but for game preservationists, it's a step in the right direction.
Read more: https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-office-adds-dmca-exemption-for-abandoned-online-games-181026/?source=Snapzu

Coke and Kellogg’s among major firms to pledge to cut all plastic waste

Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s and Nestle are among 250 major brands pledging to cut all plastic waste from their operations – a move described by the UN as the most ambitious effort yet to fight plastic pollution. The commitment comes as public pressure mounts on manufacturers and retailers to reduce the avalanche of plastic packaging clogging landfills and choking the oceans.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-waste-pollution-coca-cola-kelloggs-nestle-environment-recycling-un-ocean-a8606136.html?source=Snapzu

We Need to Completely Change Agriculture to Adapt to Climate Change

We’re not managing our crops to support global nutritional needs: In fact, we use a disproportionate amount of land used to grow grains, fats, oils, and sugar, and not enough land to grow the fruits and vegetables that we need to survive, a new research paper asserts.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/598x83/we-need-completely-change-agriculture-adapt-climate-change-food-global-warming?source=Snapzu

Can You Still Use Infographics to Build Links?

Love them or hate them, infographics are still used as a popular link building tactic. Do they work, though, and what other types of content are they competing with? Darren Kingman analyzed one prolific publisher's content to find out.
Read more: https://moz.com/blog/can-you-still-use-infographics-to-build-links?source=Snapzu

SoundCloud’s new artist contract is a raw deal for musicians

As indie artists escape predatory label contracts, streaming services may be offering something just as bad.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/26/17968694/soundcloud-new-artist-contract-indie-musicians-label?source=Snapzu

IBM acquires Red Hat

This deal is the biggest Linux and open-source acquisition ever.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-acquires-red-hat/?source=Snapzu

The secret to being more likeable on first dates and job interviews revealed

People who need to make a good impression on dates or in job interviews should concentrate on communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasising their talent, new research from Cass Business School has found. In Impression (Mis) Management When Communicating Success, published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Dr Janina Steinmetz investigated how people attribute their success on dates and job...
Read more: https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2018/october/the-secret-to-being-more-likeable-on-first-dates-and-job-interviews-revealed?source=Snapzu

Your Blog Is Not a Publication

In a recent conversation with Intercom content director John Collins, I mentioned how much Animalz customers admire the Intercom blog. A number have even asked that we help make their own blogs more like Intercom’s. In his classic Irish brogue, he quipped, “They may feel differently if they saw the costs.” And in that sentence, John summed up what so few seem to understand about content strategy, namely that you have to be able to afford your own content strategy.
Read more: https://www.animalz.co/blog/library-vs-publication/?source=Snapzu

GM breaks with Trump administration and calls for nationwide electric-car sales program

Two of the biggest automakers are pushing back on the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of U.S. fuel-economy standards. In filings due Friday, General Motors Co. planned to propose that, rather than oppose California’s so-called zero-emission vehicle sales mandate, federal regulators should embrace a nationwide electric-car sales program starting in 2021. Honda Motor Co., meanwhile, took exception to President Trump’s proposed freeze on mileage standards and called for steadily increasing requirements to continue.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gm-fuel-efficiency-20181026-story.html?source=Snapzu

Twitter says it ‘made a mistake’ for not removing threatening tweets from Florida bomb suspect

After 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr., was arrested on Friday on the suspicion that he mailed 13 explosives to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, the spotlight turned on a Twitter account that appears to belong to him, which he allegedly used to issue veiled threats to critics of the President. Twitter has apologized for not acting on tweets that clearly violated its terms of conduct.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/27/18031888/twitter-alleged-florida-bomber-threats-rochelle-ritchie?source=Snapzu

Walmart is planning a store without cashiers

Walmart's NYC-based innovation center is experimenting with a cashier-less store concept called Project Kepler, which "aims to reimagine the in-store shopping experience with the help of technologies like computer vision," Recode reports.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/walmart-is-planning-a-store-without-cashiers-1515110735-adec181d-9121-4a19-8d79-02b8b82ae691.html?source=Snapzu

Amazon says it has no plans for an ad-supported video service

Amazon threw cold water on reports that it has an ad-supported streaming service in the works during its third-quarter earnings call Thursday. Amazon-owned IMDb was reportedly working on an ad-supported streaming service but Dave Fildes, direct of investor relations for the company, said that’s not the case. “…We have no plans to build an ad-supported Prime Video offering for free at this time,” Fildes said according to a Seeking Alpha transcript.
Read more: https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/amazon-says-it-has-no-plans-for-ad-supported-video-service?source=Snapzu

