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October 4, 2016
The Company-Wide Effort That Brought Google's New VR Platform Daydream To Life
The tech giant's OS, apps, and hardware divisions joined forces on the ambitious project that Google hopes will dominate virtual reality.
The tech giant's OS, apps, and hardware divisions joined forces on the ambitious project that Google hopes will dominate virtual reality.
Clay Bavor is really prone to motion sickness.
How Google's Mobile Daydream Platform Aims To Dominate Consumer VR
With its new Android N-compatible headset, Google is betting that smartphones will be at the center of consumer-grade virtual reality.
With its new Android N-compatible headset, Google is betting that smartphones will be at the center of consumer-grade virtual reality.
Google just went all-in on virtual reality.
Snapchat's Spectacles: How Digital Eyewear Could Escape The Nerd Factor
Unlike other wearable cameras, these sunglasses don't try to do too much—and that could help them take off where others have failed.
Unlike other wearable cameras, these sunglasses don't try to do too much—and that could help them take off where others have failed.
For years, Snapchat has offered effects that allow a range of silly augmentations to its users' on-screen faces. But soon, its facial accessories will extend to real life.
Robots Are Developing Feelings. Will They Ever Become "People"?
AI systems are beginning to acquire emotions. But whether that means they deserve human-type rights is the subject of a thorny debate.
AI systems are beginning to acquire emotions. But whether that means they deserve human-type rights is the subject of a thorny debate.
When writing the screenplay for 1968's 2001, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were confident that something resembling the sentient, humanlike HAL 9000 computer would be possible by the film's namesake year. That's because the leading AI experts of the time were equally confident.
This Bedsheet Startup Branched Out To Launch A One-Room Hotel
Parachute's "hotel" will be a cozy space for community dinners, workshops, speaker series, and also, a place to spend the night if you want.
Parachute's "hotel" will be a cozy space for community dinners, workshops, speaker series, and also, a place to spend the night if you want.
Today's shoppers have made it clear they prefer to buy products online, rather than schlepping to a store. Experts are even predicting that a third of all malls will be shuttered in the next few years.
Designing Your (Mid) Life, No Porsche Or Crisis Required
How the popular Stanford Designing Your Life course, now a book, is affecting mid-career professionals.
How the popular Stanford Designing Your Life course, now a book, is affecting mid-career professionals.
Brigid* started reading romance novels in her early teens. "It has always been my first love," she says. She embraced every fantastical sub-genre, from historical drama to paranormal. "I wanted to be swept away."
Three Science-Backed Ways To Influence Other People's Decisions
If you want to influence others' decisions, you've got to understand the mental shortcuts they use to make them.
If you want to influence others' decisions, you've got to understand the mental shortcuts they use to make them.
Your brain takes mental shortcuts all the time in order to make decisions efficiently. Because that takes place unconsciously, we can never fully control these "cognitive biases" that help us deal with the outside world—and, ultimately, survive in it. As practical as they may be, though, some of these biases can be problematic.
A Brutally Realistic Guide To Your "Dream Job" Of Working For Yourself
Here's how to nail the "living" part of "living the dream."
Here's how to nail the "living" part of "living the dream."
When many people are asked what their "dream job" might be, the answer often involves becoming their own boss. It often doesn't matter in what field—the main allure is no longer having any superiors to answer to. In fact, according to one recent study, 29 million Americans are considering going independent in the near future. But it's a pretty fair bet that not all of them will.
The Billion-Dollar Copyright Lawsuit That Could Legalize A New Kind Of Scam
If a court rules that photographer Carol Highsmith must pay to publish her own work, it sets a scary precedent for public-domain art.
If a court rules that photographer Carol Highsmith must pay to publish her own work, it sets a scary precedent for public-domain art.
Could a copyright lawsuit involving a renowned photographer of American iconography enable a new kind of scam in which ne'er-do-wells send out threatening letters demanding licensing fees for public-domain works—and that those actions are both legal and unstoppable? It could, in the form of an unintentional side effect that has cropped up at the edges of copyright law.
I Review Hundreds Of Cover Letters--Here's What I Instantly Reject
An experienced hiring manager explains what makes her eyes glaze over and what grabs her attention.
An experienced hiring manager explains what makes her eyes glaze over and what grabs her attention.
I've read a lot of cover letters throughout my career. When I was a fellowship program manager, I reviewed them in consideration for more than 60 open positions each year. So I saw it all—the good, the bad, and the standout examples that I can still remember.
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