Big Blue’s cognitive computing platform is being integrated into a new app from Edge Up Sports to provide deep fantasy football analysis.
Looking for a little competitive edge in your fantasy football league this year? How about a little help from IBM’s Watson?
Probably works for guys, too.
Salary negotiations fill many people with fear, but studies show that women find them particularly challenging.
Your mental lists are distracting you from other, more productive uses of your brain. Here’s how to do a weekly brain dump instead.
If you think keeping everything you need to know neatly packed away in your head is a smart way to run your life, you’re probably hurting your productivity and stifling your creativity.
Whether you use “haha,” “hehe,” or “lol” has more to do with your age and where you live than anything else, the social network finds.
Conveying that you find something humorous in real life can be challenging enough. (“Is a smile enough here, or do I need to laugh?” or “Wait, they look hurt. Did I actually laugh, or just laugh in my head?”) But on the Internet, laughing can be serious business. Is that “LOL” coming across as sarcastic? Does “heh” mean a joke fell flat? And does a crying emoji indicate more laughter than an emoji sticking its tongue out?
iCorrect brings the grammar police to your teens’ phones, and they won’t be LOLing.
Children write more these days than ever before, thanks to texting, Facebook, Tumblr, and whatever else they’re using that we haven’t even heard of yet. iCorrect is an add-on for Apple’s iMessage app that uses this fact to teach them better spelling and grammar. It works by not letting kids send a message until they’ve got everything right: no LOLs allowed.
One giant leap for lettuce.
Intrepid farmers are already growing veggies in surprising places, including rooftops, warehouses, and even on highway billboards. But now leafy greens have gone where no greens have gone before: outer space.
Lomography’s story is one of Austrian art students, millennial hipsters, and, of course, Vladimir Putin.
At one point, they almost built their own mobile photography app. But instead, Matthias Fiegl and Sally Bibawy decided to stick to their company’s old-school roots. Lomography, a 23-year-old camera company headquartered in Austria, has remained loyal to the art of analog and experimental photography since the beginning, when it first discovered—and then helped popularize—the quirky Lomo LC-A film camera in a shop in Prague. After weathering the onslaught of both digital cameras and the smartphone explosion, Lomography has managed to carve out a durable—and profitable—niche doing things the old-school way: hashtag, no filter.
When the government isn’t providing clean sanitation, Sanergy is showing that there’s an opportunity for local entrepreneurs to step in.
Sanergy is a social enterprise that’s building out a sanitation network in Nairobi, Kenya. It designs its own toilets, franchises them out to entrepreneurs (who charge people to use them), then converts the waste into fertilizer that it sells to farmers. Started by MIT graduates, Sanergy takes a business approach, based on the premise that people will pay to use toilets if you make them clean and sturdy enough.
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