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How These Female Leaders Practice Resilience Every Day
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 15:10
"I think we are in a culture crisis in every field," Witherspoon stated, "In every industry, women are underrepresented and underpaid in leadership positions. Under 5 percent of CEOs of fortune 500 companies are women."
Will The US Finally Come To Grips With Sexual Harassment?
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 23:44
One after another, there have been important moments during which a national conversation prompted political observers to believe that society had turned decisively against a culture of systemic sexual harassment in the ...
Apple's Shazam steal is all about Siri
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 22:11
ANALYSIS: Apple wants to buy Shazam, we learned on Friday. The popular app can identify music, movies, TV shows, and even ads after listening to a short sample of the content in question using your device’s microphone....
Duterte's Philippines Economy Beats China's
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 21:53
President Rodrigo Duterte may receive poor marks for his human rights record, but he's doing really well when it comes to the economy, which beats China's on growth rates.
Amazon's limited Echo expansion hints at Alexa localization plans
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 20:54
ANALYSIS: Amazon dropped something of a curve ball on Friday when it announced that its voice-enabled Amazon Echo smart speakers are now officially available to purchase in more than 80 new markets around the world. Up u...
The One Weird Reason You Never See Frogs In The Snow
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 19:24
All your cold weather amphibian questions answered ... sort of. Cartoon by Kirk Anderson.
Eureka Park Preview: Octopus By Joy Is The Training Wheels For Good Habits
Nibletz - 9 Dec 2017 19:15
CES 2018 Startup: The Octopus Watch By Joy Is An Icon Based Smart Watch For Kids 3 and Up That Helps Teach Good Habits Take a look at any “mom group” on Facebook and you’ll undoubtedly find stories about young chil...
Dear Copyright Office, please keep safe harbors safe
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 18:50
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbors are a vital protection for websites and Internet services of all sizes. But thanks to a new Copyright Office rule, website owners could lose safe harbor protection...
Reigns: Her Majesty review -- it's a royal ball
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 18:02
REVIEW: Reigns: Her Majesty shows that it’s not easy being queen -- but it sure is fun. It’s developer Nerial and publisher Devolver Digital’s followup to the card-based kingship simulator from 2016, which tasked p...
How This Successful High School Entrepreneur Is Impacting Education At StartEdUp
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 16:59
Jeremy Miller is a young high school entrepreneur making waves in the entrepreneurship world. At the age of 18, he's already built a business, and is involved in a few other startups. However, he's also bringing critical...
Turn Anything Into A Remote Control With Knocki, See It In Eureka Park At CES2 2018
Nibletz - 9 Dec 2017 16:55
CES Startup Preview: Knocki Returns To Eureka Park, A Device That Turns Anything Into A Remote Control If you’re tired of trying to figure out what kind of remote control thingamajigs you need for your smart home, why ...
Gaming's future is and has always been massively multiplayer
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 16:00
GUEST: It's the end of 2017 and World of Warcraft still dominates the western hemisphere as the most popular massively multiplayer role-playing game on the planet - 13 years after its initial launch. While there are a fe...
Crowdfunding Do's And Dont's From iFundWomen's Karen Cahn
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 14:42
As a last resort to save her business, Karen Cahn executed a crowdfunding campaign which led to her realization that giving out equity first was wrong. She pivoted to create iFundWomen to help women get their startups fu...
Sony revives PlayStation classic MediEvil in 4K for the PS4
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 08:05
PlayStation Experience always has a T-shirt. That shirt is usually on the chest of Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Shawn Layden, and it typically teases a new game. This year, the graphic on that “T” was Sony’s...
Tigertron debuts its eco-friendly ethos with VR dolphin game: Jupiter & Mars
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 07:24
The Tigertron studio unveiled its debut game, Jupiter & Mars, at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event tonight. It’s a single-player virtual reality puzzler set in a future where humanity is now extinct -- however, its...
Dreams' story mode will patch in 3 different universes
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 06:51
Media Molecule’s Dreams game for the PlayStation 4 will have a story mode that will combine three different universes. Sony made the announcement at its PlayStation Experience event in Anaheim, California. Siobhan Redd...
Sony to launch free demo of The Last Guardian VR on December 12
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 06:26
Sony said it will launch a free demo of The Last Guardian for the PlayStation VR on December 12. Shawn Layden, head of Sony’s game business, made the announcement tonight at the beginning of its PlayStation Experience ...
Twitter bots boost Russian backlash against Olympic ban
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 04:50
(Reuters) — What began as a grassroots online campaign featuring a schoolboy has grown into a mass hashtag protest against Russia's exclusion from the Winter Olympics – backed by what appear to be fake Twitter accoun...
6 areas where artificial neural networks outperform humans
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 02:10
GUEST: Five years ago, researchers made an abrupt and rather large leap in the accuracy of software that can interpret images. The artificial neural networks behind it underpin the recent boom we are now seeing in the AI...
The Magic of the Truth: Communicating Through Organizational Change
Forbes - 9 Dec 2017 02:06
Everyone has an innate want to matter. A want to be heard. At the same time, they have an innate want to protect themselves from danger - especially imminent danger. Danger like disagreeing or questioning your boss that ...
VR transforms health care: 3D human model coming to a school near you
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 01:30
GUEST: Surrounded by darkness, the looming 20 foot skull is so close I can touch it. With the click of a mouse, the 3D model of the human head and neck pivots and I'm inside the eye socket examining this complex system f...
SCP-3008 is survival horror in an unending Ikea purgatory
Venture Beat - 9 Dec 2017 01:03
SCP-3008 is a Swedish furniture fever dream. It’s based off a horror story from the popular SCP Foundation website, one that describes how someone finds themselves in an endless Ikea. Inhuman creatures known as the “...