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We finally have got a glimpse of Doctor Strange in action.

The movie based on the Marvel character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch and set to open in theaters in November, was shooting scenes in New York City on Saturday and social media became flooded with shots from the set.

Here are a few.

Cumberbatch really looks the part as the brilliant surgeon turned sorcerer.

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On a rainy afternoon in New York, it seems they were shooting an action sequence for the movie.

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Yes, Baron Mordo (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) was there, too.

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Half of American parents have gone into debt to spoil their kid (FA Magazine)

A recent survey from fund company T. Rowe Price found that 46% of parents have gone into debt to cover "something their kids wanted," reports Christopher Robbins.

Moreover, 57% of parents said they spend too much on things their kids don't need, and 55% have used emergency funds to cover non-emergencies, including day-to-day expenses, according to the survey.

"Most of the children, 57%, told surveyors that they have come to expect that their parents will buy them what they want," reports Robbins.

Workers increasingly prefer higher wages over better health benefits (ThinkAdvisor)

A new paper from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that workers are increasingly preferring fewer health benefits in return for higher wages. About two-thirds of workers are satisfied with their current mix of wages and benefits, but the percentage of workers who said they would make a trade-off jumped to 20% in 2015, up from 10% in 2012, reports Danielle Andrus.

“We didn’t dig into the drivers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if lack of wage growth was the main driver” for workers’ increasing preference for higher wages over health benefits, Paul Fronstin, the director of the Health Research and Education Program for EBRI and one of the authors of the report, told ThinkAdvisor.

The 10 most common 401(k) plan deficiencies (InvestmentNews)

"401(k) plan design is the bedrock of employee success in an employer-sponsored retirement plan — a poor design could completely derail an employee’s ability to amass an adequate retirement savings," writes InvestmentNews' Greg Iacurci.

As such, Iacurci detailed some of the most common 401(k) plan-design flaws, including low auto-enrollment rates, no automatic escalation, overexposure through sector funds, and an overly big investment menu.

Fidelity started testing its robo service (Financial Planning)

Fidelity will start testing its automated-investment service, Fidelity Go, on Wednesday on a small group of existing customers, reports Margaret Collins. This is Fidelity's foray into the increasingly saturated industry of low-cost robo-advisors.

Vanguard and Charles Schwab began similar programs last year after the successes of pioneering companies like Betterment and Wealthfront.

Billionaire Louis Bacon's charity was the victim of a banker's alleged $95 million fraud (Business Insider)

The Moore Charitable Foundation, an environmental charity founded by hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon, was the victim of an alleged fraud by banker Andrew W. W. Caspersen, a former managing director at PJT Partner's Park Hill Group, reports Julia La Roche.

Caspersen was charged with securities and wire fraud in an alleged $95 million scheme.

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The United States Men’s National Team is in danger of failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. If it happened, it would be the first time the USMNT missed the world’s greatest sporting event since Mexico City in 1986. If they lose to Guatemala Tuesday night, they’ll need an awful lot of help from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines—Population: 103,000; FIFA Ranking: 141—just to advance to the next round of qualifying.

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I've been whining for months about the crap sandwich Apple and Google created by adopting USB-C for their new laptops without supporting the ecosystem: a writhing sea of dangerously low-quality third-party cables and adapters. Amazon is taking action, banning low-quality USB-C gadgetry from the store.

The crackdown is almost certainly in response to the glut of cheap USB Type-C cables that have flooded Amazon over the past year—and to at least one example of a dodgy cable frying a Google engineer's Chromebook Pixel. In that case, the third-party seller stated that it was a standards-compliant USB 3.1 Type-C cable with SuperSpeed. As it turned out, the cable was completely missing the extra wires needed for SuperSpeed and two of the other wires had been transposed. The miswired cable killed his laptop instantly.

Maria Konnikova is the author of "The Confidence Game," a book about con artists and why we fall for their deception. Here she tells us why intelligence can make us more susceptible to being conned. 

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A friend of mine loves white wine, and I strictly drink reds. Usually, we just do rock-papers-scissors about which bottle to open, and one of us settles.

With the Kuvée, a new smart wine bottle system, we wouldn't have to choose between white or red.

Similar to a Keurig, the Kuvée uses cartridges filled with wine that last for 30 days each, Ed Tekeian, Kuvée's chief technology officer, tells Tech Insider. That means you can pop in a red, pour a glass, pop in a white, pour another glass — and you don't have to worry about the bottle going stale.

