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May 20, 2016
Producer Joel Silver On Crafting And Complicating The Buddy Action Movie Formula
As his latest two-hander, The Nice Guys, explodes into theaters, Joel Silver talks about going beyond the buddy action movie template.
It is statistically probable that Joel Silver produced your favorite action movie, and also your dad's.
How Airbnb Turned Its Hosts Into Political Foot Soldiers
Amid its toughest political fight, the company enlists hosts to lobby lawmakers. A trip to New York's state capitol shows it won't be easy.
It's 7:30 a.m., and a couple-dozen groggy Airbnb hosts are boarding a bus parked at the southeast side of New York City's Union Square. Besides apartment listings on the site, they have little in common. Chris Gatto, a gray-haired freelance business coach with thick glasses, walked to the bus from his East Village apartment. Danielle Herard, an independent insurance broker, woke up at 4:30 a.m. in Crown Heights, where she uses Airbnb to help pay the rent while she starts a design business. An antiques dealer who has been priced out of her Williamsburg storefront wears an army jacket. Another host, who falls asleep under his eye mask before the bus departs, wears a literal white collar.
Google's Latest Accessibility Feature Is So Good, Everyone Will Use It
Though it was developed for users with severe motor impairment, Voice Access could revolutionize how anyone uses their phone.
Inclusive design has a way of trickling down to benefit all users, not just the ones for whom it's originally intended. Voice dictation, for example, was originally pioneered in the 1980s as an accessibility feature; today, millions of non-disabled people use it every day through voice assistants like Siri and Google Assistant. The same thing goes for word prediction, a technology developed for people who have trouble typing on traditional computers—but which millions of people use now under the guise of smartphone autocomplete.
The Nice Guys Get Chewed Out, Dove Aims For The Heart: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week
Keegan-Michael Key and Rebel Wilson hit the road, Corona hits the waves, and Draymond Green hits the Beats.
Look around people, we're in a golden age of movie marketing. Okay, there's still a ton of terrible, terrible examples out there, but as Deadpool and The Martian have taught us, there are plenty of creative ways beyond the ol' tried-and-true trailer/poster combo.
Chart The Rise And Fall Of America's Most-Eaten Foods
Until recently, barely anyone had even heard of a dark leafy green.
Potatoes have been Americans' favorite vegetable since the 1970s, and for the last two decades, our most-consumed dairy product has been American cheese. But in some ways, U.S. diets are getting healthier: We now eat more chicken than red meat, and dark greens—once consumed less than onions—are now second only to our beloved potatoes.
8 Movies That Can Make You A Better Leader
These recommended films hold important leadership lessons.
Sometimes, movies hold surprising lessons. Just ask New Jersey's U.S. Attorney, Paul Fishman. At an April 2016 lecture at Fairleigh Dickinson University, he reportedly noted that one of the pieces of popular culture that best captured the work of trial lawyers—albeit in an outrageous and over-the-top way—was the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny starring Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei.
From IBM's Millennials To The New-Grad Skills Gap: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top leadership stories shed light on IBM's youngest innovators and hint why new grads may need to rethink their qualifications.
This week, we learned how IBM is tapping into its youngest talent, why the class of 2016 may be less prepared for the workplace than it may hope, and which cities are leading the U.S. in jobs this year.
Debunking The Myth Of The Woman Card In Silicon Valley
Women's qualifications on both the campaign trail and in the Valley are more closely scrutinized than their male counterparts.
In one of the latest mudslinging remarks of this election season, Donald Trump claimed that Hillary Clinton was playing the "woman card," implying that she only got to where she is in the race because of her gender. His remarks, "I think the only card she has is the women's card . . . She has got nothing else going. Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she would get 5% of the vote," sent the message to his supporters that her womanness is somehow getting her approval despite an obvious incapacity to be president.
The Insanely Simple Way To Prioritize Your Work And Life
You already have values. Your company already has values. And they're not what you've sticky-noted to your laptop.
Ever wonder why "values" is such a ubiquitous buzzword in the Information Age? One reason is probably because the more we try to do—and the better we try to do it—keeping that sense of purpose and meaning in sight gets harder. Both organizations and individuals all want to know how to better define their values, and live and work according to them.
In Good Spirits: Hangar 1's Latest Vodka Is 60% San Francisco Fog
Due to the drought, the distillery is catching fog in the city to capture water, vodka's main ingredient.
A distillery in the Bay Area is introducing a new vodka that comes with a twist: One of its key ingredients is fog. Hangar 1 unveiled Fog Point Friday, the first spirit ever made using fog caught in San Francisco, a substance readily available in the city.
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