Computers can be taught to understand many things about the world, but when it comes to predicting what will happen when two objects collide, there’s just nothing like real-world experience. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
(Reuters) – Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp’s research and development company, Toyota Research Institute (TRI), said it hired a team of scientists and engineers to help drive research into artificial intelligence and robots. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Championship side Blackburn have signed winger Elliott Bennett from Norwich on a two-and-a-half year deal. read more >>> Source : BBC
Despite the sluggish economy, Canadians snapped up nearly 1.9 million new vehicles in 2015, making it a record year for Canadian auto sales. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca
Yale’s secret societies often seem shrouded in complete mystery. They are bastions of influence and intrigue that hold among their members some of the world’s most powerful people. But some information about secret societies isn’t as clandestine as some might think. Yale’s “landed societies” — those that meet in tombs or halls — are registered […]
After an exciting first day of trading in 2016 stocks finished the day little changed on Tuesday after opening lower. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 17,146, -3, (-0.02%) S&P 500: 2,015, +3, (+0.1%) Nasdaq: 4,890, -12, (-0.2%) WTI crude: $35.80, -2.6% And now, the top stories on Tuesday: Vacation might not feel like it’s quite over […]
Dustin Lance Black snuggled up to fiancé Tom Daley for the cover of Out magazine’s annual “Love Issue,” which hits newsstands next week. In the accompanying interview, the newly-engaged couple opened up to editor Aaron Hicklin about their relationship, recalling their first meeting at a dinner party in Los Angeles. At the party, Daley “took […]
Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia are most at risk from bat viruses jumping to humans and causing new diseases that could lead to deadly outbreaks, scientists warned Tuesday. Approximately 60 to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are so-called “zoonotic events” — where animal diseases jump into people — and bats in particular are […]
Petar Ninovski, a young entrepreneur from Macedonia has a vision to transform every corner of the world into an urban classroom. His recently launched platform Brainster is a marketplace for offline classes where one can teach and learn the most relevant skills of the 21st century — from digital marketing and design, to entrepreneurship and […]
Recently, I wrote about how you can outsmart your evil boss. I wanted to empower you to stay calm and fight back with smarts rather than venom. For most people, quitting is not an option or the right answer when the boss gets a bit nasty. The most successful people master their emotions. Doing great […]
As has been noted everywhere, there are now more restaurants in New Orleans than before Hurricane Katrina hit the city a decade ago, although not all are of a stellar stripe. Two new ones that have distinguished themselves show not only the resilience of the restaurant sector but of a continual evolution within it. SHAYA […]
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is almost here, and soon we’ll see the newest products from virtually every major player in the tech industry. Last year, connected cars stole the show. And we saw a plethora of Internet of Things devices, 3-D printers, wearable health trackers, 4K and 8K ultra-high-definition televisions, drones and smart home […]
While it’s widely known that being laid off from a job can lead some people to drink more alcohol, a new study shows that during the so-called Great Recession in the U.S. from 2007 to 2009, even those who kept their jobs drank more. Writing in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, researchers from the […]
Steve Harvey has expressed how sorry he is for naming the wrong winner during the Miss Universe pageant last month to just about everyone except the contestant he mistakently named. It appears that Miss Colombia is giving him the cold shoulder. “When I did it, it was horrible for Miss Colombia. And she’s the only […]
HeBS Digital, the award-winning hotel digital technology, website design, full-service digital marketing and website revenue optimization consulting firm, is promising hoteliers 20% growth in website revenues in 2016 with its new ‘20% Website Revenue Increase Guarantee’ promotion. read more >>> Source : HotelNewsresource.Com
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Buybacks and cash takeovers are at an all-time high (Trim Tabs) Investment research firm TrimTabs says money committed to cash takeovers and buybacks by public US companies hit a record $1.41 trillion in 2015. “It’s not […]
San Diego, Oakland and St. Louis tell the NFL that they want to move to the affluent Los Angeles area. read more >>> Source : CNN Money
HE’S the star of the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but a disappointed Eddie Redmayne revealed he “never got the call” to appear in the movies. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
LIVERPOOL’S main problem this season has been an inability to find the back of the net. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
How should you set executive salaries? read more >>> Source : BBC
The developer of Lumosity “brain training” games will pay $2 million US to settle federal allegations that it misled customers about the cognitive benefits of its online apps and programs. read more >>> Source : CBC.Ca
There are plenty of options for relaxing breaks in 2016, from sleepy Balinese resorts and a quiet island in the Grenadines to majestic waterfalls in Iceland and Norway’s wilderness. read more >>> Source : DailyMail.Co.UK
Women make up half of the workforce, but they may still be under-represented on corporate boards for decades. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Until Monday, Faraday Future was a secretive California startup that was trickling out information about its business. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it pulled the cover off a completely insane concept car that looks ready to run the 24 Hours of Le Mans…on the rings of Saturn. Naturally, a company that’s […]
