Call me cheesy but I love Google’s annual year in search. 

A startup called Predictim has created an algorithm that scans the online footprint of a prospective babysitter to determine their “risk” levels for parents. Turns out the datasets are full of systemic bias and a bit racist to boot.

https://gizmodo.com/predictim-claims-its-ai-can-flag-risky-babysitters-so-1830913997

You would think with the way Nutella, Smith’s Crisp’s etc have been gamed over the years, Myer & Toblerone would have been a tad cautious about letting the public take over the packaging but hey, laughs.

Loving the American Express initiative to support local businesses. It’s simple and practical, no mean feat in financial marketing.

(& go to Paper Bird in Potts Point, it’s great)

‘The entire crypto-currency land has now gone into a crypto-apocalypse as the mother and father of all bubbles has now gone bust. Since the peak of the bubble late last year Bitcoin has fallen by about 70% in value (depending on the week). And that is generous. Other leading crypto-currencies such as Ether, EOS, Litecoin, XRP have fallen by over 80% (or more depending on the week). While thousands of other crypto-currencies – literally scam-coins and scam-tokens – have fallen in value between 90% and 99%. No wonder as a recent study showed that 81% of all ICOs were scams in the first place, 11% of them are dead or failing while only 8% of them are traded in exchanges. And out of this 8% the top 10 coins traded – after Bitcoin – have lost between 83% and 95% of their value since peak with an average loss of over 90%.’

From Nouriel Roubini’s (Stern School of Business) US Senate testimony on the bunch of arse that is the cryptocurrency market.