People skills are more and more important in an era where we have powerful and pervasive technology, it sounds counterintuitive, but to beat the bot, you need to be more human. Read more in Fast Company These Are The Job…
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Norwegians can snoop and find out what anyone else in the country earns by Jill Petzinger
10 September 2017Views: 1,206The purpose of all this transparency is to increase people’s trust in the tax and social-security system. Norwegians pay really high income tax—an average of 40% versus 30% elsewhere in the EU. Read more in qz Norwegians can snoop and…
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By 2050 72 per cent of the world’s population are going to live in cities. So, that is about 42 per cent more than now, so we’re going to be really, really crowded. So, these smart city solutions are designed…
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Professor Panos Athanasopoulos and Professor Emanuel Bylund have discovered that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events. Read more in weforum Bilinguals experience…
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The research firm eMarketer estimates that 60.5 million people in the U.S.—a little less than a fifth of the population—will use a digital assistant at least once a month this year, and about 36 million will do so on a…
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This New Material Could Let Phones And Electric Cars Charge in Seconds By Andrew Stapleton
6 September 2017Views: 998Supercapacitors release energy in large bursts, and have incredible potential when it comes to powering our technology. Now a team from Drexel University has combined the properties of a supercapacitor with that of traditional batteries with large storage capacities by using…
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These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism By John Paul Titlow
5 September 2017Views: 1,432Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer faced a lot of sexism and condescension when they launched their e-commerce marketplace for weird art–that is until they introduced an imaginary cofounder named Keith. Read more in Fast Company These Women Entrepreneurs Created A…
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Millennials use their devices for a wide range of activities, from paying bills to searching local businesses to interacting on social media and beyond. Predominantly, these activities are done through apps, as opposed to interaction with a more general phone…
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Small businesses currently account for 54% of all sales in the United States, these numbers may actually expand in the years ahead. The continued development of the World Wide Web, emerging technologies such as 3-D printing, and various other factors…
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The most common result was regaining memory. The vivid, interactive and fully immersive experience brought old memories bubbling to the surface. In the future, physicians will actually prescribing virtual reality sessions—doses—to help alleviate symptoms and possibly even as preventative care. Read…