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S1How Generative AI Will Change Sales   Sales teams have typically not been early adopters of technology, but generative AI may be an exception to that. Sales work typically requires administrative work, routine interactions with clients, and management attention to tasks such as forecasting. AI can help do these tasks more quickly, which is why Microsoft and Salesforce have already rolled out sales-focused versions of this powerful tool.
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S26 Strategies for Leading Through Uncertainty  It seems that any given week provides ample reminders that leaders cannot control the degree of change, uncertainty, and complexity we face. The authors offer six strategies to improve a leader’s ability to learn, grow, and more effectively navigate the increasing complexity of our world. The first step is to embrace the discomfort as an expected and normal part of the learning process. As described by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, leaders must shift from a “know it all” to “learn it all” mindset. This shift in mindset can, itself, help ease the discomfort by taking the pressure off of you to have all the answers.
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S3Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US?  When American History X was released in 1998, 25 years ago, it warned of a gathering storm of white supremacist violence. The indie crime thriller garnered both praise and criticism, but also a measure of suspicion. Some critics took exception to what they viewed as its "bombastic" tone and "red-meat melodrama," as though the film's racist zealots looked more like caricatures than anything that could have sprouted from the multicultural soil of US democracy.Warning: This article contains descriptions of extreme violence that some may find upsetting
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S4Understanding that chronic back pain originates from within the brain could lead to quicker recovery, a new study finds  We have been studying a psychological treatment called pain reprocessing therapy that may help “turn off” unhelpful and unnecessary pain signals in the brain. To do this, we carried out a study in which some people were randomly chosen to receive the pain reprocessing therapy treatment, while some got a placebo injection into their backs.We included 151 adults ages 21 to 70 years old with chronic back pain. We found that 66% of participants reported being pain-free or nearly pain-free after pain reprocessing therapy, compared with 20% of people who received a placebo.
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S5What is intersectionality? A scholar of organizational behavior explains  In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has emerged to describe the impact of belonging to multiple social categories. Known as intersectionality, the social theory has a complex history and refers to the intertwining of different identities, such as class, gender and age. It is often applied as a way to understand how individuals may experience multiple forms of prejudice simultaneously.
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S6We analyzed over 3.5 million written teacher comments about students and found racial bias  Written teacher comments about students can show implicit racial or ethnic and gender biases in school discipline, according to our recent study. Our study showed that teachers wrote more when describing behavior incidents of Black students compared with white students. They also used more negative emotions, words like “anger,” “hurt” and “disrespectful,” and used more verbs, such as “scraped,” “hit” and “spanked.” We found the opposite was true for Asian and Hispanic students compared with white students.
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S7The world's boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward  Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia. The boreal region’s soils have long buffered the planet against warming by storing huge quantities of carbon and keeping it out of the atmosphere. Its remoteness has historically protected its forests and wetlands from extensive human impact.
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S8Defending space for free discussion, empathy and tolerance on campus is a challenge during Israel-Hamas war  College and university campuses across the U.S. have seen polarization and unrest since the Israel-Hamas war began with the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Students and faculty have held protests and rallies, argued on social media and signed statements, some of which have increased mistrust and turmoil on campus. Some college leaders have weighed in on the war, which has not necessarily calmed their campuses. At the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, scholar David Mednicoff chairs the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He spoke with The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, about how he and his colleagues and university leadership have tried to deal – as an educational institution and a community – with a highly charged situation on campus in which there is pain, anger and anguish on both sides. Mednicoff aims to contribute to an approach he believes central for his community: respectful discussion, listening and seeking understanding, and the chance for open minds and hearts in the middle of conflict. Immediately after the Oct. 7 attack, many Jewish students and community members with ties to Israel felt shocked, scared, confused and worried, and sought support from the university.
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S9Biden's executive order puts civil rights in the middle of the AI regulation discussion  Margaret Hu is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Privacy Forum. She is also a Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology and a member of the Scholars Council with Data & Society. On Oct. 4, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: A Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age. The blueprint launched a conversation about how artificial intelligence innovation can proceed under multiple fair principles. These include safe and effective systems, algorithmic discrimination protections, privacy and transparency.