The smart bottle and 4 cartridges will go for $178 when the presale launches March 28th.

Here's how it works.

The vacuum-sealed wine cartridges need to be refrigerated. When you open one, only a small amount of air seeps in, which is why it last for so long.

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The Kuvée smart wine bottle is a hollow shell. To pour a glass, you just pop in a silver cartridge until it snaps in place.

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On the touch screen, you can learn about the winemaker's story, recommended food pairings, and the wine's acidity and year. Since it's connected to wifi, you can order more cartridges from a selection of 48 wines made at 12 different vineyards in California and Massachusetts.

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Seismic activity is no longer dependent on natural causes. Human activity is playing a role as well.

The US Geological Survey recently mapped all the places that are most likely to be damaged by human-induced earthquakes in 2016. This is the first time the USGS has accounted for the quakes we are causing.USGS

For the most part, human-induced earthquakes are caused by the injection of wastewater deep beneath the Earth's surface. It typically comes from oil and gas mining sites. Fracking — or the process of using high-pressured water to release oil and natural from rocks — isn't causing most of the induced earthquakes, according to the USGS.

The states at the most risk for potentially disastrous human-induced quakes (from highest to lowest risk) are:

1. Oklahoma
2. Kansas
3. Texas
4. Colorado
5. New Mexico
6. Arkansas

Of that group, Oklahoma and Texas have the largest populations that would be directly affected by the induced earthquakes, the report said. Particularly, the risk for Dallas is ten times higher than it was in 2008, The Dallas Morning News reports. 

The results came from reports of shaking and damage in those areas from the last five years, as well as self-reported data from people who felt shaking in their state.

The West Coast, which sits on a number of naturally-occurring quake fault lines, wasn't included in USGS' most recent study, since the majority of its quakes have natural causes. Here's how its 2016 quake risk compares to the rest of the country:

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Adonal Foyle spent 12 years in the NBA, making over $63 million, according to Basketball-Reference.

After retiring, Foyle turned to many new ventures, one of which became financial counseling for athletes. He's since written a book, "Winning the Money Game," about how athletes can manage their wealth.

J.J. Redick had Foyle on his podcast on Yahoo's "The Vertical," and they spoke about the difficulties of managing their earnings.

As Redick said, while it's important to set goals for saving and investing, the reality is that if players are still spending more than they are saving, they're not going to be set up for a fruitful future when their playing days are over. Foyle agreed and said that he always asks players a simple question about their spending habits when he first talks to them:

One of the questions I always asks guys when I talk to them is "How much did you spend on coffee?" It seems like a very silly question. Or "How much did you give to your mom?" or "How much did you give to your sister?" And it's not a question to embarrass the other person, but it's always a question to make you think, right? If you don't really know what's going on, and I think you and I can say with certainty there's a lot of guys who spend but they don't know what they spend it on at any given point in their career. They know to buy a car, they know to buy a house, but they don't really know how much they're spending or how much they give their boy, because some of it is cash. You give your boy $50, you give your mom $1,000.

I'm not saying that any of those things is a moral test. The question is, part of why we get into so much trouble is because we can't really look and say, "I spend $500 or $2,000 a year on coffee." If you can't really start having this conversation, then you don't really know what's happening in your finances. If you can't start asking the question "How much do you spend on clothes?" then you really can't ask the question, like, how much should you reduce your clothing allowance or how much you should reduce your brother's allowance if you've given them one.

As Redick and Foyle then noted, that can be a difficult conversation for athletes who may want to be taking care of people around them.

But as they also discussed, managing money is important, particularly as a basketball player, where the average career lasts only three to five years, according to Foyle. It's foolish to ever rely on a future contract without assurances that a career can make it a future contract.

Foyle thinks that it's important to recognize spending and allowances as early as possible: "If you have those conversations as harshly as you can early, it does set kind of the benchmark or the groundwork for everything that will follow after that."

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Nadine the robot. Photo courtesy Nadia Thallman

Nadine will look you in the eye and remember the last time you chatted. She’ll gesture and change her facial expression depending on what is said. Resembling a human in almost creepy way, Nadine is a ground-breaking robot recently built at Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore campus.

