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Kmart launches $89 Anko-branded smart glasses

Kmart and Target appear to have launched $89 smart glasses in Australia, lowering the financial barrier to wearable recording equipment and AI image recognition tools. The launch coincides with escalating public debate over smart glasses and their capacity to record...

Nedra Glover Tawwab’s book on personal boundaries spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, while the psychologists who first named workplace...

The advice to set better boundaries at work has become close to a default response to feeling overwhelmed by a job. Say no to the extra meeting. Turn off notifications after six. Stop answering messages on the weekend. The...

In 2022, only 10 percent of American marriages had a wife three or more years older than her husband, down slightly from an 11...

“Reverse age-gap relationship” has become the shorthand for a woman dating or marrying a man significantly younger than her, the inverse of the far more common pattern of an older man with a younger woman. The phrase, and the...

In a 2005 study of 140 eighth graders, self-discipline measured months in advance predicted final grades about twice as strongly as IQ did, one...

In 2005, the psychologists Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman published a study in Psychological Science of 140 eighth graders that has been cited more than a thousand times since. Self-discipline, measured months before the school year ended through self-report,...

GAMING: Bypassing the lottery

Unlike many other gaming events around the world, this isn’t one that simply sells out. The game’s Community Team runs a lottery for tickets. Only those with active accounts can enter, and if you win, you gain the ability...

Synsira Launches Kind Local, a Tool for Users Who Want ‘AI on Their Own Terms’

Bigger is not always better, posits Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer. Schaeffer is the founder of Synsira Software Solutions and a cofounder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and he’s referring to artificial intelligence systems. “Not every AI task needs to be sent...

WildFire Ready Expands Map as Startup Adds Slew of New Features to App

Earlier this year, an entrepreneur based in northern British Columbia launched a free app in response to rising wildfires in Canada. Jeff Parr, a former oil sector employee and self-taught coder, says WildFire Ready keeps users informed by pulling live...

Startmate backs 17 startups for its winter intake

Dubbed Camp Startmate, it brought the founders and Startmate team before before the latest Accelerator began. Week Zero is a longstanding Startmate tradition where founders decide where they are going and how ambitious they’re prepared to be. Normally it...

CSIRO to seek private backing as Australia’s R&D funding falls behind

Wealthy benefactors could help fund areas of science beyond health, the head of Australia’s national science agency says, following the organisation’s painful job cuts. CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton said there was scope to spread the support, with the medical...

People who become intensely private about money in old age aren’t being secretive, they watched what happened to somebody they loved once the family...

There is a particular kind of silence that can appear around money in later life. An older parent will discuss the cost of groceries, the electricity bill and the absurd price of a cup of coffee. They may tell you...
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Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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