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S10Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves -  Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, yes, viruses can actually get sick. Even better, as karmic justice would have it, the culprits turn out to be other viruses.Viruses can get sick in the sense that their normal function is impaired. When a virus enters a cell, it can either go dormant or start replicating right away. When replicating, the virus essentially commandeers the molecular factory of the cell to make lots of copies of itself, then breaks out of the cell to set the new copies free.
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S11When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco's PR playbook  In 1976, beloved chef, cookbook author and television personality Julia Child returned to WGBH-TV’s studios in Boston for a new cooking show, “Julia Child & Company,” following her hit series “The French Chef.” Viewers probably didn’t know that Child’s new and improved kitchen studio, outfitted with gas stoves, was paid for by the American Gas Association.While this may seem like any corporate sponsorship, we now know it was a part of a calculated campaign by gas industry executives to increase use of gas stoves across the United States. And stoves weren’t the only objective. The gas industry wanted to grow its residential market, and homes that used gas for cooking were likely also to use it for heat and hot water.
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S12All-UK astronaut mission shows that private enterprise is vital to the future of space exploration  The UK Space Agency has signed an agreement with a US company called Axiom Space to develop a space mission carrying four astronauts from the UK. The flight would most likely use the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle and travel to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew is expected to include a reserve astronaut recently selected by the European Space Agency (Esa) and two other commercial astronauts. There are also reports it could be commanded by the recently retired Tim Peake.
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S13BBC's emergency Gaza radio broadcasts show why World Service mustn't rely on digital technology  The BBC has just announced that it will start an emergency radio service for listeners in Gaza. Daily news bulletins will be produced in London and Cairo by BBC News Arabic, the corporation’s Arabic-language television service. The radio service will broadcast on medium wave, initially with a single afternoon programme from November 3, and an additional morning programme from November 10. The BBC’s stated aim is to provide “vital news daily to the people of Gaza during this time of urgent need”, including practical information about where to access shelter, food and water supplies.
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S14Gaza Update: as Israel begins its ground offensive, the conflict's reverberations are being felt far beyond the Strip  The ground assault on Gaza is now well underway and, as they advance into the Strip’s urban areas, the Israel Defence Forces are coming up against an elusive enemy that has been preparing for this conflict for years. For Hamas’s military wing, a key part of those preparations has been the construction of a large network of tunnels which it can use to move fighters from location to location to mount hit and run attacks and vanish again. Destroying this network is one of the key objectives of what Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is the “second phase” of this campaign. Known as the “Gaza Metro”, this comprises an estimated 300 miles of tunnels, some as deep as 70 metres underground. The network has been under development for years, but construction was stepped up when Israel relaxed its embargo on the shipment of building supplies into Gaza in 2012.
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S15S16Israel-Hamas war puts China's strategy of 'balanced diplomacy' in the Middle East at risk  On Oct. 30, 2023, reports began to circulate that Israel was missing from from the mapping services provided by Chinese tech companies Baidu and Alibaba, effectively signaling – or so some believed – that Beijing was siding with Hamas over Israel in the ongoing war.Within hours, Chinese officials began to push back on that narrative, pointing out that the names do appear on the country’s official maps and that the maps offered by China’s tech companies had not changed at all since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Indeed, the Chinese Foreign Ministry took the opportunity to go further, emphasizing that China was not taking sides in the conflict. Rather, Beijing said it respected both Israel’s right to self defense and the rights of the Palestinian people under international humanitarian law.
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S17Is salt really a new culprit in type 2 diabetes?  Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University When people think of foods related to type 2 diabetes, they often think of sugar (even though the evidence for that is still not clear). Now, a new study from the US points the finger at salt.
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S18S19Netflix is still growing its subscriber base  Netflix had a tough year in 2022. Big rivals such as Disney and Amazon Prime were circling, and viewers seemed to be rethinking their streaming habits amid rising prices in a turbulent global economy. Netflix lost subscribers, and its share value plummeted. According to its latest letter to shareholders, it added 8.8 million new subscribers in the third quarter of 2023, on top of the 5.9 million it gained in the three months before that. The total number of subscribers worldwide is now 247.2 million.
