Management has never been easy, but I would argue that it has become more difficult in exact years. How we work has changed dramatically in exact years, and managers are now expected to do significantly more than they had to in the past.
In some industries, managers have had to figure out how to build teams, measure performance, and foster camaraderie in virtual and hybrid environments, many for the first time. Others have had to work through severe staff shortages, with managers often taking on more responsibilities to fill gaps, all while keeping customers happy and showing business results. Then there’s the reality of the changing social expectations from their team. For instance, whilst the movement for increased diversity and inclusion is necessary and much welcomed, it means that managers are expected to be social and cultural ambassadors.
With this in mind, here are three characteristics essential to being an effective manager to focus on in 2023.
Charisma
Some may associate charisma with being shallow or performative. However, it is really about the ability to connect with people on a human level and is rooted in shared values and inspiration. It is useful to think of charisma as the icing on the cake–it isn’t the main substance, but it might make it more palatable and, therefore, more effective.
We tend to think of charisma as inherent and purely in the domain of extroverts. However, charisma is actually necessary for all types of employees to learn and get things done within a company–building relationships and influence.
If you're in a role where you manage an international team, charisma requires tuning into cultural nuances and adapting your style appropriately. Charisma is absolutely something that can be learned, and here are tips for increasing it:
- Use simple, plain language wherever possible. The key here is not to use complex language or terms that may exclude people - rather, distill it down to the core points that will engage as many as possible. It also helps to use analogies for concepts you are explaining (similar to my cake/icing example earlier)–thinking through one in advance can be very effective.
- Actively weave open questions into your conversations. An open question is one that prompts the listener to think–i.e., a “how” or “why” question rather than one that needs a yes or no answer. Often, we make statements (e.g., “I can’t meet my targets”), but framing a statement as an open question (e.g., “how can I meet my targets”) immediately prompts your listener to engage. It’s a simple but powerful strategy.
- Display empathy. A basic way to show empathy is to demonstrate you actively listen to your team. Briefly replay what they’ve told you to check understanding. Showing you understand their perspective, even if you don’t agree with it, is incredibly powerful for building human connection.
Clarity
Managers play a central role in keeping the activities of their teams aligned with those of the broader organisation. A good manager will find “win-wins” between their team members' individual desires and the needs of the company.
When it comes to running a team and leading with clarity, managers will need to go through a cycle of 1) clarifying expectations, 2) rewarding when those expectations are met or exceeded, and 3) actively managing and nudging behaviour to recognise the good and avoid the bad.
Here are some practices I have found that enable me to instill clarity in my team during changing times:
- Annual team “big rocks.” At the start of each year, the team will agree on our big goals for the year. Typically this is around three to five big items that we agree we need to nail that year.
- Quarterly objective setting. Each quarter, we agree on specific deliverables the team will need to deliver and divide them amongst the team according to workload.
- Weekly deliverable tracking. The team has a weekly informal catchup where we chat through our progress on our quarterly objectives and make adjustments where necessary (e.g., pushing out, adding on).
- Quarterly career conversations. In the middle of every quarter, I make space for a conversation with all of my direct reports on any thoughts they may have had on their broader career direction. This enables me to get a sense of the types of work that will energise them when it comes to planning the next quarter’s deliverables.
Adaptability
Good managers are constantly adapting how they operate to the changing environment and needs of their team, and the following may help you bring this into your learning:
- Integrate what you learn with who you are. It might be tempting to think that there is an absolute right way to be a manager, but actually, each person brings their own experiences that combine with their learning to create their unique style.
- Don’t be afraid to re-learn how to be a manager. In many ways, learning is a re-learning process that involves identifying what no longer works for you. You should regularly re-examine your ideas about being a good manager, testing them, and updating them as your experience deepens.
- Embrace conflict. Conflict is essential to learning. It’s likely that sometimes things won’t go your way, but that’s ok, and it can be incredibly useful to harness. It’s important after conflict to reflect on it, think about what the lesson is, and then put the learning into practice.
References
Antonakis, J., Fenley, M., & Liechti, S. (2012). Learning charisma. Transform yourself into the person others want to follow. Harvard business review, 90(6), 127-30.
