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January 15, 2014
Women Need To Brag More At Work
Self-promotion is key to success, but it makes many women uncomfortable. The solution? Distract them.
Ah, the see-saw advice that women face when it comes to professional success. Can we have it all? Should we lean in? Would that require bragging more? Yes, research has shown that self-promotion is a significant component to closing the gap between men's and women's achievements in the workplace. But thanks to societal gender norms, women are often told to be modest, demure, and polite. What's a self-respecting but socially conditioned gal to do?
7 Brilliant Ideas To Make Health Data More Useful
What if there were an easy way to connect with people in your neighborhood who had the same health problems as you? That's just one idea from the winners of the Knight Foundation's challenge for new tools that use health data.
For the past few years, winners of the Knight News Challenge have produced handy tools for journalists, policymakers, and everyone in between. You may have heard of some of the best known ones, like DocumentCloud, a tool for analyzing public documents, and Safecast, a project that aims to build a network of air quality sensors. Now the Knight Foundation has turned its attention towards health data, with the seven winning projects of the $2 million Knight News Challenge: Health.
January 13, 2014
Google To Purchase Nest For $3.2B To Go After Connected Home
Google has taken one giant step toward entering the fast-growing connected home space.
Google has taken one giant step toward entering the fast-growing connected home space.
For A Glimpse Of Tommorow's Portable Devices, Look At The Bluetooth Speakers Of Today
Bluetooth speakers were a dime a dozen at this year's CES. And though they might not revolutionize the audio world, they give designers a chance to experiment, which, in turn, could lead to truly innovative ideas.
If there's one item that was practically unavoidable at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, it was the Bluetooth speaker, which is suddenly so ubiquitous that it was tough to walk more than 30 seconds of show floor without stumbling on yet another one. In some ways, this is just the unremarkable result of a set of maturing technologies, coupled with growing demand for music that's mobile and uncomplicated. But these same qualities have also turned the Bluetooth speaker into a kind of design playground, giving industrial designers and tech companies an opportunity to flex their creative muscles in much the same way weather apps have for interaction designers.
Democratized technology is letting designers stop solving basic functionality problems, and start playing around.
Guys! Did You Know All The Code In Tech Movies Is Fake?
An engineer at Cloudflare has definitively proven what we all suspected--but there's a twist.
Fans of Dr. Who might be disappointed to know that their hero isn't actually parsing a screen full of code in the season seven episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship." Actually, what he's looking at is an SVG file of a light wave from Wikipedia.
Angry Taxi Drivers Attack Uber Cars In Paris
The rideshare program faces physical backlash from taxi drivers angry about "unfair competition."
Uber: When Innovation Outpaces The Law
Can We All Just Admit Google Is An Evil Empire?
A growing chorus of voices in the tech industry are exhorting us to get used to Google's violations of users' privacy and preferences.
Google is kicking off 2014 with some good old-fashioned privacy infringement. The search giant's recent decision to link Gmail addresses to Google+ was met with considerable backlash among users who don't want their inboxes exposed to spam. But according to former Tumblr lead developer Marco Arment on his blog, we really shouldn't be surprised at all:
Facebook Buys Branch, With Plans To Build A "Conversations Group"
The social network scoops up Branch, which, as you might remember, is backed by Twitter cofounders Biz Stone and Ev Williams.
Facebook has bought Branch Media, the startup behind online messaging platform Branch and sharing service Potluck. Founder Josh Miller made the announcement Monday morning, saying Facebook pitched the idea as a way to "build Branch at Facebook scale!"
NBC Partners With NowThis News To Reach Social Audiences
The partnership gives NBC access to the mobile and social startup's videos. In exchange, NowThis News gets access to NBC reporters and archives.
NBCUniversal News Group is partnering with Ken Lerer's NowThis News, the mobile news startup known for creating content customized for sharing across social media.
How Andrew Mayne Uses Magic To Tell Stories--And Screw With People At The Same Time
Magician/author/producer Andrew Mayne and producers Mary Jaras and Joke and Biagio discuss refocusing the performer's brand and expertise for his new A+E reality show, and elevating his magic from pranks to storytelling.
A+E (which launched the TV career of Criss Angel) wanted another magic series. Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina (known professionally as Joke and Biagio) wanted to do a reality show about revenge. Andrew Mayne, a magician and illusion inventor, was looking for an unscripted series that could showcase his skills in another way.
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