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44,000 startups. 4,553 cities. “4 billion votes” It was such a blessing to get to know so many of your ideas and innovations from every corner of the world in 2021. The startup community amazed all of us with your hard work and persistence despite all of the challenges that we faced globally throughout last year. Not gonna lie, the competition got our hearts racing like Eurovision. We won’t let you wait for much longer, below are long-awaited results! ✨✨✨ To see who is a winner in each respective city, visit and pick a city. The name at the top of the list is the winner. (Compromised awards are under review.) startups.hackernoon.com The will announce the winners per region in their respective cities. Startups Winners Announcement Series 🔥 Central Europe Central Europe has always caught our attention with the talented pool of people in tech community. But were they able to get through 2021 despite the pandemic? Let’s cheers to the most outstanding amongst 4,500+ startups who have been working hard this year: Basel, Switzerland An overwhelming vote for ~ in their mission of helping machinery companies drive more service revenues from their installed base MachiQ Software Berlin, Germany We have with a whooping 538 votes! Let’s support Plan A with its mission to help companies to measure, monitor and reduce their environmental footprint. Plan A Düsseldorf, Germany It doesn’t get any easier with Kicking off in helping people organize online schedules more easily. EasyWeek! Geneva, Switzerland Manage code quality? We have to give props to for their startup! SonarSource Hamburg, Germany Taking over Hamburg is , an acoustic device to reduce noises in vehicle cabins. No more annoying sounds on the road 🚗 ReCalm Köln, Germany Small business? Hoping to manage your marketing campaign? is winning the vote! rankingCoach Lausanne, Switzerland is a Swiss-based company focused on cryptocurrency management solutions built for financial institutions. Metaco Leipzig, Germany empowers companies to operate and utilize drones for the most effective industrial data applications. FlyNex Mainz, Germany is growing sustainable digital mobility startups! Next Mobility Labs Munich, Germany wins for top-line, high-security international Identity Management! ORY Stuttgart, Germany Remote desktop application? Ask anywhere. AnyDesk Vienna, Austria , an IT company enabling privacy-preserving big data applications in the digital age. Mostly AI Zug, Switzerland Way to go 1762 votes for the first provably live pure Proof-of-Stake (PoS) CBC-Casper blockchain designed for real-world applications. CasperLabs! Nyon Calling for robust data solutions for impact-driven organizations! Havuta LLC Zürich is revolutionizing small business lending to give easy access to capital to those who need it most: SMEs ✨ Teylor Heidelberg, Germany is an innovative HR startup providing a solution for fast and efficient recruiting of employees with simple job profiles. Talk'n'Job Stuttgart, Germany Congratulations for winning this title! AnyDesk Moving on to our buddies in... 🔥 Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is home to many familiar big names in our start-up world. Trace history for Miro, Telegram, and Grammarly and you know where they are from. Who is the next generation for Eastern European startups? Budapest, Hungary is a platform for mobile app development, enabling tens of thousands of developers to automate integration, testing, and deployment. Bitrise I__ __ stanbul, Turkey Leading here is - a brand new software intelligence platform- helps organizations deliver faster, high-quality products by connecting their DevOps tools. Oobeya Kraków, Poland is a human cloud platform that connects global enterprises with European software houses, offering tech talent as a service. Talent Alpha Kyiv, Ukraine 281 votes for , an AI powered app where people can swap faces in the videos, GIFs and images in just a few seconds. Reface Sofia, Bulgaria 387 votes for __ __378, leading Blockchain and DLT solutions company that specializes in helping enterprises and blockchain startups design, build and scale innovative solutions using Blockchain & DLT! LimeChain Warsaw, Poland is a next-generation blockchain document management software (DMS). DoxyChain Yerevan, Armenia Whoever clicked to vote for was sure a vote, because it ended up winning as a full-service software provider delivering Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning solutions for businesses. SmartClick smart Almaty Just like the name suggested, provides one pass to dozens of gyms and studios. 1FIT Debrecen got all the coders ranked figured out! 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Bond Digital Health London A whooping number of 1085 vote__ __ offers hardware based cyber-security solution for authentication and encryption in a wired local network. Crypto Quantique Edinburgh Hopping up on the crypto movement, just launched last year but they are already rocking it at making crypto accessible to everyone. Zumo Ghent 5379 votes for ! A Belgian InsurTech startup that helps insurance providers all over the world to better connect with their digital customers. WeGroup Glasgow specializes in single-cell analysis transforming the life sciences. Biomage Paris Show some love in the city of love for , a sports platform that is connected to a mobile sports coaching application. AirFit Aberystwyth enables artificial intelligence, data science & digital innovation solutions for the agriculture, biotech & life sciences industries. Agxio Norwich Congratulations for the amazing win of 1124 votes! WATR Charleroi Congratulations for your amazing win! Hirering Gibraltar Give a round of applause to Fortknoxter! Waltham Abbey is ruling the area with its amazing 72 votes! RPAIR Antwerpen Rocking up Antwerpen area is the rising startup ! Willow Egham What’s happening in Egham? Proudly announcing winning the Noonies this year! ATA.ONE Leicester Leicester is calling the name of as the winner for the region! DeadHappy Macclesfield Who else but ? Congratulations on dominating the award! AeroCloud Northern Europe 🔥 Want to listen to some music? Spotify. Need some games to kill time? Candy Crush. What about a quick call to someone you haven’t seen in a long time? Skype. These are all startups that originated from Northern Europe! Noonies, let’s take a look at the upcoming generation of startups from Northern Europe that hopefully will see an even bigger and brighter future. Gothenburg, Sweden Shipping was never made for small shippers, so took on the mission to built an end-to-end logistics platform to empower small businesses to spend less time and money on shipping and more time on growing their businesses. Sendify The Netherlands provides a virtual platform for many kinds of conferences and events. Let's Get Digital Helsinki, Finland A curated collection of public basketball courts in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area called . Everyone is welcome to submit to their local court. Koripallopaikat Lund, Sweden develops an antibiotic-free, safe and effective treatment of vaginal fungal infections. Gedea Biotech Luxembourg, Luxembourg 🚀 is a job-matching platform that connects developers and tech experts with CTOs and team leads from the best tech companies across Europe. 👾 nexten.io Malmö, Sweden Feeling studious, Noonies? __ __e is a tool for Google Classroom, that enables formative matrix assessment towards course learning objectives directly. StudyBe Oslo, Norway is the platform supports a unified API across all connected device categories, removing significant friction for app developers. Domos Labs Reykjavík, Iceland __ __s is a mobile-first technologically advanced neo-bank. Indo service #S__ __ tockholm, Sweden is the biggest blockchain start-up in Sweden. Double winner of the most prestigious nomination in Nordics 'NyTeknik 33-listan', winner of the Deloitte Fast 50, and now Noonies Award! ChromaWay AB T__ __ allinn, Estonia Passing 1000 votes is a fully digital and decentralized ecosystem for all actors in supply chain. OBORTECH Vilnius, Lithuania is an easy-to-use money app for cards and accounts. Via Genome, users can open a business or a merchant account or a personal one with dedicated IBANs, access transfers, exchange currency, process payments, and manage the funds. Genome Aalborg Digura A legaltech offering tenants fast, digital and reliable legal assistance Aarhus Partisia Market Design provides secure, simple, efficient solutions for auctions and exchanges realizing the potential of the market. Helsingborg is a hi-tech company developing cardiac occlusion devices and other vascular implants. Occlutech Tallinna is an AI-powered system for marketing