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July 1, 2016
Glu Mobile's Latest Celebrity Game Stars Gordon Ramsay
The celebrity chef praises the game's authenticity with one key difference: His cursing has been bleeped out.
For the past few weeks, Gordon Ramsay and I have been cooking together. We made pepperoni pizza on the train on my way to a meeting Monday afternoon, a late-night turkey wrap when I couldn't sleep last Wednesday, and I've made more hamburgers in the past 14 days than I've possibly put together in my entire lifetime. There's just one catch to my new culinary achievement: It all happened on my iPad.
This Device Surrounds You In A Bubble Of Clean Air
You don't have to purify all the air—just the air around your head.
A decade ago, on flights to visit his family in Beijing while he was an engineering student at MIT, Raymond Wu started to think about the increasingly filthy air in the city. "My parents, my grandparents, were all breathing this not-so-good air," he says. "I could definitely tell that their health wasn't good as a result."
This Is What Happened To My Brain When I Spent More Time In Nature
Studies have shown that spending time in nature can lead to less stress and greater creativity. So I put it to the test.
It's a refrain that kids have heard from their parents for generations: "Go outside and play. It'll be good for you." Little did we know as children how valuable that advice was. Science has shown that parental wisdom to be more accurate than we realized. Study after study after study has now shown that there are multiple health benefits to spending time in nature.
Five Pro Tips To Beat Procrastination Every Time
Experts take aim at our penchant for putting things off and help us get back on a more productive track.
The pursuit of productivity in the workplace has become its own national pastime. Success is often synonymous with the ability to squeeze the maximum amount of productivity out of each day. As the renowned management consultant Peter Drucker once stated: "Nothing else distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time."
Seven Ways Parents Can Be More Productive During Summer
Summer can be a nightmare in time management for working parents, but these tips will help you manage it all.
Summers are meant to be a time to slow down and relax. If you're a parent, though, summer can be a master challenge in time management. Juggling childcare, summer camps, sports, and family vacation can add up to a lot of stress, and slowing down and relaxing sounds like a daydream.
Why You Need To Master In-Person Conversations In Your Slack-Driven Office
Stepping away from your daily onslaught of digital communication can be one of the best (and easiest) ways to advance your career.
You already know the numbers. The average professional receives around 304 emails each week, requiring some 28 hours to manage, according to Joseph McCormack, author of the book Brief. We also check our smartphones, he writes, roughly 150 times a day, often expressly to deal with work communication. And this is all not to mention the group messaging apps like Slack that seemingly more of us are immersed in every day.
From Better Brainstorms To Staying Focused: June's Top Leadership Stories
June's top stories may help you sharpen your focus, show you how to brainstorm better, and get you noticed by job recruiters.
This month, we learned how Googlers brainstorm, what researchers are doing to improve our memory and focus, and a few things job recruiters no longer care that much about.
June 30, 2016
Seven Ways Facebook's Big Algorithm Change Will Affect Marketers and Publishers
The social network is a fact of life for any company that creates content. And the new reality will require lots of adjustment.
The day many marketers and publishers have dreaded has arrived: Facebook is changing its algorithm to send less traffic to content sites.
Change.org Dives Into Crowdfunding
The site, which just surpassed 150 million users, wants to build a platform for social change that extends beyond petitions.
Since Change.org began focusing on viral petitions in 2011, one of the criticisms it has received has been that it facilitates "slacktivism," a breed of lightweight, passive action that passes for real engagement. And for about just as long, Change.org's founder and CEO, Ben Rattray, has been arguing that the petition tool is not only effective, but the beginning of a "platform for social change that empowers movements."
Android Without Google: A Brief And Mostly Uninspiring History
When it comes to Google's grip over Android, phone makers are as wary as they are powerless.
Unless you're Google, Android phones can be a rough business.
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