Striker Kenwyne Jones reveals he has joined United Arab Emirates club Al Jazira Club on loan until the end of the season. read more >>> Source : BBC
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to find that a jury in 2014 should not have made the South Korean company pay nearly $120 million to Apple Inc for infringing three patents. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Every New Year, food-related goals make their way to my top five New Year resolutions; however, after interacting with four young founders of two food-based startups in New York City, I’ve learned to keep a more wholesome mindset as goals around food and dietary consumption create a ripple effect around food waste, healthy living, and […]
Charlize Theron bares it all for W Magazine’s latest issue. The actress is just one of 31 stars who posed for the magazine’s annual Movie Issue. In the image, which was shot by Peter Lindbergh, Theron looks gorgeous sitting atop a bed, wrapped up in white sheets. She’s wearing minimal makeup and her cropped blond […]
Stocks eked out modest gains in late-afternoon trading Tuesday, one day after stiff losses threw the market back into a correction. The S&P 500 added 0.4%, and the Nasdaq and Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.2% each. Small caps got crushed with the Russell 2000 down 2.3%. Volume on the NYSE and Nasdaq was tracking […]
Researchers have found what may be a permanent cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disabling and eventually fatal genetic condition that affects approximately one in 5,000 boys worldwide. The disease, also called DMD, causes the body to make a defective copy of a skeletal protein called dystrophin that holds muscles together. That defective protein causes […]
From city halls around the country to Washington, DC, and other world capitals, lawmakers and regulators lately have come under intense pressure to regulate upstart Internet market platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, UpCounsel, and Heal, as they rapidly transform entire sectors of the economy by providing simple and elegant new ways for buyers and sellers […]
Ford’s boss tells the BBC that his company is one of the leaders in self-driving car technologies. read more >>> Source : BBC
Asian electronic component makers are expecting Apple to cut procurement orders by about 30 percent in the coming quarter due to weaker than expected sales of the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, according to a Japanese media report. read more >>> Source : PCAdvisor.Co.Uk
Ron Clark is an educator who employs a progressive style of teaching at his Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. Clark, who was Disney’s American Teacher of the Year in 2000 and has been on Oprah, believes that creating a joyous educational environment will help kids learn best. “Teachers should be happy,” he told Oprah last […]
LIVERPOOL take on Stoke tonight in the Capital One Cup looking to put their poor form to bed. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express
No single asset class has been the market’s top performer year after year on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, no amount of skill or experience has enabled anyone to forecast how various asset classes will stack up in any of those given years. And as a result, those who try to predict and time the markets […]
Co-authored by Frank Parrott Darkness brings out fears in many of us. Hiking to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro through the night brought out my fears, and made the challenge even harder. Just hiking to the highest point in Africa is not an easy feat. Add lack of sleep, cold and darkness, and I was […]
HELSINKI, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Finland and Estonia on Tuesday agreed to explore the possibility of constructing an undersea railway tunnel between their capitals. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Tensions in the Middle East typically drive up oil prices but the Saudia Arabia-Iran conflict will further depress prices, says Stephen Myrow. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Michael Bay is among the five highest-grossing directors of all time (he’s currently number four with a worldwide box office of $5.776 billion), and in a recent interview with Rolling Stone he revealed that he personally is worth half a billion dollars. Well, he did it in the typical Michael Bay casual style: “I’d say […]
British number two Aljaz Bedene defeats world number 39 Vasek Pospisil 7-5 7-6 to reach round two of the Chennai Open. read more >>> Source : BBC
Mel Gibson is returning to the Hollywood spotlight as a presenter at the Golden Globes. Show producers announced Tuesday that the embattled star will appear at Sunday evening’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Gibson has kept a low profile for almost a decade, following an explosive drunken-driving arrest and public custody dispute. Other presenters […]
The last few weeks have seen national attention focused on our nation’s campuses, engaged once again with the issue of diversity. Student protests are spreading, and presidents/chancellors/deans are resigning. All the while, the firestorm surrounding diversity, and most especially racial issues, on our campuses continues to grow. Protests and resignations, however, only point to a […]
The most valuable jobs are not necessarily the highest-paying ones. For Tina Fey, a career-changing job that she landed in the early 90s upon graduating from the University of Virginia barely paid anything. It was a gig at an improv and sketch comedy theater in Chicago called The Second City, she explains in her book, […]
In this footage shot by a passenger travelling to the Philippines, you can clearly make out a gap showing the door was not correctly sealed shut, as well as a strange noise coming from the frame. read more >>> Source : DailyMail.Co.UK