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chase naugle's curator insight,
March 14, 2018 3:39 PM
A new study from the U.K. may prove that playing video games can both reduce stress at home and at work. It actually found that playing video games helps young people better cope with stress and life. Video games help in many ways. For some it helps them with problem solving, others it helps them meet friends, something they couldn't do outside of gaming. Video games is looked down upon by parents and lawmakers, but truly they have a good intention to the public.
As a fellow gamer I agree that video games do help with life. After a longs day work or a long day at school, sitting down and enjoying yourself while playing video games make you feel good because you can just relax and not worry about messing up or being wrong because you can't be when playing video games, they are for fun. It's a fun form of entertainment. For some its an escape from the real world. Video games aren't a problem for people. They are a solution to many problem. 
Dominick Runyon's curator insight,
March 18, 2018 5:45 PM
A United Kingdom study of 1,000 gamers between the ages of 18 and 30 was published that gives the subjects insights on why they play games. Roughly 55% stated that playing games allowed them to relieve stress, others said that they felt an increase in their confidence levels. 1 in 5 of the gamers reported a boost in problem solving skills. Some of the gamers also said it had positive impacts on their real lives, 3 out of the 5 gamers said they play so they can join friends and nearly 25% of them said they made more friends gaming than in other activities.
I believe gaming has a wide variety of positive impacts but a large impact is the stress relief. Gaming allows a player to escape from the real world for a period of time and not have to worry about the problems they face. It also helps boost social skills due to the growing popularity of online multiplayer, allowing people to play online with thousands of other gamers world wide and even communicate with them. I play games on a normal basis, and I agree that it helps to reduce stress and believe that gaming provides a larger amount of friends due to the fact hat everyone you play with has either identical or similar interests.
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Almost half (42.3%) of UK citizens believe artificial intelligence (AI) will take jobs in the future, with one in four worried AI is coming for their job role. Via TechinBiz
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I've been searching Google+ for tips on how to deal with Trolls on your comments and posts. Here are the results: Via TechinBiz
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
The term Artificial Intelligence or AI is an oxymoron for the basic fact that Intelligence can never be artificial or natural! To label Intelligence as Artificial raises doubts about the very nature of Intelligence. Would it be right, therefore to compare Machine Intelligence with Brain Intelligence?
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Elon Musk just warned governors that artificial intelligence is a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization". Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
We need to regulate AI before it is too late and AI turns against human beings if not directly, then in other ways!
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Tim Berners Lee has mentioned the three most pertinent and evident downsides of the internet today. These weaknesses might destroy the web, or maybe even us! Today we feel more vulnerable than our parents because "We have lost control over our personal data"! To make matters worse, "it is so easy too easy for misinformation to spread" take for example how misinformation can foment communalism. The third weakness pertains to how "political advertising needs transparency". The recent leakage of UID card details could have had a worse impact if the owners of those cards had been younger working people with a sound bank balance!
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Tech giant Elon Musk has revealed he’s kept a ‘wary eye’ on the growth of AI for years as an investor in DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014. Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Science fiction writers have written about Artificial Intelligence destroying Mankind. In recent times we have had movies like Matrix that have talked about the destruction of the human society as we know it. I guess our next big battle will be with Cyborgs and Superbugs. Mankind has challenging times ahead!
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A number of websites became unavailable Tuesday after Amazon's website hosting service went down unexpectedly. Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Downing of Amazon Web Servers might be an indication of things to come; trouble for unsecured online transactions. Post Demonetization, our dependence on online cashless transactions.
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Blockchain, the technology originally designed to run Bitcoin, could be used to make the world a better place. Here's how.
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Think of it, Blockchain and Bitcoins might be the next big thing after demonetization of hard currency and the building up of a cashless economy!
