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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Future? via TechCrunch

  With the fourth industrial revolutionbuilding, we humans are on the brink of a whole new world. Technological breakthroughs are coming faster and faster now, and almost no industry will be left unchanged. Artificial intelligence is already becoming the norm. Virtual assistants and self-driving cars are more common, and we are becoming more dependent. Now is the time…

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Calvin Klein! What About the Children? By wasting 50,000 gallons of popcorn for no good reason, Calvin Klein has shown it is completely out of touch with the majority of the world.

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Another Industry, Another Win for Women The year 2018 is continuing to shape up as the year of women. Even fashion is joining the fight for women’s equality and the destruction of the glass ceiling.

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Weekly news: President Trump’s First State of the Union

As January comes to a close and we enter the second month of the year, partisan and Russian conflict continues to reign supreme in the American press. In Cape Town, however, there are more pressing issues than who’s insulting who – within months, the city will be completely out of water, a situation termed “Day Zero.” Meanwhile tension between Poland and Israel has sprung up due to the Polish…

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This Year’s World Economic Forum From January 23-26, the most innovative people in the world will be meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Over 3,000 leaders from all corners of the globe are coming together for the 48th annual We (World Economic) Forum.

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Your Complete Guide to the 2018 Women’s March Last January, millions of people around the world came together for the first Women’s March. If you weren’t able to make it out last year, here is another chance to show solidarity!

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#MeToo continues to make headlines internationally. While Britain addresses a sexual assault scandal at the annual President’s Club charity dinner, China has begun actively censoring its own #MeToo stories in an effort to avoid social unrest.

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Are Women Held To Higher Standards Than Men?

Recently, the Economist posted an article about the gendered standards in economic writing. However, it is not just women in the field of economics that are held to a different standard than men. Years of studies have proven all women are held to a higher standard, especially ethically and in the boardroom.

more on /www.nazsmyth.co.uk/2018/01/gender-standards/

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Golden Globes and Hollywood

The 75th annual Golden Globes will go down in history as the year all women won. With the red carpet blackout, many stars silently showed solidarity against sexual harassment. However, not all celebrities were so quiet in their celebration. Here is a list of the top 7 moments when women won the night.

  #1. Time’s Up Initiative

  Earlier this year, over 300 celebrities banded together under the…

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President Trump to Attend Davos World Economic Forum

To the surprise of many, President Donald Trump will be attending the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this month. He will be the first president to attend since Bill Clinton, nearly 2 decades ago. The gathering will include over 2,500 economists and politicians from all over the world. The topic, or title, of this year’s meeting is “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World.

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Russia, US, Women Rights World News From North to South America, from Eastern to Western Europe, political movements, technological progress, and individual actions have shaped this week in news.

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First week of January 2018

Well, it’s the first week of the New Year, and 2018’s news doesn’t look much changed from 2017’s. Drama and aggression reign supreme in the Trump administration – both expressed in tweet form.

One of the President’s most recent tweets was aimed to push North Korean buttons – literally, Mr. Trump claimed that his “nuclear button” is bigger and better than Mr. Kim Jong-un’s.

Meanwhile, Mr. Kim…

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Is Payout for Sexual Harassment Simply Another Business Expense? The US Tax Code Says It Is Naz Smyth questioning if Payout for Sexual Harassment Simply Another Business Expense? The US Tax Code Says It Is. Although women in Hollywood were the first to speak up, the #MeToo movement has rattled Capitol Hill. more on 

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2018: The Year of Women

London Mayor Pledges More Gender Equality in 2018

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of women earning the right to vote in the United Kingdom. To celebrate, self-described proud feminist and London Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to make the genders more equal in 2018.

One aspect of his campaign is #BehindEveryGreatCity. This hashtag will be used to highlight the women, past and present, that have…

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Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan

This Thursday, Kabul, Afghanistan suffered an explosion for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility. The bomb went off in a Shiite cultural center, killing over 40 people (as the body count stands, now), and injuring many more.

This is, unfortunately, only the latest in a series of bombings orchestrated by ISIS to target Afghan civilians. In just the past two years there have been over…

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News Roundup Vol:2

Cardinal Bernard Law, Priest and Pariah, Dies at 86

Former Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Bernard Law passed away on Wednesday, December 20th, at the age of 86. Despite the tendency to remember only the best of the deceased, few are willing to give such leeway to Law. (more…)

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The Clash of Feminism and Religion in Canada By now almost everyone has heard of the infamous polygamous Mormon cult called Bountiful. However, Mormons are not the only group using religion to explain bad behavior.