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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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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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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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The Facebook CEO’s images offer a peek at the advanced technology it is using at its massive center in the forests of Northern Sweden.

The Facebook CEO’s images offer a peek at the advanced technology it is using at its massive center in the forests of Northern Sweden.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg started sharing some rare photos of its data center in the forests of Northern Sweden, where Facebook is taking advantage of the low temperature and nearby rivers to increase efficiency and save power. The massive Luleå data center, which is the size of six football fields, uses enormous fans to “pull in the outside air to naturally cool the thousands of warm servers that line the center’s broad hallways,” writes Zuckerberg in a post on his Facebook page. He adds:

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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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