Business school offers connections, education, and fun, but also can come with massive debt and the creeping doubt that it’s unnecessary. The other option — joining the workforce and hustling to the top — can also feel like an arduous journey. The natural inclination for climbing the entrepreneurship ladder is a spin cycle of working a year or two at a company before moving on to a new title and a bigger paycheck....
More than 4,500 exoplanets are currently known to astronomers, many of which were found as they orbited in front of their parent star as seen from Earth, dimming light from the stellar surface. “Let’s reverse the viewpoint to that of other stars and ask from which vantage point other observers could find Earth as a transiting planet,” Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute stated....
In the latest episode (“The Old Man and the Seat”), we get a glimpse at Rick’s computer system (one of his many, we assume) as he performs a procedure he describes as “reverse digestion extrapolation” — a less scientific term to label it would be shit analysis. In the process, Rick boots up his system, which gives us a peek at his configuration. Okay, so here are the things we know:...
Rather than just listing them all out and telling you everything’s gonna be okay, we’re doing something different instead: ranking the new updates by from worst to best. Yeah, you could just go here and look through all the updates — but where’s the fun in that? So, without futher ado, here are the new features in the Nintendo Switch 11.0.0 update ranked from WORST to BEST. 7) The new ‘Trending With Friends’ feature Two things....
Ever since its inception, artificial intelligence has come a long way to become what it is today. It’s expanded its domain and gave subfields such as machine learning a great chance to thrive in the world. Name any sector today, artificial intelligence has been able to penetrate it and create an impact for good. Be it a business where AI is used to understand the customer and automate several business processes to education, where it has paved the way for smart learning....
So what can professional coaching to for your organization? We talked to a few professional experts and this is what they had to say. Coaching Amps Up and Bolsters Creativity A great coach will also support your employees most specifically in confidently pursuing new ideas and finding their creative id. Coaches will lead them through alternative solutions with so much resilience and resourcefulness effectiveness. A coach is trained to encourage fresh perspectives, innovations, ideologies, and provide inspiration through team work tests, detours, and assessments....
Sure, we can use our devices to order a pizza or to sponsor a charity that plants trees. But the idea of a computer that could literally do anything is preposterous. Isn’t it? Science fiction The Star Trek universe has a machine called a “replicator,” that’s basically a 3D-printer for just about anything. The idea behind these fictional machines involves “protein restructuring.” Depending on the particular time period, replicators in Star Trek can perform functions ranging from recycling materials into useful objects all the way up to synthesizing almost any inanimate object by rearranging pure energy....
But what to do if your business is a platform of management crowdsourced couriers with vast amounts of transactions and physical processes: couriers move in the physical world using different types of transport, pick up the goods from senders and drop them off to recipients? Well, I know a thing or two about that. My company has launched in 13 countries in two years, closed three of them, and now we have ten ranging from Mexico (GMT-6) to Seoul (GMT+9)....
Thankfully, we might getter better options soon. According to WABetaInfo, the chat app is working on a 24-hour option for ephemeral messages. However, this feature is under development, so we won’t be able to try it out just yet. This is a good step. 24 hours is a solid window for potentially sensitive information to be shared and disappear. However, if you don’t want to wait for this feature — or want more options for ephemeral messages — you should try out Signal, which offers a vanishing time as low as 5 seconds....
Email marketing is trickier than it seems. Anyone can cultivate or acquire an email list, but what exactly do you send to those addresses that will prompt them to consider your details and actually click the button to accept your offer? Do you have a cliffhanger in your subject line? Is your preheader as engaging as your subject line? Did you include informative links or appropriate calls to action? And those are just a few of the presentation questions worth considering before you hit send....
In the wake of the police shooting of a female protestor, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, a professional Street Fighter player who’s depicted in the emote, expressed support for the rioters. He also shared a graphic video of the fatal shooting. “Will there be civil unrest tonight for the woman who was executed inside the Capitol today, or will the #MAGAMartyr die in vain?” he tweeted. Twitch responded by banning the emote, but pledged to work with the community to design a replacement....
By Todd Feathers In 2018, the New York City Council created a task force to study the city’s use of automated decision systems (ADS). The concern: Algorithms, not just in New York but around the country, were increasingly being employed by government agencies to do everything from informing criminal sentencing and detecting unemployment fraud to prioritizing child abuse cases and distributing health benefits. And lawmakers, let alone the people governed by the automated decisions, knew little about how the calculations were being made....
Tipping one side of the scale are the maximalists — people such as venture capitalist and blockchain industry influencer Tim Draper — who believe Bitcoin’s global impact will be more significant than technological developments in the Iron Age, the Renaissance, or the Industrial Revolution. On the other side of the scale sit the minimalists, luminaries like former World Bank chief economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, who thinks the cryptocurrency should be outlawed and that it “doesn’t serve any socially useful purpose....
Meta, the corporate conqueror formerly known as Facebook, looks set to lose a chunk of its gargantuan empire. The UK’s competition regulator has ordered the company to sell GIF platform Giphy as the takeover “could harm social media users and UK advertisers.” — Competition & Markets Authority (@CMAgovUK) November 30, 2021 The move, which marks the first time that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has sought to reverse a big tech deal, could set a precedent for future action....
In 2019, the The Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of radio telescopes, released the first-ever image of the region surrounding a black hole. Now, astronomers examining data from this study focused their sights on a different object, a quasar named 3C 279. Jae-Young Kim from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn led a study examining the jet seen emanating from 3C 279. The team traced this feature back to its source, where radiation violently fluctuates over a wide range of frequencies....
Several users posted a lot of photos to show that in an image that has people with different colors, Twitter chooses to show folks with lighter skin after cropping those images to fit its display parameters on its site and embeds. Some of them even tried to reproduce results with fictional characters and dogs. If you tap on these images, you’ll see an uncropped version of the image which includes more details such as another person or character....
Having a plan for getting your brand or product in front of digital users is important, as most any seller would agree. However, it appears that loads of marketers aren’t following their own advice — and are seriously missing the e-commerce boat. According to business consultants at the Altimeter Group, 70 percent of marketers don’t have an integrated content strategy. So if 7 in 10 business types are just hoping digital marketing works out, well, that leaves a lot of room for success to those other 3 out of 10, right?...
But it’s still a shame that the Start menu is kind of a mess. Although I appreciate the cleaner design and more minimalist UI, I can’t help but feel Windows 11’s Start menu ends up being overcomplicated by the quest for simplicity. Actions that were intuitive in the old Start menu, even if the UI was a little more cluttered, now take more steps or are not immediately clear to users....
Parallels says its Google partnership will allow you to run “full-featured Windows apps, including Microsoft Office” on Chromebook Enterprise devices. Parallels also emphasizes its software will enable collaborative remote work with Windows apps, whatever that means. The press release is scarce on details, but it’s potentially a game-changer for businesses that have opted to deploy the sprightly Chrome OS over Windows. While I’d be concerned about performance given Chromebooks already tend to be low-power devices without the added impact of virtualization, the ability to run Windows-only apps on Chromebooks could be a lifesaver, especially with more people working from home these days without access to their usual work devices....
In addition to Windows XP, the leak includes the source code for Windows Server 2003 and other Microsoft operating systems, ZDNet reports. Here’s where things get curious, though: the leak comes from 4chan, an online imageboard often associated with internet trolls and extremism. The source code appeared in the form of a 42.9GB torrent file posted to the notorious forum. In addition to XP and Server 2003, the contents of the torrent include older operating systems like Windows 2000, Embedded (CE 3, CE 4, CE 5, CE, 7), Windows NT (3....
