A popular concept in science fiction is the singularity, a moment of explosive accelerating growth in technology and artificial intelligence that rewrites the world. One of the better explanations for how this could happen is described by the Scottish sci-fi author Charles Stross as “a hard take-off singularity in which a human-equivalent AI rapidly bootstraps itself to de-facto god-hood.”

To translate: If an AI is capable of improving (“boostrapping”) itself, or of building another, smarter AI, then that next version can do the same, and soon you have exponential growth. In theory this could lead to a system rapidly surpassing human intelligence, and, if you’re in a Stross novel, probably a computer that’s going to start eating people’s brains.

The singularity still seems to be a long ways off (until we crack Moore’s Law), but at Google I/O, we got a glimpse of our future robot overlords from Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

 

Related Article: Zoolz offers 1TB of cloud storage for life – for under $30

Stack up all the hard drives and flash sticks you want, but online storage space is still a premium commodity. Without some regular attention to storage room on your phone, tablet or laptop, you’ll likely to find stuff clogging up your device.

Rather than slow your tech to a crawl, just start sorting through all the stockpiled videos, images, documents and other low-priority digital content and push it to your 1TB of cloud space from Zoolz Dual Cloud Storage (now just $29 from TNW Deals).

Purchase your piece of cloud real estate, then take a minute to decide whether to store your data in your 500GB of instant access storage or in your 500GB cold storage locker for data you don’t use very often. No matter what you decide, your files are fully protected behind military-grade AES-256 encryption.

Meanwhile, Zoolz also helps keep your system running fast and clutter-free with automatic backup scheduling, bandwidth throttling, icon overlay, file retention, and more.

Using 1TB of cloud storage space for life would normally cost you about $3,600, but while this limited time deal lasts, you can stake out that cloud space for yourself for only $29.

source: https://thenextweb.com/offers/2017/05/27/zoolz-offers-1tb-cloud-storage-life-30/#.tnw_06FQt7n8

Guns and Roses was a constant presence in my yellow Sony Walkman, and later my Jeep Wrangler’s aftermarket CD player. The band’s leader, Axl Rose, was famous (or perhaps infamous) for a great many attributes; but organizational guru sharing advice, he was generally not.

But, as I attempt to transition a company from start-up to a scale up, his words, not Welch’s or Buffet’s or Collins’, ring most loudly in my ears. My personal experiences, captured in four GnR classics, highlight the self-realization needed initiate the scale-up process, the need to focus on fundamentals, the emotional persistence required and the need to take a longer view of what is a difficult and elusive journey.

Like GnR’s music, the scale-up phase is at once frenetic, exhilarating, angst ridden, inspirational, exasperating and satisfying.  So, join me on a quick journey on how to transition a company from a start-up to a scale-up… if you have the “Appetite.”

source: https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/05/27/guns-n-roses-and-scaling-a-company/#.tnw_iUudqQhu

Nearly two decades ago, low-cost airlines barely existed. Today, they account for more than half of total capacity in Southeast Asia, allowing many people to fly for the first time. This boom can be traced back to one charismatic businessman: Anthony Fernandes, better known as Tony.

A former Warner Music executive, Fernandes bought then-ailing AirAsia from the Malaysian government for RM 1 in 2001 and turned it into Asia’s first low-cost airline.

From a company with only two jets, 250 employees, and millions of dollars in debt, he has flown AirAsia to new heights – today, it has 220 planes, employs 20,000 people, and carries 65 million passengers annually. AirAsia has been named the world’s top budget airline for eight consecutive years and this year, it became the first such to get US authorities’ green light to fly to American airports.

It wasn’t a smooth journey. During a recent fireside chat with Catcha Group CEO Patrick Grove, Fernandes shared some of the valuable lessons he learned along the way.

Family Business

“It’s a shame if young brands emerging under the current climate ignore the idea that the future must be greener in order to be brighter,” says Samriddh Burman, Founder of The Burlap People. For the 30-year-old, starting an environmentally-conscious brand and having that brand revolve around jute were both forgone conclusions.

Samriddh’s family has been making and exporting value-added jute bags for over 40 years. Samriddh worked as a marketing executive at his family’s jute firm before moving on to work for a sports travel company. But his passion for environmental sustainability and creativity weren’t being fulfilled in cookie-cutter corporate jobs. So he quit to start up.

source :https://yourstory.com/2017/05/burlap-people/

Picture a new fashion magazine running multiple campaigns across platforms for three months; a mobile recharge company running paid campaigns in the first week of every month across Google AdWords, Facebook, and Twitter; a customised bicycle shop making videos to engage their potential customers, and an e-commerce portal working with a lot of affiliates and getting good conversion.

Now, picture this–being able to check each campaign’s individual performance on each channel, week-on-week, comparing the achievements and failures of each, seeing what the total reach has been, what was the click through rate (CTR), cost per click (CPC) or cost per visit (CPV), to see which keywords are giving the max conversion, which ones are not working even though one is paying a lot for it, the audience retention and cost per view for video campaigns, and ultimately, what one’s return on ad spend (ROAS) is.