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S20Brooke Shields had a grand mal seizure - here's what you need to know about the condition  Actress and model Brooke Shields has revealed she suffered a grand mal seizure in September. In an interview, Shields revealed that the seizure caused her to lose control of her movements, froth at the mouth and eventually lose consciousness. The actress doesn’t have a history of seizures – and many people reading her story may be wondering if they’re also at risk.“Grand mal”, which means “great sickness” in French, is actually the old term for what’s now called a tonic-clonic seizure. These seizures involve both stiffening (tonic) and twitching (clonic) muscle movements. It’s just one type of seizure a person can experience.
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S21It's time to limit how often we can travel abroad - 'carbon passports' may be the answer  The summer of 2023 has been very significant for the travel industry. By the end of July, international tourist arrivals globally reached 84% of pre-pandemic levels. In some European countries, such as France, Denmark and Ireland, tourism demand even surpassed its pre-pandemic level.This may be great news economically, but there’s concern that a return to the status quo is already showing dire environmental and social consequences.
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S22S23PFAS: how research is uncovering damaging effects of 'forever chemicals'  Since their inception in the 1940s, the so-called forever chemicals have woven themselves into the fabric of our modern world. But recently, they’ve been appearing in alarming news headlines about their damaging effects on our health. Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals, numbering approximately 4,700 variants. What makes them different is their formidable carbon-fluorine (C-F) bonds, renowned among scientists as the mightiest in chemistry.
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S24S25Running Gag: Trump Speaks!  Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram and sign up for the Daily Humor newsletter for more funny stuff.By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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S26A Decade of Black Lives Matter  After the notorious acquittal of the man who shot Trayvon Martin, a hashtag was born that quickly became a movement, and the most significant push for racial justice since the nineteen-sixties. Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, talks with David Remnick about the nationwide outcry over the killings of unarmed Black and brown people. A group of experts wrestle with the complicated question of how Black Lives Matter changed policing in the ten years since its founding and whether racial disparities among victims of police violence have abated at all. And the writer Nicole Sealey explains how the Ferguson, Missouri, protests over the death of Michael Brown led her to a response in poetry.The mother whose teen-age boy’s death inspired a movement a little more than a decade ago continues to grieve his loss, and to demand accountability.
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S27Donald Trump's Sons Get Challenged on the Witness Stand  Given that bad things tend to happen to virtually anyone who comes into Donald Trump's orbit, it was only a matter of time before his own family members got dragged into the mire. This week, Donald, Jr., and Eric, Trump's eldest sons, appeared as defendants in the civil fraud trial brought by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, and both sons repeatedly had their credibility impeached on the stand.In the early years covered by the government's case, the brothers had independent roles at the Trump OrganizationâDonald, Jr., focussed on leasing and licensing deals; Eric worked on operations and new developments. But the testimony showed how they were also drawn into the web of deceit needed to sustain the myth that their father was a multibillionaire, which centered on the annual production of a Statement of Financial Condition that grossly exaggerated the value of Trump properties. Along with the former President himself and two former Trump Organization executives, the brothers stand accused of, among other things, engaging in a fraudulent conspiracy to file false business documents and engage in insurance fraud.
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S28High Camp and High Tragedy in Two Electrifying Off-Broadway Productions  Snatch Adams, a six-foot-tall walking vagina working as a red-nose clown, would usually be entertaining folks on the vaudevillian “Borsch” Belt comedy circuit—“borsch” as in (a)bort(ion)—but extremists have been closing Planned Parenthoods. There’s certainly not a lot of other things an unemployed, six-foot-tall vagina-clown can do. Start a podcast? Launch a wellness app? Snatch (Becca Blackwell) and their dear friend Tainty McCracken (Amanda Duarte) experience a flicker of confusion, but then the right idea strikes like a period on a day you’re wearing white pants: air a TV talk show called “It’s That Time of the Month,” which mashes together the best of Conan O’Brien, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” and performance artist Carolee Schneemann in her “Interior Scroll” era.Heretofore, the comic and experimental performer Blackwell’s best-known work was “They, Themself and Schmerm,” an immensely funny standup piece about their transition, which somehow got laughs out of stories about, among other things, childhood molestation. (“Schmerm” is the garbled sound a person might make when trying to say several pronouns at once.) Right before the pandemic shutdown—like, two days before—I saw Blackwell’s chilled-out show “Schmermie’s Choice,” at Joe’s Pub, another autobiographical, standup-flavored set, which explored the giddiness of sex on testosterone, and the ways that various tab A’s fit into various slot B’s. Their latest work, “Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month,” at SoHo Rep, retains some of Blackwell’s earlier shaggy-dog, low-fi vibe, but here the imagination and the glitz factor have been dialed up to Versailles. This, at last, is Blackwell’s magnum opus, or, to give the collaboratively devised piece its proper due, Blackwell and Duarte’s magnum o-pussy.
