Michael Weitz and Abigail Tenembaum, founders of Virtuozo, coach everyone from TED speakers to CEOs to express their message effectively."Even the same audience is different at 9am on a Monday than it is after a long day of presentations at 5pm."That might mean throwing aside the PowerPoint, or adding in a personal anecdote if your message can go off-script."If you ask attendees of TED talks what drives them crazy, it's when speakers talk like they're reciting a memorised text," says Weitz."If you speak fast in a low voice, your impact will not be what it could have been.""Most people will put their foot on the accelerator," says Weitz.

the car unions fear the government's new climate and energy strategy, to raise their own car use costs and the movement of the price in the first place.automobile association welcomes the government a new energy and climate strategy aims to reduce particular emissions from road traffic.at the Same time, however, it is afraid of reform to raise their own car use price.the strategy, the goal is to get to transport at least 250 000 electric cars and 50 000 gas cars by 2030"When taking into account the climate impact, undertaken by the government of fuel and vehicle tax increases, planned toll and now used energy price level, so the horizon is all movement, and in particular private car use cost increases", the automobile association to write a newsletter.It is concerned about how this will affect the household activity-and corporate activity, as well as through Finnish livelihood and standard of living.

The Star Wars universe is packed with evocative locations, from the desert planets of Tatooine and Jakku in The Force Awakens, to the frozen environs of Hoth, the Cloud City of Bespin, the entrancing lakes of Naboo and the volcanic nightmare of Mustafar.Tatooine's binary suns in A New Hope - Kepler-16b"If there's a bright centre to the universe, you're on the planet that's farthest from," says Luke Skywalker in A New Hope.Actually, it's our solitary Sun that's the odd one out here; astronomers reckon that about 80% of stars are multiple-star systems, which means that worlds with two, three or even seven sunsets are the norm.Multiple star systems are everywhere you look; next time you're outside in clear night skies, look north to find the second star in from the tip of the handle of the Plough/Big Dipper and you'll notice that it's an obvious double star.However, the bigger star Mizar is actually four stars while smaller star Alcor is two, all gravitationally bound.

the Parliamentary social affairs and health committee of the basic income experiment to be significant, the committee on line in his report.according to the committee on basic income tax free and earnings independently of the underlying create a significant economic incentive to find employment.the Committee notes that the government's proposal in the explanatory memorandum to deal with all the basic income effect of the experiment involved a person on social security.the Committee believes that it is necessary that the experiment involved are clearly informed of the basic income of the potential impact of his social security benefits: it is particularly important to inform its impact on income support.the Committee also considers it important that the experiment's effects will be evaluated, not only the employment of quantitative indicators but also qualitative, subjective well-being describing the instruments.Qualitative research can be, inter alia, determine whether to try a target group among the more than employment and economic activity related to the activity, whether it is increasing their participation in society and contribute whether it's their autonomy, their empowerment, it said.

(As for the rest of us, we find your lack of faith disturbing.)Loving Star Wars can be misunderstood as simplistic: the love of a sci-fi trilogy – of Empire aside – debatable greatness, and a prequel trilogy infamous in its mediocrity.I remember adoring the Knights Of The Old Republic games with their sheer volume of lore: wise-cracking robots, sleek spaceships piloted by brave rogues, traitorous Sith Lords.And it’s being a kid with my friends, our imaginations fired by a galaxy far, far away."Leia was a role model – a strong lady who doesn't take any BS and leads an army to freedom.me interested in SF which is a big passion to this day, and it got me to bond with my father.

the Post shared so far every weekday in the same way.the Post, according to decision of distribution of days of reform initiation has been moved to the summer, when the originally planned changes should come into force early in the year.the Reform of the distribution of the rhythm of the different days so that Tuesday will not be shared, inter alia, letters or magazines, if you start the week the shipments have been distributed as early as Monday.the Post release, before the reform, the introduction of a correction to the basic distribution of the emerged periodic distribution of the disturbances.Now to reform, the distribution of the number of days remains the fifth business day, and no change impact on early delivery of newspapers or packages in the distribution.

