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MARCH 18, 2025
This post is adapted from Association 4.0 Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption , originally published in 2018. At the time of this interview, Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE , servedand continues to serveas the CEO of APICS (now the Association for Supply Chain Management ). While the governance landscape has evolved, the strategies and leadership insights shared here remain timeless.
Futurism
MARCH 17, 2025
In a damning new video , YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has perfectly demonstrated why Tesla relying entirely on visual data from a suite of cameras isn't such a good idea for driver-assistance tech. The Elon Musk-led EV maker has given up entirely on LIDAR or radar sensors, which its many competitors have been using for object detection for years, with Musk once calling LIDAR " fricking stupid, expensive and unnecessary.
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Mashable Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
In the Indian state of Kerala, machines are performing rituals traditionally involving elephants in captivity. Just like the real animal, the robot flaps its ears, moves its tail, and sprays water through its trunk. The mechanical elephant is 11 feet tall, weighs 800 kilograms, and can carry a person on its back. Donated to Irinjadappilly Sree Krishna Temple by PETA India , the robotic elephant is part of an initiative that aims to tackle the issue of animal abuse in religious rites.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
PepsiCo is sick of being left out of the prebiotic soda crazeand to catch up with competitors, the multinational food and beverage corporation just dropped $1.65 billion to acquire the functional soda startup Poppi. The deal, announced this morning, will bring Poppis range of 14 colorful, low-sugar, prebiotic-packed sodas into Pepsis expansive existing beverage portfolio.
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Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
Ars Technica
MARCH 17, 2025
Microsoft's Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding generative AI features to the operating system, including multiple versions of the Copilot assistant. Copilot has made it into Windows 11 (and even, to a more limited extent, the aging Windows 10) as a native app, and then a wrapper around a web app, and soon as a native app again.
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Futurism
MARCH 17, 2025
Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters , an international team of researchers discovered that the star a small red dwarf star just 16 percent of our own Sun's mass and just under six light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus has four tiny and seemingly rocky worlds orbiting it.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 18, 2025
You don't see this every day. It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR 8799. These large, gaseous worlds are located 130 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy (a light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles).
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
Everyone knows pain. It’s the most common ailment people experience, from a headache to a stubbed toe to a sore back. Treating pain can be as straightforward as popping a pill. But for people experiencing chronic painlike the lingering aftereffects of chemotherapy or the slow rehabilitation after a major car accidentmedication is rarely enough to fully erase the pain.
Ars Technica
MARCH 17, 2025
Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its moonshot incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition with Elon Musks Starlink network of satellites. Taara is the latest project to spring from XAlphabets experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymos self-driving carsand has its origins in a concept called Loon.
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Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Engadget
MARCH 17, 2025
If youve held on to an aging Windows laptop for too long, its now a great time to upgrade. With all the hype around AI PCs, computer makers are rushing to release new designs featuring efficient new chips from Intel and AMD. And thanks to Microsofts Copilot+ initiative , which launched last year, were finally seeing decent notebooks powered by Qualcomms Snapdragon chips, which are leading to better battery life and lighter designs.
Singularity Hub
MARCH 18, 2025
Audible enclaves are local pockets of sound no one else can hearno headphones required. What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Newly published research from our team at Penn State introduces a way to create audible enclaves localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
Last Wednesday, Meta successfully obtained a ruling blocking whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Today, the book is third on Amazon's Best Sellers list. Who could have seen this coming? SEE ALSO: Meta blocks whistleblower from promoting book, guaranteeing way more people will read it Released on March 11, Careless People recounts Wynn-Williams' experiences working at Meta ( previously Facebook ) from 2
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. Its natural to assume the cause is born of an individual failurethe leader lacks competence, their boss didnt prepare or train them well, they dont care about how others experience them. And many of these reasons certainly hold true. But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an
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Ars Technica
MARCH 18, 2025
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost science station accomplished a lot on the Moon in the last two weeks. Among other things, its instruments drilled into the Moon's surface, tested an extraterrestrial vacuum cleaner, and showed that future missions could use GPS navigation signals to navigate on the lunar surface. These are all important achievements, gathering data that could shed light on the Moon's formation and evolution, demonstrating new ways of collecting samples on other planets, and reveali
Engadget
MARCH 17, 2025
Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Googles parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) Taara uses light beams to provide high-bandwidth internet and phone services to hard-to-reach areas of the world.