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S29My Favorite Restaurants in New York City  You could write dozens of obituaries a year for beloved New York restaurants that have shuttered their doors. One of the things I love most about this city is how regenerative it is, against all odds. We’re living at a moment when it’s harder than ever to keep a restaurant running, let alone open a new one, yet there are always, improbably, new places to eat—global pandemics and floodwaters be damned. In the past few years, as I ate my way through the boroughs, chronicling meals for Tables for Two, the delights seemed inexhaustible. I recently transitioned to a new role, which means I’m no longer writing the column every week (though I will still be writing regularly about food for the magazine). As a parting gift to readers, I decided to make a list of my favorite places that I’ve reviewed. It’s s hard to pick, but I’ve found a few thrills to be especially electric. An ancient Jewish lunch counter in the Flatiron district, brought lovingly back to life by new owners and made somehow more essentially itself. A palace of traditional Turkish food in a former pancake house on Staten Island, worth a trip across the Verrazzano Bridge in standstill traffic. A tiny noodle stall buried deep inside a food hall in Koreatown, run by a devoted daughter and her mother, who has a hand in making every plate of food. The best cocktails I’ve ever had—laced with orange-blossom water and dried lime—at a Persian restaurant in Bushwick. Here are twenty New York restaurants, among thousands, that I recommend without reservation.Earlier this year, the chef Brooks Headley relocated his previously tiny veggie-burger joint to the relatively sprawling space in the East Village that, for decades, had housed the Odessa Restaurant. The original Superiority Burger offered just six dishes, plus specials and desserts. All of it, including the eponymous burger, was vegetarian; a lot was “accidentally vegan.” Everything popped. On recent visits, I was delighted to find that Headley is keeping the focus as tight as ever. New additions are few but powerful. In a nod to Odessa’s Ukrainian heritage, there’s a texturally thrilling stuffed cabbage, filled with sticky rice and oyster and button mushrooms, draped in a sweet-and-sour tomato sauce, and finished with crunchy focaccia bread crumbs. Holdovers from the old menu include the burger, made from quinoa, chickpeas, and walnuts; the Sloppy Dave (tofu chili, frizzled onions); the burnt-broccoli salad (eggplant purée, candied cashews); and the beets with cream cheese and pretzels—all still wonderful. Read the full review »
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S30Gaze Into This Ethereal Nebula and Glimpse Our Solar System's Future  Captured by Chile’s Gemini South Telescope, this Spare Tire Nebula looks more like a crystal ball to us.Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in space — and if you stare into it too long, you can almost see a giant cosmic eye staring back. Don’t be fooled by the serene beauty of this image, as those diaphanous clouds of gas are roaring outward at around 112,000 miles an hour.
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S31Apple's Newest Sci-Fi Movie Is Part of a Reactionary Cinematic Movement  In Fingernails, filmmaker Christos Nikou explores the computerization of courtship — a distressing issue familiar to anyone who has opened Tinder or Hinge. But in Nikou’s indie science-fiction movie, the future of intimacy is surprisingly low-tech.When the film starts, Jessie Buckley’s Anna and Jeremy Allen White’s Ryan are a couple who participate in a test certifying their compatibility. This confirmation of the married couple’s chemistry comes at a biological cost: both participants have to surrender a fingernail to the machine in order to confirm their match. Once it runs the analysis, the test spits out an assessment of whether two, one, or none of the fingernails indicate the couple belongs together.
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S32'Loki' Season 2 Episode 6 Runtime Fixes a Marvel TV Problem  Season 2 is building to a big finish — which is a nice change of pace from recent Marvel TV.After two years of MCU TV, it can become easy to see a structure that the series stick to. Much like the Marvel movies, there is a proven formula, and the shows more or less stick to it. Loki Season 2 completely threw out the playbook. After three episodes establishing how the TVA is in trouble, Episode 4 blew up everything we’ve seen so far when the Temporal Loom exploded, destroying the Time Variance Authority as a whole.