Welcome to a new frontier in robotics, where an AI system has been developed to include emotional range and a short-term memory to remember faces and past conversations. When greeted by someone she knows, Nadia will say, “It’s nice to meet you again.” She’ll take a compliment and also dish out one right away.

This type of social robot, which was built to help those with mental health issues, is the master work of Nadia Thalmann, the director of NTU’s Institute for Media Innovation and a long-time developer of realistic modeling and simulation of “virtual humans,” as Thalmann calls it. In fact, Nadine is carefully modeled after Thalmann’s own face and hairstyle.

Thalmann is working around the clock to develop and fine-tune the humanoid’s features and add-ons, such as the ability to talk on Skype and the look and grasping abilities of her hands.

I emailed with Thalmann about how Nadine is built, its main uses and the future of social robots working with those suffering from depression, loneliness and other illnesses.

MOTHERBOARD: When did the idea of Nadine come to you? And how long did it take from conception to prototype?
Thallman: I saw some Japanese robots that were very realistic and beautiful. Then I realized it was time to move my know-how from social VH [Virtual Humans] to social robotics. We needed three years to come to Nadine as she functions today. We mainly worked on the software platform.

How does Nadine work?

Nadine is using a 3D camera and can detect and recognize people due to a binary pattern algorithm. Then she has a short time memory linked to her language database. When we tell her something, she will analyse what is being said and link to the database, itself linked to the memory. She will dynamically augment her memory and database with the new facts and will answer taking into account of what she was said, what it means in terms of emotions, if she already met this person, and what this person said previously.

She will then generate the right answer. As words and sentences are linked to her emotional model, her voice intonation, her gestures and her reaction will depend of what was said, and what she had in memory. It is in fact a complex system.

I understand Nadine can look people in the eye. How does that work exactly? Via facial recognition software? Everyone is at a different height, so how does Nadine's eyes adjust in a conversation with multiple people?

She tracks people and then follows them if they move. She detects the information of the height and the position of the person as well as her eyes.

You recently said that Nadine will soon be able to talk on Skype. What's the latest on that innovation?

We will be soon able to talk directly per Skype with Nadine like a normal person. We will however give some guidelines to people wishing to talk to Nadine as the sentences should be short and well articulated.

Thallman and Nadine. Photo courtesy Nadia Thallman

As I am very busy for the next two weeks at least, I don’t foresee this application going online before mid to end of April. Then people could Skype Nadine and talk to her seeing her as a normal person. Thing is, her response will be sometimes out-of-the-box as it depends if she has presently the topic in her database.

What's your opinion on social robots assisting the elderly? Do you think it will take hold in the coming years, and if so, what are the challenges this will face?

Nadine is a social robot dedicated for people with special needs, like those suffering from autism, or natural mental handicaps such as loneliness. She is not dedicated to old age specially but to those who need real attention 24 hours a day.

Nadine is able to monitor someone and speak different languages, such as English, French and German, and soon Chinese and Italian. She can read stories, train people in languages, keep conversation going, play games, etc. In fact, Nadine will be there when nobody is there and she is not replacing anybody, she is just empowering real people when nobody is available, which is the case for people who need someone for themselves very intensively. Nobody can afford a 24-hour companion that can monitor you and be there when you need someone.

"I am a social companion."

The challenge will be to adapt Nadine’s behaviour to different people with special needs. This is the real challenge. We will have to study these people, their needs and in line with their social real assistant, find out what is useful for them and define functionality in Nadine that answers the needs.

What developments are on the horizon for Nadine?

For Nadine, we are building articulated hands. For now, she has beautiful hands but there is no skeleton inside, then no articulation, consequently, she cannot grasp objects. We are also developing software for recognizing and grasping objects as a human does it. It will allow Nadine to play games with people with special needs and use her hands to grasp objects.

We are also working on children robots. We did already build the hardware by ourselves are using 3D fabrication for the outer shell. They will serve as child companions and will have the same abilities as Nadine but, of course, dedicated to children. They will be used as a playmate but also to monitor children and to talk to them in another language to allow children to be at least bilingual.

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John Howell, a physicist at the University of Rochester, invented the Rochester Cloak, an arrangement of lenses that bends light around the object in front of it. Later, he invented another optical cloaking device, which brings the same physics principles to scale. The whole thing costs $150 and is made with standard hardware store materials.

