The social-sharing platform uses cutting-edge techniques to tailor recommendations to each user and boost engagement.
The social-sharing platform uses cutting-edge techniques to tailor recommendations to each user and boost engagement.
With 100 million users active on its platform every month, Pinterest is increasingly relying on machine learning to help guide the company to new online discoveries.
There’s a lot of interview-prep advice out there—maybe too much. This is what really matters.
There’s a lot of interview-prep advice out there—maybe too much. This is what really matters.
You stressed over every little adjective on your resume (“efficient or productive?”). You wrote draft after draft of your cover letter. And now you’ve arrived at the moment of truth: the job interview, when you’ll be face to face with the person who controls your employment destiny.
Integrating two companies’ cultures takes forethought, a solid plan, and time.
Integrating two companies’ cultures takes forethought, a solid plan, and time.
Your company’s culture is what defines it. Small startup or large corporation, it’s the set of values and attitudes that bind your employees together. So what happens to that identity when another company buys you out? Mergers and acquisitions can cause fear and confusion, usually leaving questions about the impact on corporate culture low down on the list of priorities.
Here’s the latest research on the small tweaks you can make to fall back in love with a job that’s getting the better of you.
Here’s the latest research on the small tweaks you can make to fall back in love with a job that’s getting the better of you.
When you first moved your things into your office, you couldn’t wait to put your talents to use and impress your new colleagues with your dedication and drive.
A panel of 26 expert judges pored through more than 1,700 entries and selected the best products, services, and ideas of 2016.
A panel of 26 expert judges pored through more than 1,700 entries and selected the best products, services, and ideas of 2016.
Year by year, the Innovation by Design Awards have grown. This year’s entries represented an astonishingly strong survey of innovation around the globe—more than 1,700 designs. In the eyes of our esteemed judges, the projects you’ll find below (and in the slide show above) were the best of the best. There were only 15 winners anointed in the entire competition; we also crowned 231 finalists. Each of those projects represents what’s best about design today: big ideas, meticulously thought-out details, and a clear viewpoint about how we live now—and how it could be better. We hope that you’ll dig in and be inspired.
New research draws attention to the role music plays in workplace productivity.
New research draws attention to the role music plays in workplace productivity.
If you want your employees to work well together and get more done as a team, it might help to pipe in some upbeat tunes. Research from Cornell University has found that employees who listen to happy music—like the Beatles’s “Yellow Submarine”—are able to cooperate and make group decisions better than employees who work without a background soundtrack.
Watching the first NFL game live-streamed on Twitter on my Galaxy 6 felt like being in the sports bar of the future.
Watching the first NFL game live-streamed on Twitter on my Galaxy 6 felt like being in the sports bar of the future.
I’ve been a football fan for as long as I can remember. But my first memory of the game is set on the other side of the world, in New Delhi, India, where I grew up. It involves me, bleary-eyed and wearing a wedge of Swiss cheese-shaped foam on my head, huddled next to my dad on the couch.
Twitter’s live events aim to recruit new users. So I asked my favorite football-loving, Twitter non-users to review its first NFL broadcast.
Twitter’s live events aim to recruit new users. So I asked my favorite football-loving, Twitter non-users to review its first NFL broadcast.
Last night, Twitter streamed the first of 10 Thursday-night football games that it has bought the rights to air this season. Hosting NFL games is part of a wider strategy to woo new users to the social network: The game, like other live events on Twitter, was broadcast next to a running stream of tweets that a new user could consume without necessarily understanding the nuances of hashtags, @ mentions, and other of Twitter’s less-than-intuitive conventions.
Former WeWork executives want to help landlords and corporations build modern office spaces themselves.
Former WeWork executives want to help landlords and corporations build modern office spaces themselves.
WeWork, a company that offers shared, flexibile-lease offices in 113 locations in 33 countries, has achieved a position in the “coworking” world similar to that of Starbucks in the coffee world. While plenty of smaller companies offer coworking in a myriad of flavors—focusing, for instance, on designers or startups—they’re not a significant threat to WeWork’s business. No Dunkin’ Donuts has emerged. A bigger potential problem for WeWork as it strives to live up to its $16 billion valuation would be if the landlords and companies it works with build their own hip office spaces.
The brain’s creative circuitry holds some unexpected secrets that scientists are only just beginning to understand.
The brain’s creative circuitry holds some unexpected secrets that scientists are only just beginning to understand.
Daydreaming. Horsing around. Aimless wandering. A sudden, traumatic loss. So many things that seem to conjure an automatic, negative connotation can actually have an interesting—indeed, often positive—impact on our creativity. In fact, the further you dig into the inner workings of the creative side of our minds, the more surprises you’re likely to uncover.
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