Ford recalls nearly 1.5 million Focuses because engines can stall

Ford is recalling nearly 1.5 million Focus compact cars in North America because a fuel system problem can cause the engines to stall without warning. The recall covers cars from the 2012 through 2018 model years with 2-liter four-cylinder engines. Ford says a valve in the fuel system can stick in the open position, causing too much vacuum, and an engine control computer may not detect the problem. Excessive vacuum can cause the gas tank to deform, as well as other problems.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/10/25/ford-recalls-focuses-because-engines-can-stall.html?source=Snapzu

How Bitcoin (BTC) is 10,000 Times More Efficient Than Banks

In an earlier post, we had explored the possibility of the electric car company of Tesla accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as a way for customers to purchase the revolutionary eco-friendly vehicles. We had also observed that Bitcoin energy consumption had not been properly analyzed and compared to the entire spectrum of traditional banking and financial activities.
Read more: https://ethereumworldnews.com/how-bitcoin-btc-is-10000-times-more-efficient-than-banks/?source=Snapzu

New Patent Reveals How Apple Could Kill the Notch

Just like Samsung is readying a true full screen display, a new patent shows that Apple is actively working to kill the notch it created much to the chagrin of smartphone fans all over the planet.
Read more: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-iphone-no-notch,news-28389.html?source=Snapzu

Strong economy halts Medicaid growth as more Americans make too much

The booming U.S. economy appears to be reducing dependence on federal health insurance for the poor. Medicaid enrollment fell for the first time since 2007, declining by about 0.6 percent in fiscal year 2018, and states don’t expect to see much growth in enrollment next year, according to a new report released Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation. States are budgeting for a “minimal” increase of 0.9 percent in 2019, Kaiser said in its annual 50-state survey of Medicaid.
Read more: https://travafix.com/strong-economy-halts-medicaid-growth-as-more-americans-make-too-much/?source=Snapzu

The battle to curb our appetite for concrete

We extract billions of tonnes of sand and gravel each year to make concrete for the building industry, and this is having an increasing environmental impact as beaches and river beds are stripped, warn campaigners. Alongside this environmental damage, the building industry is also a major contributor to greenhouse gases - cement manufacturing alone accounts for 7% of global CO2 emissions.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45893549?source=Snapzu

Your job might disappear, but don't blame artificial intelligence for that

When we talk about the jobs at risk, artificial intelligence is often seen as the main threat. However, this technology is still at its very beginning, while a lot of jobs are already transforming and even disappearing. Conversely, other jobs seem to resist, even if technologies already exist to replace them.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-job-dont-blame-artificial-intelligence.html?source=Snapzu

The growing space industry is scrambling to find workers — but it can't take foreigners

Glow in the dark stars twinkling inside his childhood bedroom and science fiction books in his lap, Shayan Shirshekar grew up like most kids fascinated by space. When he was old enough to say what he wanted to be when he was older, his answer was always immediate: An astronaut. Like many with such aspirations, Shirshekar dreamed of a future working at NASA or a private U.S. space company. It was the gold standard, he thought, something to strive for.
Read more: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/space/go-for-launch/os-bz-foreign-student-job-challenges-20181024-story.html?source=Snapzu

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satellite companies

When the Falcon Heavy rocket launched for the first time in February, some critics of the company wondered what exactly the rocket's purpose was. After all, the company's Falcon 9 rocket had become powerful enough that it could satisfy the needs of most commercial customers. One such critic even told me, "The Falcon Heavy is just a vanity project for Elon Musk."
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-seems-to-be-a-hit-with-satellite-companies/?source=Snapzu

EFF's Letter to the EU's Copyright Directive Negotiators

Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation sent the note below to every member of the EU bodies negotiating the final draft of the new Copyright Directive in the "trilogue" meetings. The note details our grave misgivings about the structural inadequacies and potential for abuse in the late-added and highly controversial Articles 11 and 13, which require paid licenses for links to news-sites (Article 11) and censoring public communications if they match entries in a crowdsourced database of copyrighted works.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/effs-letter-eus-copyright-directive-negotiators?source=Snapzu