automation in social networks. POSTOPLAN 🔥 Southern Europe Southern Europe’s economy went through a hard time this year due to a huge reduction in tourism. But our startups are of course always headstrong, from Spain to Italy and all the way through Greece. Who are the heroes rising amidst changes of Southern Europe? Skopje is a versatile software development company that solves the business challenges of SMBs, big brands, and brave hearts with awesome ideas. CodeChem Sliema Sounds like just a relaxing exhale. is a holistic health and wellbeing app built to allow users work on the development of their physical, mental and spiritual health Few Tajonar is a company of experienced business & industry entrepreneurs offering solutions to industries based on cutting-edge technologies. das-Nano Tarragona is a technology-based company focusing on the production of integrated microsystems. IMICROQ Terni is an ICT-based integrated solution that is able to modulate, respond, assist and learn to control most home activities. Mind Tirana is a video content and e-commerce platform for the Balkans built on top of an Albanian language specialized search engine. Gjirafa Torino develops and commercializes algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence to increase the autonomy of small satellite missions. AIKO T__ __ orres Buy online groceries like you would buy offline with personalized picking as fast as in 4 hours with Vedras 360hyper! 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Table of Contents Introduction The objective and need for the CLIP algorithm The working procedure of the CLIP algorithm Limitations Realtime Applications Introduction CLIP aka “Contrastive Language Image Pre-training” is one of the renowned algorithms discussed in a white paper named “Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision” published by researchers at OpenAI - An artificial intelligence research laboratory. The major consumption of CLIP is done in the use cases based on computer vision that uses an algorithm named “Dall-E 2” which was also developed by the Open AI team. More precisely, CLIP is being used as a helper model for the “Dall-E 2” algorithm. But don’t misunderstand that CLIP is not powerful as it is consumed as a helper model :) Despite being a helper model, CLIP is considered an important step in deep learning research. We can implement CLIP for separate problem-solving even without “Dall-E 2”. In this article, we can discuss the objective, working procedure and some of the pros & cons of the CLIP through some real-life examples and how we can simplify the life of our deep learning projects. The objective and need for the CLIP algorithm The primary objective behind the CLIP algorithm is to find a particular text from a list of texts which is more similar to the given image. For example, Let us consider the following image as input- And let's say we have some of the texts in a given list- A photo of an airplane. A photo of a bird. A photo of a bear. A photo of a giraffe. A photo of a car. The primary task of a CLIP model is to match the most appropriate text from the given list to the input image as shown below- Fundamentally, this is an artificial neural network that considers each text in the list as a class and assigns a probability value for each text corresponding to the image. Logically, the text that gets the maximum probability value can be considered as the output. One big positive aspect of the CLIP is that it already knows all the words in the “English” language. Some of the characteristics of the CLIP model that makes it special when compared with other similar algorithms are- The CLIP model is not restricted to a single word in the text. Instead, it tries to extract every piece of information from all the words in the input sentence and all the pixels of an image. It never forgets to remember all the aspects of an input image such as the objects in the background, colour, shapes etc. For example, Let us consider the following input image- All of the texts in the given list except the last one look like a logical match for the input. Any other model would have struggled to reach a high conviction probability value for a particular class. However, the CLIP would have analysed the patterns for all the aspects in this image such as the kennel, cell, dog etc. The sunlight seems to be coming from outside to inside. Hence, it should be an indoor structure. Also, there is a presence of an animal instead of a human. Hence, it should not be a Jail but could be a Kennel. Such kind of advanced analysis considering all the aspects of the image & text might not be possible for other models in the same league. CLIP has also been seen working well in Optical Character Recognition use cases which is not possible in similar models- Other branches of computer vision such as geo localisation, facial emotion recognition etc also seem to be working well with the CLIP model. CLIP has shown great zero-shot performance even in unseen inputs. Also, it doesn't expect the text to be in a single word such as “cat”,” dog”,” bird”,” car”.” plane” etc. Instead, it can comprehend a group of words logically framing a sentence. This feature is not generally seen in other models. The working procedure of the CLIP algorithm The CLIP algorithm has been trained on 400 million images with paired text descriptions that make it highly knowledgeable about the universe and confident in solving complex tasks with complex images and texts. The Imagenet dataset consists of only 1.2 million images. 400 million is almost 300 times that of 1.2 million.  Most of the 400 million images are directly scraped from the internet which makes it a highly diversified and large collection that increases its pattern detection capability. For the development of the CLIP architecture, we need to encode both the images and corresponding texts into mathematical vectors. This is because a machine learning algorithm won't able to infer the information if it's in a visual or textual format. Hence, we need to convert them into numerical values. Image input is converted into a mathematical vector using a Transformer or Resnet algorithm The textual input is into a mathematical vector using a Transformer algorithm- Since we have a list of Image-Text pairs, we need to denote it using certain alphabets. Each image is denoted as I1, I2,I3...IN etc. Each text is denioted as T1,T2,T3…TN etc. After that, we need to build a similarity matrix with each of the images as rows and each of the texts as columns. As mentioned in the above image, the diagonal image-text pairs will have more similarity as they are referring to the same context. The non-diagonal elements are random pairs that do not belong to the same context. Hence, their similarity value will be low. The goal of the optimisation functions will be to increase the similarity value for the diagonal pairs as much as possible and decrease the similarity between non-diagonal image-text pairs. At one point in learning, the model will be able to learn the hidden patterns that match the images and texts that belong to the same context and differentiate the images and texts that belong to different contexts. This procedure is technically called . “Contrastive pre-training” CLIP is considered a “computationally efficient” algorithm. This is because they use the transformer algorithm to encode images and texts which access the data in a parallel fashion. If we use other algorithms such as LSTM or RNN, they tend to access the data for encoding in a serial fashion which might consume a lot of time and space. Since the CLIP can match an image with a long sentence, the researchers usually create a text prompt something like “A photo of a _____ “. Then, while iterating through a list of texts, the computer program automatically fits every single word from the list into this text prompt like- A photo of a plane A photo of a car A photo of a dog etc. This text is then encoded and matched with the encoded vector of the input image for calculating the similarity value. Limitations Challenges related to scalability On datasets with training splits, the performance of zero-shot CLIP is on average competitive with the simple supervised baseline of a linear classifier on top of ResNet-50 features. On most of these datasets, the performance of this baseline is now well below the overall state of the art. Significant work is still needed to improve the task-learning and transfer capabilities of CLIP. While scaling has so far steadily improved performance and suggests a route for continued improvement, researchers estimate around a 1000x increase in computing is required for zero-shot CLIP to reach overall state-of-the-art performance. This is infeasible to train with