I was bitten by the weather bug while attending boarding school on Cape Cod, where I served as a deckhand on a 92′ 100-year-old schooner. While that experience deserves its own write-up, I bring it up because anyone who has spent time on the water knows the weather is to be respected. Being surprised by it can cost you your life. The Ambient Weather WS-1001-WIFI Observer is a very real weather station, for very serious weather nerds....

Your boss is upset with something you did and is raging mad. He proceeds to chew you out while throwing in the occasional curse word and/or put-down. As a result, you feel demoralized, depressed, and thoroughly unmotivated to do your job to the best of your ability. Thoughts of quitting and running away to anywhere in South America race through your mind. But is this really the best way for a supervisor to handle a situation?...

The Erica android is a result of a collaboration between the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Osaka University, Kyoto University, and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR). It was presented at Japan’s Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation earlier this month by Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, who’s become renowned for his past work on creepily human-like androids. This new Erica android is a major improvement on past androids in that it not only oddly mirrors the looks of your everyday human, but also features speech and body language that’s reactive to situations and closely mimics our natural way of communicating....

Everyone. Businesses will leverage information to develop better products and services, and consumers will happily pay for personalized items and services. But there is one key group worth mentioning: marketers. If the opportunity is taken, marketers, agencies and other marketing entities can help shape the use of the IoT for the businesses they serve. And, in fact, some leaders in the field have already begun to help shape the direction and development of the IoT....

There’s nothing wrong with going to marvel at the sights at an event. But when you’re there with a purpose — it’s a whole different ball game. Last year, I attended Tech in Asia Singapore, one of my first forays into the Asian startup scene. My mission was simple: Check for any startups and venture capitalists (VCs) that would benefit from the services provided by G3 Partners. I swear, I must’ve talked to almost every damn startup at that event,and then some....

Writing at Hubspot, Andrea Lehr unpacks the research and data collection process that revealed the top emotional responses to the 100 most shareable images on the /r/pics subreddit. The results are displayed below: Most notably, the emotions are incredibly positive. But there’s more research digging into the reasons behind these emotions: Valence is the positivity or negativity of an emotion. Happiness has a positive valence; fear has a negative valence....

Chicago had the highest percentage of female founders in the world at 30 percent, closely followed by Boston (29 percent) and Silicon Valley (24 percent). Meanwhile, Seattle brought up the rear in top-ranked US cities with only 9 percent women. In Europe and Asia, the cities with the most women starting companies are Paris (21 percent) and Singapore (19 percent). Below you can see the top 20 startup ecosystems by percentage of female founders, along with their percentage of women startup employees and their overall ranking....

ISL, a digital agency that focuses on inventing online and physical experiences for the world’s biggest brands, has just launched Fake News! The Game, an arcade game that lets you be the judge of whether a headline is real or fake. In the same vain as Tinder, Fake News! The Game allows users to swipe left or right depending on whether they believe the displayed headline is from a real, reputable news source or if it’s a hilariously contrived fake news story....

The solution is a website that tracks reservations and cancellations, using them to determine when tables open up at restaurants at the last second. Even the most exclusive reservations fall through at the last minute, and this site lets you pounce on them. It’s not a new site, and it has gotten press in the past, but this information is far more authoritative than any other source. A food editor has spoken: The site works as advertised....

The FinTech industry is continuously growing, adding more to the financial, tech, and business fields – and for good reason. The financial tech sector gives entrepreneurs more control and access to the financial trends that directly affect them and their businesses. This is especially important for emerging entrepreneurs or those whose businesses need help moving to the next stage of development. KPMG and CBInsights have recently collaborated to publish a report with the latest trends in the FinTech industry....

That’s right, Uber and Google have formed a partnership to get voters to the polls. They have teamed up to create an in-app feature that will not only help you find your polling location, but also helps you plan and schedule your trip via Uber. It will even remind you on Tuesday that election day has arrived and that you need to get out to the polls. More so than in recent years, companies, publications, and individuals have been imploring people to vote....

The shock new visa system quietly came into force on 1 June, while the US president Donald Trump was getting ready for his state visit to the UK (by way of a social media attack on London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan). This new visa demand is possibly the most egregious act so far in Trump’s desire to tighten immigration controls to the US. While compliance is optional (for now), it means that China isn’t alone in using social media monitoring as a form of control over citizens’ rights....

Finding video producers is easy, which you know if you’ve started a search. What’s difficult and ultimately time-consuming is finding the right video producer at the right price. You can spend weeks doing research, contacting producers, getting estimates and then narrowing down the proposals and picking the right candidate. With about-to-launch Video Brewery, founder Andrew Follett wants to make the whole web video production process easier and faster. His startup is an online platform that connects clients and creatives; you’ll be able to to pick a video style, set a budget and receive proposals from talented video providers....

Here’s the relevant information: Leaving a Legacy Here’s a look at three of the most looped and best Vines in the history of the three and three-quarter year old company, so just you can remember what made Vine so great. First, the most looped of 2015, which featured the Nov. 13, 2015 France-Germany soccer match, which was held in Paris and was interrupted by the explosion of a terrorist attack halfway through....

However, with recent advancements in virtual reality technology, field trips are going to be easier than ever. But new tech comes with a lot of caveats and benefits and taking both into consideration is important when it comes to testing out new tech, particularly on school-aged children. The Benefits Virtual reality has been primarily used to improve the entertainment experience. But with more and more uses becoming available every day, education seems like the next best move....

Brandi Scharrer, CEO, and the rest of the team at VoteGiant conducted extensive research into the current world of online surveys, and their results were not promising. They found a major lack of survey responses, a multitude of inaccurate responses, low survey completion rates, and poorly worded questions. So, VoteGiant focuses on significantly increasing the completion rate of surveys while delivering actionable and accurate results to their clients. The actual surveys, or ballots, are optimized for mobile devices, take less than a minute to complete, and only consists of five questions, max....

For this study, researchers at the University of Birmingham first recruited sedentary office workers from the University and asked them to walk for 30 minutes during their usual lunch hour three times a week. The results showed that people who walked reported significantly different results from those who didn’t. They were asked to share how they felt after the walk, and they reported feeling more enthusiastic, less tense, and generally more relaxed and better able to deal with whatever the afternoon would bring....

With this in mind, people wanting to pursue a career in the tech industry should try to obtain the best possible education. Also, if possible, they should find an innovative curriculum that gives them a different edge when compared to other candidates for a hypothetical job vacancy – something that is exactly what Holberton School offers. This San Francisco based school offers a two year disruptive software engineering curriculum, which seems to be quite attractive in the tech market....

The employees, who are part of the recently formed group called “Apple Together,” called out the mandate in an open letter to their company’s management. They cite the tech giant’s hypocritical messaging and the need for workplace flexibility among their top concerns. The pilot, which requires workers to work on site for at least three days a week starting May 23rd, is similar to many models currently being rolled out across the country....

And I’m in the midst of it. I’m 95 percent there, and missing just the last bit. Here’s what I’ve done: 1. Using Canva to Reformat My Resume Looking at my resume was like a trip down memory lane. That old word file looked like something from the 90’s. With an ugly QR code to a teenage-looking blog, this resume would be to my image as wearing a pair of buffalos and trumpet jeans....