YouTube CEO urges YouTube creators to protest European copyright law

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki warns video makers about the threat of a controversial copyright law in the European Union and urges them to "take action immediately" and protest the ruling with videos and social media posts. "This legislation poses a threat to both your livelihood and your ability to share your voice with the world," she writes in a blog post published Monday.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/youtube-susan-wojcicki-creators-protest-eu-article-13-copyright-law.html?source=Snapzu

Why Google Is Willing to Pay Apple $12 Billion Per Year

Apple receives a lot of money from Google just for making it the default search engine in Safari on iOS and macOS devices. Last year, the Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) company reportedly paid Apple $3 billion for the preferential placement. That number may have tripled this year, according to analyst Rod Hall as reported by Business Insider (link behind paywall). Hall says that number will rise to $12 billion next year.
Read more: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/24/why-google-is-willing-to-pay-apple-12-billion-per.aspx?source=Snapzu

More Than Half of All New Car Loans in Canada are Financed for 84-Months: Report

Every morning I wake up, splash some water on my face, and say, to no one in particular, “Today’s the day we’ll see the auto industry start trending away from absurdly long loan terms. Surely everyone will realize, today, that this can’t end well.” Today is not that day. In Canada, we’re told by way of the CBC, more than half of all new car loans carry 84-month terms. Weeeeee...
Read more: https://jalopnik.com/more-than-half-of-all-new-car-loans-in-canada-are-finan-1829964502?source=Snapzu

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal

The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair?source=Snapzu

How "philanthropy" is a way for rich people to preserve the inequality that benefits them

Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World has been tearing through the world, changing the way we think about inequality, philanthropy and elites;
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/25/noblesse-oblige-2.html?source=Snapzu

$1.6 trillion in risky ‘leveraged loans’ are overhanging the global economy

An art installation titled “Hang On a Minute Lads, I’ve Got a Great Idea” by British artist Richard Wilson — at The Peninsula hotel in Hong Kong, in 2015 — is based on a scene from the movie “The Italian Job”. It is only October and already the UK economy has set a dubious new record for the year: Leveraged loans to British companies have hit about £40 billion ($52 billion), according to the Bank of England. Prior to the financial crisis, new issuances of such loans only totalled £30 billion ($39 billion).
Read more: https://www.televisor.co.uk/finance/1-6-trillion-in-risky-leveraged-loans-are-overhanging-the-global-economy/102314?source=Snapzu

When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated.

Profit-sharing plans for rank-and-file employees are vanishing as corporate America has adopted a “shareholders above all else” approach.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/economy/amazon-workers-sears-bankruptcy-filing.html?source=Snapzu

How To Have A Fantastic Increase In eCommerce Site's Conversions With Minimum Efforts

It is not easy to build a profitable business. You can put in efforts to build an online store with design you want, use many channels to promote your brand, and bring in more traffic. But, whether you will get the expected sales from the people visiting your store is still a question. Actually your real work begins once you have your shop up and running.
Read more: https://www.kicktotop.com/how-to-have-a-fantastic-increase-in-ecommerce-sites-conversions-with-minimum-efforts/?source=Snapzu

Ford Says American Steel Is Now the Most Expensive in the World Thanks to Trump

Expensive trade wars, who the shorts REALLY want to win, and burning BMWs. This is the Morning Shift for October 23, 2018. President Donald Trump started a trade war with China and seemingly the rest of the world, and he began the war by hiking up tariffs on steel and aluminum. While the intended purpose was to “bring steel back” or somesuch, the market forces at work are vastly greater than any mere tariffs that can be thrown at such a globalized commodity.
Read more: https://jalopnik.com/ford-says-american-steel-is-now-the-most-expensive-in-t-1829933175?source=Snapzu

The Space Review: Disruptive technology in space transportation

Earlier this year I stopped by NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, to get some information about their latest reentry heat shielding. I ended up talking with Dan Rasky, director of the Space Portal, a NASA industry outreach program. In addition to sharing some insights into how SpaceX operates, Rasky strongly recommended reading the book The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. This book has long received attention from promoters of commercial space. Tim Fernholz’s Rocket Billionaires, published earlier this year (see “Reviews: Rocket Billionaires and The Space Barons”, The Space Review, March 26,...
Read more: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3590/1?source=Snapzu

