7 Questions To Test Your Financial Literacy

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Did you know that April is Financial Literacy Month? With taxes fresh on your mind and spring cleaning in the air, it’s as good a time as any to brush up on your financial literacy. After all, as we’re required to make more and more financial decisions, financial literacy is becoming almost as important as being able to read and write.

So where should you start? While you can literally read entire books about financial planning, I’ve repeatedly come across several common misunderstandings that can lead to big financial mistakes. To test your financial literacy, see how well you answer the following questions...

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Video: How artificial intelligence can help doctors diagnose illness

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IBM's Eric Brown explains how 'Watson' and other supercomputers can help hospitals improve health care.

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The future of the internet is intelligent machines

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Thanks to the internet, almost anything consumers might want is just a click away. But for businesses, the gains have been much less dramatic. That is about to change, with the arrival of the Imdustrial Internet.

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Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Artificial Intelligence

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There is no more powerful concept in futurist writings then the notion of artificial intelligence. The ability for humans to create machine-based life that thinks on its own and acts on its own has the potential to make our lives dramatically better - or worse, depending on what kind of science fiction you read. But getting there won't be easy.

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Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter

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Whether you're trying to survive an intensive college schedule or just want to seem smarter in front of your friends, you can do a lot of things to both look and be smarter. Here are ten simple tricks for boosting your real (and perceived) brain power.

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5 Steps to a Smarter You

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I’ve written before about the importance of relationships and networking for successful women entrepreneurs. But it’s not just who you know. Sometimes, it really is what you know—or how you react to what you don’t know.

I have been lucky enough to meet some pretty incredible businesswomen through my research, my job, and my work as a member of Astia’s Board of Trustees. These entrepreneurs have out-innovated and out-performed the competition so well, so consistently and confidently, that it can be easy to forget that they’re mere mortals. They don’t actually know how to do everything when it comes to business. What sets them apart is not their smarts and capabilities. Instead, they’re distinguished by how they react when they don’t know something.

Not one of these women were born knowing how to get funding, start a business, grow a business, answer to a board, or to face failure head-on. When I talk to successful women entrepreneurs about their trajectories, I hear the same types of comments over and over: “I had no business starting a business,” or “I had no idea what I was doing; I just had to figure it out.”

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The history of business intelligence

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Since 1958, there has been an increase in the need for business intelligence. It’s nothing new, but in recent years it’s been much more important as the data is finally reaching the ability to display and track it.

This graphic depicts the history as it has happened over the last 54 years.

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Can computers have true artificial intelligence?

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Is it possible to create true artificial intelligence and, if so, how close are we to doing so, asks mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy.

It was while I was making my last BBC TV series, The Code, that I bumped into a neuroscientist I knew.

"Have you heard the news about Watson?" he asked me.

I wasn't quite sure what he was referring to. A new release of Sherlock Holmes? I looked confused.

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Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades

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Contrary to popular belief, Einstein wasn't a bad student at all. Apparently, that's something that real bad students made up, because he got excellent grades. His certificate of qualification for university matriculation—what in Europe is called A-levels—demonstrates this.

The fact is that Einstein was a brilliant student since he was a little kid. He had a problem with authoritarian teachers all his life, however. One example: when he was only five, he threw a chair to his tutor because he couldn't stand his style.

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5 Intelligent Website Designs

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There are some great websites emerging that have been built using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript and really show off what the web is capable of. Why settle for a traditional layout when you can stand out with a website like one of these:

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