Compare your salary, learn new skills, polish up that resume, and more.
You work hard for the money, so they’d better treat you right—am I right? Here are some apps to help you make sure you’re earning what you should be earning, sharpen your skills, and craft an escape plan if you’re not happy with your current employer.
The weather is one of the most searched subjects online. What if you learned about the five-day forecast—and the 50-year forecast at the same time?
If you look up the weather forecast on a hot day, a new weather site will also tell you how hot it’s likely to be in 2050—and show you exactly how much local temperatures have risen over the last 45 years.
In a Medium post, Roetter apologized for his comments about diversity at Twitter, which were disclosed this week by a former employee.
Earlier this week, a former Twitter employee took to Medium to disclose that he left his job because he felt diversity was not being made a priority at the company. As Twitter’s sole black engineer in a leadership role, Leslie Miley wrote that he wondered “how and why a company whose product has been used as an agent of revolutionary social change did not reflect the diversity of thought, conversation, and people in its ranks.”
Google seems to have plans for Android that involve getting hardware ready for virtual reality and augmented reality.
New reports indicate that Google is actively intervening in the fate of hardware for future Android phones, and even considering making their own processors. In a pair of paywalled reports, The Information‘s Amir Efrati claims Google is looking for partners to develop chips based on the company’s designs, and that Google is approaching hardware makers with a detailed laundry list of hardware upgrades related to camera, sensor, and memory functionality.
An exhibition at the New York Historical Society chronicles the golden age of computer innovation in New York.
“Before the 1980s, New York was the physical, social, and economic center for technology,” says Stephen Edidin, curator of Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York, an exhibition at the New York Historical Society, which opens November 13. “The basic message is, don’t forget your past because the history of computing didn’t start with Steve Jobs.”
Here’s how technologists think the world of IoT will change the workplace—and how it’s already changing how we do business today.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting concept, a future where “billions of things are talking to each other,” as technology consulting company SAP describes it. We’ve seen gadgets and domestic appliances connect to the Internet and ping your smartphone with info, but it’s becoming more clear that these toys are a prelude to a vastly connected world. And yet, we spend most of our day at work. Here’s how technologists think the world of IoT will change the workplace—and how it’s already changing how we do business today.
From paid sick days to fairer scheduling practices, Coworker.org is attracting employee networks who are influencing change.
Whether they’re seeking better pay or working conditions, employees—especially low-wage workers—have typically had to traverse a tough road of organizing to get their message across and then getting others to listen. Now, dozens of employee networks have found a new place to gather, organize, and create change: Coworker.org.
Medical researchers are pooling their data to find diagnoses and cures for patients with extremely rare and sometimes undiscovered diseases.
You probably haven’t heard of a disease called arterial calcification due to deficiency of the CD73 enzyme, which causes painful calcium buildup in the joints and blood vessels. Discovered in 2011 through the Undiagnosed Disease Program (UDP) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, only a handful of individuals are believed to suffer from the disease, which is also known as ACDC.
The two companies announced a new integration on Tuesday.
In the latest sign that Airbnb is no longer a hippie approach to adventure travel but rather a mainstream accommodation service that is competing with hotels, American Express announced on Tuesday that it would be integrating with the platform.
Many who reach the C-suite rise through the ranks, but company location and industry play a part in making it to the top slot as well.
The steps to make it to the top slot at a company aren’t cut and dried. The current CEOs of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500 have examples of both entrepreneurs and those who climbed the career ladder in a more traditional way. There’s Jeff Bezos who started Amazon as an online bookseller in 1995, and Frederick Smith who launched FedEx. Then there’s Tim Cook, who joined Apple in 1998 and worked his way up to CEO when Steve Jobs resigned in 2011.
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