No, you’re not going to need a really small stool to sit on while you milk them, but you may want to check with a medical professional before trying to smoke the milk of psychedelic toads … which a new study claims can alleviate depression for up to a month. How? Take a deep, non-toad-milk… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/smoking-psychedelic-toad-milk-may-help-depression/…
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How Electric Cars Will Affect Oil Company Investors
“Between global warming, Elon Musk, and a worldwide crackdown on carbon, the future looks treacherous for Big Oil,” argues CNN Business writer Matt Egan, calling the rise of electric vehicles “an existential threat to the oil industry.” “Passenger vehicles are the No. 1 source of demand for oil — and tomorrow’s transportation system may no longer rely on the gas station.”
Reliance…
Facebook Says Breaking Up Facebook Won’t Do Any Good
Thursday Facebook’s co-founder called for the government to break up the company. Saturday Facebook responded, according to an article shared by Slashdot reader soldersold: Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications wrote the piece, and in it, he agrees with Hughes that “companies should be held accountable for their actions,” and that tech companies such as Facebook shouldn’t…
Microsoft Moves Windows 10 Closer To A Future Without Passwords
“Microsoft has very quietly confirmed the death of Windows 10 passwords this week,” claims Forbes — though I think they may be overstating things a bit:
Microsoft’s crypto, identity and authentication team group manager, Yogesh Mehta, has made an announcement that he says puts “the 800 million people who use Windows 10 one step closer to a world without passwords….” Mehta confirmed…
Millions of People Uploaded Photos To the Ever App. Then the Company Used Them To Develop Facial Recognition Tools.
An anonymous reader shares a report: “Make memories”: That’s the slogan on the website for the photo storage app Ever, accompanied by a cursive logo and an example album titled “Weekend with Grandpa.” Everything about Ever’s branding is warm and fuzzy, about sharing your “best moments” while freeing up space on your phone. What isn’t obvious on Ever’s website or app…
5 essential L&D themes from Coursera Partner Conference
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2019 Coursera Partners Conference in London, where we brought together academic, business and tech pioneers in a two-day celebration of learning. Amongst guest speakers were Thomas Friedman, Yale University, the Abu Dhabi Dhabi School of Government, AXA, Novartis, Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng, and many more. Throughout the […]
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Why You Need to Add Digital Marketing Skills to Your Resume
There’s no doubt about it, technology has changed the way we communicate and receive information. And because of this change, businesses have had to adapt the ways they communicate with their customers. Today, consumers are in information overload and look to the Internet to receive information about their favorite brands and companies. As a result, over the past few years, companies…
Donald Trump spent Saturday retweeting far-right personalities. Then he told them they’re right.
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/4/18529468/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-ban-far-right…
Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist
A new deep learning algorithm can generate high-resolution, photorealistic images of people — faces, hair, outfits, and all — from scratch. From a report: The AI-generated models are the most realistic we’ve encountered, and the tech will soon be licensed out to clothing companies and advertising agencies interested in whipping up photogenic models without paying for lights or a catering budget….
Yes, the Internet is destroying our collective attention span
Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/5/3/18514330/distraction-collective-attention-research…