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Why You Should Speed Up Your Digital Transformation During the Crisis

Before the crisis, if your company depended on a physical business location and in-person interactions with customers, vendors and employees, it might have made sense to cling primarily to legacy systems and paper processes. Adding digital components like a website, mobile app  or electronic payment processing didn’t necessarily mean you’d undergone a complete digital transformation.   The current health crisis has changed the business community with guidelines and mandates on remote work and social distancing. Even if you’re fortunate enough to continue operating, this radical change may mean it’s time to take a deep dive into a digital transformation, rather than just baby steps. …

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This 3-Minute Exercise Will Change the Way You Solve Problems

Structured thinking is about building a big answer by asking many small questions.  Anyone can improve their structured thinking with practice. The best thing to do is ask yourself pointless questions, ones you can’t easily find the answers to online. Writer Hannah Yang shares a prompt that should take you about three minutes to figure out: How many customers visit your favorite restaurant every year? Here, I’ll give it a shot. I live in Munich. My favorite restaurant is Lemongrass, a Vietnamese place around the corner. ….

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China Is Launching It’s Digital Currency -How will this affect your business?

China is aiming to be the first country in the world to launch a digital currency, after five years of research by a team in its central bank. The project is still shrouded in secrecy. There have been few details about what form a new sovereign digital currency might take, how it will affect banks and businesses and when it might be launched. … Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg warned that Beijing’s digitisation efforts could leave American finance in the dust.  Here is what the People’s Bank of China is really up to. … plus more at the Financial Times last year.

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New Study Finds: Working from Home Makes Workers More Productive

People no longer want to deal with the frustrations of driving to and from work: In fact, new research shows that one in four employees has quit a job because of a long commute. Many job seekers now rely on the flexibility of remote work to avoid these inconveniences. The real question: How do virtual and in-office workspaces differ? …

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MIT’s 2020 – Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies

MIT’s  annual list of technological advances that they believe will make a real difference in solving important problems. They include: Unhackable internet, Hyper-personalized medicine, Digital money, Anti-aging drugs, AI-discovered molecules, Satellite mega-constellations, Quantum supremacy, Tiny AI, Differential privacy…

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These five tech trends will dominate 2020

We begin our list with dark clouds on the horizon for Intel: Saying Intel is going out of business … it’s simply not going to happen… That doesn’t mean it is going to be smooth sailing… 5G has plenty of benefits for the mobile operators… Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become the goto technologies for businesses whether they want to boost productivity, increase customer engagement, or drive digital transformation…. Security in 2020: Wider, deeper, stranger threats – don’t forget the basics…

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5 Ways to Distraction-Proof Your Mind

To regain control over our attention, our time, and our life, you need to first regain your brain. In this animated video, I provide some practical advice for how we can finally take matters into our own hands to fight distractions instead of waiting for the tech companies to fix the problem for us.

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The PC is dead. Long live the cloud PC.

Microsoft is giving up on Windows on the PC. In its place, Microsoft is rolling out its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). The Windows Virtual Desktop client is available across Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and HTML 5. In other words, if you have a browser and a PC, you’ll be able to run Windows as a DaaS.  Microsoft is promoting this not just as a Windows desktop alternative, but as a path forward for die-hard Windows 7 users.

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Internet pioneer Kleinrock returns to fix what ails the internet

Fifty years after sending the first internet message, scientist Leonard Kleinrock has gone back to the drawing board with a plan for how to save the internet from fake news and abusive social networks and everything else that ails it. Kleinrock spoke about his plans for a new blockchain based on personal reputation…

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Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It’s Time for a Reboot.

While Washington looks to combat online monopolies, some innovators are developing new internet platforms to prevent monopolies from forming in the future… While lawmakers try to combat the concerns by talking about antitrust and regulation, a cottage industry of true decentralizers is emerging in the computer space. They want to recapture the original promise of the web, to create a platform where information isn’t siloed by private companies or monitored by police states.

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Gartner’s top 10 strategic predictions for 2020

Mobile-accessible cryptocurrency, AI and ML oversight, blockchain to counter deepfake technology and an Internet of Behavior are all among the predictions for the near future.

Prediction 1: By 2023, the number of people with disabilities employed will triple due to AI and emerging technologies, reducing barriers to access. 

Prediction 2: By 2024, AI identification of emotions will influence more than half of online advertisements. …

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Google quantum computer leaves supercomputers in the dust

The era of practical quantum computers has begun … “Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds, and from measurements in our experiment we determined that it would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a similar output,” Google researchers said in a blog post about the work. …

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What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Early in my career… I felt overwhelmed. … I went to a wise, older colleague and poured out my soul. He listened patiently and then said something I will never forget: “Mike, just do the next right thing.”  “That’s it?” I asked.  “Yep. That’s it,” he replied. “You’re overthinking it. Just do the next right thing. It will be okay.”  … Here are three steps I follow to put it into practice…

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To Change a Habit, Get Extreme. Progressively.

