The SDK for Anki’s Cozmo gives everyone access to face and motion detection technology—without requiring a PhD in robotics.
Let me tell you something I bet you probably already know: Writing code for robots is really hard.
Three Ways Noncompetitive People Can Still Get Ahead
You don’t like to toot your own horn or tear others down—and that’s great. Here’s how to make your agreeableness a career asset.
Many of us assume that success is all about a tenacious climb to the top. Watch this year’s election coverage and you may come away with a renewed certainty that for one person to win, another’s got to lose.
Why The Chatbot Wars Won’t Be Like iOS Vs. Android
Facebook, Slack, Microsoft, and others are building armies of virtual helpers, but they’re not exactly fighting one another.
Creating a new mobile app used to begin with a simple question: iOS or Android?
Six Steps For Finding LGBT-Friendly Employers
Employment law is the next frontier in LGBT rights in the U.S. Here’s how to find LGBT-friendly employers while that battle rages.
In a recent lawsuit backed by the Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a transgender woman secured a $115,000 settlement from her employer after being harassed, barred from using the correct restroom, prevented from changing her name and gender on employment records, and denied coverage for medically necessary procedures.
How These Companies Achieved Parity Without Diversity Initiatives
While many companies try diversity initiatives to change the ratio, these three companies have achieved parity with a different approach.
Some of the world’s largest banks and insurance providers just signed a pledge aimed at getting more women into leadership at their organizations. The likes of Barclays, HSBC, Deutche Bank, and Morgan Stanley, among other firms, agreed to set goals to diversify their upper management and report on their progress annually. Failure to meet the goals will be tied to the bonuses of their senior executive teams. According to Catalyst, women make up nearly half of all employees in the financial services industry, but only 25% of senior management roles.
How To Negotiate Your First Salary
Even recent grads can have leverage. Here are several strategies that you can use to make sure you are getting what you’re worth.
Summer jobs and internships can help you sharpen your interview skills, but when it comes to negotiating your first salary, there aren’t many dress rehearsals. Entry-level positions often have set pay scales, but it’s still wise to prepare yourself for the conversation, says Jill Tipograph, cofounder of Early Stage Careers, a career guidance firm that works with recent college graduates.
How To Make Time For Deep Work When Your Calendar Is Packed With Meetings
New research claims “collaborative overload” is real. Here’s where to find thinking time, even if you’re always in meetings.
Collaboration sounds great, but it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. A recent cover story in Harvard Business Review looked at the topic of “collaborative overload” and the burnout that can result. According to the article by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant, “Over the past two decades, the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more.” In many organizations, they note, the proportion of time spent on meetings, responding to emails, and on the phone hovers at around 80%.
LinkedIn’s Top Three Secrets To Getting Hired In 2016
LinkedIn’s Eddie Vivas has a front-row seat to the changes reshaping the job market. Here’s what he says you need to know.
Pop quiz: How many companies were looking for people with a background in cloud computing in 2014? So few that it didn’t even make LinkedIn’s list of the most sought-after job skills by U.S. employers. Just two years later, cloud computing tops that exact same list.
Three Questions To Ask Instead Of Saying “Nice Job”
We’re much more specific in our criticism than in our praise. Time to correct the imbalance.
“Nice job.” “Good work.” No more than two syllables, they’re just about the easiest possible ways to praise people. That’s why we tend to keep hearing those phrases tossed around the office, despite endless advice and admonitions (themselves bordering on cliché) that there are right ways and wrong ways to give positive feedback and even that praise itself is addictive.
Why You’re Going To Want A 360 Camera
A trip to Singapore with Samsung’s Gear 360 showed how VR fills a void between photos and videos that I didn’t even realize existed.
The iPhone was hard to come by when it first came out. Even if you were willing to pay the exorbitant price, it had sold out in just a few hours in my hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. So when I pulled mine out at bars or on street corners, I was exceptionally popular. People wanted to see it and talk to me about it. They wanted to understand how it worked. And after talking to me for 10 minutes, they wanted one.
