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According to Microsoft, virtual reality can make you hallucinate in the same way that LSD can. However, as the project stated, this kind of vivid VR experience likely won’t be available for a number of years. 2027 to be exact. The study in question posited a significantly loaded question to a number of Microsoft researchers: “What will be the key advancements in technology in 2017 and 2027 respectively?” Topics covered everything from machine learning and biological computation to social science and artificial intelligence....

26 percent of Americans listened to a podcast within the past month, according to 2018 data from Infinite Dial. That’s a solid number — monthly podcast listenership in the U.S. has grown 73 percent from its 2014 numbers. Apple alone has seen a total of 50 billion downloads and streams — but that growth has slowed in recent years. So, it’s a good thing the world’s biggest search engine is here to help....

Although it’s a new buzzword, most people only have a fuzzy idea about what it means. So, exactly, what is marketing automation? Here is a useful definition from SearchCRM: 1. When Do You Need It? Essentially, you will need marketing automation when your business is too big to maintain a one-to-one relationship with your customers. Additionally, you find it difficult to keep track of everything using basic office software like Outlook, or suites like Word, Excel, or Access....

In niche areas like healthcare, the talent shortage is even more pronounced. This trend is going to keep getting worse unless more people gain the education and experience needed to break into the industry. To help fill these gaps, President Obama has launched a TechHire initiative which aims to train more Americans for open IT positions. The IT workforce will change, and a new generation of non-traditional IT talent will rise to solve the tech talent shortage....

Incidents involving rogue drones and their operators seem to occur weekly. Drones have landed on the White House lawn, on top of the Prime Minister’s office in Tokyo; they’ve interfered with airliners and trespassed upon celebrities. One of these days, a malevolent operator is going to do something that will be a clear and present danger, perhaps to critical infrastructure. Some commercially sold drones weigh 50 pounds, and they could easily carry explosives or something even worse....

Most recently, the process of incorporating a video campaign onto social network platforms has been streamlined, meaning you can directly target the market you want, hence giving your campaign the right type of visibility. How to Leverage Video on Social A specific and recent example of this streamlining was earlier this month when Facebook launched new video embeds and comment syncing. You can now embed a Facebook video into your blog post in a similar way in which you can embed a YouTube video; i....

Aaron: I am Cleveland native, but have also spent time living in San Francisco, New York, India, London, and Paris. Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh, which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. Before starting the company, I held engineering roles at Google and Meetup. I’ve also been dabbling in the development of our local startup ecosystem, and hope to bring willing folks together to improve it....

In recent years, Apple’s events can be almost boringly predictable. We’ll get a new device that is incomprehensibly faster, lighter, smaller and better in every possible way than the one it replaces. There will be clapping, whooping and hollering after every mention of the merest statistical improvement. There will be slick videos and guest presenters to tell you how their apps would never work on any other phone. It’s very easy to feel cynical about Apple’s product launches, especially as recent events have been more about evolution than revolution....

Today we see an increase in the amount of available operating systems and browsers to choose from. Unfortunately, what looks good on one device and browser may not look good in other. To have a successful web theme or a website, it is very important to make your designs look good in all the browsers. Start Verifying From Day One Starting the design of a website on a single browser can lead to problems farther down in the development cycle....

Demand for Enterprise Apps Is Expected to Grow According to Gartner, market demand in the realm of mobile app development services is expected to grow a minimum of five times more quickly than IT professionals’ ability to create and deliver those apps. On top of that, the sale of mobile phones will continue to climb and eventually reach a whopping 2.1 billion units by the time 2019 rolls around, and that will also fuel more demand for enterprise apps that effectively meet the same usability and performance of consumer apps....

This is a growing issue in the United States. As it stands, the medical field does not have enough nurses and doctors to deal the upcoming demand from these baby boomers. Hence, nursing has become the new and growing field for college students. More men and women are flooding into the nursing industry than ever before. There are many lucrative professions to pursue in nursing. The most popular being the registered staff nurse....

His latest advisory role is with San Francisco-based WellnessFX, a health diagnostics startup focusing on preventative medicine. WellnessFX works as a four step (not to be confused with hour) program: Enter WellnessFX contest to “Win Time with Tim” I caught up with Ferriss to learn more about the similarities between personal wellness and growing a business, the biggest mistake people make in regards to their health, his top advice to entrepreneurs, and his role with WellnessFX....

Work/Life Balance Is a Top Career Goal It may take a lot of creativity to keep up a proper balance, but professionals are putting in the effort. Research and consulting firm Universum Global has the analysis: Businesses are improving to match: Another new study showed that a full 50 percent of knowledge-profession employees polled “feel that work-life balance conditions in their workplace have improved in the last 5 years.” “It is important to note that work-life balance might carry varying implications across the globe....

Goal conversations, Objectives and Key Results, risk analysis, metrics, and progress can be tracked through Workboard’s Elite app and its recent enhancements to the iOS and Web app. Used at more than 10,000 organizations globally, Workboard helps managers set and achieve team goals by making it simple to share goals, set clear success metrics, engage teams on priority work, get automatic status reports and provide better feedback. New features from the Workboard release include:...

According to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill psychologist Mitch Prinstein, there are two kinds of workplace popularity that can define your role in the company. The first is status, your social reputation with coworkers. The second, and perhaps more important, is likability, your social preference among coworkers. And, as he puts it, you should be focused on the latter. Be Open and Helpful But the age old question persists: HOW?...

Xeelion is crowdfunding focused entirely on student entrepreneurs. In order to post a campaign on the platform, you need to have an .edu email account (similar to the early days of Facebook). Outside of campaign management/ownership, Xeelion will allow anyone to join as investors for the reward- and donation-based campaigns (Bancalà hopes to include equity-based campaigns, pending certain SEC requirements). Capital is important for any idea to take-off, but this access to capital is limited when you’re a college student....

Startups can often have the same mindset as athletes that come into a lot of money. After running lean for so long, an influx of cash can often cause you to waste some of that investment. Buying things you don’t really need and failing to budget according to the amount received, can cause you to drain funds rather quickly. It is said that the number one job of a founder is not to run out of money....

To the rescue comes Appy Couple. Founded in 2011, it is an easy and stylish way to create and publish your own wedding website and mobile app. It lets you keep in touch with your guests via email or mobile app. It’s private. It’s social. It’s yours. Couples can ensure that guests have everything they could possibly need at their fingertips and stay socially connected. No more patched-together solutions of DIY websites, photo sharing apps, social networks, and email invitations: Appy Couple puts it all together, blending design and technology into one intuitive package....

Durham designed the camera bag to be modular, which allows for easy transformation between different types of bags. You can go from backpack, to mid-sized sling bag, all the way to small-sized shoulder bag with little to no effort. He got the idea for Tekniq while packing up his gear for a weekend trip a while back. He put his stuff in a large bag, but he knew he’d need a smaller bag for day outings, so he packed a shoulder and mid-sized bag as well....

The celebration has become an even bigger event, as Disney as revived the franchise and is planning a Marvel-esque universe that will see Star Wars fans drooling for years to come. Plus, with Star Wars Day gaining more and more steam every year, who knows: we might end up with a national holiday in the future! As for the origin of this delightful turn of phrase, the pun can be dated back as far as 1979, when author Alan Arnold was chronicling the making of The Empire Strikes Back for Lucasfilm: In our own little celebration of Star Wars Day, we’ve searched through Twitter for some of the most enjoyable, adorable, and down right funny tweets for you....