When it comes to gaining control over bad habits, like eating food we know isn’t good for us or succumbing to distraction… a technique… that worked wonders for me. I… “progressive extremism,” …To apply this technique, start by identifying the behavior you want to stop doing. For example, say you’d like to stop eating processed sugar. Taken all at once, cutting out the manufactured sweet stuff is too big of a goal for most people to quit cold turkey. Instead, think of just one specific sugar-laden food you’re able to cut from your diet and remove it from your life—sort of like the way a religious adherent or vegetarian gives up pleasures others might enjoy. …

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Stop Complaining Your Phone Is Addictive, Become ‘Indistractable’

Convinced technology was becoming a problem in his own life, Nir Eyal had been reading every book on tech addiction he could find, and testing out the many techniques proposed for combatting its overuse.  “None of those techniques I read about–like digital minimalism or digital detoxes or digital sabbath–worked,” he says. “All those books tell you it’s no one’s fault but it’s technology’s fault. And so I tried that stuff. And it didn’t work. … learning to become indistractable, to control your attention and choose your life, is the skill of the century, because if we think the world is distracting now, then wait a few years.

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Are the People Who Take Vacations the Ones Who Get Promoted?

Americans are taking less vacation time than at any point in the last four decades. Why? According to Gary Oster, Managing Director of Project: Time Off, “Many people don’t take time off because they think that it will negatively impact their manager’s perception of them. But, that isn’t the case at all.” If you or someone you know needs to be convinced to use your vacation time, here’s a list of reasons why it just makes good business sense: …

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How To Hack Your Brain Into Remembering Everything

Before getting into how to hack your brain into remember information there are a couple of things we have to understand when we talk about our brain.  Neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. … 

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The impact of AI in business

AI is changing the way we do business.  AI can be either a supporting tool or a replacement tool for jobs, tasks and even entire industries. It will all depend on how you prepare your company for the future. Here are the five areas you can implement now. …

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Want to Be Super Successful? Science Says Do Any 1 of These 10 Things

We all have the same amount of time. That’s why people who are more productive — and successful — use their time more effectively. … Chris Winfield is a great resource for entrepreneurs.  Chris is an entrepreneur and writer, and if you like this post (and the next two in the series), he’s created a special bonus area with a worksheet and 40 powerful morning habits you can adopt.

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These Seven To-Do List Mistakes Could Be Derailing Your Productivity

Before you write your next to-do list, make sure you aren’t making these seven common mistakes:

1. Writing the List in the Morning… Instead, create your list the night before.

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The Power of Stilling the Mind – why leaders do it

I have also practiced this discipline for twenty-two days in a row. Honestly, this has been one of the most transformational things I have ever done. …  Here are three of my own reasons for practicing the discipline of stillness:  I want to maintain perspective. If I don’t make time to be still, then I find myself in reactive mode—influenced by hundreds of little voices with big demands. I want to stay connected to my true self. I don’t want to get confused, thinking that I am the image I present to the world. They are related, of course, but I want to live from the inside out. I want more internal margin in my life. While I have been pursing external margin in my calendar and finances, I also want internal margin—more room to notice what matters most and be thankful for it. … How to Practice Stillness…

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Should the U.S. Government Fight Back When Businesses Are Cyberattacked?

Keith Alexander of the venture-backed cybersecurity start-up IronNet is unequivocal in his belief that private companies protecting themselves from nation-state threats is not working. “I flipped through this before you arrived,” he told us, dropping a pocket copy of the Constitution on the table. “It still says that the purpose of the Union is to provide for the common defense. There is no parenthetical that says ‘except in cyberspace.’” …

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How to Start a Business with No Money

We all know that hard work can produce incredible results. But the prevailing rise-and-grind mythology often pushes founders into business before they’re ready. Many smart, ambitious people feel pressured to quit their jobs and go all-in. They work around the clock, sacrificing their health and happiness to chase a startup dream. For every founder who’s battling exhaustion and surviving on protein bars, I’d like to suggest a different path. …

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AI is changing the entire nature of compute

The world of computing, from chips to software to systems, is going to change dramatically in coming years as a result of the spread of machine learning. We may still refer to these computers as “Universal Turing Machines,” as we have for eighty years or more. But in practice they will be different from the way they have been built and used up to now. Such a change is of interest both to anyone who cares about what computers do, and to anyone who’s interested in machine learning in all its forms. … The rise of deep learning, starting in 2006, came about not only because of tons of data, and new techniques in machine learning, such as “dropout,” but also because of greater and greater compute power. … Machine learning is now poised to take over the majority of the world’s computing activity, …

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Here’s Why Time Off Work Actually Improves Your Work and Life

Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist, who also co-authored two books with Stephen Hawking, recently shared scientific research in his book Elastic about taking time off. He demonstrates that taking time off work improves our well-being:  “Though some may consider “doing nothing” unproductive, a lack of downtime is bad for our well-being, because idle time allows our default network to make sense of what we’ve recently experienced or learned.”

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This is how we might finally replace passwords

Here’s the thing about passwords: They’re terrible. Passwords are easy to hack, easy to lose and hard to use.

Worse still, passwords guard some of our most valuable digital assets.

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3 Ways Cryptocurrency Will Change Your Life In Near Future

Cryptocurrency is one of the man’s groundbreaking invention in finance, offering beneficial alternative avenues to the people who have limited access and benefit from what society presents. The rapid changes in cryptocurrency open an ample room for many possibilities in the near future.  Three ways it will change your life…

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The Weaponization Of Artificial Intelligence

In the competition to lead the emerging technology race and the futuristic warfare battleground, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming the center of the global power play.

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Startups are capitalizing on DeepFakes’ powerful AI

Deepfakes … made it possible for anyone to master complex machine learning; you just needed the time to collect enough photographs of a person to train the model. You dragged these images into a folder, and the tool handled the convincing forgery from there. The anonymous user had sparked “a war on what’s real,”

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