Uber may start delivering burgers by drones as soon as 2021 because its CEO says 'We need flying burgers'

Uber may be delivering burgers by drones as soon as 2021. According to a job listing spotted by The Wall Street Journal, Uber is looking to hire an operations executive to make drone delivery functional by next year and available for commercial use by 2021. The job post referenced UberExpress — which is the internal name for UberEats' drone delivery initiative — and said the executive would help "enable safe, legal, efficient and scalable flight operations" for the program.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-planning-drone-food-delivery-2021-2018-10?source=Snapzu

Keep to yourself! Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked

If you thought that proactively offering help to your co-workers was a good thing, think again. New workplace research from Michigan State University found that when it comes to offering your expertise, it’s better to keep to yourself or wait until you’re asked. Building upon previous findings that showed how helping colleagues slows one’s success, management professor Russell Johnson looked more closely at the different kinds of help in which people engage at work...
Read more: https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2018/keep-to-yourself-dont-offer-co-workers-help-unless-asked/?source=Snapzu

Trucking Is the Security Crisis You Never Noticed

Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers. By Elisabeth Braw. (Sept. 19, 2018)
Read more: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/19/trucking-is-the-security-crisis-you-never-noticed/?source=Snapzu

The American Economy Is Rigged

And what we can do about it. By Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-american-economy-is-rigged/?source=Snapzu

Samsung patents a fingerprint reader that works on the entire screen

Earlier this week, we learned that Samsung had applied for a patent related to an optical fingerprint scanner on the screen, suggesting that the Galaxy S10 might have this functionality. However, another Samsung patent published on the same day let us know that Samsung is already working on the future of this technology.
Read more: https://www.gizchina.com/2018/10/21/samsung-patents-a-fingerprint-reader-that-works-on-the-entire-screen/?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk tweets that the Boring Company's first tunnel is set to open on December 10

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, tweeted on Sunday that his Boring Company, which aims to lower the cost of building high-speed transit tunnels, had almost completed its first tunnel. The tunnel will open on December 10, Musk said. The Boring Company has said the tunnel will cover about 2 miles beginning near SpaceX's headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tweets-that-the-boring-companys-first-tunnel-is-set-to-open-on-december-10-2018-10?source=Snapzu

Ford produces the Ranger pickup in the US for the first time in years

Ford resumed U.S. production of the midsized Ranger pickup on Monday for the first time in seven years. The move is part of a plan to strengthen Ford’s historically robust presence in profitable trucks at a time when the automaker faces pressure from shareholders and an uncertain future. Ford shares are down more than 30 percent this year, and the automaker is contending with high costs for materials, threats from traditional competitors and disruptive tech companies, as well as a trade war.
Read more: https://travafix.com/ford-produces-the-ranger-pickup-in-the-us-for-the-first-time-in-years/?source=Snapzu

‘We'll have space bots with lasers, killing plants’: the rise of the robot farmer

Tiny automated machines could soon take care of the entire growing process. Fewer chemicals, more efficient – where’s the downside?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/20/space-robots-lasers-rise-robot-farmer#comment-121692929?source=Snapzu

Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies

The Kodak moment is gone, but today Fujifilm thrives after a massive reorganization. Here is a detailed analysis based on firsthand accounts from top
Read more: https://petapixel.com/2018/10/19/why-kodak-died-and-fujifilm-thrived-a-tale-of-two-film-companies/?source=Snapzu

Verizon temporarily unlocks all Pixel 3 phones after complaints

Verizon will allow all of its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones to immediately be used on different carriers, a spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge by email. When the phone went on sale yesterday, buyers noticed that the Pixel 3 was locked to Verizon’s network until it was activated. Once activated with a Verizon SIM, the device would be unlocked overnight for use with other carriers.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/18001736/verizon-google-pixel-3-unlocked-carriers-activation?source=Snapzu

10 Mental Shifts for Success

Self awareness the biggest keys to my success. There are SO many people out there who are working jobs they hate because they haven’t found their passion. It’s why so many people struggle with working 18 hours a day. If you don’t love what you do, of course it’s going to be hard to put in work. It’s hard to spend time doing something you’re not excited about. One way you can do this is by asking the five people that you know best. You can split them into two categories: People who you deeply love, and people who you’re close with.
Read more: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/10-mental-shifts-for-success-in-business/?source=Snapzu