October 9, 2024

How Stressful Work Environments Hurt Workers’ Health | Buzzwords May Be Stifling Teaching Innovation at Colleges | Facebook has a new AI assistant to take on the likes of Siri and more...

How Stressful Work Environments Hurt Workers’ Health | Buzzwords May Be Stifling Teaching Innovation at Colleges | Facebook has a new AI assistant to take on the likes of Siri and more...

> Researchers at Stanford and Harvard, have discovered that workplace stress – including long work hours and lack of fairness is harmful to employee health and could cause as much damage as secondhand smoke.
http://goo.gl/K9Ug7z

> Education and technology have arrived at an interesting intersection! Does education influence innovation and technology? Or, does education need to be targeted towards competency in technology?
http://goo.gl/o20p6L

> Facebook's new 'M' for Messenger is a new AI assistant that is backed by humans. This will be an interesting addition to the existing offerings Siri and Google Now.
http://goo.gl/gHwTrz

> An insight into Y Combinator by President Sam Altman. Y Combinator has backed forty companies that are now valued at $1 billion. A veritable blessing of Unicorns!
http://goo.gl/E1MS7j

> Apple's diversity data indicates that it is no more diverse than its peers Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.
http://goo.gl/jV3OS5

> For some time now, hardware has been lagging behind software in terms of innovation however, it is catching up thanks to the internet of things!
http://goo.gl/OU5nPj

> Digital disruption is rapidly transforming industries such as manufacturing, healthcare and retail. Companies in other industries that haven't been disrupted yet will do well to anticipate and preempt the change.
http://goo.gl/CFbeni