Judge, T. A., & Piccolo, R. F. (2004). Transformational and transactional leadership: a meta-analytic test of their relative validity. Journal of applied psychology, 89(5), 755.
Kolb, A. Y., & Kolb, D. A. (2009). Experiential learning theory: A dynamic, holistic approach to management learning, education and development. The SAGE handbook of management learning, education and development, 7, 42.
What is behind dark energy—and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg point the way to answering these open questions of physics.
The universe has a number of bizarre properties that are difficult to understand with everyday experience. For example, the matter we know, consisting of elementary and composite particles building molecules and materials, apparently makes up only a small part of the energy of the universe. The largest contribution, about two-thirds, comes from "dark energy"—a hypothetical form of energy whose background physicists are still puzzling over.
Moreover, the universe is not only expanding, but also doing so at an ever-faster pace. Both characteristics seem to be connected, because dark energy is also considered a driver of accelerated expansion. Moreover, it could reunite two powerful physical schools of thought: quantum field theory and the general theory of relativity developed by Albert Einstein. But there is a catch: calculations and observations have so far been far from matching.
Now two researchers from Luxembourg have shown a new way to solve this 100-year-old riddle in a paper published by the journal Physical Review Letters.
The trail of virtual particles in a vacuum
"Vacuum has energy. This is a fundamental result of quantum field theory," explains Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg. This theory was developed to bring together quantum mechanics and special relativity, but quantum field theory seems to be incompatible with general relativity. Its essential feature is that, in contrast to quantum mechanics, the theory considers not only particles but also matter-free fields as quantum objects.
"In this framework, many researchers regard dark energy as an expression of the so-called vacuum energy," says Tkatchenko: a physical quantity that, in a vivid image, is caused by a constant emergence and interaction of pairs of particles and their antiparticles—such as electrons and positrons—in what is actually empty space.
Physicists speak of this coming and going of virtual particles and their quantum fields as vacuum or zero-point fluctuations. While the particle pairs quickly vanish into nothingness again, their existence leaves behind a certain amount of energy. "This vacuum energy also has a meaning in general relativity," the Luxembourg scientist notes. "It manifests itself in the cosmological constant Einstein included into his equations for physical reasons."
A colossal mismatch
Unlike vacuum energy, which can only be deduced from the formulae of quantum field theory, the cosmological constant can be determined directly by astrophysical experiments. Measurements with the Hubble space telescope and the Planck space mission have yielded close and reliable values for the fundamental physical quantity.
Calculations of dark energy on the basis of quantum field theory, on the other hand, yield results that correspond to a value of the cosmological constant that is up to 10120 times larger—a colossal discrepancy, although in the world view of physicists prevailing today, both values should be equal. The discrepancy found instead is known as the "cosmological constant enigma." "It is undoubtedly one of the greatest inconsistencies in modern science," says Alexandre Tkatchenko.
Unconventional way of interpretation
Together with his Luxembourg research colleague Dr. Dmitry Fedorov, he has now brought the solution to this puzzle, which has been open for decades, a significant step closer. In a theoretical work, the results of which they recently published in Physical Review Letters, the two Luxembourg researchers propose a new interpretation of dark energy. It assumes that the zero-point fluctuations lead to a polarizability of the vacuum, which can be both measured and calculated.
"In pairs of virtual particles with an opposite electric charge, it arises from electrodynamic forces that these particles exert on each other during their extremely short existence," Tkatchenko explains. The physicists refer to this as a vacuum self-interaction. "It leads to an energy density that can be determined with the help of a new model," says the Luxembourg scientist.
Together with his research colleague Fedorov, they developed the basic model for atoms a few years ago and presented it for the first time in 2018. The model was originally used to describe atomic properties, in particular the relation between polarizability of atoms and the equilibrium properties of certain non-covalently bonded molecules and solids. Since the geometric characteristics are quite easy to measure experimentally, polarizability can also be determined via their formula.
"We transferred this procedure to the processes in the vacuum," explains Fedorov. To this end, the two researchers looked at the behavior of quantum fields, in particular representing the "coming and going" of electrons and positrons. The fluctuations of these fields can also be characterized by an equilibrium geometry which is already known from experiments. "We inserted it into the formulas of our model and in this way ultimately obtained the strength of the intrinsic vacuum polarization," Fedorov reports.
The last step was then to quantum mechanically calculate the energy density of the self-interaction between fluctuations of electrons and positrons. The result obtained in this way agrees well with the measured values for the cosmological constant. "[This means] dark energy can be traced back to the energy density of the self-interaction of quantum fields," says Alexandre Tkatchenko.
Consistent values and verifiable forecasts
"Our work thus offers an elegant and unconventional approach to solving the riddle of the cosmological constant," sums up the physicist. "Moreover, it provides a verifiable prediction: namely, that quantum fields such as those of electrons and positrons do indeed possess a small but ever-present intrinsic polarization."
This finding points the way for future experiments to detect this polarization in the laboratory as well, say the two Luxembourg researchers. "Our goal is to derive the cosmological constant from a rigorous quantum theoretical approach," says Dmitry Fedorov. "And our work contains a recipe on how to realize this."
He sees the new results obtained together with Alexandre Tkatchenko as the first step towards a better understanding of dark energy—and its connection to Albert Einstein's cosmological constant. Finally, Tkatchenko is convinced that "in the end, this could also shed light on the way in which quantum field theory and general relativity theory are interwoven as two ways of looking at the universe and its components."
More information: Alexandre Tkatchenko et al, Casimir Self-Interaction Energy Density of Quantum Electrodynamic Fields, Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.041601
Citation: A new approach to solving the mystery of dark energy (Update) (2023, January 24) retrieved 19 February 2023 from https://phys.org/news/2023-01-approach-mystery-dark-energy.html
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In most (but by no means all) cases, being overweight results most directly from eating too much no matter what influences surround this problem. The simple (even if only partial) solution involves eating fewer calories. The difficult aspect involves putting this into practice.
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Step 3. Remind yourself that you can accept yourself and still enjoy life and be productive with the extra pounds. Then why lose the weight? Because your life can be even better, satisfying, and more healthful without carrying around the extra pounds.
Step 4. Recognize eating too much and eating unhealthy food is a choice. You can choose to eat the ice cream or choose not to. You can choose to stop eating when you've had enough or choose to continue eating. You're not compelled to eat even though it may feel like you are and have no control. If you're skeptical imagine this: you are about to feast on your favorite ice cream. Someone shows up with a gun pointed at your head and threatens: "if you eat the ice cream I'll shoot." Clearly you decide to skip the ice cream.
Step 5. Go for unconditional self-acceptance (USA). You accept yourself unconditionally whether you overeat or you stay on your diet. Refuse to rate your total self based on the rating of your behavior. Whether you diet successfully or unsuccessfully you're still the same imperfect human who acts imperfectly. You always have been and you always will be.
Step 6. Go for unconditional life acceptance (ULA). You accept your life unconditionally with its frustrations, discomforts, and difficulties.
Practice implementing the above steps regularly. It's hard, but hard doesn't mean impossible. The good news: overeating is a choice. You can choose to stay on a reasonable eating regimen or choose not to. It's up to you!
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Certain events and tournaments, known as quests, have a different formula: you spend coins to use a secondary slot machine rather than spins. Instead of spinning for coins, attacks, and raids, you’ll only spin for coins. There’s a goal and when you reach it, you’ll receive a reward of spins, coins, and other useful goodies. It’s a great way to keep playing once you’ve run out of Coin Master free spins but have a sizable stock of coins.
Coin Master Free Spins FAQ
When Do Coin Master Free Spins Expire?
Coin Master links for free spins and coins are valid for three days from the date of issue. This means that on any given day, you can click and use links for that day plus those released for the two days prior.
Why is Coin Master so Popular?
Coin Master is very easy to play and can be enjoyed by people of all ages thanks to its relatively straightforward gameplay mechanics. The game is particularly popular in Canada, according to Google Play and Similar Web Rank data.
How to Get 50/60/70 Coin Master Free Spins
Most of the daily links include 25 free spins, though you’ll very occasionally see 50 free spins pop up. 50, 60 and 70 free spins are typically rewarded for participating in events, especially special events and those that involve raids and playing against other players.
