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May 4, 2016
This Interviewing Platform Changes Your Voice To Eliminate Unconscious Bias
Hiring is fraught with unconscious bias, but Interviewing.io aims to change the game at the outset to allow only the skills to shine.
Unconscious bias is often hiding in plain sight during the hiring process. We know that simply by being human, recruiters and managers can fall prey to signals that suggest the candidate is somehow not part of their tribe. Everything from an ethnic-sounding name to checking a gender box on an application can disqualify a candidate at the resume stage, according to several studies.
May 3, 2016
Voter ID Laws May Have Actually Increased The Likelihood Of Voter Fraud—By Hackers
States that passed voter ID laws didn't just potentially disenfranchise voters. They made their elections more vulnerable to hackers.
Over the past 16 years, only 10 cases of voter impersonation—out of 146 million registered voters—have ever been identified. And yet each election, a vocal political contingent made up primarily of Republicans complains about an alleged epidemic of voter fraud and impersonation. To combat it, they propose—and in many cases successfully pass—laws requiring voters to provide verification of their identity with an ID card, along with verbal confirmation of various pieces of personal data, before they are permitted to vote.
The Jukebox At Your Local Bar Just Got More Dangerous
The new TouchTunes app blends personalization, good design, and better payment options to keep you pumping money into the jukebox.
Rarely does a new music app make me feel nervous. But as the TouchTunes product team swipes through their app's redesigned interface and boasts about its new features, I realize I'm screwed. Put this thing on my phone and get a couple cocktails in me, and I'll be blowing through my hard-earned disposable income in no time.
Marvel Kicks Off Video Series To Ease In New Readers, Starting With Black Panther
With superstar writer Ta-Nehisi Coates behind the comic, and a movie on the way, now's the time to learn about the man known as T'Challa.
Marvel grabbed some international headlines when it announced that its relaunched Black Panther title, following the "All-New, All-Different" reboot of its line, would be helmed by National Book Award winner and superstar Atlantic columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates. And the first issue, which was released last month, earned that attention—the debut was a confident, assured story of the inner workings of the nation of Wakanda and its superheroic leader, T'Challa.
Instead Of Renting An Apartment, Sign A Lease That Lets You Live Around The World
Roam provides short-term apartments with a communal feel, for today's digital work-from-anywhere nomad.
If you can afford the airfare, it's getting easier to be a digital nomad. Roam, a new network of co-living spaces, offers a lease that lets you continually move: After a couple of weeks or months in Madrid, you can head to Miami, or Ubud, Bali. By 2017, the startup plans to have 8-10 locations around the world.
Indiegogo Campaign Aims To Light Up The Dominican Republic With $25 LED Lamps
For 8 million Dominicans with spotty electric service, and at least a million who are off the grid, cheap lights could change lives.
Outside of glitzy resort areas like Punta Cana, many Dominicans (about 8 million) live in the dark during nightly electric blackouts. An additional 1 to 1.5 million are off the electric grid. In a country with an estimated population of about 10.4 million, it's a crisis that affects almost everyone.
Afro Celt Sound System's Complete Guide To Creating The Perfect Home Recording Studio
From computers to mics, here's what you need to lay down beats like a pro.
Wanna record some music? Sadly, scheduling time in a professional studio to record, mix, and master your tunes can set you back thousands of dollars. Happily, you can take a pass on forking over all that dough to music industry pros and use your hard-earned cash to set up a recording studio in your home instead.
Adblock Plus Says It Knows How To Get Consumers To Pay For Content
Top ad-zapping software company will integrate Flattr, a system created by a Pirate Bay cofounder that lets people pay just what they want.
"Just because people block ads doesn't mean they hate publishers," claims Linus Olsson, the cofounder of Flattr. The Swedish entrepreneur thinks that he has come up with a possible solution to the fierce debate over ad-blocking software, which consumers love but that robs online content providers of the revenue they need to survive.
Netflix Knows Which Pictures You'll Click On--And Why
The service's recent experiments with images reveal some surprising (and useful) takeaways about why people click what they do.
It's still one of the great mysteries of the Internet: with the millions of images that bombard us on the web every day, what makes us click on one instead of another? Are some pictures universally appealing, or is art always a matter of personal opinion?
The LinkedIn For Women Who Have Taken A Career Break
Après is a new job marketplace that is targeted toward moms who want to opt back into their careers.
Jennifer Gefsky is an accomplished professional. After graduating from law school, she was recruited by a New York firm and worked there for several years before becoming vice president and deputy general counsel for Major League Baseball. Her next career move was a bit of a challenge, though.
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