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Burnout Paradise celebrated its 15-year anniversary this week, on January 22, 2023. Below, we take a look at how the iconic game's unique approach to arcade racing helped set the standard for years to come.Most of the time in an arcade racing game, you see a hot rod screeching down the countryside, with a gorgeous vista in the distance--one that's nothing more than that: a distant setting that you'll never reach. Instead, you have only a single road to follow, with that distant scene serving as window…

Technology is the cornerstone of just about every industry nowadays, and the massive healthcare industry is no exception. Modern healthcare is more advanced than ever, and caring for patients is becoming easier and more effective because of new technologies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on some of the weaknesses the healthcare industry is struggling to improve. A serious issue many healthcare workers are facing right now is burnout — a unique type of job-related stress — and the situation is only getting…

Psychological utility framework: How entrepreneurs proactively derive psychological utility via high work engagement (investing engagement in work offering a positive, energizing, and rewarding JD-R profile job), which also spills over to non-work time. Credit: Journal of Business Venturing (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106272 The number of people struggling with mental problems like burnout and stress is higher than…

6- and 8-point job burnout matches measures. Credit: University of Notre Dame "Job burnout" is a term that's far too familiar to many people. A 2020 Gallup poll showed that 76 percent of employed Americans surveyed have experienced burnout. Perhaps due to the condition's prevalence, the World Health Organization recently reclassified…

Criterion wants to resurrect the long-dormant Burnout series, although it has no immediate plans to do so. READ MORE: The Best Racing Games: All the best driving games on Xbox, PlayStation and PC in 2022 That’s according a Eurogamer interview with Kieran Crimmins, creative director of the developer’s upcoming title Need for Speed Unbound. During a conversation about the studio and the upcoming release of Need for Speed Unbound, Crimmins was asked about the potential for Criterion to return to the Burnout series. Despite…

Creating a compassionate workplace culture involves acknowledging people’s challenges, even related to apparently small matters, in professionally appropriate ways. Credit: Shutterstock We live in tumultuous times which can create an added layer of uncertainty for employees who need to build relationships with students, patients or clients. Providing calm, confident and warm emotional labor can be difficult for people…

ShutterstockResponsible and ethical artificial intelligence has become the hot-button issue of our times, especially as AI seeps into every aspect of decision making and automation. 35% of companies now report using AI in their businesses and 42% are exploring the technology, as reported by ZDNET. The same survey by IBM finds that trust is extremely important -- four in five respondents cite being able to explain how their AI arrived at a decision as important to their business.However, AI is still code -- ones and…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Elon Musk’s plans to revive Vine face one big problem: the reason it closed originally Good news, everyone: Vine is (probably) coming back. The much beloved short-form-video-sharing app ran from just 2012 to 2017, when it was cut off in its prime. Even now, it occupies a special place in many millennials’ hearts as the last glorious stand before the social web became…

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Breakneck speed The rapid pace of artificial-intelligence research doesn’t help either. New breakthroughs come thick and fast. In the past year alone, tech companies have unveiled AI systems that generate images from text, only to announce—just weeks later—even more impressive AI software that can create videos from text alone too. That’s impressive progress, but the harms potentially associated with each new breakthrough can pose a relentless challenge. Text-to-image AI could violate copyrights, and it might be trained…