When is failure a good thing?

NY Times Review of BooksAfter more than a half-century of unraveling cognitive biases, the psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman feels deeply pessimistic about our ability to change our behavior. In a 2014 Guardian…

How Big Data Analytics Affecting The Music Industry

Forbes MagazineIt wasn’t long ago that it was a common belief that the internet was killing the music industry. For many years the industry failed to keep pace with technology – meaning consumers turned in droves to illegal…

Twitter’s new rules ban hateful speech

The Next WebTwitter has had something of a rocky history with dealing with abuse and harassment on its platform, but recently the company has been making some moves to mitigate that.Its latest action comes today in the form of…

Attacks by armed groups in Algeria have declined

Aljazeera EnglishDozens of top African police officials met in Algiers this month to ratify legal documents related to the creation of Afripol, the pan-African law enforcement agency expected to begin operations next year.…

U.S. vice president to visit Turkey next month

ReutersU.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on Jan. 23 and will meet President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, sources from the Turkish prime minister's office said on Wednesday.Biden and Davutoglu…