You can beat back the worst outcomes of jealousy, and gain self-knowledge, with a few smart strategies.
A colleague hired at the same time as you gets promoted into a new leadership role. You weren’t actively gunning for that role yourself, but still, the speed of his ascent has alarms ringing in your head. Indeed, you soon find it hard to think of much else.
A microgrid using TransActive Grid’s model could let you directly sell energy generated from your rooftop solar panels to your neighbor.
If in the future you find yourself selling your excess solar panel energy to your neighbor via secure blockchain, you’ll have one startup’s actions on President Street in Brooklyn to thank. That’s where experimental microgrid provider TransActive Grid has posted its first two TransActive Grid Element meters inside residential units so that residents can exchange energy via a nascent blockchain marketplace. They’ve already made it a reality: Early last month, two Brooklyn residents completed the first peer-to-peer energy exchange, swapping watts for U.S. dollars.
A new report details the multiple hurdles that women face when starting their own businesses after becoming mothers.
The U. S. economy is $2 trillion larger now than it would have been if women hadn’t become a growing part of the workforce since the 1970s. That’s according to a recent report from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC). The report revealed how closing the gender wage gap could impact our economy even more. At the last Census count, women-owned businesses added $1.6 trillion in revenue. Imagine the impact to the economy then, if more mothers started their own businesses. But it’s not so simple.
Alphabet’s own Internet of Things outfit is working to stay one step ahead of hackers—and ahead of shifting consumer privacy expectations.
If you use Nest’s home automation products, you can have them automatically detect when you’re home or away. If you are out, your Nest Thermostat can automatically turn down your heat to save you money while you’re out, your Nest Cam can start monitoring your house for movement when you’re not there, and your Nest Protect smoke detector can test its alarm when nobody’s home to be disturbed by it.
The release of Lemonade proves again that innovating in the industry means changing the way music is created, distributed, and promoted.
Beyoncé’s new visual album Lemonade, released last weekend, is a masterpiece of a short film. It’s also the new pinnacle of popular music—a multi-genre epic full of anger, heartbreak, and power. It is a perfect culminating moment for how we make, distribute, and consume popular music.
Here’s what working designers think of the conversational interface trend.
Adrian Zumbrunnen was terrified of what conversational interfaces meant for him as a UX designer. “The conversational interface is scary,” he says. “Will I still have a place in this industry when pushing pixels around is no longer the thing that designers do?”
SmarterChild and other bots of yesteryear had hearts where their brains should have been. The new ones don’t.
The critically unloved 1999 film Bicentennial Man seems like an odd turning point in the evolution of chatbots, but for Robert Hoffer, Robin Williams’s performance as an intelligent robot was an inspiration.
The collaboration between Watson and Marchesa is part of a larger IBM effort to introduce its supercomputer into creative industries.
At the Met Gala in Manhattan tonight, one model will be wearing a “cognitive dress”: A gown, designed by fashion house Marchesa, that will shift in color based on input from IBM’s Watson supercomputer. The dress features gauzy white roses, each embedded with an LED that will display different colors depending on the general sentiment of tweets about the Met Gala. The algorithm powering the dress relies on Watson Color Theory, which links emotions to colors, and on the Watson Tone Analyzer, a service that can detect emotion in text.
The news that the Yahoo CEO could net a $55 million severance package made for breathless headlines this morning.
Last Friday, Yahoo filed an amended 10-K document that revealed if CEO Marissa Mayer is fired within a year of the sale of the company, she will net nearly $55 million in cash severance, benefits, and accelerated stock options.
Paysa data paints a picture of which top companies have the most human capital, and which companies are experiencing brain drain.
We are in the thick of earnings season and that means heavy scrutiny of companies’ financial performance. Apple has investors in a flap as it must recover from a 13% decrease in revenue from lackluster iPhone sales, while Alphabet’s big bets may finally be paying off. Yahoo’s financial performance has also been exhaustively combed, especially now in light of a potential sale.
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