When not to reward whistleblowers
The use of whistleblowing to challenge teacher absence in the developing world is worth considering, but its effectiveness can be dampened by offering monetary rewards for reporting absent colleagues, according to a field experiment conducted by Stef.....»»
Researchers develop metrics to quantify information in animal responses to reward feedback
Daily life is full of choices. How humans and other animals decide to allocate tiime and effort across competing priorities has fascinated researchers for decades. Psychologists have found that most animals allocate their time among options in propor.....»»
The Facebook Papers may be the biggest crisis in the company"s history
Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and wide-ranging crisis in the company's 17-year history......»»
African grey parrots may have better self-control than macaws
African grey parrots may be better able than macaws to delay gratification—rejecting an immediate reward in favor of a better one in the future—according to a study published in the journal Animal Cognition......»»
Creator of the Evolved Apes NFTs absconds with $2.7 million
Evolved Apes is a collection of 10,000 NFTs for sale on marketplace OpenSea. The pitch was that, in addition to owning the NFTs, they could be used in an Evolved Apes fighting game in which owners battle each other with winners taking Ethereum reward.....»»
NASA watches water to help grow our groceries
Every day—up to thirty times a day, in fact—one of Mark Mason's employees at Nature's Reward Farms in Monterey County, California brings him the results of a soil test for discussion......»»
Microsoft Envisions a Blockchain-Based Bounty System to Catch Pirates
A new paper (PDF) published by Microsoft's research department proposes to tackle piracy with a blockchain-based bounty system titled "Argus." The system allows volunteers to report piracy in exchange for a reward. It uses the Ethereum blockchain and.....»»
Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
The anonymous hacker has returned almost all the money, but claims not to be interested in reward......»»
Fight Piracy With a Blockchain-Based Bounty System, Suggest Microsoft Researchers
TorrentFreak reports: A new paper published by Microsoft's research department proposes to tackle piracy with a blockchain-based bounty system titled "Argus." The system allows volunteers to report piracy in exchange for a reward. It uses the Ethere.....»»
An anonymous hacker stole $600 million in cryptocurrency, then gave it back
An anonymous hacker who stole more than $600 million from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network this week has returned virtually all of the money — and apparently turned down a half-million-dollar reward offered by the company for exposin.....»»
YouTube’s $100 million Shorts Fund to challenge TikTok goes live
YouTube earlier this year announced its plans to significantly invest in original creator content for its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, with the introduction of a $100 million YouTube Shorts Fund. The fund will reward creators for their most en.....»»
US Offers $10 Million Reward for Info on State-Sponsored Hackers Disrupting Critical Infrastructure
The US State Department has announced today its intention to offer rewards of up to $10 million for any information that helps US authorities identify and locate threat actors "acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government" tha.....»»
Facebook hopes $1 billion investment will lure content creators to its platforms
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent Facebook post that they want to build the best platforms for creators to make a living, so they’re setting aside over $1 billion to “reward creators for great content they create on Facebook and Instagram thro.....»»
Eating disorder behaviors alter reward response in brain
A new study found that eating disorder behaviors alter the brain's reward response process and food intake control circuitry, which can reinforce the behaviors......»»
Hotels offering rooms to homeless in pandemic reap reputational reward
Hotels that opened their doors to homeless people in their community during lockdown generated greater positive word-of-mouth marketing than those that offered free accommodation to frontline healthcare workers, finds new university research......»»
YouTube announces a $100M fund to reward top YouTube Shorts creators over 2021-2022
YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals. The company today introduced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million fund that will pay YouTube Shorts creators for their most viewed.....»»
Coming Home: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission to Begin Return from Deep Space
Robotic spacecraft begins its two-year voyage to bring back 300-gram soil sample from asteroid Bennu It’s a good thing robotic spacecraft are not sentient, because if they were, they would probably hate us. Their reward for a job well done ha.....»»
Buy AAPL, suggests Wedbush, suggesting tech stocks could climb 25-30% by year end
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives has said that now would be a good time to buy AAPL, naming it as the best investment among tech stocks that could climb 25-30% by the year end. Wedbush recommends three tech stocks that offer a “compelling risk/reward&.....»»
Why VW went all-in on ‘Voltswagen" ruse
At some point internally, top management decided that the risk of misleading reporters and the public — again — was worth the potential reward. And they might be right......»»
Carried with the wind: Mass migration of Larch Budmoth to the Russian High Arctic
Arctic habitats have fascinated biologists for centuries. Their species-poor insect faunas, however, provide little reward for entomologists—scientists who study insects—to justify spending several weeks or even months in the hostile environments.....»»
CarMax plans bonuses for 22,000 employees to reward pandemic efforts
The nation's largest used-vehicle retailer said the bonuses were going to more than 80 percent of its employees......»»