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Eight Days A Week offers a fresh take on the band’s touring years—thanks to fan treasures and a meticulous restoration process.

Eight Days A Week offers a fresh take on the band’s touring years—thanks to fan treasures and a meticulous restoration process.

Listening to Ron Howard talk about his latest film, you get the sense he’s been wanting to make it since 1964, when he was 10 years old. He had watched The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show just weeks before his tenth birthday, when he opened a box containing the only gift he truly wanted: a Beatles wig. As Beatlemania proceeded to sweep America—and then the world—Howard reacted the same way millions of kids did—fanatically. He’s a lifelong fan, so you can hardly blame him for sounding giddy when he talks about directing The Beatles Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years, a documentary that lands in U.S. theaters on September 16 and on Hulu the next day.

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It may be unfashionable to talk about “career passion,” but it’s something employers want to hear about—even if they don’t say so.

It may be unfashionable to talk about “career passion,” but it’s something employers want to hear about—even if they don’t say so.

If you’re searching for your next gig, pull out your resume. Take a look at the experience it recounts and see how well it answers this question:

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The news on September 7 won’t just involve product specs, prices, and availability dates.

The news on September 7 won’t just involve product specs, prices, and availability dates.

Apple is holding its big product launch for 2016 on September 7.

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A job interview isn’t always the best venue for uncovering signs of bad management, but asking these questions can help.

A job interview isn’t always the best venue for uncovering signs of bad management, but asking these questions can help.

People typically leave their jobs for three reasons: they were offered a better one, they don’t see a growth path, or they don’t like their bosses. As a recruiter, I see all of these scenarios play out, but boss troubles are the most common by far—and they don’t always stem from employees’ direct supervisors. Sometimes it’s your boss’s bad boss who sets the tone for everybody, a problem that can be harder to detect as an outsider.

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Most people you meet while networking aren’t immediately useful to you, but they may work with people who are.

Most people you meet while networking aren’t immediately useful to you, but they may work with people who are.

Usually, you go to a networking event, shake a few hands, hear other people’s elevator pitches or career backstories, share your own, then leave with a fistful of business cards. The next day you look at them, mentally pin a few faces to a few names (but not all)—and still don’t really know how to use that stack of cards to grow your business or advance your career.

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Sometimes work-life balance takes getting your work-work balance right first.

Sometimes work-life balance takes getting your work-work balance right first.

If you’re in your first or second job, chances are, your starting salary isn’t exactly blowing up your bank account. Rather than live on Nutella and hand-me-downs forever, maybe you’ve decided to pick up a side-hustle—or maybe you’re just thinking about it. Smart thinking, you go-getter, you.

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The company’s machine-learning engines are providing tennis fans with real-time analytics of matches—including predictions of who will win.

The company’s machine-learning engines are providing tennis fans with real-time analytics of matches—including predictions of who will win.

Tennis fans watching the U.S. Open at home or in person this year will get some extra insights delivered by IBM’s machine learning technologies.

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