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How to use AI to hone your emotional intelligence
A quiet crisis is brewing in today’s workforce, and it’s not about automation or AI replacing jobs. It’s about the erosion of human skills that make teams work: communication,...
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival represents everything wrong with the standup economy
Every comedian on the path to stardom will inevitably have to do shows they aren’t proud of. It’s sort of a rite of passage: the dreaded corporate gig or—shudder—the...
Pokémon and Theo Von both featured in DHS videos without permission
The official U.S. Department of Homeland Security X account has been testing out a new social media strategy that no one asked for—as a meme lord.  On Monday, a...
US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI
The filing, posted on September 19, is heavily redacted and Hive cofounder and CEO Kevin Guo told MIT Technology Review that he could not discuss the details of the...
Starbucks’ CTO resigns, but its AI overhaul is still brewing
Starbucks‘ chief technology officer Deb Hall Lefevre resigned without a permanent replacement, according to an internal memo sent to corporate staff on Monday, seen by Reuters.  The memo, written...
Wall Street rebounds after a 3-day slump, boosted by PCE report
Most U.S. stocks are rising Friday after a report showed that inflation is behaving roughly as economists expected, even if it’s still high. The S&P 500 added 0.2%, as four...
Social Security payments will see a big change next week: What you need to know about the September 30 update
Starting next week on Tuesday, September 30, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will no longer issue paper checks for benefit payments, and instead move exclusively to electronic payments: either...
Fed’s favored inflation gauge climbs slightly in August
The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier. The Commerce Department reported Friday that its personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index was up 2.7% in August from...
Building Braindate
Christine Renaud, cofounder and CEO of Braindate, shares how her app is transforming networking into meaningful, purpose-driven conversations. Source link
Ikea in the crosshairs as Trump adds 50% furniture tariffs
Don’t look now, but President Trump just issued more sweeping tariffs. This latest round stands to affect two groups particularly hard: homeowners and furniture and home furnishing companies. That’s...
Fed Governor Bowman warns of housing market risks: ‘Declines in house prices could accelerate’
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman issued a housing market warning during a speech at the Kentucky Bankers...
How AI can help detect pests early and reduce pesticide use in cotton fields
Precision agriculture uses tools and technologies such as GPS and sensors to monitor, measure, and respond to changes within a farm field in real time. This includes using artificial...