Author: Vitaliy Dadalyan

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26 Oct by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Why Emmanuel Macron Is Right About Brexit

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In March 2017, as the U.K. prepared to notify the European Union of its intention to leave, the French newspaper Liberation splashed a picture of a traditional British Queen’s Guard on its front page with the headline: “Brexit: We already miss you!” Just below was the qualifier: “Or not.”That pretty much sums up France’s attitude toward Brexit Britain. It’s happy to get rid of a stubborn obstacle to closer European integration, but wary too about pushing away a big bilateral partner in trade, defense, security and financial services — and damaging its own and Europe’s economy in the process.This ambivalence was evident again this week as President Emmanuel Macron dug in his heels over delaying the Brexit deadline for the third time this year. He might not truly be ready to chuck the U.K. overboard with a no-deal Brexit, but you can see why his patience is running out.While technically this is a behind-the-scenes...
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26 Oct by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Photos Cluttering Up Your Phone? You May Be an Artist

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- As smartphone cameras continue to improve, we are understandably taking more and more photos with them. Priceonomics, a San Francisco-based firm that analyzes data to create content, attempted to figure just how many more. Using data from Avast, a company that makes antivirus and maintenance software, it found that the average number of photos stored on a smartphone anywhere in the world is 952. Five years ago, a study based on data from another app developer, Magisto, put the average number at 630. Though the large datasets used in both cases are not directly comparable, it’s likely that they accurately capture how much more we’re photographing with our phones. They also reveal the same trends — for example, more photos taken in certain Asian countries than elsewhere, and more pictures snapped by women than men. Is this increase in snapping and storing good for us, though? That depends on how we use that camera.In 2013, Linda Henkel, a psychologist from Fairfield University in Connecticut, described a...