From changes in operational thinking to entrepreneurship-driven strategies, here is why prioritizing entrepreneur hires at the highest level of the organization might be a game changer.

In the business world, C-suite is a term used to describe high-ranking executives who are considered the most powerful and influential within an organization. Consequently, they are at the helm of decision-making and strategizing.

Researchers at a startup called Beehex are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass — all with the help of a lab-engineered, plastic-eating bacteria.

Artificial intelligence. Aging populations. The climate crisis. The world is changing more rapidly than any other moment in history, opening the door to both unprecedented volatility and unmatched innovation. The time to prepare for tomorrow’s challenges is now — at an immersive California conference designed specifically to equip future-forward thinkers to lead the charge.

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology have created a solid-state battery that could be used to vastly expand the range of EVs, and it could unlock the ability to use batteries on short-haul aircraft and heavy trucks.

But for now it’s a lab-scale battery cell, about the size of a dime.

I spoke with two of the leaders of the research this week.

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One unexpected side effect of the covid-19 pandemic was that the usually obscure world of health data was brought to national attention. Who was most at risk for infection? Who was most likely to die? Was one treatment better than another? Was getting covid-19 more or less dangerous than getting a vaccine?

Licensed technology powers BullFrog’s bfLEAP™ - one of the most innovative, technologically advanced analytics engines - to streamline therapeutics development GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFRG; BFRGW) ("Bullfrog AI" or the "Company"), a digital technology company using machine learning to usher in a new era of precision medicine, is pleased to announce its worldwide license agreement with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (“APL”) for use of patented technology powering the Company’s bfLEAP™ platform.

BullFrog’s bfLEAP™ platform analyzes drug development data to potentially make life-saving therapies and treatments available to patients more quickly. The patented technology from APL includes analytical models that enable the analysis and interpretation of large, complex, and diverse datasets that may be incomplete and comprise both numerical and categorical data and provide explainable results. The innovative technology, which enables the detection of anomalies, patterns, and relationships, has been shown to perform better than well-known algorithms in benchmarking tests.

Synching your technology and business strategies to enable digital transformation sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s all too easy for them to fall out of alignment. In today’s volatile economic environment, it’s especially important that they don’t.

In January 2015, the newly formed—and grandly named—Future of Life Institute (FLI) invited experts in artificial intelligence to spend a long weekend in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The result was a group photo, a written set of research priorities for the field and an open letter about how to tailor AI research for maximum human benefit. The tone of these documents was predominantly upbeat.

The US lawmakers recently battered TikTok’s CEO about the company’s link to China and safety of users’ data. While the bigger picture was that the data of American people is falling into the hands of foreign countries, the plan regarding data transfer is slightly different in India.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has been a notoriously private person over the years. In a recent interview with GQ, Cook opened up about many things related to his personal life, success, and his path to the top.

One of the most compelling revelations was his decision to come work for Apple at a time when the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. Why did he do it? It shouldn't surprise any of us because it has everything to do with his former boss, Steve Jobs.

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The Voyager 1 space probe was launched some 45 years ago, back in 1977 and is now currently around 14.6 billion miles away. That means it officially entered interstellar space in 2012, taking it around 35 years. But now NASA says they have a theoretical propulsion system that could get a craft there in only 5 years.

Remember when Apple first revolutionized the world with its computers and mind-blowing commercials? And then again when it created the first smartphone almost entirely based on touchscreen--the iPhone? They are just about to do that for the third time.

Apple is now investing heavily in wearables (a type of technological device that you can wear, instead of having to carry it around). But this time it's not a smartwatch or noise-canceling earbuds: Apple is creating the next generation of smart glasses.

An AI-based home screening test to detect oral and throat cancers from saliva samples is now available in the United States with the hope of transforming oral and throat cancer detection.

Based on a technology approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a "breakthrough device," the saliva test can detect early symptoms of oral and throat cancer with more than 90 percent accuracy.

Image: An AI-based home screening test to detect oral and throat cancers from saliva samples is now available in the United States. (CREDIT: Creative Commons)

For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully manipulated small numbers of light particles – known as photons – that have a strong relationship with each other.

That may sound a little obscure, but it's a fundamental breakthrough in the quantum realm that could lead to technology we currently can't even dream of. Imagine lasers, but with quantum sensitivity, for medical imaging.

Image: Artist's impression of photons stimulating a quantum dot. (The University of Basel)

As a father of five kids (ages 7 to 18) and a fiduciary wealth manager with 21 years of experience, I've seen firsthand how your family's money attitude and communication shape your family's future. How you talk about money, how you feel about it and what you say about it leaves an impact for generations. Disagreements over money are one of the leading causes of divorce, and a lack of financial competency leaves your young people unprepared for their financial future. That's why I'm going to help you break the taboo surrounding money talks in your family.

Water filter machines may generate electricity in the future thanks to a new invention by researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

The research team created a cutting-edge membrane that can simultaneously produce continuous energy and deliver drinking water from a variety of water sources, including sewage/wastewater, seawater, and groundwater.

Microsoft has unveiled Kosmos-1, which it describes as a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that can not only respond to language prompts but also visual cues, which can be used for an array of tasks, including image captioning, visual question answering, and more.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has helped popularize the concept of LLMs, such as the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model, and the possibility of transforming a text prompt or input into an output.

Over-the-counter pain relievers, physical therapy, steroid injections -- some people have tried it all and are still dealing with knee pain.

Often knee pain comes from the progressive wear and tear of cartilage known as osteoarthritis, which affects nearly one in six adults -- 867 million people -- worldwide. For those who want to avoid replacing the entire knee joint, there may soon be another option that could help patients get back on their feet fast, pain-free, and stay that way.

Image: Duke researchers have developed a gel-based cartilage substitute to relieve achy knees that’s even stronger and more durable than the real thing. Clinical trials to start next year. (CREDIT: Creative Commons)

I have a good friend who detests making plans. Our small circle of colleagues jokingly refers to him as "Houdini," as he'll seemingly go to any lengths to get out preparing. When it's time to detail our yearly group vacation, for example, he'll come up with the unlikeliest excuses to avoid participating. "I prefer to go with the flow," is the reliable response.

A "biocomputer" powered by human brain cells could be developed within our lifetime, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers who expect such technology to exponentially expand the capabilities of modern computing and create novel fields of study. The team outlines their plan for "organoid intelligence" today in the journal Frontiers in Science.

Image: Thomas Hartung with brain organoids in his lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. CREDIT: WILL KIRK/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY