6-word summary of business, economics, and STEM in 2017: Booming economy/sexual allegations slow businesses.
- Scientists urge that more people in STEM should run for office and the also had a march to protest Brexit and Trump.
- Apple has delayed the release of their HomePod, which is a competitor to Amazon's Echo and Google Home, until 2018.
- Twitter expanded its word limit to 280 characters, a step up from the 140-character limit the site launched with.
- NASA has delayed their plans to launch a rocket to 2019.
- Cyperransom became a thing.
- Apple patented its own pizza box design.
- House Republicans passed a bill that'd dismantle the strict banking laws introduced after the financial crisis.
- Youtube TV
- The FCC repealed net neutrality.
- Facebook has hired many people to monitor violence on their site, while companies like Uber have fired employees who have been accused of sexual assault.
Courtesy of Youtube - Twitter has developed Twitter Lite for developing nations who have slow internet connections on cheap phone devices.
- Amazon has devised a system to help parents monitor their children's browsing--parental controls.
- Trump has defunded family planning for Planned Parenthood.
- Ikea + pet furniture = furry fun
- Congress has increased funding for medical research by $2 billion.
- Youtube is on the crackdown of videos that exploit children in inappropriate or suggestible situations or positions, especially with adults, even from their own site's verified channels.
- U.S. wars have cost an average of $23,386 since 9/11.
- Twitter has developed a bot to listen to the comments, complaints, and suggestions of their users in order to improve their site.
- Google has developed AutoDraw to edit drawings and other images.
- Corporate landlords are listing thousands of apartments on Airbnb.
Courtesy of Egypt Innovate - Uruguay is the first nation in the world to sell recreational cannabis.
- Banks are increasing rates for taking out loans and credit cards.
- In other news, for-profit colleges are beginning to suck? Did I say "beginning"? Yeah, they've been sucking since they've been conceptualized. As a result, the U.S. Education Department is converting such colleges as Kaplan University and the Art Institutes into non-profit colleges.
- Women of color are booming in the cosmetics industry.
- The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to three scientists who discovered more about gravitational waves.
- According to CNN Money, the unemployment rate is 4.1%, a record low for 84 consecutive months, the longest streak in U.S. history. Additionally, wages and inflation haven't increased as much as economists and data analysts have expected.
