Shoji Morimoto has been advertising himself as a person who can "eat and drink, and give simple feedback, but do nothing more," since June 2018, and has received over 3,000 requests.

He has about 270,000 followers on Twitter. Initially he had offered his "rent-a-person who does nothing" services for free, but he now charges 10,000 yen (roughly $96) per request.

Tony Hsieh, an Internet entrepreneur and former CEO of Zappos, an Amazon company, died from injuries incurred during a house fire when visiting family in Connecticut on November 27, 2020.

Starting today, you can hum, whistle or sing a melody to Google.

On your mobile device, open the latest version of the Google app or find your Google Search widget, tap the mic icon and say “what's this song?” or click the “Search a song” button. Then start humming for 10-15 seconds.

On Google Assistant, it’s just as simple. Say “Hey Google, what’s this song?” and then hum the tune.

This feature is currently available in English on iOS, and in more than 20 languages on Android. And we hope to expand this to more languages in the future.

Every year, 4.3B bags are checked by airlines around the world. Around 25m of them (5.7 per 1k bags checked) end up lost or misdirected. The 0.03% of bags that are still not reunited with their owners after 90 days are sold by the airline.

Chances are, they are purchased by a company called Unclaimed Baggage.

Generatie Z neemt de regie van het leven zelf in handen. In het vormgeven van een gelukkige toekomst grijpen ze alles aan dat hen verder kan helpen.

Van zelfpromotie op Insta, de hulp van een happiness-coach tot de vleiende zelfbevestiging in een affirmations-app. Leven is zoeken voor deze jonge generatie. En die zoektocht gaat niet zonder slag of stoot...

Wat is AI en waarom is het een big deal?

Sinds een paar duizend jaar is de mens de baas op aarde: wij kunnen andere soorten inzetten in ons belang. De oorzaak? Onze intelligentie. Dat is een belangrijkere eigenschap dan groot of sterk zijn, omdat we daardoor kunnen samenwerken en uitvindingen kunnen doen.

Kunstmatige intelligentie is zo’n uitvinding: het creëren van een artefact dat een vorm van intelligentie vertoont. Toch is deze uitvinding net iets anders dan alle eerdere. Het is namelijk de eerste die de potentie heeft om intelligenter te worden dan wijzelf. De gevolgen daarvan kunnen we ons moeilijk voorstellen.

We hebben de planeet tenslotte nooit gedeeld met iets wat intelligenter is dan wij. De enige referentie die we hebben is onze omgang met mínder intelligente soorten. En dat belooft niet veel goeds.

Silicon Valley "disrupter" companies are following a familiar pattern in their rush to raise capital, and it may have a familiar ending.

First, find a customer-focused need that is unfulfilled.

Second, fill this need, costs be damned.

Third, show a fantastic geometric growth curve, regardless of losses and realistic profitability projections — if it takes 10-plus years to be even remotely profitable, build that into your projections and ask for lots of money — the professional investors love that.

There’s not even an adorable, freckle-faced mascot. Instead, it’s the glorious mullet of the chain-smoking man behind the counter, Albert van der Hoek.

This is what Wendy’s looks like in Europe: A hole-in-the-wall chippie run by some brute Dutch sailors with a serious case of stick-it-to-the-man-itis. It’s the reason a certain billion-dollar, red-headed American fast food chain has been kicked off the continent.

Jaime van Gastel spot in en rondom Amsterdam een massa aan zakkerollers. Op zijn Instagram en ook via zijn YouTube-kanaal toont hij zijn nuttige werkzaamheden door zakkenrollers te spotten en vervolgens de politie in te lichten...

You can search any site through Google to find whatever you need:

Simply type in the term you want followed by “site:” and the URL—”site:fastcompany.com,” for example—and you’ll get a list of results that’s practically guaranteed to be better than whatever the site’s own internal search function would give you.

