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What Makes the Human Brain Unique? Scientists Compared It With Monkeys and Apes to Find Out

Singularity Hub

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our recent study may have brought us one step closer by taking a new approachcomparing the way brains are internally connected.

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5 ways employers can prevent employees from ‘revenge quitting’ in 2025

Fast Company Tech

Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. Andrea Carter , Adjunct Faculty in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Adler University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. When employees feel unappreciated, resentment builds.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

And ideas like, “All I need to do is OCR the local traffic manual — that a 15-year-old kid has to learn to get their driver’s license — and tell a computer to do it, and we’re off and running” turned into “Oh, there’s a bunch of norms in various cities that we need to encode in a semantic way, into the actual maps of the car.”.

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Tim O'Reilly's challenge

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The creative brains in the Valley have a lot to offer when they are motivated. We're huge O'Reilly fans: Tim has always been socially oriented and more than four years ago gave Bookshare.org a license to distribute all of his books to disabled people around the world.

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Ex-Better.com CFO raises $10.8M to build Glean AI, or ‘accounts payable with a brain’

TechCrunch

With this information, we use algorithms to proactively identify areas where money is being misspent — such as excess licenses or incorrect pricing — as well as opportunities to help negotiate better deals with vendors based on our aggregated benchmarking data.”.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The journal is, basically, business as usual.

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Japan’s SmartBank raises $20M Series A for its prepaid card and finance app

TechCrunch

Existing investors, including Global Brain, and ANRI, also participated in the round. However, we do not operate under a banking license and leveraging the fund transfer license. Unlike other countries, traditional banks in Japan don’t offer joint accounts,” SmartBank CEO Horii told TechCrunch.

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