current hardware. Further research into improving the computational and data efficiency of CLIP will be necessary. Challenges related to zero-shot performance It is found that CLIP’s zero-shot performance is still quite weak on several kinds of tasks. When compared to task-specific models, the performance of CLIP is poor on several types of fine-grained classification such as differentiating models of cars, species of flowers, and variants of aircraft. CLIP also struggles with more abstract and systematic tasks such as counting the number of objects in an image. Finally, for novel tasks which are unlikely to be included in CLIP’s pre-training dataset, such as classifying the distance to the nearest car in a photo, CLIP’s performance can be near random. Challenges in understanding the images that are out of the training set (distribution) While zero-shot CLIP generalizes well to many natural image distributions as investigated, the researchers observed that zero-shot CLIP still generalizes poorly to data that is truly out-of-distribution for it. For example, CLIP learns a high-quality semantic OCR representation that performs well on digitally rendered text, which is common in its pre-training dataset, as evidenced by performance on Rendered SST2. However, CLIP only achieves 88% accuracy on the handwritten digits of MNIST. An embarrassingly simple baseline of logistic regression on raw pixels outperforms zero-shot CLIP. Both semantic and near-duplicate nearest-neighbour retrieval verifies that there are almost no images that resemble MNIST digits in our pre-training dataset. This suggests CLIP does little to address the underlying problem of brittle generalization of deep learning models. Instead, CLIP tries to circumvent the problem and hopes that by training on such a large and varied dataset, all data will be effectively in-distribution. This is a naive assumption that, as MNIST demonstrates, is easy to violate. Unable to generate captions Although CLIP can flexibly generate zero-shot classifiers for a wide variety of tasks and datasets, CLIP is still limited to choosing from only those concepts in a given zero-shot classifier. This is a significant restriction compared to a truly flexible approach like image captioning which could generate novel outputs. CLIP does not address the poor data efficiency of deep learning CLIP also does not address the poor data efficiency of deep learning. Instead, CLIP compensates by using a source of supervision that can be scaled to hundreds of millions of training examples. If every image seen during training of a CLIP model was presented at a rate of one per second, it would take 405 years to iterate through the 12.8 billion images seen over 32 training epochs. Combining CLIP with self-supervision and self-training methods is a promising direction given their demonstrated ability to improve data efficiency over standard supervised learning. Realtime Applications Some of the areas where CLIP has been used for solving real-time use cases are: There is a website called “paint.wtf” where we can play Pictionary. The players here will be judged by the CLIP. CLIP can be used for implementing filters such as “NSFW  (Not safe for work)”. “DALL-E”, an algorithm by Open AI is using CLIP as a helper model as we discussed earlier. CLIP is used to index photos on websites like . Unsplash CLIP can be used to find appropriate images for complex languages such as poetry, riddle, rhymes, novels etc. CLIP can also be used to pick images that are corrupt or distorted. A new research paper titled, ‘ ,’ demonstrates how a supervised inversion method was used to get effective representations of corrupt images. Inverse Problems Leveraging Pre-trained Contrastive Representations Released in 2021, a generative model called CLIP+VQGAN or Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network is used within the text-to-image paradigm to generate images of variable sizes, given a set of text prompts. However, unlike VQGAN, CLIP isn’t a generative model and is simply trained to represent both images and text effectively. Conclusion It is an undeniable fact in the deep learning industry that CLIP has paved a way for the development of lof advanced algorithms for solving complex use cases related to image processing and NLP. CLIP can be considered an innovative aqueduct between computer vision and NLP. Also, Since it does not require task-specific training data, it is possible to feed huge amounts of text data and it would slowly get better and better at more unrelated tasks. We can together eagerly wait for the breakthrough advancements that CLIP will be provided in the future. I hope you have got a basic introduction to the concept behind the CLIP algorithm in a lucid manner. I have added the links to the research paper in the reference section which you can use in case you need to refer to the in-depth implementation. References CLIP documentation from Open AI - Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, Gretchen Krueger, Ilya Sutskever “Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision" - Sriram Ravula*, Georgios Smyrnis*, Matt Jordan, Alexandros G. Dimakis, The University of Texas at Austin, NeurIPS 2021 “Inverse Problems Leveraging Pre-trained Contrastive Representations" Katherine Crowson, Stella Biderman,, Daniel Kornis, Dashiell Stander, Eric Hallahan, Louis Castricato, and Edward Raff "VQGAN-CLIP: Open Domain Image Generation and Editing with Natural Language Guidance"- Radford, Alec; Narasimhan, Karthik; Salimans, Tim; Sutskever, Ilya (11 June 2018). (PDF). . p. 12. (PDF) from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021. "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training" OpenAI Archived Johnson, Khari (5 January 2021). . VentureBeat. from the original on 5 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021. "OpenAI debuts DALL-E for generating images from text" Archived Ramesh, Aditya; Dhariwal, Prafulla; Nichol, Alex; Chu, Casey; Chen, Mark (12 April 2022). . : . "Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents" arXiv 2204.06125

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Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . Volume III, BEYOND FUSION: Antimatter BEYOND FUSION Antimatter Is there anything that lies beyond fusion? When hydrogen undergoes fusion and becomes helium, only 0.7% of the original mass of the hydrogen is converted to energy. Is it possible to take a quantity of mass and convert all of it, every bit, to energy? Surely that would be the ultimate energy source. Mass for mass, that would deliver 140 times as much energy as hydrogen fusion would; it would be as far beyond hydrogen fusion as hydrogen fusion is beyond uranium fission. And, as a matter of fact, total annihilation of matter is conceivable under some circumstances. In 1928 the English physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902- ) presented a treatment of the electron’s properties that made it appear as though there ought also to exist a particle exactly like the electron in every respect except that it would be opposite in charge. It would carry a positive electric charge exactly as large as the electron’s negative one. If the electron is a particle, this suggested positively charged twin would be an “antiparticle”. (The prefix comes from a Greek word meaning “opposite”.) P. A. M. Dirac The first picture of the positron (left) was taken in a Wilson cloud chamber. On the right is C. D. Anderson, the discoverer of the positron. The proton is not the electron’s antiparticle. Though a proton carries the necessary positive charge that is exactly as large as the negative charge of the electron, the proton has a much larger mass than the electron has. Dirac’s theory required that the antiparticle have the same mass as the particle to which it corresponded. In 1932 C. D. Anderson was studying the impact of cosmic particles on lead. In the process, he discovered signs of a particle that left tracks exactly like those of an electron, but tracks that curved the wrong way in a magnetic field. This was a sure sign that it had an electric charge opposite to that of the electron. He had, in short, discovered the electron’s antiparticle and this came to be called the “positron”. Positrons were soon detected elsewhere too. Some radioactive isotopes, formed in the laboratory by the Joliot-Curies and by others, were found to emit positive beta particles—positrons rather than electrons. When an ordinary beta particle, or electron, was emitted from a nucleus, a neutron within the nucleus was converted to a proton. When a positive beta particle, a positron, was emitted, the reverse happened—a proton was converted to a neutron. 