Darragh Doyle joins Sean Moncrieff live in studio every Tuesday to take a look at what's changing the landscape on the digital frontier. Here's what the two covered today:
- "What's my motivation?" asks Shia
Shia LaBeouf gives an inspirational talk. It's part of a much longer video filmed in front of a green screen last month, in LaBeouf is giving what is probably the most intensive motivational speech of all time.
NPR has published a service to check the likelihood of your job being around in the future. You can go to the website, enter your job and check.
To make their projections, the experts scored jobs across 21 fields on nine possible traits, the four most important being: negotiation, helping others, cleverness and squeezing into small spaces.
Radio announcers are safe - there’s only 1 10.2% chance of them being automated. Writers and authors are also safe - only a 3.8% chance. But barbers have a 79.7% chance of being automated, as do carpenters. Electricians don’t, though with only a 14.2% chance...
The jobs most likely to go include:
- Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
- Postal service workers
- Jewellers and precious stone and metal workers
- Restaurant cooks (apparently a 96.3% chance of being automated)
- Cashiers - 97.1% chance
- Bookkeepers - 97.6% chance
- Fashion models (!)
- Drivers
- Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
- Umpires and referees (98.3% - mention Hawkeye)
- Timing device assemblers and adjusters
- Telemarketers
Mental health and substance abuse social workers appear to be in the clear, with a 0.3% chance of being automated.
- Highbrow - bite-sized email courses delivered to your inbox daily
Highbrow is a subscription service that delivers cool and exciting bite-sized daily courses to your inbox. The whole aim of it is to make you just a little more knowledgeable than you were the day before.
There are 42 courses in Art, History, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, Productivity, Psychology and Science. Some of the most popular courses include:
- Architects who changed the world
- Brief history of Medicine
- Philosophical Ideas that everyone should know
- Science questions everyone should know how to answer
- Pulitzer prize-winning photos and their stories
- Street artists you should know
- Being and Staying productive
- Significant futurists and their ideas
You’ll get an email in the morning teaching you something new for that day. There are no tests, exams or qualifications, just a little piece of learning for you.
- The new Google Privacy Hub
Google has launched a new privacy controls hub which it hopes will make users more comfortable about how their data is collected and used. All privacy settings and options are now found under a ‘My account’ hub, meaning users don’t have to visit each individual Google service if they want to change any settings.
Among the page's new features are two step-by-step guides, Privacy Checkup and Security Checkup, that walk users through their current settings and suggest tweaks to improve privacy and security.
Users can control what kind of personal information is linked to their account, limit or block it from storing location and search data on both desktop and mobile and limit the type of ads they see. It warns that search results won’t be as fast or as accurate if these options are turned off.
- Karma - are you sketchy online?
The new startup, just out of closed testing and out into public beta last week, aims to be an online reputation tracker. It gathers reviews, feedback, and other comments from a wide array of sharing economy sites, crunches it all up, and generates a score that reflects a user’s behaviour. It’s somewhere between Klout and a credit score but for all of your online wheeling and dealing.
The idea of Karma is to take all that time spent building up good standing on one site and allow it to carry over across the web, creating a sort of unified meter for trustworthiness.
- Whether it’s renting a room on Airbnb, leaving your beloved pup with a DogVacay host, or meeting up with someone you met on Craigslist to sell your old iPhone, these transactions can be stressful and your safety may be at risk.
- Karma aims to put your mind at ease.
- Karma collects, compiles, and analyses your feedback and reviews from multiple supported sites and uses it to create a reputation score - your Karma Score.
- A Karma Score makes it easier for you to identify with whom you want to transact and vice versa. Worrying about selling your old items on Craigslist is now a thing of the past!
Supports websites like Airbnb, Craigslist, eBay, Etsy, Facebook. LinkedIn and Twitter.
Want to feel old? Enter your date of birth and find out a lot more than you might actually want to know.
For example, today I learned that I am 13,438 days old - the New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, and Isabelle Furham, the actress from Orphan both add up to my age today.
The total number of candles on all my birthday cakes so far is 666. The moon has orbited the earth 492 times since I was born. And I have taken approximately 305,507,161 breaths in total.
When I was born there were approximately 4,344,470,653 other people alive - there’s now 7.3bn. It tells me I’ll be 20,000 days old on 13 May 2033.
How old are you?
- FatFingers - eBay spelling mistakes and typos
Thousands of items are listed on eBay with spelling mistakes. These often end with no bids as no-one can find them. Type in a search word and click find to uncover these hidden gems…
Perfect for anyone who loves the thrill of getting the first bid at a bargain on eBay. Cameras, Computers, Playstations, tablets, tables - all great finds at great prices.
- Runpee.com - when is the best time to run and pee in a cinema?
Because movie theatres don’t have pause buttons, the RunPee app will give you a list of up to four moments in each movie you're watching when you can run and pee. They also let you know if there is anything during or after the end credits that you should stick around for. No more waiting around for 10 minutes for nothing.
In addition the RunPee app gives you a synopsis of the first three minutes of most movies just in case you’re running late. It’s super hard to find PeeTimes in good, well-edited movies. But they don’t want to leave you with nothing. So sometimes the PeeTimes are simply spots in the movie that can be easily summed up, so you won’t be lost when you get back.
So, for example, for Mad Max: Fury Road, there are three (spoiler-laced, so allow Max to wave you on if you don't want to know) pee times:
- 48 minutes into movie = 4-minute Peetime
When to go: Furiosa (Charlize Theron) says, "Fine, when I yell *Fool* you drive out of here as fast as you can."
- 66 minutes into movie = 4-minute Peetime
When to go: A man says, "Joe, your girl is breathing her last." Joe asks, "What about the child?"
- 74 minutes into movie = 4-minute Peetime
When to go: Max (Tom Hardy) asks, "What is this?" The woman replies, "It's mother's milk."
- Game of Thrones is finally something to get excited about
After a relatively lacklustre season so far, episode eight, which aired on Irish TV last night, was perhaps one of the best episodes ever in the series. And we know you’ve been wondering what the Game of Thrones Cast singing the song “I’m So Excited” would sound like. Now you don’t have to wonder any more!
