Company Culture Google Spent 2 Years Studying 180 Teams. The Most Successful Ones Shared These 5 Traits Insights from Google's new study could forever change how teams are assembled. By Michael Schnei
“WE LIKE lists because we don’t want to die.” What Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, said about human beings applies even more to the institutions they create. Without lists that keep track of people an
Subscribe to our Mind & Brain newsletter Here's why you should try to fit less—not more—into each day. Derek Beres 03 July, 2017 The other day a friend mentioned that he’s looking forward to autonomou
Just How Far Can California Possibly Go on Climate? Dairy cows in Fresno County, Calif. Some of the reductions in a state proposal to reduce emissions would come from curbing emissions of methane, a p
There were many reasons to be alarmed by the transcript of President Donald Trump’s Wednesday interview with The New York Times , but if you drew back the lenses of time and context far enough, it for
Credit... Kiersten Essenpreis News Analysis Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers. Cre
Opinion Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance! Credit... Laurie Rollitt It’s been a bad summer for maintenance, especially in New York. Last month Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the
Squirrels are the terrorists of the trees. Sure, they're small and cute, but that's how they lure you into a false sense of security—a single squirrel might be adorable and unassuming, but a swarm of
Google today is rolling out its take on the news feed , a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other content. The feed will appear in its flagship app for Android and iOS , simply called Googl
People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer. Content and access to content was a stra
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Productivity Working From Home Makes You Happier and 'Massively' More Productive, According to Science A company in Singapore made half its employees work from home for two years. The results will ast
Brian Barker was living in Portland, Oregon, with a well-paying union job as a spokesperson for the fire department. But despite having “a job you don’t leave”—he had an itch. “I wanted to go live in
Bob: “I can can I I everything else.” Alice: “Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to.” To you and I, that passage looks like nonsense. But what if I told you this nonsense
Published in Google Design · 13 min read · Jul 10, 2017 -- 7 steps to stay focused on the user when designing with ML By Josh Lovejoy and Jess Holbrook Machine learning (ML) is the science of helping
Rubicon Project said Monday that it has acquired nToggle for $38.5 million in a move to bolster its header bidding tech and differentiate itself as consolidation in its sector looms. The 23-person tea
G amification is a buzzword that was relatively salient a few years ago, but has since dropped out of the vernacular of modern user-experience design. However, the fundamentals of gamification — addin
While lots of attention is directed toward identifying the next great start-up, the defining tech-industry story of the last decade has been the rise of Apple and Google. In terms of wealth creation,
Verily, the life sciences arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has hatched a plan to release about 20 million lab-made, bacteria-infected mosquitoes upon Fresno, California — and that’s a good thi
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”: Peter Drucker All too often, in an effort to be ‘data driven’, teams fall into one or more of the following traps: Tracking the wrong things, or not tr
One Thing Silicon Valley Can’t Seem to Fix The new Apple headquarters under construction in Cupertino, Calif. “Silicon Valley is the only place on Earth not trying to figure out how to become Silicon
Back in 2006, when the iPhone was a mere rumor, Palm CEO Ed Colligan was asked if he was worried: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “
Ask Well Is Chlorine in Swimming Pools Safe? Caeleb Dressel swims laps during an afternoon practice at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 2016. Credit... Sarah Beth Glicksteen for The NYT Q.
If you still can’t figure out what the heck a bitcoin is… Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news · 6 min read · Dec 12, 2013 -- We’re sitting on a park bench. It’s a great day. I have one a
Steve Jobs, then Apple’s CEO, holds up the new iPhone that was introduced at Macworld on Jan. 9, 2007 in San Francisco, Calif. David Paul Morris / Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories
The end of the cycle One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, s
Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment Rachel Renock, the chief executive of Wethos, center, with her business partners, Claire Humphreys, left, and Kristen Ablamsky. Ms. Renock said the
The European Commission levied a record €2.42 billion ($2.73 billion) fine on Google yesterday for having “abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Goog
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Why France Is Taking a Lesson in Culture From Silicon Valley A new start-up incubator in Paris symbolizes France’s tech ambitions, but can the land of the 35-hour workweek overcome its cultural and re
My wife and I had always dreamed of living in Italy. Six years ago we finally made the move with our two young children. We rented a fourteenth-century farmhouse surrounded by olive groves and vineyar
Innovate Here's Einstein's Advice to His Son on How to Accelerate Learning The genius offered simple, enjoyable advice to his young son on how to learn more quickly. By Jessica Stillman , Contributor,
A guide, not a template 11 min read · May 21, 2017 -- The first thing a good UX Designer should tell you about creating a persona is that if you just blindly follow a template, you have missed the poi
Editor's note : On the two-year anniversary of the Chapecoense tragedy, ESPN is reposting the article, along with an below that offers updates on what has happened to the main characters in the story
Article body copy One November night each year, beneath the full moon, more than 130 species of corals simultaneously spawn in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Some corals spew plumes of sperm, smolder
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Published on June 9, 2017 Townville, S.C. Recess had finally started, so Ava Olsen picked up her chocolate cupcake, then headed outside toward the swings. And that’s when the 7-year-old saw the gun. I
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French president Emmanuel Macron spent a good chunk of his afternoon at the ginormous Viva Technology conference in Paris (or “VivaTech” for short). It wasn’t just a quick visit, Macron wanted to send
A s a neonatal intensive care nurse, Lauren Bloomstein had been taking care of other people’s babies for years. Finally, at 33, she was expecting one of her own. The prospect of becoming a mother made