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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 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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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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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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A little bit of San Francisco history becomes a setting to get people to think of AT&T as something more than a phone company.

A little bit of San Francisco history becomes a setting to get people to think of AT&T as something more than a phone company.

There’s absolutely nothing remarkable about the AT&T store near my office in San Francicso. Once you’re inside, it could be any neighborhood AT&T shop, anywhere in the country.

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Looking out for your team members is great, but not when you’re so overworked that you stop looking out for yourself.

Looking out for your team members is great, but not when you’re so overworked that you stop looking out for yourself.

It’s pretty much a given that as a manager, you’re going to have more high-level responsibilities than the employees you oversee. But feeling chronically overworked and stressed is not something you should just live with as a condition of your job.

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When you work at Microsoft, everything looks like software—even cancer and other threats to human life.

When you work at Microsoft, everything looks like software—even cancer and other threats to human life.

Microsoft’s researchers don’t talk about “curing” cancer. Instead, they are aiming to “solve” it.

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Remember that movie where De Niro plays an intern? Paul Critchlow decided to try it.

Remember that movie where De Niro plays an intern? Paul Critchlow decided to try it.

Paul Critchlow had earned his retirement. It was May of 2015, and he’d worked very hard over a long life, and as a young man, he had even fought in Vietnam. He went on to report for the Philadelphia Inquirer and served as spokesman for Pennsylvania’s governor. Finally, he’d spent the last 30 years at Merrill Lynch, half of those as its head of communications. Now that he was turning 69, it seemed like time for a rest.

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Monday’s alert asked New Yorkers to be on the lookout for suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami with little information. What can be done differently?

Monday’s alert asked New Yorkers to be on the lookout for suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami with little information. What can be done differently?

New Yorkers had a particularly rude awakening on Monday morning, when phones across the city blared with the earsplitting tone of an emergency phone alert, which until now have been reserved for extreme weather notifications and Amber Alerts. But this time, phones displayed the following banner message—the first of its kind—urging people to look out for the suspect behind the bombings in NYC and New Jersey:

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Leveraging everything from advanced hardware engineering to AI, this startup wants to give you control over your world’s sounds.

Leveraging everything from advanced hardware engineering to AI, this startup wants to give you control over your world’s sounds.

I’m trying to listen as Doppler Labs cofounder and CEO Noah Kraft walks me through his company’s new smart earbuds over the din of a crowded restaurant, but the cacophony of chattering diners and clanking silverware is overwhelming. I can’t make out a word. Then, all of a sudden, the background noise disappears. Kraft’s voice comes in loud and clear.

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