Affectiva, a startup developing “emotion recognition technology” that can read people’s moods from their facial expressions captured in digital videos, raised $14 million in a Series D round of funding led by Fenox Venture Capital.

Perhaps one of the most frustrating things about moving from working for a company to setting up your own is learning how to write a project proposal. You just don’t have to do anything like that when you are working in an office. It makes your skin crawl. You are “design”, damn it! You never learned how to make sales!

We all have tasks we dread, and some days, it’s really tough to scrounge up the motivation to tackle those tasks. To get yourself going, Charles Duhigg, author of the Power of Habit, suggests making a choice that puts you in control and linking your task to your values.

Smart filters and Spotlight search take the headache out of deciding what to watch.

It’s as if people who write code had already decided that, “they were going to write code in the future by the time they were kids.” If you lack one or the other, you’re either a fake, or you won’t go far, regardless of which, you’re just not cut out for it. Such deeply entrenched stereotypes are not only completely wrong, they’re also detrimental - a view shared by many successful programmers.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off I/O 2016 with a bang ???? announcing that this year’s developer conference is being live streamed in virtual reality, a beautiful 360 view that’s just like you’re there.