30 easy ways to make your employees happy

Happiness is good for business.

There's lots of research out there that says happy people are more productive at work — which can be key to a company's success. So bosses should be doing everything they can to make sure their employees are content, motivated, and engaged at work.

In the infographic below, Unum, a UK-based financial protection insurer, highlighted 30 simple ways employers can do this:

Microsoft's new website that tells you about your age "try it out"

Microsoft introduced How-Old.net, a website to guess how old you are, at today's Microsoft Build 2015 developer conference.

The site is way for Microsoft to show off what it's working on behind the scenes, with smarter applications that can use facial recognition and huge amounts of data to make intelligent guesses. Supposedly, the app learns over time from the data everyone uploads, improving and becoming more accurate as more people use it.

How-Old.net isn't highly accurate, but it's close, and it's getting better.

Using How-Old is easy. You can upload your own photos, or choose from a Bing Image Search. Here's what it thinks about "Furious Seven" actor Vin Diesel, real age 47:

And "Hunger Games" actress Jennifer Lawrence, real age 24:

It's an oddity, but it demonstrates how Microsoft is thinking about data, facial recognition, and all kinds of other futuristic technologies. It's a little taste of things to come.

You can try out How-Old for yourself through the link below.

http://how-old.net/#

Technology can help Nepal earthquake survivors.

As the extent of the damage from the earthquake in Nepal became clear, technology companies started devising ways to help users in affected areas connect with friends and loved ones around the world, and vice versa.

Google’s Person Finder was tracking about 6,100 records as of 2:30 p.m. Monday, Eastern time. Here is how it works: Anyone can enter a person’s name, biographical information and photograph into Google’s database. You can specify whether you are that person, are seeking information about that person or have reason to believe that person is either alive or missing. Google does not review or verify any of the data.

The database can be searched online or by texting a name to a designated phone number. The idea is to centralize information so that users do not have to seek multiple sources.

Google’s tool can also accept data from other registries. The common format used, called PFIF, was established by a group of volunteers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to Google. After that disaster, multiple lists of missing people sometimes added to confusion, reinforcing the need for a single central database.

Nongovernmental organizations can embed Person Finder on their websites to get the information to a wider audience.

The tool was first introduced in 2010 after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and it was used again the next year after the major earthquake in Japan.

Facebook activated its Safety Check tool on Saturday. Using users’ profiles and location data from their mobile devices, it detects when they are in an affected area and asks them to update their status so that their friends will know they are safe. The tool can also be used to check on other users.

“It’s a simple way to let family and friends know you’re O.K.,” the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in a post on his Facebook page.

The company said millions of users in Nepal, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh had been marked safe, and tens of millions of people were notified that their contacts had been marked safe, as of Monday afternoon.

Facebook also started a fund-raising drive for the International Medical Corps on Monday, and said it would match every dollar donated, up to $2 million. The matching funds are to be distributed to local relief and rescue organizations.