What Happens When You Finish Coin Master?
Once a village is completed, you’ll get more spins as a reward.
How Long Do Free Spins Last in Coin Master?
Coin Master free spins links are only active for three days from the date of issue, so don’t dawdle.
How Do You Get Free Spins on Coin Master iOS?
To get free spins on Coin Master iOS, make sure you click on the daily links above. These grant a range of free spins and coins, with usually six to seven free spins links a day.
How Often Do You Get Spins on Coin Master?
The rate at which you get spins on Coin Master depends on your level. To start, you’ll receive a 5 free spins an hour, shifting up to 8 free spins an hour when you push your village to level 80. Then, even higher once you hit level 100 and so on.
Do Pets Grant Free Spins?
Aside from being a cuddly companion to keep you company while you spin, pets can also boosts your haul of coins when you attack (three hammer spin) or raid (three pig spin) fellow players as long as you keep them fed. Unfortunately, they don’t directly grant free spins, but pets can occasionally dig up chests, which have a chance of containing Coin Master free spins.
If you complete card sets, you’ll receive an egg. Break it to receive your pet. You’ll want to level up your pets as often as possible to boost their attack/raid rewards. This is done by giving them Pet Potions, which act as an XP boost. Pet Potions are available in chests, for hitting daily event milestones, and as a reward for completing villages.
How Do You Get Max Spins on Coin Master?
When starting out, Coin Master gives you five free spins per hour, with a maximum of 50 free spins you can hold at any one time. As you level up your village, specifically at level 80 and 100, the number of free spins per hour jumps to 8 and 10 respectively, while the max pool of free spins increases to 80 and 100. Based on these figures, it will take you 10 hours to get max spins regardless of your village level.
What Is the Best Pet to Use in Coin Master?
Each pet has its own advantage, which means they are useful in different situations. Foxy increases rewards during raids. Tiger boosts rewards during attacks. Rhino offers a high chance of protection against attacks. Overall, we recommend Foxy as the best pet, if only because it’s the pet that’s easiest to acquire. When you’re away from the game, Rhino is strong option as this pet will keep your village from being plundered by other players.
Regardless of which pet you prioritize, remember to periodically level them up with pet potions as this greatly increases the rewards (and protection chance in Rhino’s case) they offer. Similarly, a pet is effectively useless unless fed, so remember to feed them if you want to tap into their advantages.
Can You Get Unlimited Spins in Coin Master?
There is currently no way to get unlimited spins in Coin Master, other than through cheating, something we don’t recommend as you’ll likely get banned from the game and lose all your progress for the offense.
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A new study by Western Sydney University researchers has found that a short 15–20 minute discussion between a local endocrinologist and general practitioner (GP) in Sydney's south west is improving the care of people with complex type 2 diabetes.
Published in the International Journal of Integrated Care, the three-year study is the first evaluation of "patient-free" diabetes case conferencing—a model where, with the patient's consent, an endocrinologist visits a GP practice, alongside a practice nurse or diabetes educator, to collaborate on the care of patients to develop a joint management plan for the patient.
The study found blood glucose (HbA1c), blood pressure, weight, as well as other cardiovascular risk factors all improved following the three-year trial involving more than 600 patients with type 2 diabetes from 40 general practices across south western Sydney.
Blood glucose results substantially improved between 2017 and 2020, with more than a third (37%) of patients within the target range compared with just one in five (20%) before the program.
In addition, more than three quarters (77%) of patients were recording systolic blood pressure within the target range on follow-up, compared with less than half of patients (47%) in 2017.
Co-author Professor David Simmons, Head of Endocrinology at Campbelltown Hospital and from the University's School of Medicine said the study found the model made a significant contribution to diabetes management in primary care settings.
"Diabetes is a significant health issue in south western Sydney and it is critical we work together to find more effective, integrated and streamlined ways to manage patients and Boost outcomes," said Professor Simmons.
"The findings from this study show how a collaborative discussion between a GP and endocrinologist where the patient is not present, can be one of the most effective integrated diabetes care interventions.
"This can allow the GP to continue to care for the patient in the practice, avoiding the need to see an endocrinologist in person. The collaboration also helps build the GP's expertise in managing their other complex patients and the endocrinologist learns more about the patient from the GP which facilitates truly patient-centered care."
