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(I won't go as far as calling it like HBO's robot - violating «Westworld,» but you get the idea.)

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His niche is what he calls the pre-luxury market — the sweet spot between $ 300 and $ 600 — sharing shelf space with brands like Stuart Weitzman and Aquatalia, and once dominated by names such as Cole Haan and Donald J. Pliner, before they were sold and repositioned at a lower price point.

TaskUs, which boasts the tagline «ridiculously good outsourcing,» now employs 5,600 people in the Philippines who perform tasks such as flagging inappropriate content on anonymous social apps like Whisper, photo retouching, online research, and customer service calls.

Home Capital Group has seen some of its riskier lending business drain away to the private, unregulated mortgage lenders — firms like Alpine Credit or the many so - called «mom - and - pop» shops which proliferated as small investors teamed up with brokers to provide short - term, non-amortized loans.

It looks like residents heeded Manley's advice, as Austin's police scanner was reportedly buzzing with calls from residents about such packages.

The so - called «Bos - Wash Landliner» was imagined in the late 1960s as running on air skis (a little like the initial Hyperloop proposal), vacuuming up moving vehicles at 60 miles an hour, and housing everything from a 100 seat theater to a gym.

Defensive stocks, as they're often called, are big players like Coca - Cola or McDonald's — companies that have a lot of customers in sectors that aren't as dependent on good economic conditions to survive.

As with Tinder, scientists who use the app (called «Papr») will be able to swipe left or right based on whether or not they like the, err, prospective paper.

Other ideas, such as high - priority feature requests, should be bucketed into what I like to call «rolling thunder.»

The narrative transportation theory, as it's called, states that people may feel like they have been teleported to the world of their character in a story they can identify with.

But it could be that 2016 is the year that so - called unicorns lose their horns, or become «uni-corpses,» as some financial experts like to quip.

Attend an Open Call where you will be given the opportunity to do a 1 - minute pitch of your business / product / idea to a member of the Casting Team — just like you would as if you were on the show.

That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk, «you're getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for — like other people's conversations and phone calls.

The mountainous «spine» of central California, as Ms. Eggman likes to call it, is very different from the coast: there are more low - income households, higher electricity bills, and more expensive estimates for solar panel installation.

Some call it ultra-violent garbage, while others point to it as a growing art form, like film.

Although the trend would likely be in that direction, he has proven to be a compromiser (and a dealmaker, as he likes to call himself) when it comes to achieving his objectives and for him all options to achieving those objectives (for example, deficit reform) are up for negotiation, including those on the revenue side.

Whereas once it seemed like Facebook could ride out any bad publicity on the strength of its inexorable growth as a business and cultural force, it's increasingly operating in an environment where billionaire technology moguls like Michael Bloomberg and Pierre Omidyar are publicly criticizing it and even calling for it to be regulated.

The popularity of Pokémon Go threatens companies like Foursquare, which has a service called Swarm offering coupons and prizes to customers who «check in» at participating venues, and social e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, which many businesses use as a vehicle to offer discount deals.

The 360 - degree integration allows users to leverage custom keypads and voice - activated controls in order to create lighting and music scenes to their liking, such as a wake up call with accompanying lighting and music scenery.

Just as Snapchat has what it calls «filters» that users can add to their photos and videos — making themselves look like cartoon animals, for example, or producing virtual rainbows that pour out of a person's mouth — Facebook's Camera also has filters, or «lenses.»

My client's situation highlights a truth that I've seen play out over and over again as I coach business leaders to be better speakers and more effective communicators: Speaking is what I like to call a signal skill.

A tool called Baidu Post Bar it a bit like a social - networking application that allows users to tap other folks online for advice or comments as they are searching for, say, the best appliance to buy.

As men like Harvey Weinstein continue to face accountability and justice (or what Allen has called a «witch hunt»), where does Woody Allen fall in Hollywood's historic reckoning?

Another fascinating study recorded physiological reactions like pupil dilation in volunteers as they looked at their Facebook accounts to find that browsing Facebook can evoke what they call flow state, the feeling you get when you're totally and happily engrossed in a project or new skill.

In the future, cognitive video games will be like «Neuro Cross Fit Training» as Gazzaley calls it.

For this reason, traditional training methods are often not as effective for millennials; they want to hear from someone who has been or is in the trenches doing the work, not from a so - called expert, and they don't like a top - down mentality.

NASA described the pyramid - like mountain, called Ahuna Mons, as «mysterious» in a press release issued Monday.

The days of having a secretary juggle your schedule, screen your calls and remember that you like your coffee with Splenda seem as quaint as Don Draper's fedora.

But that was such an obvious call that it was like shooting fish in a barrel, as opposed to fishing.

When President Bill Clinton had a suspicious mole removed in 2001 and saw an increase in his cholesterol level, his doctor said he wasn't in as good of shape as he would like, calling his results «fairly normal.»

It goes like this: first of all, the bank is constantly scanning the horizon for smoke signals, looking for possible incipient trouble in big banks as well as the so - called «shadow banking system» (non-bank institutions that perform some bank - like functions) and trading information with other regulators.

As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

In his blog post, Branson recalls a time when he called up companies such as Coca - Cola and Pepsi to ask if they would like to purchase advertising in his school's magazine.

He also didn't like texting or calling as much as I wanted him to.

«Whenever I make a decision, I like to do what I call a «constructive challenge;» that is, understanding how we got to the recommended option as opposed to the other possible routes.

Unless you work in the media, or have a fascination with things like the mechanics of Javascript calls in publishing software, you might have missed the launch of a Google project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP.

And for some, like Kim, regaining your emotional focus can be as simple as a phone call.

As a business owner, you're used to calling all the shots, so it can be infuriating when the Internet seems like a vast, uncontrollable forum for customers to heap criticism on your company.

He's taken on small roles in TV shows like «Law & Order» and «Stitchers» as well as larger parts in movies like «The Thinning,» which The Verge called «a mess.»

I confess that like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

By requiring users to register their drones the FAA hopes to curb a recent spate of close calls between drones and commercial aircraft as well as incidents like the recent high - profile crash of a photography drone into the stands at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

As growing numbers of TV watchers either cut the cord entirely or opt for what cable providers like to call «skinny bundles,» ESPN's iron grip on viewers and subscribers is being questioned in a way it never has in the past.

Like many small businesses, Fresh was accustomed to what you could call seat - of - the - pants onboarding: There were a few formal procedures, but it was largely an impromptu affair, a sensibility that newbies would figure things out as they went along.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

While there are nods to the next installment of the Call of Duty franchise, theLEGENDofKARL is primarily talking about Activision's new Elite product, described as «like if organized sports and social networking had a baby and they gave that baby a flamethrower.»

But calling this a recovery might get you branded by Icelanders as «very 2007,» a term coined after the crash to describe an overly optimistic view or something ostentatious, like those Range Rovers.

For new or beginner investors, I recommend real estate wholesaling, or as I like to call them, quick flips.

Blush, bubble gum, petal — call it whatever you like, but what we can all agree on is that the light pink hue has been showing up everywhere lately, adopted by the Instagram generation as the go - to shade for clothing, shoes, and accessories.

«National champions, like all corporations,» says a marketing executive who frequents Toronto's so - called Broker's Keg, «belong to shareholders, not all Canadians, as much as we may like to think otherwise.»