Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1997, IBM staged a history-making competition between World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and their own chess-playing computer, Deep Blue.
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China’s Little Brothers cleanse online chatter at Sina Weibo’s censorship hub
The censors, new college graduates, are ambivalent about deleting posts.
On the outskirts of the Chinese city of Tianjin, in a modern office building. rows of censors sit and stare at computer screens. Their mission: delete any post on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, deemed offensive or politically unacceptable.
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Researchers demonstrate new method for harvesting energy from light
Hybrid optoelectronic nanostructures with controlled variation in photoconduction properties.
University of Pennsylvania reasearchers have demonstrated a new mechanism for extracting energy from light, a finding that could improve technologies for generating electricity from solar energy and lead to more efficient optoelectronic devices used in communications.
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Top 10 customer experience trends
Organizations that offer a better customer experience have more customers who say they are willing to buy from them again, according to Forrester. However, if that experience is poor, 89% of consumers are likely to buy from the competition.
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The most and least lucrative college majors
Two years ago, Erin Ford graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. Recruiters came to campus to woo her. She got a paid summer internship, which turned into a full-time job after she graduated. Now, at age 24, she makes $110,000 a year.
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Wealthiest 1% earn biggest share since 1920’s
The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year.
The gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it has been since the Roaring ’20s.
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Study finds great fathers have smaller testicles
Study finds evolutionary trade-off between mating prowess and parenting involvement.
Fathers who are more involved in child care have smaller testes, and their brains are also more responsive when looking at photos of their own children, according to research published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.
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Does internship compensation pay?
Internship compensation – does it pay?
Unpaid internships are a hot topic right now in light of the recent slew of compensation-based class action lawsuits. And with only 36.9% of companies still offering interns less that minimum wage or no compensation at all, it’s clear that relying upon unpaid interns is more damaging than many employers assume. (Infographic)
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Google and edX team up to launch MOOC.org
Google and edX will build out and operate MOOC.org.
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative, edX, which is founded by Harvard and MIT, has announced a partnership with Google to jointly develop their open-source learning platform, known as Open edX. The edX core offerings currently consist of a few dozen free “Massive Open Online Courses,” or MOOCs, from top-flight university partners like MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley–but the Open edX vision goes far beyond that.
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New drug cures mice of Down Syndrome in a single dose
With one dose, the brains of the mice grew normally and those mice showed learning abilities like that of their un-affected peers.
There has been good news in medicine recently. Not only is there a vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS in the works, but scientists at John Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health have also recently used a new drug to cure Down Syndrome in baby mice with just one dose. And although the drug has not yet been tested on humans, it still qualifies as an amazing achievement.
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Fewer young people getting their driver’s licenses: Study
Young people are not in the traditional rush to get their driver’s license.
A new study by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute confirms that year after year, fewer 16 to 24 year-olds are getting driver’s licenses.
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U.S. fertility rates are leveling off
There were almost 4 million babies born to American women in 2012.
According to statistics in a National Center for Health Statistics report released last week, fertility rates are leveling off for the first time since before the recession began as more American women are having babies in an improving economy.
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