The findings add to the evidence suggesting that case conferencing programs can help close the gaps in service provision such as barriers between different settings, Boost the patient experience by accommodating more complex cases in primary care and reduce duplication of care.
Co-author Ms. Reetu Zarora, a Ph.D. student at Western Sydney University, highlighted how the model of care doesn't just save time and resources in primary care settings but also has a positive impact more broadly on the health system.
"This is a real win-win-win for patients, GPs and the health system: patients get specialist input into their care without any extra time or cost, GPs can continue to manage their patients using their extra knowledge, and the health system has less demand on hospital clinics, potentially reducing and preventing hospitalizations in people with complex diabetes compared with usual care. This should reduce diabetes-related health issues," said Ms. Zarora.
"In addition, the case conferencing model through the study was shown to be suitable in both urban and rural settings where a number of participating practices support large multi-ethnic populations with varying socioeconomic status.
"This points to the potential for broader applications of the model of care including in regions with resource restraints and diverse populations."
More information: Reetu Zarora et al, Effectiveness of Diabetes Case Conferencing Program on Diabetes Management, International Journal of Integrated Care (2023). DOI: 10.5334/ijic.6545
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Ongoing market volatility has left many investors grasping for an investment lifeline to help them stay afloat amidst stormy economic conditions. Conventional approaches to long-term investments follow the 60/40 model (opens in new tab), which allocates 60% of your portfolio to stocks and 40% to bonds. But that strategy may no longer produce your desired results, as both asset classes have performed under their historical averages during the last two decades.
Bond yields historically had an inverse relationship with the stock market to help offset loss. But in 2022, inflation and other global economic factors caused both bonds and stocks to fall. Anyone relying on the 60/40 model is likely finding themselves in deep water. Modern market conditions require a fresh approach to long-term investing in order to properly protect your retirement savings.
Catch Up With the Times
When the 60/40 model was originally developed, the S&P 500 historically averaged a 12.1% (opens in new tab) return (from 1957-1999). Since 2000, the S&P 500 has averaged a 6.3% (opens in new tab) return. For anyone using the 60/40 model, 60% of their portfolio is now yielding half of its historical average.
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Current investors are faced with slower worldwide economic growth, high inflation and rising interest rates, which demands an updated investment approach.
In addition, computer technology has allowed the stock market to move at lightning speed as billions of dollars are traded in nanoseconds, leading to more volatility. When the market crashed in 2020, stocks lost a third of their value in just 33 days (opens in new tab). During the Great Depression, it took four years to see that same level of loss. Wall Street is a whole new ball game, and if you don’t adjust your investment tactics accordingly, you may find yourself trying to recover from unnecessary market losses.
Leverage Consistent Strategies to Offset Volatility
To make headway in a volatile market environment, investors need to create consistency in their investment approach to prevent emotions from getting in the way of decision-making. Buying low and selling high is counterintuitive to most people. To make it effortless, look to utilize dollar-cost averaging (DCA), which has you invest equal payments monthly. This allows you to buy into the market at different levels and smooths out the risk of buying “all-in” right before a big market drop or from missing out on an eventual upswing.
Seek out low-cost investments that will prevent “fee drag” from decreasing your long-term gains. Fees from brokers, advisers and fund companies can significantly reduce the value of your retirement account. ETFs and index funds are low-cost investment options that can lower your fee drag while still providing broad exposure to the market.
If you are within 10 years of retirement, consider “sweeping the gains” from your portfolio after significant profits in the market. Put those gains into a protected investment vehicle, like an annuity, to ensure you won’t lose all of your profit if the market drops when you want to retire. It takes only one bad market year like 2008 or 2022 to delay your retirement plans, but thinking proactively can provide significant protection and allow you to keep a portion of your gains.
Hedge Your Portfolio (Risk Management)
Portfolio hedging is a strategy to reduce investment risk and protect your portfolio against volatility and capital loss. A hedge is an investment intended to move in the opposite direction of a risky asset in your portfolio, providing inverse exposure.
