It’s hard to accept that what holds us back from reaching our potential is all in our head. While it may be a bit of a cliche, we really are our own worst enemies. Maintaining a growth mindset isn’t a matter of walking up a staircase one small step at a time. Most often, personal growt...
- Wednesday, 05 April 2017 04:13
- By Grace Irwin
When feedback stings or when it’s difficult to empathize with a co-worker, do you find yourselfresponding or reacting? There’s a big difference between the two: a thoughtful response can quell a heated debate, while a knee-jerk reaction ups the emotional ante (your own or your co-worke...
- Wednesday, 05 April 2017 03:48
- By Edna Thomas
If you’re waiting to buy a foldable Samsung phone this year, you might need to hold onto your wallet for a little while longer. Samsung Display’s principal engineer, Kim Tae-woong, says the company is currently focused on bezel-free displays. “Because the bezel-free display currently sells wel...
- Wednesday, 05 April 2017 03:42
- By Daniel K. Henry
Though we are in tumultuous times, post-Brexit, nobody has yet confronted the prospect of an enclave of Britain adopting the euro – but it is going to happen, and shortly. For an Austrian developer is set to make this unlikely eventuality a reality; and to understand the supposedly impossible, we ...
- Wednesday, 05 April 2017 02:40
- By Barbara Larson
You’ve heard this so many times. In inspirational quotes and In self-help books that “goal setting is the first step to success”. Even your favorite vlogger on YouTube talks about it. It’s everywhere. You don’t doubt it’s true, and you want to finally set a goal and get your li...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 12:12
- By Anna K. Sasaki
SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce — but that doesn’t mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of ...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 09:14
- By Martin Grossner
The South Korean Giant has taken another stride and has released its Internet browser application for mobiles on the Google Play Store. This is the first time that a browser from Samsung is made available for smartphones from other brands. According to the company, the Internet browser app...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 08:14
- By Jennifer Levin
When life hands you digital lemons, make virtual lemonade. A system of sensors and electrodes can digitally transmit the basic colour and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water, making it look and taste like a different drink. The idea is to let people share sensory experiences over t...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 07:58
- By Grace Irwin
Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered? Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Ama...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 07:39
- By Issac Avila
Company also announces Android availability of The New Internet, the first-ever secure gateway to the Internet AUSTIN, TX – Authenticated Reality (www.TheNewInternet.com), creator of The New Internet®, a secure gateway to the internet where all users are authenticated and identified, to...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 01:35
- By Barbara Larson
(Hard work is only half the story.Flickr / aisletwentytwo) In school, we learn that hard work will get us ahead in life. Work hard, earn more, get rich. But, "that's only half the story," says Ric Edelman, founder and executive chairman of Edelman Financial Services, one of the nation's leadin...
- Tuesday, 04 April 2017 00:40
- By Alex Grey
cientists have discovered a surprisingly powerful aid in the never-ending quest for a better night's sleep—the smartphone. Staring at the device won't help you sleep, but phones did enable researchers to gather a mountain of real-world sleep data from thousands of volunteers around the world. The ...
- Monday, 03 April 2017 08:36
- By Jennifer Levin
The thing that is usually good about April Fool’s Day is that it is just one day. But 2017 has taken even that from us. Because the hoax-filled “holiday” falls on a Saturday this year, a number of this year’s jokes have rolled out early. Some pranks launched on Friday, while others went...
- Monday, 03 April 2017 08:13
- By Jennifer Levin
Without knowing you, it’s easy to guess what activity you do more than anything else on your Windows 10 PC. The best Windows 10 laptops, desktops and tablets are stuffed with apps and games, but chances are you browse the web more than anything else. Microsoft Edge is one of th...
- Monday, 03 April 2017 06:05
- By James Gill
You know the smartphone has supplanted every other consumer technology when all anyone really wants in a car now is a “smartphone on wheels.” In a world where most smartphone users have Android-based models, Google is aiming to reach the next billion users coming online — with Android as the n...
- Saturday, 01 April 2017 08:38
- By Linda Manly
When it comes to enterprise-level security, Android is still lagging behind Apple’s iOS platform. Android’s laissez-faire attitude that has allowed independent developers to flourish and fill Google Play with a diverse range of apps is also the attitude that has made blanket security p...
- Saturday, 01 April 2017 07:32
- By Issac Avila
UFO and alien stories often make for great movies, with classics such as E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the recent hit Arrival all revolving around extra-terrestrial visitors. Truth can often by stranger than fiction, though, with a new documentary entitled Unacknowledge...
- Saturday, 01 April 2017 03:22
- By Anthony Frank
Concern over an apocalyptic asteroid strike has risen all the way to the top: The White House released a document this week detailing a strategy for National Near Earth Object (NEO) preparedness. Morgan Freeman would no doubt be proud, although honestly, the nation might have more pressing...
- Friday, 31 March 2017 08:56
- By Olivia Russell
Is your dwindling bank account impacting your health? The American Psychological Association (APA) released a survey showing that money stress impacts Americans' health nationwide. And, as it turns out, the wealthy are also stressed about money -- not just those in lower-income househ...
- Friday, 31 March 2017 08:46
- By Patrick Moore
When the first phone book was published in 1878, it had only 50 entries, giving subscribers the names of fellow citizens privileged enough to have a telephone. Today, the ultimate privilege is being unlisted — but thanks to a complex ecosystem of online people search services, that’s nearly impo...
- Friday, 31 March 2017 08:14
- By Martin Grossner
Savings and build more wealth is to spend less. And chances are, you can find areas to cut back in.A simple way to up your savings and build more wealth is to spend less. And chances are, you can find areas to cut back in. Start by considering these 13 money sucks. ATM fees a record high of $4.5...
- Friday, 31 March 2017 04:40
- By Eric Beaudoin
One of the jobs of so-called intelligence officers is to collect and carefully consider the facts and to offer sound, sober advice, devoid of hyperbole. This is the deliberate, often mundane "connect the dots" side of intelligence-gathering that rarely, if ever, receives any popular attention or exp...
- Friday, 31 March 2017 02:35
- By Edna Thomas
Think about all of the websites you visit every day. Now imagine if the likes of Time Warner, AT&T and Verizon collected all of your browsing history and sold it on to the highest bidder. That’s what will probably happen if Congress has its way. This week, lawmakers voted to allow in...
- Friday, 31 March 2017 00:19
- By Daniel K. Henry
What emotion is the person in the photograph feeling? Is he preoccupied? Ashamed? Scared? Maybe guilty?They are four very different emotions but interpreting them correctly only by looking into someone's eyes can be harder than you think and it turns out that women are better at it than me...
- Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:23
- By Asad Ali
Stress affects all of us sometimes. Work, relationships, and money problems are some of the most common triggers. When you have a lot going on at work, it can get even harder to focus. This can result in a build up of more work you haven't been able to concentrate on, thus causing a vicious cycle of...
- Thursday, 30 March 2017 12:15
- By Jason bourne