160 A positron, however, does not endure long after formation. All about it were atoms containing electrons. It could not move for more than a millionth of a second or so before it encountered one of those electrons. When it did, there was an attraction between the two, since they were of opposite electric charge. Briefly they might circle each other (to form a combination called “positronium”) but only very briefly. Then they collided and, since they were opposites, each cancelled the other. The process whereby an electron and a positron met and cancelled is called “mutual annihilation”. Not everything was gone, though. The mass, in disappearing, was converted into the equivalent amount of energy, which made its appearance in the form of one or more gamma rays. (It works the other way, too. A gamma ray of sufficient energy can be transformed into an electron and a positron. This phenomenon, called “pair production”, was observed as early as 1930 but was only properly understood after the discovery of the positron.) Of course, the mass of electrons and positrons is very small and the amount of energy released per electron is not enormously high. Still, Dirac’s original theory of antiparticles was not confined to electrons. By his theory, any particle ought to have some corresponding antiparticle. Corresponding to the proton, for instance, there ought to be an “antiproton”. This would be just as massive as the proton and would carry a negative charge just as large as the proton’s positive charge. An antiproton, however, is 1836 times as massive as a positron. It would take gamma rays or cosmic particles with 1836 times as much energy to form the proton-antiproton pair as would suffice for the electron-positron pair. Cosmic particles of the necessary energies existed but they were rare and the chance of someone being present with a particle detector just as a rare super-energetic cosmic particle happened to form a proton-antiproton pair was very small. The Bevatron began operation in 1954. Physicists had to wait until they had succeeded in designing particle accelerators that would produce enough energy to allow the creation of proton-antiproton pairs. This came about in the early 1950s when a device called the “Cosmotron” was built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island in 1952 and another called the “Bevatron” at the University of California in Berkeley in 1954. Using the Bevatron in 1956, Segrè (the discoverer of technetium who had, by that time, emigrated to the United States), the American physicist Owen Chamberlain (1920- ), and others succeeded in detecting the antiproton. The antiproton was as unlikely to last as long as the positron was. It was surrounded by myriads of proton-containing nuclei and in a tiny fraction of a second it would encounter one. The antiproton and the proton also underwent mutual annihilation, but having 1836 times the mass, they produced 1836 times the energy that was produced in the case of an electron and a positron. There was even an “antineutron”, a particle reported in 1956 by the Italian-American physicist Oreste Piccioni 162(1915- ) and his co-workers. Since the neutron has no charge, the antineutron has no charge either, and one might wonder how the antineutron would differ from the neutron then. Actually, both have a small magnetic field. In the neutron the magnetic field is pointed in one direction with reference to the neutron’s spin; in the antineutron it is pointed in the other. Bubble chamber photograph of an antiproton annihilation. In 1965 the American physicist Leon Max Lederman (1922- ) and his co-workers produced a combination of an antiproton and an antineutron that together formed an “antideuteron”, which is the nucleus of antihydrogen-2. This is good enough to demonstrate that if antiparticles existed by themselves without the interfering presence of ordinary particles, they could form “antimatter”, which 163would be precisely identical with ordinary matter in every way except for the fact that electric charges and magnetic fields would be turned around. If antimatter were available to us, and if we could control the manner in which it united with matter, we would have a source of energy much greater and, perhaps, simpler to produce than would be involved in hydrogen fusion. To be sure, there is no antimatter on earth, except for the submicroscopic amounts that are formed by the input of tremendous energies. Nor does anyone know of any conceivable way of forming antimatter at less energy than that produced by mutual annihilation, so that we might say that mankind can never make an energy profit out of it—except that with the memory of Rutherford’s prediction that nuclear energy of any kind could never be tapped, one hesitates to be pessimistic about anything. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Isaac Asimov. 2015. Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3). Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved May 2022 from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49821/49821-h/49821-h.htm#c40 This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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Establishing a bond between remote employees in the virtual office culture is quite challenging. To ease it, we have Virtual Team building activities. Virtual Team Building Activities refer to those group team building activities usually carried out using any collaboration platform like . These activities' ultimate goal is to bring their teams together virtually despite being apart geographically. Google Meet, Zoom How Does Virtual Team Building Bring A Value into Teams? Meeting deadlines and finishing the tasks in the pipeline is essential. However, Virtual Team Building activities allow you to ensure your team stays in line. Here are few points that emphasize how remote team activities add value. Establishes a good relationship among the peers and allows them to collaborate better on work. Will give a break to remote employees from their work routine, and this small break will help them focus better on work, increase productivity. Trigger employees' ; thus, the chances are high that remote employees will apply similar strategies to solve work-related problems. lateral thinking ability When you hire a remote team, Virtual team-building activities help you get your team to engage, interact, and bond with one another. Several remote development companies with the remote developer and employees practice these virtual remote team building activities. Best Virtual Team Building Ideas and Activities Here we have come up with some virtual remote team building activities and games. 1. Happy First Minute - Unusual Icebreakers Icebreakers provide an excellent kick start to a virtual meeting. It spontaneously creates a quick connect, to be precise, a personal connection with teammates. Before starting the virtual meeting, ask any easy ice-breaking questions like share the emoji you used today while texting? What is your go-to Web series to watch at night?. How To? Give everyone one minute to answer the question. This activity helps remote employees to understand one another better by standing in their shoes. 2. Catch-up Over a work Talk with Idea Board Try to get the remote teams to think about some new ideas and concepts. It may be for an upcoming project, or it may be for the current work. A small talk over work ideas can break the myths revolving around remote work culture. Get a whiteboard or excel or document sheet from your regular collaboration tool, start the Idea talk and see how the team responds. How To? This idea board talk builds a rapport with your team. 3. A Virtual Coffee Station A Virtual Coffee Time is the best time to meet friends and colleagues virtually and A simple way to manage remote teams is by encouraging coffee chat moments. chat. Allow your team to grab their favorite coffee or any beverage and block the calendar for the break. How To? This Coffee Chit Chat will allow remote co-workers to dig the happy moments and boost their minds. 4. Quick Book Review in a Non-review Way Hosting, Read a Book activity is a fun and exciting activity. You can suggest this for only readers and book lovers of your team. Once in eight days, host a virtual book club and request the participants to express their view on the particular book they liked the most. How To? This activity triggers instant conversation, and in the end, a healthy understanding happens between the team members. 5. Virtual Pooling of Knowledge Share and encourage team members to share information on the latest trends and technologies. Give updates on work and review the work, provide ideas and suggestions to improvise. Utilize screen sharing and code sharing tools to impart and suggest ideas and help to solve complex codes. How To? An informal mentoring or pooling enhances your team's quality and additionally builds trust. 