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Snoop Dogg’s venture firm just closed its debut fund with $45 million Snoop Dogg, the rapper, entertainer and businessman, can claim another small victory in a long string of career highlights. The venture firm that he co-founded a couple of years ago, Casa Verde Capital, has closed its debut fund with $45 million. The money was raised in earnest last year, says managing partner Karan Wadhera, an alum of both Goldman Sachs and Nomura Securities who joined the outfit in the summer of 2016 to take over the process of securing capital — as well as investing it along with fellow...

Robot Workers: Will Engineering Jobs Be Automated? Complex disciplines, like mechanical engineering, are safe from robot workers, for now. There have been some worrying headlines recently that warn us of the rise of robot workers and that millions of jobs will be lost to automation and non-human operators over the coming years. While much of these could be written off as scare stories, it does seem that as robot workers become more sophisticated, we can expect them to take over some of the roles that have been carried out by people. This brings us to the <engineering industry. Clearly given...

Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust You may not be sharing your office with a robot yet, but the next wave of automation has begun. Humanoid service robots, machine learning algorithms and autonomous logistics will replace millions of service workers in the coming decade. Experts are rushing to forecast the likely impact on jobs. But most projections overlook two powerful forces that will combine with automation to reshape the global economy by 2030: rapidly aging populations and rising inequality. The collision of these three forces sets the stage for a 10- to 15-year economic boom followed...

Winklevoss twins propose self-regulatory body for cryptocurrency industry As regulation of the cryptocurrency industry intensifies, a prominent bullish duo has proposed one way to disabuse critics of the notion that the nascent sector represents a Wild West of investing. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who founded digital-currency exchange Gemini, are putting forward a framework for self-regulation of the virtual-currency sector called the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA). In a blog post, the Winklevoss twins say a dearth of regulation and the need for change as the market attempts to evolve, has prompted them to push for the industry to adopt broad practices...

Glimmers of Hope for Women in the Male-Dominated Tech Industry When Christine Betts arrived at the University of Washington in 2016, she planned to study economics. After an introductory computer-science course inspired her, she changed her mind. Betts joins growing ranks of women at influential schools entering the software field. The numbers at some colleges offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise male-dominated industry. At Betts’s school, as well as Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, women represent about a third of computer-science students. It’s hardly gender parity, but the numbers are higher than they were five years ago....