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What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter
Valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security...
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The Analyst
Wars in cities: three rules for protecting the built environment during conflict
During the course of wars, the infrastructure of cities faces destruction. Fighting, regardless of its intentions, destroys roads, bridges, commercial and residential buildings,...

Residential Investor
Weekly Briefing: The beauty of building
If you believe getting more homes built in the right places is the most important issue facing the country, this has been a pretty dispiriting few months. First the Government...

Residential Investor
All grown up: Generation Rent finally become majority homeowners
Earlier this month, RentCafe reported their analysis of IPUMS data indicating Millennials’ landmark transition from majority renters to majority homeowners in the United States...

The Fund Manager
The Butterfly Effect
Chaotic systems can be described in many ways but the one I remember from my youth was dubbed ‘the butterfly effect,’ Loosely put, it describes the phenomenon that the flapping...

The Economist
Four reasons inflation will stay stubbornly high for some time
Price inflation is starting to fall in many countries but it still remains way above the typical 2% target of most major economies. In the UK, inflation has...

Golden Oldie
No such thing as virtual real estate
We live in a world of virtual reality: virtual conversations, virtual relationships, virtual work, and virtual leisure. Artificial intelligence is on a mission to replace us all...
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