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
January 9, 2017 10:25 AM
Useful applications of Blockchain technology. I think the music industry has a very good opportunity to better distribute revenues using Blockchain
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Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions of jobs. But AI that can handle knowledge-based, white-collar work are also becoming increasingly competent. One Japanese insurance company, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, is reportedly replacing 34 human insurance claim workers with "IBM Watson Explorer, Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
It is high time we looked for alternative jobs for people who are being replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Just hope that AI will not result in unemployment for many!
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'Methbot' is a sophisticated cybercrime scheme that has hit major US advertisers and publishing brands and pilfered millions of dollars per day.
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
With increasing vulnerabilty brought in by the excessive use of digital technology, it surprises me as to how we can really depend on e-currency or digital forms for cash transactions as a replacement for actual cash. The recent hacking of an NSG website and the pilfering of millions of dollars per day from major US advertisers and publishing brands is proof enough that digital transactions by individuals are more risky and dangerous if not as dangerous as actual cash transactions. It seem clear that we have not yet developed firewalls that are robust enough to repel would be hackers!
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A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps. Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
I guess Robo-Cop is on the way!
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DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attacks come in a number of different flavours, they weaponize data and can inflict severe financial harm Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service is the Liver Cirrhosis of the Internet according to this article! It is caused by deliberated slowing down of traffic on the internet by botnets or programmes that send too many requests to your blog. Sometime back there was a case where thousands of internet-enabled devices shot off instructions on the internet simultaneously, thus slowing it down. One wonders if shifting completely to digitisation or digital payments would be a good idea! Is it a good idea to do away with paper cheques and instead go for digital cheques? What would happen if you wanted to sell your stock before stock prices fell and then you became a victim of DDos? The age of the IOT has left us open to numerous vulnerabilities for which we do not have enough protection.
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We've reviewed all the best models from the best brands to help you discover which is the best laptop for your own personal needs Via TechinBiz
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A San Francisco-based company, Vicarious, has built an AI that can see and read like a human brain, effectively rendering Captchas obsolete. Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
AI can break into Captcha, those words that state that you are not a robot! Frightening though it seems, one can only wonder how much more vulnerable human beings will become in a world shared with robots ruled by AI!
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We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now Via TechinBiz
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A new report on artificial intelligence shows the types of AI that people feel most threatened by. Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
I would say that the scariest thing about AI is its taking over mankind. We have read so many comics, and watched so many movies about robots taking over a whole city! Remember Robocop? Well he was an android, wasn't he?
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
The artificial brain is moving towards a reality today. Artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic becoming by-words in today's world of technology, the days when an artificial brain substitutes a biological brain are really not very far away.
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Canadian industry has already seen increased interest from skilled workers after the U.S. suspended processing of H-1B visas Via TechinBiz
rodrick rajive lal's insight:
I guess this is America's loss, Canada's gain!
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
The internet and the human brain are related to each other. Both of these ORGANS work on the basis of connections. The brain has a lot of neurons and the more connections that the neurons make the better the capacity of the brain. The same is true about the internet. The internet works on connections. There are nodes and servers. Both of these organs are information processors. The human brain is a smaller version of the internet!
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Brain scans may offer clues to a person’s natural aptitude—and help those less gifted learn how to study better
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
People have been saying for quite some time now that some brains are wired for languages while others are wired for Maths and others for spatial accuracy. Noam Chomsky would definitely love this! I guess, after all, those people who talked about the left hemisphere of the brain being more for languages were correct after all! However, these wirings can be changed through training and practice!
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Maths ability will get you furthest, says Harvard's Davis Deming. As long as you've got the social skills to go with it.
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Artificial intelligence will take away 5 million jobs (Manual and Clerical) worldwide by 2020, however, 2.1 million new jobs will also be created in specialized fields such as Maths, Architecture, and Engineering. It is high time schools and colleges worked on training their students to be Future Proof!
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rodrick rajive lal's insight:
Pilotless planes are becoming a reality and this is bacause of development in AI.
Donald Schwartz's comment,
January 1, 2017 1:35 PM
Got to wonder what the plane we do if it ingested birds?
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