Sales Performer

I’m writing this from a bar…that’s floating somewhere over Greenland. I just enjoyed a complimentary 3 course meal with wine, cheesecake, tea, and Baileys to top things off. After lunch, I finished editing my new Pluralsight course while hurtling through the air at 500 miles an hour above the Atlantic, on my way home from speaking at a conference in London.

I wrote this post sitting here:

I feel indescribably lucky to be enjoying this life. Especially given that I didn’t pay a dime for this experience. How?

I spoke for a few hours at a software conference.

I’m not writing this to brag. I’m writing this as an invitation to you.

This opportunity is available to anyone. Five years ago, I had never spoken at a conference. Actually, I’d never spoken to a group of any size, period. Like most humans, I found the prospect of speaking to a crowd terrifying…

source : https://medium.freecodecamp.com/public-speaking-transformed-my-life-and-can-change-yours-too-ca8acdbcc188

Here’s a “must read” book for anyone who has experienced significant loss:  bankruptcy, loss of business, divorce, health challenge, death of loved one, etc…. it’s about how to rebound and heal, emerging stronger and wiser than before with the help of God.

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Theresa Bassett understands these challenges first hand. She’s had every area of her life touched by loss – having experienced the massive loss of a business which led to bankruptcy, divorce (her second), and the loss of her health due to stress-induced illness.  She lost everything she had except, thank goodness, the love of her family and children.  Even her home was ripped away from her.

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Overview

It is vaginal discharge or called Leukorrhea that is one of the most common and sensitive problems of women, particularly at the middle of their menstruation cycles or during the period of pregnancy. Typically and commonly, the vaginal discharge will last from a couple of days to a week. In addition, the vaginal discharge can be thin or thick, in yellow or in white that is different among women. As mentioned, vaginal discharge is a common symptom of women unless it has come with abnormal symptoms such as discomfort, itching, irritation as well as odor … Sometimes; vaginal discharge can lead to changing hormone such as increasing estrogen as well. In this article, we have selected and asked for professional advice to make a special list of home remedies for vaginal discharge

1. Apple Cider Vinegar

It is Apple cider vinegar that has shown up many times in the list of home remedies for health problems including vaginal discharge. In addition apple cider vinegar has been considered as a beneficial home remedy for treating the vaginal discharge or called leukorrhea. Especially for women, apple cider vinegar helps restoring their body’s natural pH balance effectively. Moreover, acidic and antiseptic properties of apple cider vinegar also help restorring the acidic quality of the vaginal flora as well as reducing odor of vaginal discharge remarkably. In addition, methods to apply the apple cider vinegar to treat vaginal discharge are also very easy for anyone to apply. The first method is using apple cider vinegar as a natural vaginal wash. You only need to mix equal amounts of raw and unfiltered apple cider vinegar with clean and distilled water then stir the mixture well. After that, apply the mixture once or twice on a daily basis for a couple of days or until you see the desired results. The second method of apple cider vinegar is drinking the raw and unfiltered apple cider vinegar. You can drink a glass of drinking water mixed with one small spoon of apple cider vinegar once a day. If you have stomach problems, please ask for doctors’ advices before try the method of drinking apple cider vinegar for certain.

2. Cranberry

It is cranberries that consit of antibiotic, antifungal as well as antioxidant capabilities. These capabilities are able to help your body preventing bacteria from attaching to the vaginal wall together with fighting the issues of vaginal discharge or called leukorrhea.To gain the most advantage of cranberry method, you ought to drink the fresh juices of cranberry without adding any sugar or milk from two to three time on a daily basis within a week or until the vaginal discharge is solved completely. Moreover, when you provide your body with cranberry fresh juice daily, not only your vaginal discharge problem will be solved effectively but also your skin and your health will become more beautiful and better. Natural method is always better than unnatural one. However, if you find it challenging and difficult to prepare cranberry fresh juice several times daily, you can ask for doctor advice to take cranberry tablets to treat the problem of vaginal discharge as well.

3. Yogurt

Another effective ingredient which is well known to treat the matter of vaginal discharge is yogurt. In addition, it is high in lactobacillus bacteria that  is able to prevent and cure candida infection being one of the most normal reason of vaginal discharge and vaginal odor as well. Moreover, yogurt also is able to restore and keep your normal vaginal pH level. Once the pH level is balanced, then vaginal discharge matter will be solved effectively. The first method and also the easy one for you to apply is eating from 1 or 2 cups of raw/plain yogurt without adding any sugar on a daily basis. Not only being able to solve the problem of vaginal discharge effectively, this yogurt method is also able to provide your body and improve your health with a large amount of probiotics.

Additional Tips

• Make sure that your whole body is provided with a plenty of water during the whole day. It will help you not only solve the problem of vaginal discharge but also remove a lot of toxins as well as harmful bacterial out of the body.

• Try to avoid consuming refined carbohydrates, caffeine as well as sugary drinks because they have stimulated yeast production.

• If you see any symptom of infection, make sure to solve it well and as soon as possible. Any kind of infection will put you at risk as well as make the problem of vaginal discharge become more and more serious.

• Maintain proper personal hygiene.

• Wear 100 per cent cotton panties which permit air circulation and help keeping the vulva ventilated, hence avoiding excessive perspiration.

• Change pads, tampons as well as  panty-liners regularly after maximum every four hours.