6. Virtual Office Olympics An easy way to increase team activeness, weekly online gaming activities, also referred to as can be held. These activities can be either online paid games or interactive virtual games. "office Olympics," Form teams and invite them to play online team games such as Pictionary, trivia, virtual board games, virtual puzzles, to name a few. Office Olympics like the kitchen treasure hunt, pick me up can be included. How To? These games directly contribute to team involvement, interaction, and bonding. 8. Pic Talk Visual Icebreakers are sometimes needed. An image or graphical picture quickly shows what it signifies. Show and Tell is becoming quite a popular trend in virtual team meetings. Show an image, a picture, or a graphical image and question what it describes. You may also draw half the picture on the sheet and share, requesting to fill the remaining. How To? This activity stimulates the brain, refreshes the mind, and acts as a brainstormer. 8. Discuss Over Plans for Vacation Given the current situation of pandemics, traveling is not advisable. Virtual Team Vacation is an ideal activity, as it gives individuals to discuss their plans and trips. For this activity, pair up two members and ask them to discuss their vacation plans in a one-on-one call with each other. Later, one member must brief the travel plan of another person to the group. How To? This activity enhances listening abilities and communication. 9. Interactive Virtual Meetings In the Digital age, one needs flawless virtual team management. So, use collaborative tools to manage and proceed with the virtual team meetings. Use tools like Uber Conference and Google Hangouts to interact with the team effectively. How To? The main idea is to streamline productivity. 10. Online Movie Date Increase the flavor in remote team management with entertainment quotient "Movie Night" Using and other techniques, stream a movie to your remote teams and ask to leave a review in the chat. How To? Video Conferencing The activity enhances interaction and channelizes communication. Bottom Line: When you hire a remote development team, the only major issue in remote employees is  chances of feeling lonely. Following the above engaging and interactive Virtual team building activities is the best way to make your remote team active and productive.

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The craze for learning programming languages is very high. These days people have one question in their mind and that is which programming language should one prefer in 2022 and why? So The Themeselection is sharing here the Top 10 Demanding programming languages 2021 . In this detailed article, you will get to know what a specific language offers you and how it is getting into the trends. All these mentioned striking programming languages hold high scopes for the upcoming era. We have made this detailed list of the top 10 striking programming languages 2022 as per the recent survey. For programmers, coders, and other developers seeking development work, it’s never been more important to stay updated on the programming languages being used throughout the world. Although some of these languages share key similarities others require an entirely different level of understanding. Besides, having a deep knowledge of the right programming language can help land the right job or find work in a particular field. If we look at pay-scales then the following were some highest paid languages last year. Credit: Stackoverflow Here we are going to discuss the top 10 striking programming languages for 2022. The list contains the following languages: Rust TypeScript Python Kotlin Go Solidity Dart C/C++/C# Swift Javascript Sources Used: Stackoverflow Stackshare Hired Github Google trends Note: We have prepared this list after researching and observing the performance, demand, and usability of each in 2021. Although, this data may change as data can’t be static. Some languages in the list may seem new to you but we have included them because of the scope they possess. In the end, it depends on users as everyone has different interests and tastes. Also, we did not single out the first and last place. Today, the choice of language depends on the scope. Therefore, the main indicator is the frequency of use in different areas. Now, let’s head to the list…!! Rust Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. While Rust is syntactically similar to C++, one thing that it can guarantee is memory safety by using a borrow checker to validate references. As per the survey, Rust has been for consecutive four years. Impressive, isn’t it? This huge popularity shows that those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. Stack Overflow’s most loved language Credit: Stackoverflow Besides, Rust allows you to store data on the stack or on the heap and determines at compile time when memory is no longer needed and can be cleaned up. This allows efficient usage of memory as well as more performant memory access. Companies using Rust: Dropbox Coursera Figma Discord Advantages: Better memory safety due to the compiler Easier concurrency due to the data ownership model that prevents data races Zero-cost abstractions So, both beginners and experienced programmers can kickstart with Rust. In the way it is used, the language is close to established alternatives. TypeScript Typescript is a well-known name. Since its release in 2014, it is growing rapidly and maintaining its place in the list of top 10 striking programming languages 2021. It is developed by Microsoft. Well, it has emerged in response to growing dissatisfaction with JavaScript. Soon after its arrival, It impressed the Google team so much that they began working on developing TypeScript, instead of developing a new language. Credit: Stackoverflow Basically, TypeScript was used as the main programming language for the Angular2 + SPA structure. Even, Vue.js team is also using typescript as they announced in 2018 to develop new versions of its framework. The reason behind its popularity is, it is easy for developers to write and maintain codes. Furthermore, it offers a complete description of each component of the code and can be used for developing large applications with a strict syntax and fewer errors. Companies are diverting towards typescript. Following are some companies that are using typescript. Slack Vox Media medium Accenture ViaVarejo Advantages: Class and Module Support. Static Type-checking. ES6 Feature Support. Clear Library API Definition. Build-in Support for JavaScript Packaging. Syntax Similarity to Backend Languages (Java, Scala, .Net) In addition, it is well-structured and easy to learn. Its extended toolbox makes application development quick. With such benefits it offers, TypeScript is expected to supersede JS in 2020–2021, making it one of the most sought-after programming languages in the future. Nowadays many of the JS frameworks provide support for typescript. You can check and which are made using typescript . Modern Admin - Angular 10+ Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard Template Apex Angular Admi Template Python Image credit: Teahub Python is trending nowadays like never before..!! It is the biggest competitor to Javascript. Especially because of the rising trend of AI..!! Most often, Python is used in Data Science, Machine Learning, Web Development, Computer Science Education, Computer Vision, and Image Processing, Game Development. Besides, it is considered one of the easiest software languages to learn and master. Also, Python is undoubtedly the best starting language for beginners. Often named one of the world’s most popular programming languages, Python powers the backend stacks of many startups and is essential in the growing fields of data science and AI Credit: Octoverse.github According to many reports and ratings, is rapidly gaining popularity and has every chance of moving JavaScript from the first place. Many biggies are using python for example: Python Instagram Spotify Amazon Facebook Advantages: Very easy to use and learn Emphases on code readability Wide-ranging library support Open-source programming language Have a good community support Can scale complex applications Build a prototype Credit: Google trends As you can see how python has surpassed javascript in the past 5 years. Besides, it has a very wide range of applications like Web & Desktop Development, Network Servers, Machine Learning, GUI Based Desktop applications, In Enterprise and Business and Data Science, etc. Kotlin was developed by the Jet Brains team in an attempt to find “something better than Java.” Many experts claim