Rather than being highly concentrated, you can hedge your portfolio by investing in at least a dozen different asset classes. This will prevent correlation between your assets, reducing the risk of all your investments dropping in tandem during volatile times. A broadly diversified portfolio consists of not only traditional equities, fixed-income and cash assets, but also real estate, precious metals, commodities and emerging markets.
One strategy you may want to consider is the use of options to mitigate risk in your portfolio. Options can provide protection from losing significant capital if structured properly. Of course, options are complicated and should be used only by a highly experienced investment professional, as they are leveraged instruments that can be used to increase or decrease risk in a portfolio. Everyone’s circumstances are different, and seeking a financial professional is highly advised.
Consider a Deferred Index Annuity
The stock market is a key component of your investment strategy, but it is a volatile one, so make sure to balance it out with safer options. Deferred index annuities (opens in new tab) deliver you equity exposure through the performance of index funds, like the S&P 500, while still protecting your principal and removing any downside risk.
A deferred index annuity can be customized with riders to fit your needs. For those who hope to retire within the next 10 years, consider adding a living benefit rider to provide guaranteed growth and guaranteed income for life. The protected account will grow by a guaranteed minimum rate, called the roll-up rate. Most current carriers typically offer a roll-up rate well above other fixed-income opportunities. At worst, your investment will earn this higher-than-average rate of return, but if the index fund yields greater gains than the roll-up rate, the protected account value will “lock in” the higher rate.
By providing a guaranteed income with opportunity for further growth, a deferred index annuity can bring peace of mind and certainty to your retirement income plan.
Deferred index annuities are almost like a “personal pension” that work alongside other fixed-income sources like Social Security. Choosing the right annuity for you can be complicated, so consult a financial professional to make sure your annuity plan aligns with your personal goals and values.
The only thing certain about the future is uncertainty: Market downturns are inevitable. But if you adjust your long-term investment strategy by investing consistently, hedging your portfolio and leveraging safer tools like deferred index annuities, you will be better equipped to weather the storms ahead.
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Life360's Bluetooth tagging device Tile is launching a new anti-theft mode designed to get around a tricky issue: criminals knowing when an item they've stolen is being tracked.
The new anti-theft mode makes a user's Tile undetectable in Scan and Secure, the company's in-app feature that allows iPhone and Android users to locate nearby Tiles. That feature was initially launched to combat the rise in stalking with Bluetooth tagging devices, but now the company say that approach hasn't stopped stalking and has, if anything, made a criminal's job easier to get away with.
"It seemed like the actual problem of stalking wasn't actually being necessarily solved," said Life360 CEO Chris Hulls. "But what was happening was that there's this new vector that's opening up for thieves, where so much of the reason people buy Bluetooth tags to begin with is to protect their items from theft. And now, if you have a Tile or an AirTag, a smart thief will almost certainly be able to find it."
That's because if a thief learns there is a Bluetooth tag on an item that they stole, they're able to easily remove the tag and prevent victims from tracking down valuables.
Bluetooth tagging devices like Life360's Tile, Apple's AirTag and Samsung's Galaxy SmartTag have come under pressure to increase safety features as stalking cases rose. But robberies are also on the rise throughout the U.S., and according to Hulls, there's been a negligible number of stalking cases. During the first half of 2022, there was a 5.5% increase in robberies throughout the country, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
"Theft is the primary reason people buy these products," Hulls said. "Our new anti-theft mode is a tradeoff. ... It gives consumers choice, they can turn off all the anti-stalking features, so their Tiles become invisible," he added.
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Tile is taking a new approach to stalking prevention. If a user chooses to use the anti-theft mode, they must go through an ID verification process, which will register the user with Tile and sync their ID with their account.
"From our research, the real issue with stalkers is how do you remove anonymity?" he said.
Scan and Secure didn't address that issue, he said, and it didn't have any enforcement mechanism. That's changing now too, with Life360 threatening stalkers with a $1 million penalty the company will pursue against any individual convicted in a court of law for using Tile devices to illegally track any individual without their knowledge or consent. If someone is convicted in court for stalking using Tile, in which the ID verification makes prosecution easier, Tile would sue that person for violating the terms and services.