Bekijk de zoekopdrachten die 2018 hebben vormgegeven, van Google Trends. #yearinsearch

13 Things You Should Give Up If You Want To Be Successful:

1. Give Up On The Unhealthy Lifestyle;

2. Give Up The Short-term Mindset;

3. Give Up On Playing Small;

4. Give Up Your Excuses;

5. Give Up The Fixed Mindset;

6. Give Up Believing In The “Magic Bullet.”;

7. Give Up Your Perfectionism;

8. Give Up Multi-tasking;

9. Give Up Your Need to Control Everything'

10. Give Up On Saying YES To Things That Don’t Support Your Goals;

11. Give Up The Toxic People;

12. Give Up Your Need To Be Liked;

13. Give Up Wasting Time...

Dave Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, vision's for the site might not be as ambitious or disturbing as the vision presented in the film - and why that's a good thing:

"We almost see ourselves more as the creators of a primitive part of the electrical grid, back there in the distance, and we’re trying to tap the creative genius of our creator community, which is really the real engine that works with us to power our part of the metaverse."

Humans and machines will clock the same work hours by 2025 (and other startling findings from the World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of Jobs 2020’ report).

This startup has created avatars for 1000s of celebrities. Now its tech is open to the public.

Genies is a leading avatar tech company.

For the past year, the LA-based startup has spun up avatars for thousands of athletes (Russell Westbrook, Victor Oladipo) and celebrities (J-Lo, Offset, Rihanna, and Justin Bieber).

Starting today, everyday users can get into the avatar action.

Genies launches its new software development kit (SDK)

Giphy and Gucci are the company’s first partners. Users across these platforms can now create their own personalized 3D Genie avatars.

Each app will have different functionality:

GIPHY will allow users to access their avatars in GIFs
Gucci will let users dress in -- you guessed it -- digital Gucci gear

Meer info op: https://thehustle.co/why-3d-avatars-are-the-future/

6 flaters bij online events & hoe ze te voorkomen:

1. Why doen we dit ook alweer?

2. Interactie, wat is dat?

3. Slechte content, context of controle;

4. Geen veelzijdig programma verzorgen;

5. Techniek testen, moet dat nog?

6. Geen security screening doen

Learn The Science of Well-Being from Yale University. In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santo

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In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.

1. Impossible Pork redefines pigging out;

2. Toyota's city of the future has no human drivers;

3. New sensors are coming to upgrade your health;

4. Computers are folding like phones;

5. Tech getting less techie and more subtle.

Its promise? To take care of all the mundane tasks employees currently handle, freeing their time to be more creative and perform the work that machines cannot. Today, the emerging technology is used mostly by large enterprises through machine learning and predictive analytics.

Why you should care?

The ability to produce and publish a podcast via Spotify’s app could open up a brand new marketing channel for SMBs and brands with limited resources and budgets.

Podcasts are booming business. Best-selling author and marketing veteran Seth Godin recently reported that 25% of the U.S. population listens to podcasts, on average, for six-and-a-half hours per week.

“There is no other medium I am aware of that has grown at that pace with the exception of browsing the internet,” said Godin during his podcast on the topic (aptly titled “Meta”).

The only way to make smart assistants really smart is to give it eyes and let it explore the world.

De Toekomst

Slimme spraakassistenten en livechat spelen straks een grote rol in het dagelijks leven. Zorg als organisatie dus dat je er op tijd bij bent. Tijdens Voice Marketing & Chat in 1 Day hoor je hoe je dit kan aanpakken...

1. Digital Surfaces Everywhere;

2. Embedded Digital Assistants Become Ubiquitous;

3. Flexible Screens Finally Arrive;

4. The Rise Of Holographics;

5. Car Tech, Wearables, Robots...

Amazon opent eind deze maand een pop-up store in Amsterdam. Onder de noemer Loft for Xmas opent de Amerikaanse e-commercereus tijdelijke winkels in zes Europese steden.

Now there's a whole generation of kids who dream of living out their lives online because of creatives like Muselk, Loserfruit and Crayator.

Eyes are glued to screens as you watch people travel the world, play the games they love, live lavish lifestyles in big houses with their best friends...