People in Asia already trust robots enough to let them take care of their loved ones and deliver the evening news. Meanwhile, a hitchhiking robot's world tour successfully passed through Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, but the American leg of the journey was cut short when it was decapitated and beaten to death in Philadelphia.

Yes, we humans are an unpredictable and diverse lot. And inevitably, different regions of the world are bound to perceive artificial intelligence in different ways. Here is how five countries are incorporating robotics into their cultures... On their own terms.

A Bethlehem venture capital firm is among four firms sharing $5.5 million in funding being released by the New PA Venture Capital Investment Program.

The money is coming from the returns from previous backed investments made by the state-backed program, which invests in early-stage businesses.

Activate Ventures, which is located on Research Drive in Bethlehem received $2.5 million.

Glenn Bressner, managing partner of Activate Ventures said the fund focuses on early-stage business ideas.

Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. It’s more than providing recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Sometimes you have to manage progress, not people.

They should focus on serving the students they have, says an Urban Institute scholar, instead of just drawing from the ranks of the well-prepared.

The pace of technological change is rendering many job activities — and the skills they require — obsolete. Research by McKinsey suggests that globally more than 50% of the workforce is at risk of losing their jobs to automation, and a survey by the World Economic Forum suggests that 42% of the core job skills required today will change substantially by 2022. In this landscape of constant disruption, individuals, companies, and governments are fighting to ensure they have the skills to remain competitive.

At malls across America, amid Gucci, Saint Laurent, and Neiman Marcus storefronts, shoppers maybe surprised by something new: co-working. Industrious, a co-working company and custom office purveyor, is setting up shop at Short Hills mall in New Jersey Mall and Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek, California.

Startup ecosystems are the key to growing a vibrant regional economy. Time and time again, these clusters of talent and science drive job creation, new business formation, and attract investment capital. Ultimately, these are the elusive ingredients that lead to greater prosperity and equity in our communities. The Amazon HQ2 opportunity was a wakeup call for many business and civic leaders. Despite all the applications from smaller and mid-size cities, Amazon chose to invest in two metro superstars: New York and Washington, D.C (and the company wound up pulling out of plans for the New York headquarters).

It’s been 10 years since the last recession and Brian Rich, managing partner of growth equity firm Catalyst Investors and secretary of the NVCA’s Executive Committee, has some advice for venture-backed and growth firms about recession-proofing their businesses. Rich doesn’t ...

At AURP's BIO Health Caucus, we will explore trends in life science research, opportunity zone funding resources, the marriage of life science and philanthropy in global partnership opportunities. Discover the unique roles that biomedical innovation cluster and research parks play in innovation ecosystems around the globe. Translating discoveries from the lab to the market has never been more important. Connect with AURP at booth #3955 or One-on-One Partnering!

Say your startup has an on-call rotation that follows the sun. Someone’s always on. One day, a member of your team gets an alert that disk space will run out on the primary PostgreSQL server in two hours. An hour later, he gets another page. Then thirty minutes later, disk space runs out and your entire site goes down. For 18 hours. The silver lining is that your two-tier architecture can keep your site and app online, but the backend of your business has come to a halt. Your CTO is furious. He says you must fire the engineer who was on call to make a point.

A new analysis of global fishing data has found the world’s fishing fleet doubled in size over the 65-years to 2015 but for the amount of effort expended the catch fell more than 80 per cent.

Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study by researchers from the University of Tasmania and CSIRO found the global fishing fleet grew from 1.7 million vessels in 1950 to 3.7 million in 2015.

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"Eat less and move more." Oh, such simple advice, but is maintaining a healthy weight really that simple? We live in an era of nutritional misinformation and opinions galore. These days, it seems that everyone feels qualified to offer expert advice on diet, exercise and weight loss. With rising obesity rates all around the world, we are constantly searching for approaches to better manage our weight and our health.

North America’s fastest-growing technology conference wrapped up its first iteration in Toronto on May 23 following a four-day showcase of Canadian and international innovation.

The event, previously held in New Orleans and Las Vegas, took over the Enercare Centre in downtown Toronto from Monday through Thursday, and featured a wide range of speakers, from actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen to the founders of Hootsuite, Shopify, Twitter and many more. The keynote stage also played host to the leaders of all three levels of government.

Image: Collision speaker Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: ‘We need to ... draw in the best and the brightest from around the world.’ SAM BARNES / COLLISION / SPORTSFILE/COLLISION

The 2018 municipality population estimates indicate a general decline in the annual growth rate over the past year compared to that of the last eight years. Among the 37 municipalities (including Honolulu, see Note 1) with at least 500,000 residents, the population grew 0.39 percent, down by more than one-half from the annual rate since the 2010 US Census (0.88 percent). Critically, this measures not metropolitan populations but those of cities (municipalities) within metropolitan areas.

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Exploding student debt and increased competition have made earning a bachelor’s degree a less likely path to financial security, Bloomberg reports. While more Americans than ever have the four-year degree — about one-third — they made less last year in real terms than in 1990, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey. While eight in 10 baby boomers say the value of their degrees outweighed its cost, only half of those under the age of 30 felt the same.

Allison Britz, lead marketing specialist on the Events Operations team at Deloitte, has recently opened up about her struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in her book, “Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD.” Britz spoke candidly with Ladders about her mental health issues and how Deloitte has handled mental health in the workplace in ways that help her excel in her career while keeping her OCD symptoms in check. Here are seven ways that employers can help improve the conversation around mental health in the workplace.

No, this post isn't about gender identity—it's about how arbitrary I find the labels "female entrepreneur" and "woman entrepreneur."

People like to create two categories for business owners: entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs. I have never understood why the two have to be separated.  Haven't we reached the point in our society where we've stopped delineating between the capabilities of each gender? (Watch the videos in the Always' #LikeAGirl campaign for tear-jerking examples.) Can't we just focus on the subject of entrepreneurship without breaking it down further?

Most people think the focus of economic development is on bringing in new businesses and new jobs.

As unemployment rates plunge and competition for millennial workers increases, this has led to an increasingly important question: Who fills those jobs? And how do you convince them to stay?

Recruiting talent has become a much bigger piece of the economic development puzzle. More managers are seeing that jobs now follow people, not the other way around.

Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. The challenge is to adequately define leadership in terms of everyday activities. Most entrepreneurs believe they are leaders, even though the feedback I get from their team and partners may indicate otherwise.

Does crowd psychology impact markets? Do our diets change when politics and finance dictate agriculture? Do such questions influence investment decisions? Some of India’s venture capitalists speak to BloombergQuint on books that have inspired them.

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