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Despite its rocky history, it could one day be Apple’s most important device.

Despite its rocky history, it could one day be Apple’s most important device.

It’s fair to say that the Apple TV is the device that’s had the hardest time finding a place as a “must-have” in Apple’s ecosystem. It’s always seemed to be more of an accessory to Apple’s more popular Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iPods than a standalone gadget that was designed—as the others were, for computers, phones, tablets, and music players, respectively—with a clear vision to show consumers and competitors what the gold standard for a digital media player should be. And you can mostly blame Steve Jobs for that.

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Avoid these three common mistakes and you’ll strike a balance between resting up and not getting too far behind.

Avoid these three common mistakes and you’ll strike a balance between resting up and not getting too far behind.

I’ll be honest. For someone who’s such a big advocate of taking time off when you need to, I did a pretty bad job of it recently. In fact, when I came down with a cold, I tried to go to work (and made a lot of my colleagues pretty upset in the process).

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Your perceptions can lead you astray. Here’s how to see if the response you’re picking up on is right.

Your perceptions can lead you astray. Here’s how to see if the response you’re picking up on is right.

Maybe you’re pitching new business to a client or giving a presentation to your own team. If you’re smart and even reasonably creative, your brain will be working overtime on how the meeting is progressing and how people are reacting.

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Rather than coax people into real-time communication, Vidii uses AI and pop-culture content to improve the kind you can wait around for.

Rather than coax people into real-time communication, Vidii uses AI and pop-culture content to improve the kind you can wait around for.

You know how it sometimes takes a Mariah Carey GIF to really get your point across? You might soon enough.

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Librarian and lifelong insomniac Drew Ackerman found a creative outlet for his storytelling skills: bedtime stories for grownups.

Librarian and lifelong insomniac Drew Ackerman found a creative outlet for his storytelling skills: bedtime stories for grownups.

Always-on technology and digital devices creeping into our bedrooms have turned all of us into insomniacs. It doesn’t help that we live in a culture that celebrates the “secret to success” as getting by on as little sleep as possible.

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One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they’re built, but can it do that fast enough?

One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they’re built, but can it do that fast enough?

Cybercrime damages cost the world $3 trillion last year alone, according to a recent report from Cybersecurity Ventures, and that figure is expected to double by 2021, putting it on par with the current sum of U.S. corporate debt. This catastrophe will probably worsen before it improves. As smart-home technology spreads through the Internet of Things (IoT), a Security of Things (IoT) infrastructure will need to come with it.

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Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.

Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.

Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, perseverance, and other attributes similar to those of great leaders. In fact, elite athletes can tell us a great deal about how to be better leaders, says Stan Beecham, author of Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success.

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This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.

This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.

On a July day in 2014 some people from IBM and Apple got together in a room at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California to start work on their recently announced business app creation partnership. The fact that the two companies were working together at all sounded a little unlikely; IBM, after all, was once cast in Apple mythology as the big, slow, and safe antithesis of everything Steve Jobs wanted his company to be. At least in the consumer space, the two were bitter rivals.

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ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.

ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.

When football fans checked their email and uploaded photos from Super Bowl 50 this year, the Denver-based security software startup ProtectWise was monitoring traffic from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for potential threats.

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Why a fairy tale inspired a highly successful approach to leadership.

Why a fairy tale inspired a highly successful approach to leadership.

The average American read 12 books in 2015, according to findings from the Pew Research Center.

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