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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Washington Post ) • Amid a Wave of Antisemitic Hate Crimes, a New York Unit Offers a Model of Resistance : As the nation faces mounting extremism, a veteran observer of antisemitic violence follows a security team that combats threats against Jewish targets.

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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Not only is mobile advertising growing (it will drive 75 percent of all digital ad spend this year, reaching $70 billion), but in-app mobile purchases reached almost $60 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of about 20 percent. “There is a massive shift coming, in our view,” Macdonald said. Different Methods. Gaming Gain.

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When IoT And The Automotive Industry Collide

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Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. The biggest shift to me is the internal focus at the automakers,” he added. You can’t make software impenetrable into perpetuity.

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Do the Masses Know Best? When it Comes to Lucrative Data, Maybe So.

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Not only is mobile advertising growing — it will drive 75 percent of all digital ad spend this year, reaching $70 billion — but in-app mobile purchases reached almost $60 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of about 20 percent. “There is a massive shift coming, in our view,” Macdonald said. Different Methods. Gaming Gain.

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The Myth Of The MSRP

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Different merchants can seemingly set different MSRPs (and advertise different amazing deals accordingly) with no apparent oversight, and while courts have consistently sided with retailers on the basis of buyer beware-type logic, consumer protection groups call the practice a blatantly deceptive way to drive higher sales.

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Inside The SAT Goldmine

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Further, there are a few free offerings listed, yet the $999 offerings are advertised as the “most popular.” And as serious as that sounds — Southeast Asian -o rganized crime dedicating itself to stealing your product at all costs is actually quite bad — that isn’t even the biggest security problem the SAT has right now.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Aside from a few complaints from those with glasses who needed a little extra help getting it to work exactly as advertised, consumers seem to feel as though it is a much more reliable and safer way to authenticate themselves via the mobile phone. But, don’t you worry, it’s all math-based so nothing can go wrong, so keep clinging to that.