Similarly, in the B2B world, artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive technologies represent a disruptive shift that’s forcing companies to reimagine how they operate.With that in mind, here are eight questions everyone is asking about self-driving cars, each of which has an important parallel that helps frame AI’s impact on business and society at large.Google’s self-driving cars have already driven 1,210,676 miles yet, as of July this year, there had only been 14 accidents — all caused by human error, not by the software.Given the fact that around 33,000 people die in traffic accidents in the U.S. every year, and much of blame falls to distracted drivers, there is a huge opportunity to make our roads safer.In the B2B world, very few of our decisions are life or death, but there is still important revenue at stake.When the models are live, someone needs to monitor the impact of any changes and watch for drift in performance to ensure continued accuracy.

the Extra media attention may distort the turn of the year in the start of a basic income results of the experiment, the Coil warns on its website, published the blog text."the Interest is understandable, but in order to try the results are not distorted, the test subjects should not be approached any more than without the experiment.the Research point of view also other media attention can undermine the reliability of the results", the Coil write.basic income experiment the primary objective is to study the basic income effect of the experiment on the selected group of the population employment and labour market behaviour, the Reel report.in the alternative may be to investigate other effects, such as participants ' experience of well-being."As a social scientific research in general, the subject of interest is the basic revenue of the impact on the population level, not the basic income effect of the individual", the Coil specified.

About 8,000 new cars sold to western car Tommi Köninki is a little stumped."in principle, I consider it incomprehensible, if the minister of the Bernese research group really raised the car tax elimination now in January and the executive not happen until almost a year later.This is a direct cost impact to the tax, so changing it would follow a dramatic impact on the entire industry.If the change is seen as a necessary, decision-making should be really fast", Köninki said."I Hope things dealing with regard to that Finnish consumers have hundreds of thousands of new cars, the value of which changes radically if the car tax is removed without proper compensation car track car owners.This could be the whole national economy devastating, because more than half of these cars have been financed with borrowed money."

Users have long complained about performance issues and it sucking up battery and last year Facebook s chief product officer, Chris Cox, took the unusual step of making his staff ditch their iPhones and move to Android until they sorted out the issues.But the problems have remained, and recently they led the Android blogger Russell Holly to dump the app, starting a chain reaction which revealed something rather interesting about the app s performance.Prompted by Holly s revelation that life on Android was better without Facebook s app, Reddit user pbrandes eth tested the app s impact on the performance of an LG G4.They found that when the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps were uninstalled, other apps on the smartphone launched 15% faster.They found similar results when testing for app loading performance.Over the course of a day my Huawei Nexus 6P had 20% more battery.

the accident investigation board has issued a new balcony safety recommendations last summer balcony because of the accident.Last June a woman died after falling from the balcony of the Bay in the centre, while the balcony railing below have been fiber cement board is broken.the accident investigation board recommends that the minister for the environment, to draw up the new guidelines, according to which non-transparent railing construction are required in the same strength and impact resistance than glass under construction.the Railing to keep the ntsb said it takes people pouring into it.

the Government set up by the task force presents in its report the incentive trap of the unloading means and their impact on employment.for Example, rent regulation group combat in its report, stating that "rent regulation is not the right solution for metropolitan high rents and the incentive trap".further report of the working group would, inter alia, the unemployed to a protected portion of the lift combined with the unemployment security basic components of reduction as well as housing assistance and family support of the changes.This can be used to finance cost-neutral at the same time reducing unemployment levels.the Protected portion is currently 300 euros, which means that the unemployed can make a month 300 euros without losing unemployment.according to Preliminary calculations, the unemployment security basic components of a lower level of 50 cents (eur 32.4 million to eur 31.9 eur a day) and corresponding to the protected portion of the growth of 600 euros would be more or less cost neutral measure.

In a sense, we have already become cyborgs, tethered to our external electronic devices, outsourcing to them our memories, our sense of direction, our socialising, our lives.Machines are as limited as humans when it comes to the kinds of sensations they can detect.This month, the collective released North Sense, a small electronic device implanted into the skin to give the wearer a sense of direction.The implant connects the user to Earth s magnetic field, vibrating whenever facing north.This was not another step towards us becoming machines, but towards us becoming more human, co-founder Liviu Babitz told the Creator s Project.This fall, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first ever artificial pancreas, a wireless, out of body device designed to free diabetics from having to constantly adjust insulin levels to keep their blood sugar stable.

In a sense, we have already become cyborgs, tethered to our external electronic devices, outsourcing to them our memories, our sense of direction, our socialising, our lives.Machines are as limited as humans when it comes to the kinds of sensations they can detect.This month, the collective released North Sense, a small electronic device implanted into the skin to give the wearer a sense of direction.The implant connects the user to Earth s magnetic field, vibrating whenever facing north.This was not another step towards us becoming machines, but towards us becoming more human, co-founder Liviu Babitz told the Creator s Project.This fall, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first ever artificial pancreas, a wireless, out of body device designed to free diabetics from having to constantly adjust insulin levels to keep their blood sugar stable.

