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Job Growth In Swing States Isn’t As Bad As Presidential Candidates Say

Key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida are experiencing steady job growth, in spite of what Donald Trump tells you.

Key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida are experiencing steady job growth, in spite of what Donald Trump tells you.

If you’ve been listening to the candidates speak about jobs during the run up to the 2016 presidential election, you might be convinced that the sky is falling.

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Google Translate Just Got 60% Better By Working On Whole Sentences

Google speeds up a difficult machine translation technology, allowing it to tackle even the notoriously hard Chinese-to-English task.

Google speeds up a difficult machine translation technology, allowing it to tackle even the notoriously hard Chinese-to-English task.

If you are translating text or speech, it seems obvious that you should read a whole sentence before figuring out what it means. But this hasn’t been so easy for computers—in part because the work sucks up so many resources. So Google Translate has had to get by with looking at pieces of sentences, words, and phrases, and translating them individually. On Tuesday, Google announced a new system called Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) that works on whole sentences and improves accuracy about 60% on average over the old phrase-based machine translation (PBMT), including on notoriously difficult Chinese-to-English translations. This is the first translation to roll out to the Google Translate mobile and web apps, available now.

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6 Things To Do When Your Job Kills Your Curiosity

Your job may be routine and monotonous, but what goes on inside your head doesn’t have to be.

Your job may be routine and monotonous, but what goes on inside your head doesn’t have to be.

You may not think of your curiosity as a job skill, but it is. There’s evidence, for starters, linking curiosity to employability, and as a predictor of your ability to gain and maintain a desired job over time. Second, curiosity is crucial for building relationships. Curious people are more willing and able to connect with others, which equips them to collaborate, whether in person or virtually. Third, curiosity may even be an antidote to job automation: If you don’t want your skills to get outdated or outsourced to a robot, you’d better keep learning!

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After A Rocky Romance, Can We Commit To Bots With Professional Benefits?

Last summer, eight startups went to camp to make bots more productive and rewarding for consumers and businesses.

Last summer, eight startups went to camp to make bots more productive and rewarding for consumers and businesses.

Declare your lifelong love for Poncho—a weather service personified by a tabby cat in a yellow raincoat that happens to be one of the most successful bots in Facebook Messenger—and it responds with an awww, shucks-like “Hiiiiii~.” But unleash a stream of profanity, as some users do, and Poncho puts your relationship on hold.

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Four Work Habits You Need To Change At Each Stage Of Your Career

This GE exec shares how she learned to change her working methods as she’s taken on bigger leadership roles.

This GE exec shares how she learned to change her working methods as she’s taken on bigger leadership roles.

I accepted my first management role early in my career, heading up a 15-person team at GE Global Research’s semiconductor laboratory. It was a big step at the time, but today I manage 28 labs of over 500 people, in addition to our research headquarters with around 2,000 people on site. Making that first shift from contributor to leader wasn’t easy, but it set me up for the other big changes I’d go on to make in my career.

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Automated Cars Probably Won’t Make Human Drivers Obsolete

Not if the 100-year history of autopilot for airplanes is any indication. Planes can fly themselves—but only with two people in the cockpit.

Not if the 100-year history of autopilot for airplanes is any indication. Planes can fly themselves—but only with two people in the cockpit.

At a competition for the “most practicable safety device” in 1914, Brooklyn pilot Lawrence Sperry awed spectators in Bezons, France, when he stood up in the cockpit with both hands in the air mid-flight and asked his mechanic to crawl onto the wing. “The man did so, yet he had no more desire to die than you or I have,” read commentary from the New York Times. “Nothing happened.”

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These Work-Life Balance Strategies Help Even In The Most Demanding Jobs

Even in industries known for insane hours, you can have a personal life if you’re smart about your time.

Even in industries known for insane hours, you can have a personal life if you’re smart about your time.

Work-life balance sounds great, but it’s getting tougher to achieve. Managers and staff often don’t see eye to eye on time spent between the two. Several studies also indicate that the traditional workweek is getting longer. In certain industries such as accounting, law, consulting, or at startups in general, that balance is assumed to be impossible. The “80-hour workweeks” people complain about mean there’s no time for everything else.

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WeWork Brings A New Business Model To Detroit

Its leases in that city include a profit-sharing component, making it easier for WeWork to react if real estate prices fall.

Its leases in that city include a profit-sharing component, making it easier for WeWork to react if real estate prices fall.

The two locations that WeWork plans to open in Detroit early next year will look similar to the almost 100 locations that it already operates. Like offices in New York or San Francisco, the Detroit spaces will have glass walls separating tiny offices that tenants can rent on a month-to-month basis, communal coffee, and WeWork’s “Do What You Love” branding—but the business side will be structured differently.

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