But there is a user privacy issue in the changes as well. Life360 is increasing collaboration with law enforcement so that if anti-theft mode is enabled, users must acknowledge that personal information can and will be shared with law enforcement at the company's discretion, even without a subpoena, to aid in the investigation and prosecution of suspected stalking.
"So much of why people buy these devices to begin with is to protect against theft. So, we think this really threads the needle elegantly," Hulls said.
Consumer technology advocates weigh in on safety and security changes
Technology safety advocates aren't convinced.
Kathleen Moriarty, chief technology officer at the Center for Internet Security, said via email that a closer tie to identity should Boost the integrity of the solution by adding in a human factor and sense of responsibility, but as is the case with any new release, "limits and boundaries will be tested in unexpected ways."
For example, if a Tile can be discovered by its authorized owner, to track down the belonging in which it was placed, the Tile is emanating a signal to make that possible. Although the application designed for Tile use will only make that visible to the Tile owner, the signal may be discoverable with other tools.
"Without insight into the technical details, the protections to prevent detection are not clear. Typically confidence from technologists is higher for standards-based solutions due to the rigorous review process by a number of experts. The solution holds promise and time will tell as it gets tested in real-world scenarios," she said.
Adam Dodge, CEO of digital safety education company EndTAB and a member of the World Economic Forum's Digital Justice Advisory Committee, was more critical of the approach in an email exchange. "This update denies stalking victims access to the most essential of safety measures, the ability to verify and locate a tracker to stop the abuse," Dodge wrote.
He says Life360's new safety commitments — identify verification, fines and promises to cooperate with law enforcement — do not offset the increased risk created for victims, and he noted that the features and new company policies only come into play if the Tile tracker is found, something that anti-theft mode now makes much less likely.
"We have to remember that bad actors care most about getting caught. From that perspective, this new feature is a homerun," Dodge said. "I'd rather see Tile's new commitments to safety implemented on their own, as opposed to a way to blunt the risks created with anti-theft mode."
In his view, if the problem of stalking wasn't being solved, companies like Life360 should solve for it specifically through innovation and new safety features. "The irony is that, by making Tile trackers undetectable, it is now easier for stalkers to stay anonymous," Dodge wrote.
This story has been updated to include comments from Adam Dodge, CEO of EndTAB, and Kathleen Moriarty, chief technology officer at the Center for Internet Security.
A panel of public health experts for the Food and Drug Administration convened for an all-day meeting on Thursday to discuss whether the U.S. is ready to start treating COVID boosters like an annual flu vaccine, a move that would normalize COVID shots as permanent public health upkeep.
Creating a yearly COVID shot schedule would mean updating the shot once a year and hoping that it matches whichever variant is circulating that upcoming winter season, similar to how the flu shot schedule works. No longer would public health agencies and vaccine companies attempt to reactively update the COVID vaccine when variants come on the scene.
It would also eliminate the two-shot primary series for most unvaccinated people, in favor of a mainstreamed program.
"This is a consequential meeting to determine if we've reached a point in the pandemic that allows for simplifying the use of current COVID-19 vaccines," Dr. David Kaslow, director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review, told the group of advisors on Thursday.
Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's vaccine chief, said the virus has evolved so rapidly that the FDA has constantly needed to revise its approach. Now, he said, it was time to determine if they could do that on a schedule rather than at the whim of the virus' evolutions.
"We're now in a reasonable place to reflect on the development of the COVID-19 vaccines to date to see if we can simplify the approach to vaccination in order to facilitate the process of optimally vaccinating and protecting the entire population moving forward," Marks said.
Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine an update from Federal officials on efforts to combat COVID-19, May 11, 2021, in Washington.
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The goal, FDA officials said, would be to deliver simpler messaging in the hope of reaching more Americans.
The way it stands now, people get different numbers of vaccines depending on their age and prior vaccination status. For example, unvaccinated people get their initial series in two shots, a few weeks apart, while vaccinated people have been encouraged to get a booster every few months, depending on how old they are.
The plan proposed by the FDA is to recommend every American get a single shot every year, with a few exceptions.
It's based on the idea that the vast majority of Americans already have some immunity in their system, either because they've been exposed to COVID itself or gotten vaccinated.