Futurism
MARCH 18, 2025
As slumping EV giant Tesla's sales slow to a crawl , rival Chinese company BYD is starting to eat its lunch. Yesterday, the Shenzhen-based corporation revealed a lineup of cars it claims can soak up nearly 250 miles' worth of battery charge in just five minutes just a hair longer than the time it takes to pump a traditional car full of gasoline. The buzzy new tech will be available next month in BYD's flashy new Han L sedan.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
AI is all over social media. We have AI influencers , AI content, and AI accounts — and, now, it looks like we might get AI comments on Instagram posts, too. What are any of us doing this for anymore? App researcher Jonah Manzano shared a post on Threads and a video on TikTok showing how some Instagram users now notice a pencil with a star icon in their comments field, allowing them to post AI-generated comments under posts and videos.
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Fast Company Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
Few topics are simultaneously so celebrated and misunderstood as human potential. On the one hand, we have an influx of near-perpetual articles urging people to unlock or fulfill their own potential, saying essentially that anything else equates to failure. On the other hand, if we ask an average leader or HR professional how to define or explain potential, we are unlikely to get a logical, rational, or scientifically valid answer.
Ars Technica
MARCH 18, 2025
Optical illusions are great fun, and they fool virtually everyone. But have you ever wondered if you could train yourself to unsee these illusions? Our latest research suggests that you can. Optical illusions tell a lot about how people see things. For example, look at the picture below. The Ebbinghaus illusion. Credit: Hermann Ebbinghaus The two orange circles are identical, but the one on the right looks bigger.
Engadget
MARCH 17, 2025
Qualcomm unveiled its next generation of processors for gaming handhelds at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) on Monday. Fortunately, it isn't all just dry specs; the chip-maker also previewed some of its partners' portable consoles that the new silicon will power. These include new models from Ayaneo , OneXSugar and Retroid Pocket. Snapdragon chips Qualcomm The Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 (the flagship processor) has 30 percent faster CPU performance and 28 percent faster graphics than its G
Futurism
MARCH 18, 2025
Google is currently fighting two separate lawsuits that make ugly allegations about its AI efforts. Together, the suits allege that Google has provided immense support to a startup called Character.AI, which recklessly deployed chatbots that sexually and emotionally abused underage users, resulting in horrible outcomes ranging from self-harm to the suicide of a 14-year-old.
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Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
Bumble has announced a host of new safety and compatibility features, including the ability to share your date details with friends. Bumble users can now share the identity, location, date, and time of a date with a trusted contact using the Share Date feature. Seventy-six percent of women always inform friends or family of their date details ahead of time, according to a survey of 2,500 UK dating app users aged 18 to 35, the results of which were emailed to Mashable.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 17, 2025
Super Bowl Sunday always mints a lot more winners and losers than just those who play in the game. Its the biggest day in sports betting annually, with the American Gaming Association estimating a record $1.39 billion in the big game last month. For casual sports bettors, a Super Bowl wager might be enough gambling to last the entire year. For many others, though, it was just a warm-up for the 67 games of March Madness , the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, which kicks off this
Ars Technica
MARCH 18, 2025
There's a new Google AI model in town, and it can generate or edit images as easily as it can create textas part of its chatbot conversation. The results aren't perfect, but it's quite possible everyone in the near future will be able to manipulate images this way. Last Wednesday, Google expanded access to Gemini 2.0 Flash's native image generation capabilities, making the experimental feature available to anyone using Google AI Studio.
NVIDIA AI Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
Under the hood of every AI application are algorithms that churn through data in their own language, one based on a vocabulary of tokens. Tokens are tiny units of data that come from breaking down bigger chunks of information. AI models process tokens to learn the relationships between them and unlock capabilities including prediction, generation and reasoning.
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