Most people have had at least one colleague with a sense of privilege who likes to speak first, she says, and that can often drown out other voices in the room. “This behavior may make it difficult fo
The unintended consequence of the #MeToo movement — that men are now more fearful of working one-on-one with women — is getting worse. Much worse. Or at least, that’s the takeaway from a survey releas
Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in chapters. And at least for non-fiction books, one i
4 min read · May 9, 2019 -- Me Collecting Potentially Unlimited Value My poker coach, Tommy Angelo , sells me his time and experience. Either by video or email, I describe a problematic poker situatio
The dot-com bubble of 2000 might have been the worst thing that happened to an entire generation of investors. The carnage was twofold: First, those investing in the NASDAQ Composite Index -- a techno
Published: April 19, 2019 Human genius has always been something of a mystery. Experts often cannot articulate how they know someething to be true. When a world-class chef smells something—crinkles hi
Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd Once, it was easy to be obscure. Technology has ended that. April 17, 2019 Credit... Claire Merchlinsky By Woodrow Hartzog and Dr. Hartzog is a professor of
Working remotely can be really tough. To get some insight into how to do it better, Google conducted a two-year study involving data from 5,600 employees across the U.S., Asia, Europe, the Middle East
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M ost jobs that exist today might disappear within decades. As artificial intelligence outperforms humans in more and more tasks, it will replace humans in more and more jobs. Many new professions are
Image Credit: Pixabay (Image credit: Image Credit: Pixabay) As a career technology guy, I am admittedly biased, but few industries are cooler to be part of. Every day, I get to think with people aroun
The New Social Network That Isn’t New at All Credit... John W. Tomac SAN FRANCISCO — My favorite new social network doesn’t incessantly spam me with notifications. When I post, I’m not bombarded with
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ira Black/Getty Images Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last week that some young people are concerned about having children given the threat climate change could pose
Published 16 February 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Image caption, Astronomy is one of the many areas of science in which machine learning is used to make discoveries By Pallab G
It already knows whether you are single or dating, the first school you went to and whether you like or loathe Justin Bieber. But now Facebook , the world's biggest social networking site, is facing a
I am really sad about Facebook. I got involved with the company more than a decade ago and have taken great pride and joy in the company’s success … until the past few months. Now I am disappointed. I
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Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram. When did performative workaholism become a lifesty
Last week, the popular hacking conference DerbyCon announced that it was shutting down. The next DerbyCon, the organizer said , will be the last. “Conferences in general have shifted focus to not upse
PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERING Last Update: 2019 March ( changes ) Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstan
Tech Keywords Frustrated by social media, businesses and others looking for an audience turn to an old standby Jan. 19, 2019 12:00 am ET Illustration: Mengxin Li Kids think it’s fussy and archaic , bu
W e’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. And the problem with living through a revolution i
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F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia Following President Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, the bureau grew increasingly concerned about
4 min read · Jan 10, 2019 -- Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. During a Twitter discussion with Charity Majors this week (ab
On December 31, 1999, we threw a party. It was the end of one millennium and the start of a new one; people very much wanted to celebrate, preferably somewhere exotic. Our party fulfilled that criteri
After the dust settles and a startup fails, there’s an odd period of self reflection to figure out what went wrong. It’s usually fairly obvious and you wonder why you didn’t see it earlier — or why yo
I N 2015, AFTER the Supreme Court had affirmed the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, Jeremy Frimer of the University of Winnipeg asked 200 randomly selected Americans to take part in a simple ex
The days of double-digit smartphone growth are over — and the next decade may start to see smartphone sales decline. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images From roughly 2007 until 2013, the sm
International travel can look pretty glamorous from the outside and certainly it has its moments. But what many people don't tend to see (and indeed what's less interesting to share in 140 char tweets
You now have permission to freak out. Photo: George Rose/Getty Images Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 Harry Taylor, 6, played with the bones of dead livestock in Australia, which has faced severe drought. By Oct. 7, 2018 Leer en e
Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically diff
Prosperity begets prosperity: On a global level, economists and historians have shown that places that prospered 100, 500, even 1,000 years ago tend to be more economically developed today . But how?
Enlarge Getty | Andia Popular hand sanitizers may be heading the way of antibiotics, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine . Bacteria gathered from two hospitals i
Future Human Anxiety. Depression. ADHD. Dementia. The human brain is in trouble. Technology is a cause — and a solution. Published in Elemental · 18 min read · Jul 9, 2018 -- Illustrations by Maria Me
They're not the first company to see these results. Perpetual Guardian employees not pictured. ESB Professional/Shutterstock This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insid
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., a
European Union leaders have discussed their fears that the “immense pressure” President Trump’s policies are putting on Nato could lead to its break-up. Donald Tusk, the president of the European Coun
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