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August 19, 2016
From Sexist Sportscasts To How Google Recruits: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top stories may encourage you to apply for a job at Google and help you pick up on the bias in Rio Olympics coverage.
This week's top stories may encourage you to apply for a job at Google and help you pick up on the bias in Rio Olympics coverage.
This week we learned how to artfully dodge a hiring manager's inappropriate questions, how Patagonia makes on-site child care pay for itself, and why Google's tech recruiters are shifting their approach to sourcing top talent.
Do Female Athletes Get Stiffed By The Sports Industry?
The Olympics brought a moment of equality to women in sports, but don't expect it to last.
The Olympics brought a moment of equality to women in sports, but don't expect it to last.
During the 2016 Olympics, the U.S. enjoyed a brief, imperfect glimpse of a rare phenomenon in sports: gender equality.
How Machine Learning Will Change What You Eat
Smarter technology could make farms more efficient and food tastier, though environmentalists argue none of it is guilt-free.
Smarter technology could make farms more efficient and food tastier, though environmentalists argue none of it is guilt-free.
During the 20th century, advances in fertilizers, irrigation, and mechanized farming technology helped make it possible to feed a dramatically growing world population.
August 18, 2016
The Ultimate Guide To Gmail Productivity: 25 Must-Have Tips, Tricks, And Time Savers
Get started, get organized, get rid of jerks, and much, much more.
Get started, get organized, get rid of jerks, and much, much more.
From its not so humble beginnings as a non-prank released on April Fool's Day in 2004 to its billion-plus users today, Google's illustrious email offering has proven indispensable for most of us.
Altspace Redesign Makes VR More Social
The VR company's new tools make it possible to control how you interact with people.
The VR company's new tools make it possible to control how you interact with people.
Over the last couple of years, Altspace VR has become one of the leading social VR environments, and today the Redwood City, California, company has launched a redesigned UI meant to give users a lot more control over their social interactions.
How Musical.ly Became A Pop Culture Phenomenon
As popular as Instagram and Twitter, musical.ly is the biggest app you may never have heard of. And it's not just for lip-synching teens.
As popular as Instagram and Twitter, musical.ly is the biggest app you may never have heard of. And it's not just for lip-synching teens.
If you have a teenager, have been near a teen lately, or are just young at heart, chances are you've heard of musical.ly. The almost 2-year-old app that encourages users to lip-sync to 15-second clips of songs has exploded in popularity, especially among millennials. Every day, users upload more than 10 million videos to the platform, which has held firm in the App Store's top 40 since last summer, right beside the likes of Snapchat and YouTube.
Smartphones Are Leading The Global Charge Against Blindness
Thanks to advances in AI, smartphones are revolutionizing care for the visually impaired, providing everything from diagnoses to "sight."
Thanks to advances in AI, smartphones are revolutionizing care for the visually impaired, providing everything from diagnoses to "sight."
"Seven hundred years after glasses were invented there are still 2.5 billion people in the world with poor vision and no access to vision correction," says Hong Kong philanthropist James Chen. Chairman of his family's Nigeria-based manufacturing company, Wahum Group, Chen is funding a contest called the Clearly Vision Prize that will award a total of $250,000 to projects that improve eyesight, especially in poor countries. Thirty-six semifinalists were announced this week (the five winners will be awarded September 15). Among the contenders: 3D printed eyeglass frames, drones that deliver medical supplies, and several smartphone-based technologies. Some of the smartphones help nonexperts test vision, and one uses artificial intelligence to "see" for blind people.
10 Ways Our Chatroom Of Editors Reacted To The News That NYT Now Will Shut Down
We were sad.
We were sad.
As platforms such as Facebook and Apple News slowly strangle the media industry, the NYT Now app for a moment provided a glimmer of hope. The app curated the best of the New York Times' stories, as well as stories from other publications. Maybe a news outlet could create its own highly entertaining news feed! Maybe it didn't have to depend on a third-party platform to distribute its content!
The Women Changing The Face Of AI
Women in Machine Learning has been a vital network for a sorely underrepresented group of computer scientists for the past 10 years.
Women in Machine Learning has been a vital network for a sorely underrepresented group of computer scientists for the past 10 years.
The idea was born in a hotel room.
5 Ways Employers Can Help Employees Fight The Fat At Work
Does your office have a "cake culture?" If so, all those extra sweet treats could be hazardous to your health.
Does your office have a "cake culture?" If so, all those extra sweet treats could be hazardous to your health.
If there's one thing that's the same across most offices in the U.S. and Europe, it's "cake culture." The term is used to describe the plethora of sweet treats commonly found in workplaces, from a bowl of M&M's on the HR officer's desk, to George from accounting's homemade brownies in the office kitchen, to that box of Krispy Kreme donuts the boss brings to kick off morning meetings in the conference room.
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