Photo by Rob Marmion / Shutterstock.com Americans have always dreamed of climbing the ladder of success in life. Becoming “middle-class” is the entry point to achieving that goal. Now, a recently updated calculator from the nonprofit Pew Research Center tells you whether you are considered middle-class, upper-class or lower-class. Updated …
Read More »Find The Cheapest Ride: This S’pore App Compares Fares Among ComfortDelGro, Grab, Gojek
Mark Lim, 34 and Timothy Khor, 28, noticed that railing-hailing prices tend to fluctuate erratically. Rates were also different across multiple apps ranging from private-hire app Grab to taxi operator ComfortDelGro. For example, the quoted rate on one app could be S$ 2 to S$ 3 lower on another app …
Read More »Researchers find evidence of bias in recommender systems
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now In a new preprint study, researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology, DePaul University, and the University of Colorado Boulder find evidence of bias in recommender systems like those surfacing movies on streaming websites. They …
Read More »How Do I Find a Meaningful Job From Home?
Photo by insta_photos / Shutterstock.com This post comes from partner site FlexJobs. Welcome to our “Work From Home Q&A” series. You ask a question about remote work, and a guest expert answers it. You can learn how to ask a question of your own below. This week’s question comes from …
Read More »How EQT Ventures’ Motherbrain uses AI to find promising startups
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Since Sweden’s EQT Ventures embraced AI to drive the way it makes investments, the company has learned that reaping the benefits of algorithms is a journey full of detours that involve experimenting, fine-tuning, and adaption …
Read More »How Does A Physical Escape Room Pivot Online? We Played Breakout’s Newest Game To Find Out.
Throughout the MCO, popular escape room operator Breakout was unable to open, so the team decided they needed to momentarily pivot. They came up with personalised gift puzzle boxes called The Enigma, and during our interview about that, they also shared something else they’d been working on which was in …
Read More »How to Find Your Financial Comfort Zone
A few days ago, the weather here took a big turn toward heat. Temperatures shot well into the 90s with a wonderful dose of Midwestern humidity to boot. One might think it was a perfect day to stay inside, but I actually spent much of it outside. I didn’t run …
Read More »Rising out of the crisis: Where to find new markets and customers
The pandemic has upended the business models of most startups and existing companies. As the economy reopens, companies are finding that customers may have disappeared or that their spending behavior has changed. Suppliers are going out of business or requiring cash-up-front terms. Accounts receivables are stretching way out. Revenue models …
Read More »Where’s Airborne Plastic? Everywhere, Scientists Find.
Plastic pollution isn’t just fouling the world’s oceans. It is also in the air we breathe, traveling on the wind and drifting down from the skies, according to a new study. More than 1,000 tons of tiny fragments rain down each year on national parks and wilderness areas in the …
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