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On November 6th SoftBank, an enormous Japanese telecoms and technology conglomerate, announced a $6bn quarterly loss, largely reflecting a write-down of its stake in WeWork, a loss-making office-rental firm. Its boss, Masayoshi Son, believes that SoftBank has a valuable array of tech assets that outsiders don’t appreciate. But SoftBank’s underlying weakness, argues ourcolumn, is a lack of cashflow.
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party does not even pay lip service to the official pretence that the island is part of China. So when the DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen became president in 2016, China cut the flow of tourists from the mainland and called off high-level contacts. But on November 4th China announced 26 measures to—eg, allowing Taiwanese firms to invest in 5G mobile networks. China is not as alluring for Taiwanese firms as it once was.
Next year, a gay male couple in California will choose an embryo to be implanted in a surrogate mother. With a company called Genomic Prediction, they will make their pick according to a. Genomic Prediction screens embryos for 1m single-nucleotide polymorphisms —tiny variations in individuals’ DNA that, added together, can raise or lower the likelihood of suffering a particular disease. SNP profiling may also provide a way to upgrade other things, such as height or intelligence.
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