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S33Behold the Grand Arms of This Gorgeous Galaxy in a New Hubble Image  The galaxy, NGC 1566, revealed its broad pinwheel arms and its pancake-like disk of stars and gas to the 33-year-old telescope. Since it is oriented on its side, at least from our perspective on Earth, Hubble could obtain a grand birds-eye view of the galaxy. The scene is clear and dazzling, but something else about it is murky: Astronomers are still figuring out what to make of NGC 1566’s home in space.The observatory is run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. According to the ESA, this galaxy is located about 60 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Dorado, the Spanish word for a Mahi Mahi fish.
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S34S35Fortnite's Biggest Update Ever Doubles Down on a Major Gaming Trend  After six years, one major reason Fortnite Battle Royale is still going strong is how much it changes from season to season. With each major update, Fortnite gets not only a hoard of new weapons and abilities but also a new playground to use it all in. From new buildings to massive floods submerging everything in water, Fortnite’s map is never quite the same from season to season.With Chapter 4 Season OG, which launched on November 3, Fortnite is looking back to Chapter 1 Season 5 and reviving old buildings and items, as an Epic Games blog post details. Every few weeks, a hotfix will change the game again, adding content from later seasons in Fortnite history, with some sticking around in subsequent seasons and others disappearing once the clock advances.
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S36The Only Generative AI I Want Is One Trained On My Personal Life  Services like Google's NotebookLM and Fabric are building AI experiences around analyzing your links, files, and personal notes.That last year of AI hype has largely been driven by the allure of general knowledge chatbots. Experiments masquerading as services called Microsoft Bing, ChatGPT, and to a lesser extent, Google Bard, that attempt to answer just about any question or request with a natural language response, whether that's providing factual information you might dig up in a search through Google, or generating entirely “new” text.
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S37'Echo' Trailer Reveals a Historic MCU First  Maya Lopez, better known as Echo, was a unique addition to the MCU. While she was introduced in the lighthearted Christmas-themed miniseries Hawkeye, her character was dark and gritty, with a rough backstory involving her late father and Kingpin. She also introduced multiple historic firsts for the franchise as a Deaf character, an amputee, and an Indigenous hero. Now Lopez is getting a show of her own, and the innovations keep coming. Echo is moving Marvel television into uncharted territory in ways that could completely change the MCU. We’ll dive into how, but first, check out the trailer below.
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S38Capcom Comparing Mods to Cheating Misrepresents a Vital Part of Gaming  One of the best things about gaming on PC is that players can fundamentally change the experience using mods. Whether you’re creating your own or pulling someone else’s creations from a site like NexusMods, the ability to tweak anything to your liking can turn boring or borderline unplayable games into unforgettable experiences.A Capcom R&D video from October 2023 makes the bold claim that using mods is essentially cheating, as GamesRadar+ first reported.
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S39How To Swap Siri for ChatGPT Using Your iPhone 15's Action Button  With the iPhone 15 Pro Apple introduced the Action Button, replacing the traditional mute toggle with something all-purpose and programmable. We’ve seen a bunch of interesting uses for it already and Apple recently added the Translate function with iOS 17.2. We could talk all day about how the Action Button can be used, but right now we’re going to tell you how to swap Siri for ChatGPT as a voice assistant. Maybe you’re a Siri stan, but if you don’t use Apple’s native voice assistant outside of setting a timer hands-free we’re going to tell you how to set up ChatGPT through the Action Button for a change of pace to your AI voice assistant.
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S40Max's 'Dune: The Sisterhood' TV Series Is Now 'Dune: Prophecy' -- Here's What We Know  Before the Spice could flow and Paul Atreides was born, the sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit existed in the world of Dune. In the lore of this dark and dangerous sci-fi galaxy — as depicted in Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 blockbuster, and its upcoming 2024 sequel — it’s difficult to overstate the power wielded by the order of the Bene Gesserit. But for those unfamiliar with Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the importance of the Bene Gesserit can be confusing to explain.
