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Unicorns’ mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings are trending up, but remain well behind last year’s exit activity.

Unicorns’ mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings are trending up, but remain well behind last year’s exit activity.

For the first time since 2014, there were more VC-backed billion-dollar company exits than there were new private VC-backed companies valued at over $1 billion entering the market. In other words, more of those $1 billion-plus unicorns exited than entered the tech industry during the first half of the year.

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For $199, farmers can understand their soil better—which is key to keeping their crops healthy.

For $199, farmers can understand their soil better—which is key to keeping their crops healthy.

For the founders of Trace Genomics, strawberries are the low-hanging fruit.

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Females were slightly better represented in the preorders for the Series 2 than for the Series 1.

Females were slightly better represented in the preorders for the Series 2 than for the Series 1.

More women are buying the new Apple Watch Series 2 compared to the number of women who bought the previous version, according to new preorder data from Slice Intelligence, but men are still far more likely to buy the device. The research firm analyzes millions of online consumer transactions to get a look at who ordered what and when.

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Needing a change of scenery (or several) is as much about basic psychology as any kind of “trend.”

Needing a change of scenery (or several) is as much about basic psychology as any kind of “trend.”

For better or worse, so-called “job hopping” is commonplace these days. Workers are moving from one role to the next more rapidly than in the past, by one measure at a rate of roughly every two to three years. Some see that (probably groundlessly) as a quintessentially millennial habit.

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A product manager explains how trying to oversell his technical chops to Google helped him switch gears while interviewing at Etsy.

A product manager explains how trying to oversell his technical chops to Google helped him switch gears while interviewing at Etsy.

Last summer I was interviewing for product-manager jobs in New York City. My last job had left me feeling cornered into a specialist role at an enterprise marketing-software firm, and there wasn’t a path for me to grow into or room to move up. So I started putting out feelers. I spoke to startups, big companies, and a few in the middle. The two companies I was most excited to interview at were Google and Etsy.

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Disgruntled customer or attacker? Here’s how to tell and what to do.

Disgruntled customer or attacker? Here’s how to tell and what to do.

Despite social media maturing as a platform, online services—mostly Twitter—are plagued more than ever by trolls looking to cause emotional distress in individuals. Yet while we think of trolling as a problem for individuals, brands are increasingly being targeted by trolls, too.

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Weekend hobbies can help improve workplace performance, but only if they’re chosen based on what you did during the week.

Weekend hobbies can help improve workplace performance, but only if they’re chosen based on what you did during the week.

If you find Mondays particularly difficult, it may be due in part to how you spent your weekend. Lingering hangovers and lack of sleep aside, new research suggests that the hobbies we engage in over the weekend can impact our productivity during the workweek.

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The announcement comes just months after Nest debuted its own $199 outside camera.

The announcement comes just months after Nest debuted its own $199 outside camera.

When Canary’s cylindrical home security tower launched as an Indiegogo project in 2013, it received a rosy reception. Now the company is launching a new slickly designed wireless outdoor security camera called the Canary Flex.

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Some very busy people feel quite relaxed about time. Here’s what they do that the rest of us don’t.

Some very busy people feel quite relaxed about time. Here’s what they do that the rest of us don’t.

K.J. Dell’Antonia has plenty going on in her life. As a columnist and contributing editor for the Well Family section at the New York Times, she manages other contributors and near constant content. She has four children who play competitive hockey. This involves copious weekend travel, time at ice rinks, and time in ice rink parking lots. “I’ve done more source interviews from rink parking lots than I can count,” she says.

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The scientists can remotely read emotions by scanning heart and breathing rates, but what does it mean for privacy?

The scientists can remotely read emotions by scanning heart and breathing rates, but what does it mean for privacy?

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they’ve developed the first known system able to read people’s emotions by bouncing wireless signals off a person’s body.

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