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The luxury New York City retailer has spiffed up its Fifth Avenue women’s flagship, now optimized for social media sharing.

The luxury New York City retailer has spiffed up its Fifth Avenue women’s flagship, now optimized for social media sharing.

To visit the remodeled ground floor of the Fifth Avenue department store Bergdorf Goodman is to float on a pearly cloud of luxury dreams. An ordered landscape of designer handbags rises up from the gray marble floors, backlit and aglow. Restored chandeliers, princess-worthy and heavy as diamonds, dangle from the ceiling. Gentle waves of women come and go, talking of Michelangelo. Before long you are gone for this world, lost in the embrace of cashmere and suede.

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These products didn’t connect, but they paved the way for tech we now take for granted.

These products didn’t connect, but they paved the way for tech we now take for granted.

1. Apple Lisa, 1983

The first personal computer with a windows-and-icons-style graphical user interface, Steve Jobs’s visionary Lisa had one disastrous flaw: a staggering $10,000 retail price.

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Research suggests that a majority curse at work, but it still makes many uncomfortable.

Research suggests that a majority curse at work, but it still makes many uncomfortable.

Do you not give a sh*t when your coworkers swear? Or does it drive you f*cking crazy?

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To counteract a declining cool factor and recent mixed performance, the German company is updating its lineup.

To counteract a declining cool factor and recent mixed performance, the German company is updating its lineup.

1. Pure Boost X

Adidas used motion-tracking technology to study the movement of the female foot and designed the Pure Boost X to match it. The sneaker features a floating arch for extra support, as well as material engineered for a flexible fit.

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Research shows money (in the form of a paycheck) can buy happiness. Experts craft a game plan to double your salary.

Research shows money (in the form of a paycheck) can buy happiness. Experts craft a game plan to double your salary.

The best things in life may be free, but a study out of Case Western Reserve University found that money does indeed buy happiness. Increasing income—to the tune of an annual salary of $80,000— also relieves negative emotions and reduces the incidence of serious mental illness, according to the research. This makes sense, but how exactly do you go about doubling your income or even getting a raise?

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Forget “solitary genius,” says author Jeff Goins. Creativity needs fuel from three types of collaborative interaction.

Forget “solitary genius,” says author Jeff Goins. Creativity needs fuel from three types of collaborative interaction.

“My only anxiety,” a young Vincent van Gogh wrote in desperation, “is how can I be of use in the world?”

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DNA services are revealing relationships that once were cloaked in anonymity. And the world is still figuring out how to deal with that.

DNA services are revealing relationships that once were cloaked in anonymity. And the world is still figuring out how to deal with that.

When she was 22, Jordon Goulder lost her dad to the neurodegenerative disease called ALS. That same year, she discovered that he wasn’t her biological father.

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Extreme races and constant travel keep Hotwire’s president Henrik Kjellberg engaged at the office.

Extreme races and constant travel keep Hotwire’s president Henrik Kjellberg engaged at the office.

Henrik Kjellberg’s average day starts before dawn with a 16-mile bike ride from his Tiburon, California, home into his San Francisco office, where he takes a shower and starts work at 7:50 a.m. After a full day in his role as president of Hotwire and CarRentals.com, he leaves as the sun goes down and bikes the 16 miles back. “And then the next day, instead of biking, I might go for a nine-mile run and take public transit into the city,” he says. “I try to mix it up.”

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International Photographer of the Year Brooks Kraft says new lens improvements and better image resolution represent a great leap forward.

International Photographer of the Year Brooks Kraft says new lens improvements and better image resolution represent a great leap forward.

The new dual-lens camera of the new iPhone 7 Plus is possibly the most significant upgrade to an iPhone camera ever.

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Disruptive new email apps are targeting businesses and power users, rather than the mass market.

Disruptive new email apps are targeting businesses and power users, rather than the mass market.

It’s hard to believe that people once lined up to try a new email app, but a few years ago, mobile email was so inefficient that more than 1 million people joined a waitlist for an alternative called Mailbox. With features like swipe-to-delete and “snooze” for responses, Mailbox proved that email could be better, and it inspired a wave of similar apps.

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