Industries in Depth

What destroys start-ups, electric cars aren't green (yet) and other top stories of the week

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Adrian Monck

Redfin ahead of Amazon. Where and how tech talent wants to work.

Jack Ma on the mistake that destroys start-ups: hiring big names.

Moral machines. 3 ways to teach ethics to AI.

The rising risks to food security: growing dependence on trade chokepoints.

Don’t relegate cybersecurity to IT. Tabletop exercises to prepare for attacks.

Make money in outer space. 5 industries ready for the final frontier.

Electric cars are carbon polluters. How to really make them green.

Give this AI two languages it doesn’t know. It will use one to learn the other.

New life on earth. Semi-synthetic organisms are operational now.

The US supercomputer comeback. Beating China to exascale computing.

Shipping documents in 2.5 hours. Blockchain advances in trade finance.

The world’s most valuable company owns almost no physical assets. That changes how capitalism works - or doesn’t.

Deep Brexit. The UK’s former top Europe official gives the inside story.

Robot journalists advance. AI is identifying news – and testing its veracity.

An avalanche of sexual scandals. An impact on workplace power dynamics?

Middle class jobs have gone. 16 top academics on how to bring them back.

Is Germany falling behind in tech? Quotes Forum’s chief economist. (Wall Street Journal)

Slow progress on the politics gender gap. Cites Global Gender Gap Report. (Guardian)

Malaysia rises in Global Competitiveness Index. (New Straits Times)

Solidarity despite the isolationist wave. An interview with Forum founder and executive chairman Professor Klaus Schwab. (Swissinfo)

How a big bank created an even bigger fintech. Cites Forum report on digital infrastructure. (Euromoney)

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