Samsung is gearing up to launch a new smartphone that uses parts from its ill-fated Galaxy Note 7, which was recalled last year after a series of battery fires.Called the "Note Fan Edition", the company says the new mobile will utilise parts from the 2.5 million recalled Note 7 handsets to minimise the environmental impact of the faulty units.While the handset will share much of its design with the old phone, the South Korean tech giant says it gets a new battery that has been "enhanced with multiple safety designs and a rigorous eight-point battery safety test".This is expected "to calm the fans that the Fan Edition is aimed at", says Alphr, referring to the fault in the design of the original Note 7's battery that resulted in multiple device fires and the recall of every unit sold.The Fan Edition is expected to recover some of the £2.5bn lost as a result of the fiasco, adds the website.It is also believed to be a response to environmentalists who called for Samsung to handle its defective Note 7s using methods that would "reduce the amount of so-called e-waste", reports the BBC.

These changes are especially apparent in archive photos recently uncovered by the New York Public Library.The collection contains prints from 1935 to 1936 by Berenice Abbott, a photographer who documented NYC's transformation over the previous century in her series "Changing New York."Comparing her photos to Google Street View images reveals how the city's public spaces have changed up to today."The bones of the city are still there, but we're good at adapting it for what we want."Jefferson Market Courthouse, 1935 vs 2014.Berenice Abbott/Google/Skye GouldIn 1939, the tracks in front of the courthouse migrated underground with the creation of the subway, bringing more light to the street and increasing the value of the nearby real estate.

For more stories from WIRED's mission-driven businesses package, click here.US-based outdoor-clothing company Patagonia uses materials that either benefit, or cause minimal damage to, the environment.Having been steadily successful since it was founded in 1973, the company has doubled in size, tripled its profits and become a certified B Corp over the past ten years.The company's annual revenues, in excess of $600 million in 2013, have continued to rise, despite - or rather, partly due to - a programme called Worn Wear.Patagonia, still privately owned by its founder, 77-year-old Yvon Chouinard, continues to donate at least one per cent of its annual net revenue to environmental causes, to date totalling $36 million."There is nothing we can change about making clothing that would have more positive environmental impact than making less," she says.

Yesterday, Google was awarded a patent that proposes placing a strong adhesive on the hood of its autonomous cars.This way, pedestrians or cyclists who happen to find themselves being struck by a Googlemobile would be protected from what s called secondary impact.The patent was filed back in 2014 and seems to be designed as a temporary solution to keep the humans around the self-driving cars safe as autonomous technology improves:While such systems are being developed, it must be acknowledged that, on occasion, collisions between a vehicle and a pedestrian still occur.Such safety mechanisms may become unnecessary as accident-avoidance technology is being further developed, but at present it is desirable to provide vehicles with pedestrian safety mechanisms.As for what kind of glue Google is planning to smear across its hoods, it s described in the patent as having some kind of eggshell -like coating over the main adhesive layer so the car doesn t drive around scooping up insects and other small animals like actual flypaper.Nissan s pop up engine hood uses tiny explosives to slightly raise the hood of the vehicle once it senses an impact to help stop pedestrians from hitting their heads.

Ideally, the adhesive coating on the front portion of the vehicle may be activated on contact and will be able to adhere to the pedestrian nearly instantaneously, according to the patent description.Photograph: United States Patent and Trademark OfficeGoogle has patented a new sticky technology to protect pedestrians if – or when – they get struck by the company s self-driving cars.The patent, which was granted on 17 May, is for a sticky adhesive layer on the front end of a vehicle, which would aim to reduce the damage caused when a pedestrian hit by a car is flung into other vehicles or scenery.This instantaneous or nearly-instantaneous action may help to constrain the movement of the pedestrian, who may be carried on the front end of the vehicle until the driver of the vehicle or the vehicle itself in the case of an autonomous vehicle reacts to the incident and applies the brakes.Car companies have already taken steps to protect pedestrians from impact.However, the patent observes, existing technology found in production vehicles does little to mitigate the secondary impact a pedestrian may experience .

But they are not supreme, says Ingvar Matsson, energy analyst at Swedbank. - Now that four nuclear reactors should be closed, so it is quite a considerable part of energy production which must be replaced. So, wind power, and to some extent bio-energy, is probably the closest at hand simply. - Aid plays certainly, but it probably also motivated by the desire to be close to a large and stable electricity market. Germany's the largest single energy market in Europe, and Vattenfall are clear that they want to be there. - New energy in Germany may become especially important now, when you sell a substantial part of its German operations, said Ingvar Matsson as referring to brown coals.