August 12, 2016
THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF PERSONAL STRESS IS TIME PRESSURE relating to money, work, family, or all three. According to the American Psychological Ass’n, stress leads to anxiety disorders for women at a rate twice as prevalent as men, is... Continue
Weekly Report 16-33
August 5, 2016
FACE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IS A “CUTTING-EDGE PRIVACY NIGHTMARE… The ethical and regulatory quandaries posed by artificial intelligence technology are not theoretical: they’re here already – inside your smartphone… with capacity to completely destroy the expectation of anonymity in public.” Concerns... Continue
Weekly Report 16-32
July 29, 2016
“GLOBAL WARMING APPEARS TO HAVE GONE INTO OVERDRIVE, with the northern hemisphere growing 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6 Fahrenheit) which has long been held as the point above which climate change may be ‘dangerous’ to humanity… It took from the dawn... Continue
Weekly Report 16-30
July 29, 2016
A CULTURE OF CHRONIC OVERWORK IS CREATING ANXIETIES ABOUT ‘BURNOUT’ – exhaustion stemming not just from workload, but also from “electronic communication & social media which have come to dominate our daily lives, in a transformation that is unprecedented… where... Continue
Weekly Report 16-31
July 15, 2016
FRUSTRATED CALLING FOR TECH SUPPORT? A NY Times survey found 75% of Customer Service managers admitting that “company procedures actually prevent satisfactory service… limiting the time agents can be on the phone, leading to endless rounds of transfers and being... Continue