Hints and tips:
...It takes a good deal of emotional dexterity but the answer is to offer higher returns for much-needed capital spend — and to fund it through the only means possible higher bills....
...But even the biggest admirers of Jobs have been compelled to admit they underestimated or misunderstood the qualities Cook has brought to the job, from supply chain expertise to diplomatic dexterity....
...Today’s executive women, Lublin writes, are more aggressive in pursuit of their career goals and manage work/life conflicts “with far more aplomb and dexterity than I had expected”....
...Their dexterity [is different] — they can’t button buttons, they can’t zip zippers. So we created magnets for buttons, Velcro for zippers. It wasn’t rocket science. But nobody was doing it....
...She argues for increasing the digital dexterity of employees by providing shorter, more snackable learning programmes in formats that appeal to the younger generation, such as YouTube videos and podcasts...
...The crayfish arrive, fat and livid red, next to the deep-fried salt cod with ketchup; two opposite levels of dexterity are required for eating, crayfish not being the easiest things to shell....
...“Our long-term goal is to make robots that have mobility, dexterity, perception and intelligence comparable to humans and animals, or perhaps exceeding them; this robot is a step along the way.”...
...that sophisticated mobile robotic systems that register and respond to their environment can raise productivity by taking on the heavy and mundane activities, leaving delicate tasks that need judgment and dexterity...
...More than 100,000 people have already enrolled on studies — including 10,000 with Parkinson’s disease who have volunteered iPhone measurements of their dexterity, balance, gait and memory....
...It seems that even when you employ robots as staff, there is still a risk they will have the mental agility and manual dexterity of Laurel and Hardy. Alexander Gent...
...As Paul Krugman has pointed out before, if we increasingly depend on entities which match us in terms of skill, dexterity, intelligence and physique, we may develop emotive attachments with them whether...
...“It’s not hard to find a job at the moment so long as you’re not lazy,” says Yi Tao, a 29-year-old migrant worker from Sichuan province, who has just passed TAL’s manual dexterity test, enabling him to get...
...Artificial intelligence researchers do not see the barrier in principle to robots developing higher reasoning powers, or the kind of physical dexterity that humans possess....
...It is the newest robot on the block designed to speed up automation in factories by taking on tasks that once relied on humans’ manual dexterity and good eyesight....
...Despite Mr Sarao’s claims of manual dexterity, the affidavit claimed that in the nine months before the flash crash, he had sought and received assistance from an independent software company in customising...
...Jobs that demand visual perception and dexterity — nurses, janitors, waiters — are relatively safe....
...They are not as adept, robotics researchers say, at tasks that require judgment, dexterity, or working in conjunction with a human assistant....
...Analysis then indicated that Ukraine was the likely primary target of Snake – an operation of a sophistication and dexterity that experts believed could only be executed by an extremely well-resourced, state-backed...
...They are just a few of a new robot generation that has been unleashed from the safety cage to work shoulder-to-shoulder with factory workers, taking on tasks that once relied on humans’ manual dexterity...
...In an industry aching for consolidation, however, the question is whether the players have the dexterity to get deals done....
...But the telecoms and accountancy groups arguably valued Mr Woods’ clean-cut personal brand as much as his dexterity with a club....
...Sleight of hand, says the Oxford English Dictionary, is a display of dexterity, especially a conjuring trick. Investors must be sure to distinguish between skill and subterfuge....
...Amazon’s non-retail dexterity reached a new level last month when the Seattle-based company unveiled a Kindle-branded tablet computer, the Fire, to rival the iPad....
...But such web-connected TVs in general have been too smart for their own good to date – for example, the 80-button Sony remote control for its Google TV sets demands a dexterity that even those familiar with...
...The waiting media – about 150 reporters at the last count – will be squashed onto the balcony above the main hall, willing on the counters to new feats of dexterity....
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