that the goal has been achieved. Like Go, Kotlin cannot be called the trendiest programming language. But statistics show that demand is growing. Kotlin The effortless interoperation between Java and Kotlin makes Android development faster and more enjoyable. Since Kotlin addresses the major issues that surfaced in Java, developers have rewritten several Java apps in Kotlin. According to the , is one of the five most popular programming languages in the world. It beat competitors such as Java and Python, giving in only to Go and Scala in its field. Hired rating Kotlin Credit: Hired Companies using KOTLIN Coursera Uber Pinterest Post mates Advantage: A good compiler An Efficient programming language Provides an improved run-time performance Absence of raw types. In addition, the number of Kotlin users in the Github community is growing incredibly fast. According to a report from Octoverse, Kotlin ranks 4th among fast-growing programming languages. Go Well, is the least known of all the programming languages, but that doesn’t mean it is something you neglect..!! It was developed by Google in 2007 for APIs and web applications. Go In the past few years, Go has become one of the fastest-growing programming languages. According to Some programmers, it is a great alternative to Python. Credit: Google Trends As per the latest Report, Go has been going down. Although, it is necessary to draw your attention that Go has been maintaining its position consistently on the list. There may be some break downs but it has grown up to a level where it can’t be ignored…!! Credit: Hired Go is Ideal for minimal web applications, APIs, and web servers. Besides, it includes some features like C-like semantics, memory management, high performance, and modern data structure support. You can use it for system and network programming, big data, machine learning, audio, and video editing, and more. Here are some notable firms that have done so: Google Apple Facebook Docker The New York Times BBC Advantages: It Is Fast Easy To Learn Well-Scaled Comprehensive Programming Tools So, according to the trends and reports, despite its fall in the current time it is wise to keep it in check as it has maintained its popularity over the years. It is possible that Go can rise again. Solidity Now, we would like to pay attention to . Well, this programming language is not in the list of the best version of Stackoverflow or Octoverse. Moreover, it is not into the top 10 Pypl and TIOBE. Similarly, even in hired Solidity did not become one of the most sought. Solidity So, “Why Solidity is on the list?”. As we said at the beginning, one of the major factors is the scope. When interviewing Stackoverflow regarding Blockchain development, most often respondents mentioned this one. It’s a well know fact that demand for over the past year has grown rapidly. By almost by 517%. This technology is completely new because it is not yet very popular. But the benefits of the blockchain and statistics indicate that in the coming years the situation will change radically. Blockchain specialists Blockchain technology has emerged as one of the most promising services in recent years. It holds great potential to transform the workings of the financial sector. Living in a highly digitalized world, a range of large and medium-sized enterprises are exploring blockchain technology services in order to make a place in this competitive market. Thus, the demand for qualified solidity developers will increase. As it is the best for Blockchain today. Therefore, in 2021 the demand for specialists will be very large. This programming language is supported by the fast-growing EOS platform. It is Ethereum’s main competitor. So, If you plan to connect your life with the blockchain, then you must learn exactly Solidity and C++. Dart: Dart is a client-optimized programming language for apps on multiple platforms. It is developed by Google and is used to build mobile, desktop, server, and web applications. Dart is an object-oriented, class-based, garbage-collected language with C-style syntax. Dart can compile to either native code or JavaScript. Before Google announced Flutter, Dart was nowhere to be found. However, since the announcement of Flutter in Google I/O, Dart has got drastic attention among mobile developers as an alternative to React Native. The developers who didn’t like JavaScript as the programming language found Dart as an alternative option. As big companies like Google, , etc adopted Flutter, the popularity of Dart raised considerably. Alibaba Credit: Stackoverflow Advantages: It is open-source. Dart is really flexible Easy to learn It has great tooling support It ensures productivity Dart can be compiled both and . AOT JIT Companies using Dart: Google Useinsider Pickio Agora Besides, Almost every major Text Editor and IDE has great support for the Dart language. You can use heavy IDEs like Webstorm, IntelliJ IDEA, and Android Studio, or use simple editors like VS Code, Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs, Atom, etc. So you are free to choose whatever editor you are comfortable with. C/C++/C Yes, these are three But, as we said, the main focus is the scope. C/C++/C# are equally often used for game development. If you are confused about where to start refer to different programming languages. As we know, the gaming industry is very huge and is gaining more and more momentum every year. Besides, Demand for the quality of games is growing, therefore, qualified developers are always needed. As per the report, about 50% of the world’s population spends time to video games every day. Not only in Gamin Industry but Embedded applications such as robotics, 3d printing, Operating systems, drivers, Desktop applications such as graphics suites, desktop word processors, etc... uses this language. Also, all three of these programming languages occupy fairly high positions in all ratings. So, in the Hired list, they were in 13–15 places Credit: Hired Companies Using C# Delivery Hero Microsoft Accenture ViaVarejo Stack Overflow Companies using C++: Evernote LinkedIn Microsoft Opera NASA Facebook Companies using C: Twitch GitHub Telegram Messenger MasterCard Lime Swift Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. and the open-source community, first released in 2014 As name sands for, It is a powerful and intuitive programming language. It is useful for macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and beyond. Besides, writing Swift code is interactive & fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive. In addition, Swift includes modern features developers love. Swift code is safe by design, yet also produces software that runs lightning-fast. Credit: Stackoverflow As you can see in the report above, it is in the list of top 10 most loved languages 2020..!! And why not? It offers some amazing advantages as follows: Rapid Development Process Easy to Read and Write Requires a lot less code Improved Performance and Safety Easy to Integrate with Objective-C Companies using Swift: Lyft Uber Slack Artsy Credit: Armadsen Furthermore, since Swift is promoted by Apple, its popularity and community support are increasing. In fact, a study of the top 110 apps on the app store showed that 42% of apps are already using Swift. If only the 79 non-game apps are considered, the results are that 57% are using Swift, while 43% are not. Although the Swift community is growing fast, still it is significantly smaller as compared to any other open-source language. According to the latest StackOverflow Developer Survey, only 6.6 percent of the 87.354 respondents use Swift. JavaScript JavaScript is the most famous programming language today. Despite the flaws that triggered the creation of add-ons such as CoffeeScript, Flow, and TypeScript, JS is still the most sought after in many areas. It is widely known for adding interactive elements to web applications and browsers. Most front-end developers prefer JS. However, the Node.js runtime provides significantly more features than just front-end development Credit: octoverse is the most popular language, according to a Stackoverflow survey. The same survey showed that 66% of respondents like to work with JS. 17.8% of respondents want to master JS. JavaScript Credit: Hired As you can see, Javascript is still ruling the software development world..!! Many big companies are using Javascript, for example: Microsoft PayPal Groupon Google And why not..!!? It offers some amazing advantages as follows. Advantage: Runs instantly inside the web browser No compilation requirement Offers a very responsive interface to a website Highly multipurpose languages Simplistic implementation You can check Sneat Bootstrap 5 HTML Admin Template, and both are made using Javascript. Materio Vuetify VueJS Admin Template It can also be used to create animations and control the web interface. Another benefit is its support for all modern browsers. JavaScript can also be used for backend development with the help of Node.js. Conclusion: So, this was the list of the Top 10 Striking Programming languages 2021. As we have covered the 10 significant languages here, there are several that we have not mentioned. But the demand for relevant specialists will be very high. Among them are: Scala Ruby Java Objective-C PHP Well, despite there being some on the list and some are not, it is not necessary that you just go with the flow..!! You can choose the language you feel is more relevant and find it easy to work with. It will be beneficial to learn any of these languages. So, pick your favorite and kickstart your journey…!! About Themeselection: ThemeSelection, provide selected high quality, modern design, professional and easy-to-use premium and free , and UI Kits. bootstrap admin templates You can check which is one of the best free bootstrap admin templates. Chameleon Free Bootstrap Admin Template Also published at https://dev.to/theme_selection/top-10-striking-programming-languages-2021-4d2h

