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You can find videos of different versions of the marshmallow test all over YouTube. They're hugely entertaining. As with Mischel's original study, some kids eat the marshmallow immediately, cramming it into their mouths with unabashed delight. Others try to find a handy distraction: covering their eyes or kicking the desk. Some children poke at the marshmallow with their fingers, sniff it, lick it, or take tiny nibbles around the edges. My personal favorite is a little girl who participated in a re-creation of the study with children in Colombia by motivational speaker Joachim de Posada. She carefully ate just the inside of the marshmallow, leaving the exterior intact, in hopes of fooling the researchers into thinking she had resisted temptation. ("I predict she will be successful, but we will have to watch her," Posada joked.) … [Read more...] about Forget the marshmallow test; this could be the real secret to kids’ future success

Software-based biometrics to fuel smartphone payment growthSage: Get ready for a new era of paymentsVisa jumps the contactless payment shark with its new sunglassesVisa was looking to focus on the future of transportation at MWC - how are your technologies helping enable this?Payments lie at the heart of every form of travel, and will continue to become more integral as cities continue to grow and infrastructure becomes more strained. One example of how Visa is helping address this is contactless technology,  It’s already helping to reduce the need for traditional tickets or travel smartcards and therefore reducing the operating costs for cash acceptance, making it faster and easier for consumers to ride on mass transit while making it less expensive for operators to run their network. … [Read more...] about Visa: how smart payments will drive our digital future

"I would argue it's the opposite," Masters responded. "We know we're here. We know humans exist. We know that we've had a long evolutionary history on this planet. And we know our technology is going to be more advanced in the future. I think the simplest explanation, innately, is that it is us. I'm just trying to offer what is likely the most parsimonious explanation." … [Read more...] about UFOs May Be Piloted by Time-Traveling Humans, Book Argues

In the new study, researchers found that after Jolie Pitt's announcement, 92.6 percent of women in the study said they knew that breast reconstruction was an option after a mastectomy, up from 88.9 percent who said the same in a poll that was done shortly before her announcement. [Breast Cancer: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention] … [Read more...] about ‘Angelina Effect’ Is Real: Actress Raised Breast Surgery Awareness

SEOUL: Samsung Display, a flat-screen supplier to Samsung Electronics Co, will invest nearly $500 million to build a new factory in India, media reports said, citing a regulatory filing. The South Korean company told Reuters that it was considering building a factory in India, without elaborating further. The new factory will be built in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, according to reports by tech website TechCrunch and Indian newspaper The Economic Times. Noida is also home to Samsung Electronic's phone factory. The new display plant will help Samsung Electronics secure local supplies of one of the most expensive parts of a smartphone, at a time when the tech giant is struggling to fend off competition from Chinese rivals. Samsung, the No.2 smartphone seller in India after Xiaomi , saw its market share drop to 20% in the country in the third quarter, from 25% in the preceding quarter, according to data from research firm Counterpoint. Smaller Chinese rivals Vivo and … [Read more...] about Samsung may give $500 million boost to make-in-India