Jeff Sandhu travels to Las Vegas for AWS Re:Invent 2018 as day one saw a new announcements in the areas of how AWS is helping with NGO’s with natural disaster reliefs and obtaining data from space.

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Less than 48 hours after the world learned of the first two, fully-realized CRISPR babies, it seems like what was supposed to be carefully-orchestrated PR might have gone wrong in every way possible, jeopardizing the career of the project’s lead scientist and even prompting accusations of a complete hoax.

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For humans, naps are a built-in feature, not a bug. Scientific research has proven that feeling sleepy between 1 pm and 3 pm is as much the result of biology as it’s the result of a big lunch or a lousy night’s sleep.

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We often think of entrepreneurs as lone wolf mavericks, traversing the world of business on their own. But a survey commissioned by Octopus Group found that 76% of established solo founders believe that a co-founder would have made their business more successful. So is running a business better with a little help from a partner?

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The wildfires in California (among other places) have become a devastating annual affair - causing massive damage and taking lives with every outbreak. Researchers are now looking to machine learning and algorithms to help detect, and possibly end, these fires before they can turn catastrophic in the future.

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As the holiday season approaches, employers have to avoid complacency as employees begin to take holiday time off. Here are seven ways to manage employee holiday leave so that your company remains productive through the holidays.

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The cutting-edge payment method is rapidly becoming so common in Beijing and other large cities that experts have begun referring to the Chinese capital as a prototype of the futuristic cashless society. In 2017, the country saw $15 trillion (paywall) in mobile payments - yet some people still struggle with going cashless.

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The state of the US healthcare system has created a boom in crowdfunded medical campaigns as patients struggle to pay for treatment. In 2017, campaigners raised $930 million through GoFundMe — nearly half of the money raised by the site. Some hospitals have taken notice. In a recent example,  a woman was denied a heart transplant because of the state of her finances, and suggested that she set up a “fundraising effort.”

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As part of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Asean Initiative, a coalition of major tech companies have pledged to train 20 million people in Southeast Asia by 2020 to prepare them for the future.

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This holiday season, take a moment to realise how blessed you really are. (Even if some of those blessings are in disguise.)

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