It is safe to say that one of the most popular, and important, charts of 2017, was the one showing the ongoing and projected decline across central bank assets, which from a record expansion of over $2 trillion in early 2017 is expected to turn negative by mid 2019. This is shown on both a 3- and 12-month rolling basis courtesy of these recent charts […]

They call them “deepfakes.” It’s the term for pornography made using artificial intelligence-assisted technology to superimpose a person’s face on another performer’s body – essentially allowing the producer to create fake porn featuring celebrities, politicians or even average every people. In a report published Wednesday, Motherboard recounted how they discovered a user on Reddit responsible for producing convincing porn videos featuring celebrities like Gal Gadot, […]

The last time we checked in on Steinhoff – the scandal-plagued South African retailer laid low by an accounting scandal and which many have called the next Enron – the company admitted that  its lines of credit were being withdrawn or suspended, while the company’s largest shareholder and former Chairman, Christo Wiese, was caught in a vicious margin call, forcing him to sell increasingly more shares […]