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As digital workers freelance from around the world, startups are popping up to offer them housing, advice, and a place to log on. Source: Work From Anywhere But Home: Startups Emerge To Turn You Into A Globetrotting Digital Nomad
For these ‘citizens of the world’, the office can be anything from a beach hut in Brisbane to a Starbucks in Seattle, thanks to the growing prevalence of remote-based work. But roaming the globe from cafe to cafe is not without its challenges Source: Meet the ‘digital nomads’ who travel the world in search of…
You may love the energy kick from coffee, but too much can be a bad thing. Try some of these greener, cleaner-burning ‘fuels’ that will wake you up, nourish your body, and keep you going longer. Source: TreeHugger
What do the happiest people have in common? They have a handle on at least of few of these eight instant happiness boosters, some of which may already be elevating your mood. Source: Stats About Happy People – Happy People Stats – Happify Daily
How Far Will People Push Tesla’s Million-Mile Warranty? – Now that Tesla has uncapped the limit for its 8-year Model S powertrain warranty to “infinite” miles, how far might some Model S drivers actually be able t[…] Source: How Far Will People Push Tesla’s Million-Mile Warranty?
Embrace the onslaught of kale and other winter greens by giving them a summer spin. Source: TreeHugger
The Public Health Institute’s Iana Simeonov is highlighted in this Forbes article on the use of wearable devices to monitor health data, arguing that while the market for wearables has expanded dramatically in recent years, the populations suffering from chronic health issues who could most benefit from these devices are not being reached with the…
In the past, we could dominate by accumulating resources and driving efficiency, but now it is agility and interoperability that rule the day. Source: Why The Ability To Collaborate Is The New Competitive Advantage – Forbes
As the D5 group of digital nations meets in the Estonian capital Tallinn, Kirsty Styles asks whether we’re all ready, willing, or able, to go digital. Source: Are you ready to become a digital citizen?
What are the most active cities in India? Which cities get the most sleep in India? Jawbone’s data science team has the answer. Source: How We Move and Sleep in India
Smart software controls the prices and products you see when you shop online – and sometimes it can go spectacularly wrong, discovers Chris Baraniuk. Source: BBC – Future – The bad things that happen when algorithms run online shops
In recent years, a growing number of coding boot camps have helped address the large gap between available software engineering positions and qualified candidates to fill them. Coding bootcamps have been so successful that observers have wondered whether these programs are beginning to replace traditional college computer science degrees. For example, Aaron Skonnard, the CEO…
Next-generation architecture tools are now taking a holistic approach to supporting the transformation needs of the organization – holistic in the sense that such tools combine EA, BA, and other planning disciplines including business process management, case management, and decision management into a seamless, business-focused platform. Source: Digital Transformation Depends Upon Next-Generation Architecture Tools –…
A handful of Fortune 500 companies, including General Electric (GE) and MasterCard, have created internal startups to breathe innovation into their products and services. Source: Meet the Innovative Startups Inside Mammoth Companies
Source: How to build the perfect workplace – Fortune
A recent study has found large amounts of plastic particles in table sea salt sold in Chinese supermarkets. Source: Pass The Salt: Microplastics Found In Chinese Sea Salt; Problem Is Much More Widespread Closer To Home
The argument against addressing climate change always has been fundamentally an economic one: We can’t afford the needed disruptions to our fossil fuel-driven society. Source: Climate change will be an economic disaster for rich and poor, new study says – LA Times
Source: You’ll never believe what neural networks can do now
In species with the largest vocal organs, males have the smallest testicles, suggesting an evolutionary trade-off between winning mates and making sperm Source: Howler monkeys have to choose between big balls and big bawls | New Scientist
Two computer scientists have come up with a way to translate strings of ones and zeroes into poems that double as nearly uncrackable passwords. Source: Why Your New Internet Password Should Be a Poem | Inc.com
Data scientists get big salaries and a decent amount of time off, but social workers have long hours without a paycheck that makes up for it. Source: The Jobs That Offer Great Work-Life Balance (and Some That Don’t) – Bloomberg Business
In fascinating study involving synesthesia, people make good guesses at meanings of foreign words Source: Some Rules of Language are Wired in the Brain – Scientific American
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The magical accuracy of search engine results may be the worst thing to happen to democracy since unfettered campaign donations. Source: Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency | WIRED
If the system failed, it did so only in the outsize dreams of Big Data acolytes. Source: In Defense of Google Flu Trends – The Atlantic
Source: Modelling human mobility patterns using photographic data shared online | Open Science
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