"Presumably, at this point in the pandemic, most of the general U.S. population have been sufficiently exposed to spike protein, either to infection, vaccination or both, such that a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine would induce or restore vaccine effectiveness," Kaslow said.
But older, high-risk and immunocompromised Americans could still be recommended to get two shots a year, as could young children when they reach the age eligible for vaccinations.
A nurse prepares a syringe of a COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., July 19, 2022.
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"It could be that more than one dose is needed for high-risk older adults, persons with compromised immunity and young children who have not yet been completely immunized. At this time, those risk based adjustments remain to be determined," Kaslow said.
Responding to the proposal, some experts on the panel emphasized that people who haven't had COVID or been vaccinated might still need to get two shots to shore up their immunity.
But the members were broadly supportive of the move to simplify the COVID vaccine schedule.
"I certainly support this approach. Simpler is better," said Dr. Mark Sawyer, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego and a member of the FDA's panel.
"I think this is definitely the way to go as soon as we can figure out how to do it," he said.
More data is necessary to decide exactly who will be protected enough by one dose, experts said.
"My general feeling from the committee is that we need more data to figure out exactly who should get the two-dose schedule, who should get the one," said Dr. Stanley Perlman, an infectious disease expert with the University of Iowa and a member of the panel.
"So all that kind of information will help determine this immunization schedule, but in general principle, the committee was supportive of going forward with this," Perlman said.
The FDA will likely not make any concrete decisions until later in February, after a panel of experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a similar public discussion on the newly-proposed schedule.
And just which variants the updated booster would target for next season won't be decided until this summer, likely in early June, for distribution sometime in the fall.
Of course, the reality is that a small percentage of Americans have opted to get the current booster — around 16%, despite exact CDC research showing that it can cut risk of symptomatic infection by around half. And because less and less people have opted for a booster shot each time one has been recommended, the appetite could be lower by next fall.
But Marks, the FDA's vaccine chief, was optimistic that aligning the COVID vaccine on a yearly schedule with the flu shot could encourage more people to make it a routine.
"If we can see the influenza vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccines occurring at the same visit, it facilitates a vaccination program that may lead to more people getting vaccinated and being protected, and reducing the amount of disease we see," Marks said.
"So I think that overall, this seems like a reasonable way to go."
ABC News' Nicole Wetsman and Youri Benadjaoud contributed to this report.
Michael Cera can't help but miss his son while he's away filming.
The Superbad star, 34, revealed in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter that becoming a father has changed the way he approaches work, with family now being his highest priority.
"I think the only thing that it affects is that you just want to spend as much time with them as possible," Cera said. "So when I was 20, I would have been way happier to go off to some weird city and live in a hotel for three months. And when you have kids, you want to be with your family. And you miss them a lot."
When asked which of his TV shows or films he would introduce to his son first, he said: "He's only a year and a half old, so he hasn't seen anything yet. But I have a couple of animated movies."
Though he added that 2016's animated film Sausage Party was off the table, noting that it would come "a little later."
In March, 2022, Cera's Life & Beth costar Amy Schumer, 41, accidentally revealed during a joint Entertainment Tonight interview that he welcomed a child.
"Michael has a baby, too," Schumer said. "Is that public knowledge? I just outed him, I just outed his baby."
The Arrested Development star the confirmed the happy news, telling ET, "We're right at the beginning of it. We're doing the very basics right now."
A few days after Schumer spilled Cera's baby news, the new dad gave some details to Extra about his first child.
"He's just a little 6-month-old baby," Cera said at the time of his son with his longtime partner Nadine.
Since then Schumer has gone on to reveal to PEOPLE her best advice for parenting that she's given friends Cera and Jennifer Lawrence. "It's just about failing," says Schumer, who shares 2-year-old son Gene David with husband Chris Fischer. "It's like stand up. You mess up so bad."
"It couldn't go much worse than what we named our son initially," she teases of originally naming her son Gene Attell. "But they're doing great. They really are both just such clear, natural parents."
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Cera has mainly kept his family and relationship with Nadine, whom he reportedly married in 2018, out of the public eye.
The actor will pay a visit to the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival for the debut of the Dustin Guy Defa drama The Adults.
