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Are Mobile Payments Finally Ready To Ignite In Japan?

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In the intervening several years, several forces, most notably the Japanese government, have actively pushed to get the nation off its cash addiction — and into digital payments. Mobile wallets register — with a little over 3 percent of consumers reporting use, decisively beaten out by cash-on-delivery ordering (12.5

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Tech Cos Confront The Ethics Of AI

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Google has been under intense internal and external pressure to defend its role in developing AI software for the US Department of Defense. Project Maven has involved Google developing AI image recognition software for US military drones. As Google increasingly turns itself into an AI company , it faces new ethics debates.

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The Why Behind So Many Healthcare Payment Buys

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Healthcare spending has grown from $75 billion in 1970, as measured by Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of National Health Expenditure Data , to as much as $3.5 It’s not going to get any easier, either, as healthcare spending may reach $6 trillion by 2027, as noted by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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