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Reader Mark Wilson writes: One of the greatest concerns surrounding the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is its security, and it seems that some people's worst fears have just been realized. Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon-produced SoC (system on a chip) devices. In fact, it is the same vulnerability that cropped up earlier in the month, affecting Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P and Samsung Galaxy Edge Android handsets. This in itself is concerning as these are devices that are no longer in line for security updates, but more concerning is the fact that the same chips are used in IoT devices. The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to gain root access to the hardware, and this is worrying in a world of inter-connected devices. In the interests of trying to contain the problem, Trend Micro has not revealed full details of the vulnerability but is using the issue to highlight a serious problem not just for handset owners but also for adopters of the IoT.

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theodp writes: The NY Times reports that new research suggests as women take over a male-dominated field, the pay drops. "A striking example," writes Claire Cain Miller, "is to be found in the field of recreation — working in parks or leading camps — which went from predominantly male to female from 1950 to 2000. Median hourly wages in this field declined 57 percentage points, accounting for the change in the value of the dollar, according to a complex formula used by Professor Levanon. The job of ticket agent also went from mainly male to female during this period, and wages dropped 43 percentage points. The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points). The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige." Addressing concerns raised about gender pay equity in tech, Amazon recently told the SEC to get off its case, explaining that it's working with organizations such as Code.org, the Anita Borg Institute and Girls Who Code to increase women's involvement in the technology industry. But even if such efforts achieve pay parity, will CS for All result in lower pay for all?

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Mathematician Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford was awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 90s.

Wiles won 6 million Norwegian Kroner as part of the prize, equivalent to about $700,000.

Fermat's Last Theorem was originally suggested over 350 years ago, but Wiles' proof of the theorem involved proving a more general result in modern algebraic geometry, bringing in complex mathematical techniques that were not developed until the 20th century.

Despite the complexity of the proof, the theorem itself is pretty straightforward. Here's the fascinating problem that Wiles solved that led to his prize.

Perfect squares and cubes

Perfect squares are whole numbers that are the square of some other whole number. 25 is 5², 64 is 8², and 81 is 9².

It turns out that some perfect squares are in turn the sum of two other perfect squares: 25 = 9 + 16, or 3² + 4². Indeed, there are infinitely many such perfect squares, and a perfect square along with the two other squares that add up to it are called Pythagorean triples for their geometric relationship to the Pythagorean Theorem regarding right triangles.

Of course, not all perfect squares can be written as the sum of two other perfect squares — a few minutes of playing around with, say, all the ways to add together two whole numbers to get 9 will show that there's no pair of perfect squares in that list.

When mathematicians see a phenomenon like Pythagorean triples they often jump pretty quickly to considering generalizations of that phenomenon. In our case, we want to know if we can extend the idea of Pythagorean triples to higher powers: Could I take a perfect cube, like 8 (which equals 2³ or 2 x 2 x 2), and write it as a sum of two other perfect cubes? What about a perfect fourth power?

Formally speaking, for a power n bigger than 2, can I find whole numbers a, b, and c so that cⁿ = aⁿ + bⁿ?

Wiles won the Abel prize for his 1994 proof that the answer to that question is an emphatic "no": Triples like this don't exist for powers bigger than 2.

Given that this is, on the surface, a fairly simple question, it's remarkable that the answer wasn't proven for over 350 years since it was first posited.

Fermat's Last Theorem

This mathematical statement — that we can't take perfect whole number powers and break them into sums of other perfect powers — is known as Fermat's Last Theorem after the 17th century French lawyer and mathematician Pierre de Fermat. 

The theorem is named after Fermat because of an amazing note written in the margin of his copy of a classic Greek math text around 1637, as per Wikipedia (emphasis ours):

"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."

Of course, Fermat never actually published this supposed "truly marvellous proof." Given that Wiles' proof of the theorem used elaborate mathematical techniques that didn't exist until the second half of the 20th century, many contemporary mathematicians are skeptical that Fermat had an actual proof.

This is not to say that the estimable lawyer was trying to commit fraud. It's far from uncommon for a mathematician to convince him or herself that they've cracked a problem only to later realize (or for their peers to realize and inform them) that they missed some key, subtle detail or another that derails the whole project.

Regardless of whether or not Fermat actually had a proof, his method of claiming a solution that he didn't write down because he didn't have enough space has definitely tempted many math students confronting homework deadlines in the centuries since.

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