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Virtual team building makes remote teams feel as tight-knit as office employees to support purpose, vision, and enthusiasm and grow as a company. The future of work is remote work, and when it's done right, it improves employee productivity, creativity, and morale, psychologists' research finds. The number of employees who said they couldn't concentrate at their desk in an office increased by , and the number of employees who couldn't access quiet places to do focused work when working in an office went up by 13%. Similarly, has found that employees who worked from home were reported to have higher job satisfaction and reduced levels of burnout and psychological stress. 16% research Bringing that teamwork and collaboration to the virtual world can be difficult, but it is not impossible. Also, virtual teams are increasingly growing because most people prefer to work from home. With this increase of remote working, companies mustn't forget that these are real people behind their screens, and creating a solid rapport with one another can bring your team closer together. What Is Virtual Team Building? Virtual team building is essential because people have felt very isolated over the past couple of years. When a group is a part of the virtual team-building experience, they are getting to know their team, so the usual team bonding people complete in the office can be done virtually. Why Is Virtual Team Building Important? While returning to face-to-face work is slowly coming back into our lives, many companies are also looking at mixing in-person work with virtual work. Since this is happening, it is vital that every team member feels and knows that they are a part of a team. A study found that "87% of remote workers feel more connected through the use of video conferencing". So, to promote the use of video during team building activities. Icebreakers for remote teams are activities to start a virtual meeting involving everyone and making quick, personal connections with your remote co-workers. Use these virtual team-building activities and icebreakers to connect with your team better and conduct effective remote meetings. Benefits Of Virtual Team Building: The main benefits of virtual team building activities include: among remote employees Supports Collaboration because of working from home Combat Loneliness Increases Productivity Boost Team Morale and generate new ideas Encourage Creativity between team members Improve Communication to work during difficult times Boosts Motivation Supports Innovation Management amongst the team members. Builds Strong Relationships and taking care of employees’ mental health. Reducing Stress Here is a list of 10 virtual games, icebreakers, and activities you can do with your virtual team to build that strong company culture. This list includes: free virtual team building ideas quick virtual team building games virtual team building activities for conference calls best team building activities for work from home ways to make virtual meetings fun online team building activities for conference calls fun virtual team games for work Let’s get to it! The 10 Best Online Games and Icebreakers for Remote Employees Ice Breaker This is such a classic game to complete in person that it just needed to be added to this list. Ice Breakers are a great way to virtually get to know your remote team. This activity can be done in two different ways. The first way is to find an Ice Breaker list online that gives you a lot of questions to ask. On the contrary, have your team members answer questions themselves and send them to one individual. That person can print them out and cut them up to be picked from a hat. Either way, it's a fun way to get to know your team and learn a bit more about each other. Two Truths & a Lie Another game that is very popular in person (such as this one) may also be applied to the virtual world because it's good for people to play games they're familiar with. Have each employee think up of their two truths and a lie so that the other members can guess. This game is excellent for introducing your team to one another and building that social connection. With so many different aspects of picking from within your own life, this game always makes people laugh and ask questions for clarification. Online Team Meeting Virtual Scavenger Hunt What is great about this game is that the teams are going to have to work together to find all of the items. Split your virtual team up and give everyone a list of things they have to see in their house. Have some fun with it! Please give them a specific task like finding a green stuffed toy or blue pencil. Then, do something abstract, like finding something with an eye on it. After finding all the items, individuals can show their findings on the video chat, and their teammates can say whether or not that fits the bill. It's a great way to have fun with a timer and for lots of laughs to be had. Video Charades Who doesn't love a good game of charades? With the acting, jumping, and overall fun, your team will love this virtual Zoom game. Create a list from an online generator and privately message the individual with their topic on Zoom. Then, have them act it out for their team to guess, and voila, you have video charades! This online team-building exercise can bring a lot of social interaction to your team. In addition, it will leave your team with new memories of one another, and they are going to be excited for the next game day. Time Traveler Everyone has thought about what life would be like in a different time period. So, first, have your team discuss which time period they would like to go to and why. Then, get them to properly explain everything about this time period and how they would even make a living, survive, or their goals. This is a great way to introduce your team's imagination into the conference calls because daydreaming is fun for everyone. You can even give bonus points to people who want to act out their time period! Teamwork Photo of Your Life Challenge Creating a personal connection with your virtual team can be difficult because you are all apart. That is why it's essential to show your personal and human side, not just the business version of yourself. Have each team member take a picture that sums up their life. Yes, this isn't easy, but it can make them think a lot about themselves. Afterward, have them write up a short explanation of why this picture represents them. You can post this in a group chat or do a short presentation during a video conference. Either way, this is one that people will enjoy because everyone is going to know a bit more about their colleagues. Can You Hear Me Now? This is an excellent twist to Pictionary. Every team member has a turn of being the Describer. The Describer only has three minutes to describe how to draw an item using only simple shapes. For example, if it was a car, then they could say that you have to draw a rectangle and have two circles side by side at the bottom. Afterward, have everyone share their image. This is an excellent way to laugh with one another as your compare each other's drawings. The Describer gets the point for every person that draws the correct item, and whoever draws correctly gets the point too. Guess the Workspace/Refrigerator Want a guessing game that is fun and thought-provoking? Have each team member take a picture of either the inside of their refrigerator or their workspace. Get everyone to send their photo to one person and post