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September 9, 2016
From Unfinished To-Do Lists To Making Better Hires: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top stories may help you guard against digital career gaffes and be more accepting of your incomplete to-do lists.
This week's top stories may help you guard against digital career gaffes and be more accepting of your incomplete to-do lists.
This week we learned why our unfinished to-do lists might not be such a bad thing, how bad apples slip through the interview process undetected, and which digital career slip-ups to avoid.
September 8, 2016
How The iPhone 7 And 7 Plus Could Jumpstart A New Sales "Super Cycle" For Apple
The once-unstoppable iPhone has suffered a decline in sales over the last two quarters. The new models could end that slump.
The once-unstoppable iPhone has suffered a decline in sales over the last two quarters. The new models could end that slump.
Over the last two quarters Apple suffered its first-ever downturn in iPhone sales, a trend that caused quite a stir in the financial community, where the groundbreaking device was seen as something of a perpetual out-performer. Some analysts said iPhone sales had peaked. Others predicted sales would be flat for the next four quarters.
Your Smartphone Is Becoming An AI Supercomputer
Photographic memory, instant artworks, instantaneous translation, lifelike virtual reality and much more are all coming to your pocket.
Photographic memory, instant artworks, instantaneous translation, lifelike virtual reality and much more are all coming to your pocket.
IPhone owners will get an upgrade on September 13 that allows them to find a picture of nearly anyone or anything, anywhere and from any time. Neural network artificial intelligence in the new iOS 10 performs 11 billion calculations in a tenth of a second on each photo snapped to figure out who people are and even what mood they're in.
In The Olympics For Cyborgs, These Are The Toughest Events
In the Cybathlon, people with disabilities compete against each other at daily tasks in an effort to kickstart innovation in prosthetics.
In the Cybathlon, people with disabilities compete against each other at daily tasks in an effort to kickstart innovation in prosthetics.
Millions of people worldwide rely on orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs, and other assistive devices to improve their quality of life. In the United States alone, there are more than 1.6 million people with limb amputations. The World Health Organization estimates the number of wheelchair users to be about 65 million people worldwide.
How A Startup Founded And Operated By Paralyzed Vets Made A Clothing Line That Matters
American-made label Oscar Mike grew into a successful T-shirt company by appealing to military vets—and their supporters.
American-made label Oscar Mike grew into a successful T-shirt company by appealing to military vets—and their supporters.
Strength comes in a variety of forms, including T-shirts.
Your Guide To Generation Z: The Frugal, Brand-Wary, Determined Anti-Millennials
The generation forged during the Great Recession is entering college and the workforce. Here's what companies need to know about them.
The generation forged during the Great Recession is entering college and the workforce. Here's what companies need to know about them.
It's a crisp late-summer day in Tacoma, Washington, and Maya Makino has just started her sophomore year at the University of Puget Sound. She's 19, which puts her at the upper end of generation Z, whose members currently range in age from 5 to 20. Like many of her peers, she doesn't think of college as a relaxing period for self-discovery and navel gazing. She was 10 years old when the recession hit—just old enough to be aware of what was going on—and that has shaped her feelings about higher education.
A New Weapon In Food Safety: Tracking Everything We Eat From Seed To Stomach
A big data approach to supply chain transparency could cut costs and prevent another Chipotle-like outbreak. But the data doesn't come cheap
A big data approach to supply chain transparency could cut costs and prevent another Chipotle-like outbreak. But the data doesn't come cheap
For a startup founder, Charlie Sweat carries a particularly heavy burden. In 2006, he was CEO of Earthbound Farm, the California-based farm and factory that produces the majority of the country's packaged organic salads, when an E. coli outbreak struck the company's spinach. Three people died, and 200 more were sickened. The source, investigators later surmised, was likely at the source of the spinach: an Angus cattle ranch that had leased land to a spinach grower.
Introducing The World's First Sneaker Design Academy
Thanks to a partnership with Foot Locker and Asics, students from the academy will soon see their designs on shelves.
Thanks to a partnership with Foot Locker and Asics, students from the academy will soon see their designs on shelves.
Some kids dream of becoming an astronaut or a fireman. D'wayne Edwards only wanted to do one thing: design shoes. He was 11 when he sketched his first sneaker using a number two pencil. But Edwards didn't see a path forward for himself in the footwear industry. A big stumbling block was that there were no shoe design schools where he could learn the craft.
How Unconscious Bias Is Affecting Our Ability To Listen
Research shows listeners tend to have a bias against female voices, even when they're saying the same thing as a man.
Research shows listeners tend to have a bias against female voices, even when they're saying the same thing as a man.
Sloppy grammar, sounding like you just woke up, ending statements with a slight uptick in pitch, called "uptalk" or "Valley girl speak," have all been proven to undermine a person's success.
I Moved Abroad To Launch My Startup And Wound Up Overworked In Paradise
It can be easy to slide into workaholism when you're far away from friends and family and want your overseas gambit to work.
It can be easy to slide into workaholism when you're far away from friends and family and want your overseas gambit to work.
Nine months ago, I boarded a plane in the U.K. with a plan to launch two businesses out of a backpack. It was to be an 8,000-mile startup pilgrimage to four countries—India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia—during which I'd bring two great business ideas to life.
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