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A croupier waits for gamblers at a table inside the Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore April 27, 2010. Reuters/Pablo Sanchez There's been an uptick in retail investors checking into gambling treatment centers. Treatment can be limited, as clinicians often don't understand the condition or the stock market. That's left some addicted traders discouraged – […]
RELATED STORIES Carrie’s mission of peace in Afghanistan got a rude awakening this week on Homeland, thanks to not one but two (!) kidnappings. We pick up right where we left off, with Carrie gawking at Yevgeny as he leaves the Afghan VP G’ulom’s office. G’ulom refers to Yevgeny and his intelligence cohorts as “businessmen,” […]
This is a preview of a research report bundle from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about Business Intelligence, click here. Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a part of the future of technology. AI is the future of technology. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have even publicly debated whether or not […]
Enlarge (credit: Jonathan Lee, Duke University) Twenty years ago, the neuroscientist John E. Dowling wrote a book about the brain called Creating Mind. Since then, our understanding of cellular neurobiology and even systems neuroscience has exploded. So Dowling decided to update his book. Yet our understanding of the mind has not exploded apace with our […]
Half of oncologists who recommended marijuana did so without feeling they had sufficient knowledge of the drug. https://media.wired.com/photos/5af36b4a65806b269bfe8e44/master/pass/marijuana-522464999.jpg
THE aftermath of the 2007-08 financial crisis ought to have been a moment of triumph for economics. Lessons learned from the 1930s prevented the collapse of global finance and trade, and resulted in a downturn far shorter and less severe than the Depression. But even as the policy remedies were helpful, the crisis exposed the […]
This is a preview of a research report bundle from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a part of the future of technology. AI is the future of technology. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have even publicly debated whether or not that […]
Two of Microsoft’s key pre-built AI services for developers were made generally available today, so that it’s easier for businesses to build chatbots and other services that use language understanding. Azure Bot Service and the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) are both generally available through the tech titan’s Azure cloud platform. Bot Engine, as the […]
GUEST: Voice is becoming a primary interface. It’s in many of the technologies we use on a daily basis, like our home appliances, cars, and mobile apps. We can turn off the lights, order takeout, buy our weekly groceries, or listen to our favorite albums, all by using one of the most natural interfaces of […]
GUEST: One of the most well known tropes in startup and tech culture is that your business is only as good as the team behind it. You can’t do anything without having a strong team, and the most important job for every manager is to hire quality talent that fits into the preexisting team dynamics. […]