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S4165 Cheap Gifts Skyrocketing in Popularity on Amazon That Are Sick as Hell  As birthdays, holidays, and those celebratory mile markers come along, it can be tough to keep coming up with perfect gifts — not to mention, completely budget-busting. In this case, I have one word for you: Amazon. Below, you’ll find tons of cool, cheap gifts skyrocketing in popularity that will feel tailored for anybody on your list. Whatever the gifting challenge, the solution follows, and — cue sigh of relief — all at a reasonable price point.Four 20-ounce glasses come in this set that’s great for the person who’d love to drink their latte, lemonade, and, of course, ice-cold beer out of a can-shaped vessel. The glasses come with their own glass straws as well as a flexible wired straw cleaner. Pop the glasses into the freezer for a brewski-ready chill and clean them easily in the dishwasher.
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S42Neuroscientists Designed A Wearable Device Clinically Proven To Reduce Stress -- & It's $50 Off Right Now  The holidays are coming up, which means it’s time for traveling, shopping, and social events — all of which can be stressful at times. That’s where the Apollo wearable device might come in handy. It’s designed by neuroscientists and physicians to help you sleep well, relax, and focus on the tasks ahead without chemicals.Using technology developed by neuroscientists and physicians at the University of Pittsburgh, it uses soothing vibrations to help your body build resilience to stress.
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S4335 Years Later, A Legendary Sci-Fi Thriller Is More Relevant Than Ever  Chewing bubble gum and kicking ass may be the best way to dismantle late-stage capitalism after all.Imagine a world in which climate change is killing the planet, where police brutality is rampant, and only the richest of the rich enjoy comfort and stability. In 1988, John Carpenter looked at the world as he saw it and turned the depressing status quo into a chilling, sci-fi thriller with just a touch of absurdity. But in 2023, the cult classic They Live is even more relevant, to the point where watching it today may actually be more powerful than it was back then.
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S44How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)  Should you date a coworker? Before you act on your feelings, it’s important to think through the risks — and there are quite a few. If you still want to move forward, research shows that your intentions matter. Your coworkers’ reactions will reflect what they believe your motives to be. It’s also important to know your companies policies. Many companies prohibit employees from dating coworkers, vendors, customers, or suppliers, or require specific disclosures, so be sure to investigate before you start a relationship. And if you do start dating someone, don’t try to hide the relationship from your manager or colleagues — it will only erode trust.
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S45S46Unconscious Bias Training That Works  To become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts that lead to snap judgments—often based on race and gender—about people’s talents or character, it strives to make hiring and promotion fairer and improve interactions with customers and among colleagues. But most UB training is ineffective, research shows. The problem is, increasing awareness is not enough—and can even backfire—because sending the message that bias is involuntary and widespread may make it seem unavoidable.
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S47S48The Discipline of Innovation  In the hypercompetition for breakthrough solutions, managers worry too much about characteristics and personality—“Am I smart enough? Do I have the right temperament?”—and not enough about process. A commitment to the systematic search for imaginative and useful ideas is what successful entrepreneurs share—not some special genius or trait. What’s more, entrepreneurship can occur in a business of any size or age because, at heart, it has to do with a certain kind of activity: innovation, the disciplined effort to improve a business’s potential.
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S49How the Best Brand-Influencer Partnerships Reach Gen Z  Authenticity is among Gen Z’s most important values. They feel empowered to ask and answer their own questions in a variety of social forums on any topic — from beauty to health to home improvement to technology to science. And their view of authority has expanded from traditional sources, like academic institutions or reputable editorial voices, to perceived influence. The author offers five lessons for brands who want to tap into this era of influencers and make authentic connections with Gen Z.
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S50E-Commerce Platforms Must Prioritize the Consumer-Influencer Relationship  In China, content-based platforms are generating a growing proportion of e-commerce, presenting a growing threat to established platforms like Alibaba and JD.com. In this model, consumers buy products during their engagement with the content provider. Managing the platform to generate sales, therefore, is about enabling the right content to reach the right viewers. Savvy content-based platforms are leveraging AI to this trend and carefully curate their influencer relationships. Are the big retail platforms ready for this new model?
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S51Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything  In the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called “the lean start-up,” has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture’s founders would write a business plan, complete with a five-year forecast, use it to raise money, and then go into “stealth mode” to develop their offerings, all without getting much feedback from the people they intended to sell to. Lean start-ups, in contrast, begin by searching for a business model. They test, revise, and discard hypotheses, continually gathering customer feedback and rapidly iterating on and reengineering their products. This strategy greatly reduces the chances that start-ups will spend a lot of time and money launching products that no one actually will pay for.
