How neuroscientists are learning to predict emotions with increasing accuracy.Brain scans can read human emotions with 90% accuracy, a new study finds. Researchers have been able to predict the intensity of negative emotions to evocative images. They found that negative emotions have a ‘neural signature’ which a computer could learn. Dr Luke Chang, who led the study, said: “This means that brain imaging has the potential to accurately uncover how someone is feeling without knowing anything about them other than their brain activity.
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WATCH HERE Hello readers, I don't usually post about women's fashion, however, as I was browsing the web, I came across with this minimalist yet elegant brand for women's outerwear, Soia & Kyo. The brand is relatively new, as it was founded in 2004 by creative director Ilan Elfassi. Anywho, the brand's designs are as simple and sophisticated as they can get, from a personal perspective of course, thus the purpose of me sharing the brand. SOIA & KYO was founded in 2004 by creative director, Ilan Elfassy, with the belief that beauty is found in simplicity, in turn, creating masterful outerwear that is luxurious in materials with a contemporary, timeless signature style that speaks for itself. [TECHCRUNCH]Teacher in Ghana who used blackboard to explain computers gets some Microsoft love3/15/2018 Teaching kids how to use a computer is hard enough already, since they’re kids, but just try doing it without any computers. That was the task undertaken by Richard Appiah Akoto in Ghana, and his innovative (and labor-intensive) solution was to draw the computer or application on the blackboard in great detail. His hard work went viral and now Microsoft has stepped in to help out.
Some say it’s a bubble; others say it’s backed by revolutionary technology that could change the world. Here’s why women need to tune into the conversation either way.It was but a few short years ago that one had to personally know a 4chan user and/or techbro to bear witness to a conversation about Bitcoin. Established in 2009 by a yet-to-be-identified person who reportedly goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin was the first decentralized digital currency to exist on a peer-to-peer network that’s secured by cryptography and recorded in a public ledger called a blockchain.
If that sentence made zero sense to you, here’s another way to put it: Bitcoin is a type of digital currency called “cryptocurrency,” which exists entirely online and outside the constraints of a centralized banking system (and thus largely outside the regulatory reach of the government—at least for the time being). "Get out there!" "Dominate." "Always be closing."When we think of sales, we think of the iconic image of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. “Put that coffee down!” he yells at a terrified Jack Lemmon, Baldwin’s Alpha lumbering over Lemmon’s Beta male, with Donald Trump-esque predation. “You can’t close shit, you are shit,” he sums up, wearing a watch that costs more than Lemmon’s car. I call this the “fuck you” stance of sales. Like the patriarchy, the image of the salesman as an alpha male asshole is internalized into our work culture. Worse, the obnoxious, dominant salesperson can be extremely effective in communicating power. But here's the thing: What makes someone a great entrepreneur can make them a crappy person. Because we think success is about being a shark, we forget that kindness, caring, and pride in your work is one of the most powerful tools. We worry, as women, we’ll be stereotyped and our work devalued. But the gifted introvert salesperson is a secret weapon for any organization or small business. Bathroom hiders (my term for introverts, shy and socially anxious people like me,) face many common hurdles when it comes to selling a product or negotiating a deal.
But know that your wonderful empathy, plus a commitment to doing great work, make you a strong salesperson and negotiator. You just need to stop trying to be someone else. Want a way to workout and earn some coin? Sweatcoin has risen to the top of the App Store for helping folks get something more than just a glow for taking those daily steps.
The startup says it has accumulated more than 5 million users in the past year and increased revenue by 266 percent in the last quarter. There are more than 2 million weekly active users on the app, and growing, making it one of the fastest-growing fitness apps in the App Store and second to the top in the free apps, next only to the Google Arts & Culture app that blew up over the weekend. It works like this: users sign up and then hook up their smartphone’s health and fitness data and GPS location to the app. The app then tracks how many steps you take in a day and rewards you a monetary “sweat” value according to your movements. For every 1,000 steps recorded, the app will pay out .95 in “sweatcoins.” Users can later trade these coins in for fitness gear, workout classes, gift cards and a number of other offerings. |
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