Popular Elsewhere
15:10 UK time, Monday, 26 September 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
In Vanity Fair's most read article .
The newspaper mogul was jailed in on charges of looting his company, Hollinger International, in 2007. Since his fortunes have has shrunk to $80m. To which he says:
"I can live on $80-million... At least I think I can."
Guardian readers are also clicking on a story of post-prison life. But this time it is actor for just over three months for downloading indecent images of children. Among very serious talk of the reluctance of people to employ him is this:
"You talk to people in prison, and you listen to them talking, and you think... he should be locked up! Oh yeah, he is."
Farhad Manjoo does a good job at reading his popular Slate article. For they shouldn't feel so secure spending their time surfing the web at work. He says computers are getting better at processing and understanding language and at approximating human problem-solving skills. This, he says, is putting some professions in peril. Doctors, lawyers, pharmacists and scientists should watch out, he warns. But the insecurity spreads to his own career as well:
"I got to see a room-size pill-dispensing robot, machines that can find cervical cancer on pap-smear slides, and even servers than can write news stories. As someone who likes his job (and his paycheck), what I saw terrified me."
Daily Mail readers are finding out what over the last two years has revealed. Her opinions on many things may be a mystery, but Hardman says at a recent private lunch, her view on safety was, "as ever, rooted in practicality," when she said "I'm not afraid of being killed, I just don't want to be maimed."