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S52Why Design Thinking Works  While we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people’s biases and entrenched behaviors get in the way. In this article a Darden professor explains how design thinking helps people overcome this problem and unleash their creativity.
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S53You Need an Innovation Strategy  Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices—such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation—and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation system that fits their competitive needs over time and may be tempted to ape someone else’s system. And they will find it difficult to align different parts of the organization with shared priorities.
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S54The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs  The author, whose biography of Steve Jobs was an instant best seller after the Apple CEO’s death in October 2011, sets out here to correct what he perceives as an undue fixation by many commentators on the rough edges of Jobs’s personality. That personality was integral to his way of doing business, Isaacson writes, but the real lessons from Steve Jobs come from what he actually accomplished. He built the world’s most valuable company, and along the way he helped to transform a number of industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing.
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S55S56S57S58S60S61S62S63S64S65Why Big Projects Fail -- and How to Give Yours a Better Chance of Success  There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve. A second reason is unreasonable constraints — when the effort doesn’t have adequate funding, people, time, or other key inputs. Lack of effective leadership is another project killer, as is undue complexity, where projects span multiple teams, business units, geographies, and organizations and face volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity. A final obstacle to project success is too much or too little management. To avoid these pitfalls, smart companies should hire senior executives who are project management experts, commit to clear processes and strong governance, and empower project managers.
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S664 Fundamental Ways to Boost Employee Engagement  With the rise of hybrid and remote work, there’s a real danger — unless companies think deeply about what kind of a culture they’re developing — that workers may come to feel like “just another face on the zoom screen.” Employees need to know that their leaders value them and their unique perspective. If employees feel that their ideas and suggestions don’t matter, it’s very hard for them to feel engaged.
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S673 Ways to Build an Organizational Culture That Supports Mental Health  The cultural shift toward greater mental health awareness has helped bring needed attention to psychological suffering, improve access to mental health resources, and reduce stigma. However, it may also be increasing the pathologization of ordinary life, leading people to think of themselves as mentally fragile and unwell. This creates a challenge for employers. How can they support workers’ mental health without encouraging them to dwell on their negative thoughts and feelings? The author argues in favor of what he calls an outward-action approach to mental health: evidence-based mental health strategies that don’t encourage a fixation on one’s own negative thoughts and emotions.
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S68How to Strengthen Your Curiosity Muscle  Building our curiosity muscle is essential because it will aid in the efficiency of leadership, enables continual learning, and because it’s a sought after skill by employers. Like any muscle, to strengthen it, you must activate and exercise it. You can strengthen your curiosity muscle by ditching excuses, finding the right angle, changing up your routine, experimenting, and shifting your focus once you become uninterested. Curiosity is a skill that is useful in every context, whether it be in the workplace or in the lives of your loved ones. It shows interests, prompts discovery, and finally, leaves all involved parties changed in some form or fashion — all by way of a simple question of who, what, when, where, why, or how.
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S69The Skills Your Employees Need to Work Effectively with AI  Leaders understand that the future will involve humans working with AI and feel immense pressure to “do something” to implement AI solutions. But how do they actually integrate AI with their workforce to achieve good business outcomes? Interviews with company leaders and CEOs shed light on a counterintuitive answer: invest more in two important human skills. Specifically, companies report the need for 1) effective interpersonal skills — the ability to effectively communicate, meaningfully engage with others, and garner team cooperation — and 2) domain knowledge that can help workers get the most — and make the best decisions — when working with AI tools.
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S70Shukubo: The Japanese temples where you can sleep alongside monks  In the serene world of Japanese Buddhist monks, life takes on a distinctive form, interwoven with discipline and mindfulness. These monks subscribe to a unique method of meditation, often sitting upright, supported only by a modest cushion. In this position, they uphold a constant state of awareness, embodying the Buddhist quality of prolonged concentration. This approach to faith is just one facet of a monk's lifestyle, which revolves around spiritual dedication and mindfulness.Their days typically commence with pre-dawn meditation, followed by a simple breakfast composed of vegetarian or vegan offerings. As the sun rises, the monks chant to foster self-awareness and inner peace.
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