them all up onto a group chat. Allow your team some time to look at the images and figure out which picture is connected to which teammate. This activity is a great way to try and bring each other into your home while still being private at the same time. It can also encourage your team to clean up their space before taking a picture, and they might be grateful for that. Tiny Campfire Everyone likes S'mores because they're delicious. Send every member a little kit with a tea light, marshmallow, graham cracker, chocolate, and a toothpick if you have the budget. Pick a day where your team is going to have a campfire together and have them all set up in front of their workspace. Take this time to share ghost stories around your tea lights while enjoying a S'more on the business. This is a great way to create memories together and to relax. With such a fun activity, your team is going to tell everyone about this idea. Pancakes vs. Waffles Pose the question to your team members: 'Both pancakes and waffles are about to disappear from the universe forever. Which one should go and why?' Your team needs to come to a unanimous decision on which one is allowed to stay and which one is disappearing. Once this has been decided, someone else can suggest another food or topic that is up for debate, like carrots. This game can get intense quickly because people can nominate anything for debate. If they want to put love, humanity, or family up there, then they can. With such freedom to choose the next topic, it is sure to keep people talking and allow them all to get to know each other more. You can more ideas for team building and icebreakers for remote meetings from the video below: Virtual Team Building Activities Are you looking for a remote job? Team building activities, on the other also allow remote team managers to become familiar with every employee's talents and skills, making for more efficient task delegation. Therefore, make sure you connect with your virtual team because you work together for most of the day. Also, suppose you're looking to join a virtual team or find any remote job. Find a remote position, learn about remote interviews, remote working tips, tools, and more, as work from home provides the ability to have a better work and home life balance. Frequently Asked Questions Some common questions to come up with for companies managing remote employees for the first time and are looking for fun remote team-building activities and games. Why is Virtual Team Building important? Virtual team building improves team effectiveness, leads to closer-knit teams and heightened collaboration levels, brings a team closer together, and creates a culture of psychological safety, which is essential for a team to be high-performing. Best Practices For Virtual Team-building. Regular check-ins & constant feedback sessions with your remote teammates Provide training, workspace upgrades, wellness packages, and technology allowances Conduct employee wellness programs Conduct daily stand-ups and 1:1 meetings Encourage social interaction Set clear expectations Promote fun Watercooler Chats How do you boost team morale virtually? Virtual happy hours, coffee catch-ups, and other fun activities are easy to keep morale high when times are tough, and connectivity is low. How do you make a virtual meeting more fun? Breaking up the monotony of online remote meetings is essential to keep people from falling asleep, feeling awkward and to boost participation and team involvement: Let people take ownership Keep meetings short and on-task Play games throughout the meeting Utilize interactive features on Zoom etc Use fun quizzes, trivia, and icebreakers Incorporate real-world objects Conduct fun interactive polls How do you motivate your team virtually? Align the remote team around the company goal so that everyone understands how they impact it. Create incentive programs to attract employee participation in remote team activities Provide the team with all the required remote tools Create and foster a growth mindset. Never miss a way to increase communication among teammates Introduce recognition and employee awards program to boost motivation Address trust issues by interacting more with remote employees. Tools for virtual team building. 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10 Team Building Activities to Boost the Morale of Your Remote Teams

How are we going to work on team spirit in this remote world? While most typical team-building activities don’t work over Zoom, these do. Although there are plenty of mega lists of virtual team-building activities online, I decided to prepare this for busy CTOs based on recommendations of other CTOs in the alphalist.cto private slack channel. TOP 5 Virtual Team Building Activities for Tech Teams 1. AWS GameDay What - more work? Somehow just a break from routine is enough to have fun - even if it's tech. 3 Things that make AWS GameDay different from the daily grind: Risk-Free -  The best part about AWS is that it's risk-free. The challenge is real but the data you are playing with isn't and there will not be any mess for the company to clean up afterward. Scoring - Gamification makes things more fun - pity it doesn't exist in real life. The code produced by the team is graded and they compete with each other on a scoreboard. Time Limit - Nothing like the rush a ticking time brings Here is how works. Other than the AWS Onboarding Video series, your team is on its own. They need to solve a DevOps challenge for a fictional company. AWS GameDay typically starts with a kickoff planning session, followed by a morning of discovery and problem solving sessions. Then there is a late morning recap, break for lunch and then teams spend the afternoon building, troubleshooting, and hopefully deploying. AWS GameDay 2. Spreadsheet Wars (source: ) MuseumHack Spreadsheets are fun. Everyone on your team knows some formulas. Now its time to challenge them to build tools using spreadsheets online like Design a choose your own adventure story. Create a beat-box harmony using sound scripts. Compete to reproduce the best pixel art - use famuos artworks for inspiration .Build a tool that someone would pay at least $5 to use. Make a recipe generator. 3. Virtual Escape Rooms Pre-Covid, Escape rooms were a great team-building activity. And they still are. Just virtually. You can decide to make your own using a LARP like or use one of the many . GatherTown online escape rooms From a build vs buy perspective, we think Buy is best. Though we hope someone will sell a virtual world equivalent of an escape room soon. 4. Chocolate Tasting Virtual Event Who doesn’t like chocolate? This makes it more inclusive than its sister events: wine-tasting and beer-tasting. The best way to engage in the services of a professional ‘Chocolate Tasting Virtual Event’ provider.  This enables you to have a professional chocolatier curate the tastes and take care of the entire culinary journey for you. Most providers will talk about the way chocolate is made, how the different methods allow for diverse tastes and you can even make your own truffles.   Ensure team participation by making sure to take dietary requirements into account though. 5. Drawing Game Pictionary is a great party game. But even adults like it too! Online Pictionary is a free platform that generates drawing prompts, provides a canvas and scoring. At each player’s turn, they receive a word as a drawing prompt. They draw while the other users watch their canvas in real-time and guess. The system allocates points to the correct guesses. Skribbl NERD ALERT:  Up the nerdiness by mixing nerd words to the drawing prompt deck. Words like: Example Nerd Words for Pictionary Serverless LAN RAM Kubernete Wifi (remember no symbols :)) Database Trojan Virus Blockchain Cryptocurrency Machine Learning NoSQL (send me your drawings :)) Telephone Pictionary Pictionary + Broken Telephone = Telephone Pictionary. Not only is typical telephone Pictionary hilarious with garbled prompts, but the online makes it even funnier by generating bizarre phrases as drawing prompts - or each player can write their own. First, each user writes/generates a wacky sentence. That sentence is then passed onto another user who draws it. The drawing is then passed on to another user who describes it in a sentence. That sentence is then passed on to the next user who draws it. In the end, you get to see how one wacky sentence garbled even further. Gartic Phone - The Telephone Game In Conclusion 'Neccessity is the mother of invention' it seems. Now even remote-first workplaces pre-Covid can benefit from a lot more resources on this topic. Which one have you tried? Let me know in the comments!

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