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Tech giants explore uncharted territories to diversify, chase growth

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Big tech companies like Apple and Facebook are diversifying out of their comfort zones into new businesses to ensure growth...

Business Technology

Ride sharing services create secondary business opportunities

Pat Rabbitte11 months ago

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Ride sharing isn't just about sharing space in a car with a total stranger, but a whole slew of secondary...

Business

What content owners need to consider when choosing between ad-based and subscription-based models

Dan Goikhman11 months ago

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Not too long ago, people used to have all of their music stored on massive hard drives, or on their...

Business

3 Counterintuitive Strategies for Achieving and Sustaining Growth

Carolyn Andreason3 years ago

Every organization loves the idea of growth. Top executives discuss it constantly. People write books or make a living lecturing...

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

Suicide impacts us all. Whether it is from someone we know personally, to a well-loved celebrity, losing someone to suicide is never easy. According to Save.org, Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US for all ages, with one death occurring every 12 minutes.

In our society, we want to do all we can to help those suffering from suicidal thoughts to get the help they need, however, identifying symptoms before an attempt is made can be difficult. In this episode, we will look at how predictive AI us being used to stop suicide before it happens.

To discuss this topic I am joined by two guests. My first guest is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr.Colin Walsh. In addition to Dr.Walsh, I am also joined by the CEO of Behavioral Signals, a pioneer in emotion AI for speech recognition technology, Rana Gujral.

And for our Neuron to something piece, we will look at a recent study that analyzing emotions triggered by events such as losing a phone or someone else holding it.