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August 4, 2016
Stay Woke--With Help From A Bot
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson teams up with artist Darius Kazemi to create a Twitter bot with a mission—& a personality.
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson teams up with artist Darius Kazemi to create a Twitter bot with a mission—& a personality.
For DeRay Mckesson and his fellow Black Lives Matter activists, Twitter is a double-edged sword.
In The Calais Refugee Camp, Refugees Are Constructing Amazing Shelters
Despite very few materials, the residents of France's large and notorious refugee camp are creating truly impressive structures—and even a church.
Despite very few materials, the residents of France's large and notorious refugee camp are creating truly impressive structures—and even a church.
In these photos of the Calais Jungle—a notoriously terrible refugee camp in France—one thing is conspicuously missing: refugees. Instead of showing people, photographer Marco Tiberio wanted to show where they're living.
4 Ways To Make Your Employees Love Training
If corporate training is a drag on the workforce, try focusing on these four game-changing techniques.
If corporate training is a drag on the workforce, try focusing on these four game-changing techniques.
From teaching employees the basics of your technology infrastructure to helping them develop new insight and skill sets, training is a necessity in many companies. And while stand-and-deliver instructors in classroom settings make up 46% of training hours, according to a 2015 report by Training magazine, managers are increasingly adopting new formats and methods of training to both improve employee satisfaction and increase effectiveness.
4 Ways To Bounce Back When You're Treated Unfairly At Work
You can get even, or you can take the high road—where the outlook's much better for your health and career.
You can get even, or you can take the high road—where the outlook's much better for your health and career.
Depending on how you see it, there's more than just death and taxes on the short list of things life throws at pretty much everybody. There's also unfairness (which cynics might even see as the umbrella term for both death and taxes), as many a parent has informed a 5-year-old who's too young to know what taxes are but has no trouble grasping what's not fair.
Five Lessons Kids Can Teach You About Pitching Your Startup
If you can't explain your startup to a child, you may not have better luck pitching to investors.
If you can't explain your startup to a child, you may not have better luck pitching to investors.
If you can't explain your business model to kids, then you're not ready for prime time in front of investors. That's the idea behind Pitch-a-Kid, a new Austin, Texas-based organization that puts kids in the judge's seat as they analyze adult entrepreneurs' pitches and choose the strongest pitch of the bunch.
Ralph Lauren Goes To Rio: The Making Of This Year's Team USA Olympic Outfits
The quintessential American sportswear brand is back for its fifth Olympics. Sorry, no berets this time.
The quintessential American sportswear brand is back for its fifth Olympics. Sorry, no berets this time.
The opening ceremony of the Olympics is one of the great pageants of our time. Tomorrow night, athletes from every country will take the world stage in outfits that represent their homeland as nearly 1 billion people tune in. And this year, much like every summer and winter Olympics since 2008, Team USA will march out in clothes designed by Ralph Lauren.
August 3, 2016
The Epic Fight Over How To Label "Natural" Foods
The FDA is trying to come up with a definition for "natural" foods, but it's not so easy.
Walk around a local farmers' market or a big chain like Whole Foods or even Walmart and you'll be overwhelmed by the sheer variety of "natural" and "healthy" foods. Consumers want foods they believe offer more health benefits and are made without artificial ingredients, and farmers and food manufacturers are happy to sell to them. But how can you trust that all those products are truly "natural" and "healthy"? It's complicated.
Microsoft Announces Five New Travel And Entertainment Bots For Skype
The bots—from Hipmunk, IFTTT, Skyscanner, StubHub, and Spock—represent the second wave of voice-controlled Skype assistants.
A few months ago at Microsoft's Build developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella described a new bot development framework called Conversations as a Platform. It consisted of a number of developer tools to make bots that understand the human voice and use machine learning to answer questions and deliver useful information.
Area 404: How Facebook's New Hardware Lab Is Propelling It Into The Future
Area 404 is a 22,000-square-foot lab with a scanning electron microscope, 60,000-PSI of waterjet cutting power, and more giant machines.
If you're a heavy user of Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram, you'd probably never guess that on the first floor of a building at the social networking giant's Silicon Valley campus, behind a key-card access door that grants entry only to a select few people, is a scanning electron microscope.
Major League Soccer Is Perfecting The "Beautiful Game" For The Social Age
Copa90 head James Kirkham on why the MLS All-Star Game's fresh approach is an example for the rest of the soccer world.
Last week in San Jose, the great and the good of brands who activate in U.S. soccer gathered in the name of a single game. At the 2016 Major League Soccer All-Star Game, from ESPN to Adidas, brands, broadcasters, and Major League Soccer clubs mixed together for a week to celebrate the continued rise of soccer in America.
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