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Sharing plates can help make better business deals

Washington: Planning a business negotiation? Choose an Indian or Chinese restaurant, say scientists who have found that sharing plates during a meal can help people collaborate better.

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Washington: Planning a business negotiation? Choose an Indian or Chinese restaurant, say scientists who have found that sharing plates during a meal can help people collaborate better. Researchers from University of Chicago in the US said since sharing plates, customary in Indian and Chinese cultures, require people to coordinate their physical actions, it might in turn prompt them to coordinate their negotiations. To find out, they asked study participants, all strangers to one another, to pair off in a lab experiment that involved negotiating. While technology allows people to conduct meetings remotely, there is value in getting together over a meal. The same is true outside of business negotiations. PTI 

‘Why googling ‘idiot’ brings up Trump photos?’ 

Washington: US Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, in an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, asked its CEO Sundar Pichai why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for “idiot”. “Right now, if you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that,” the California Democrat told Pichai. “How would that happen? How does search work so that would occur?” Lofgren asked Pichai. The Google CEO said the results were based on billions of keywords ranked according to over 200 factors such as relevance, popularity and how others were using the search term. IANS

Daniels told to pay $300,000 to Trump’s attorney

New York: A federal judge in California has ordered adult film star Stormy Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees, costs and sanctions to the lawyers representing Donald Trump in a defamation suit she brought against the US President earlier this year, according to a media report. Trump’s attorney, Charles Harder, had asked for a total of nearly $780,000 from Daniels, the CNN reported. Harder termed the order to pay $293,052.33 a “total victory” for Trump. The defamation was brought earlier this year after Trump called an allegation by Daniels that an unknown man threatened her in a parking lot to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump a “total con job” in a tweet. PTI

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