Innovative thinkers can sometimes make a mess of things before they find a solution, but they have the stamina to keep looking.
Some people are better at getting out of tough challenges than others. Many of them, at least in our experience, are entrepreneurs. But all of them are creative, innovative thinkers.
Goals that are too easy or hard aren’t compelling, but hitting the sweet spot in between may be as challenging as your goals themselves.
Like many people, I set New Year’s resolutions. I’m a longtime runner, and this year, I challenged myself to hit a certain speed goal on the treadmill by March 31.
Your job will probably be affected by automation, but the future isn’t as bleak as it seems. Here’s 5 steps to remain relevant and employed.
The fear of job loss due to automation is no longer relegated to only physical-labor manufacturing jobs and relatively simple transaction-based, customer-service workers (i.e., bank tellers, grocery store clerks, and travel agents). Companies are increasingly adopting sophisticated “cognitive” technologies across a new swath of knowledge-worker jobs in fields such as finance, health care, and insurance.
What if, instead of having to wear a sweater in the office in the summer, your chair kept you warm?
If you’re at work right now, you’re probably too cold. Or too hot. If you have a working thermostat nearby, there’s a good chance that it’s the thing you disagree about most with the person sitting next to you.
The world’s most valuable sports team reveals an exclusive look at key social metrics, and the strategy behind its digital transformation.
Even if you’ve never watched a minute of soccer, chances are you still know Real Madrid. The Spanish team is not only one of the winningest, most successful clubs in all of world football, it’s also the richest sports team on the planet. And like all of the world’s major brands, the club has identified digital and social innovation as the future of its growth.
Snapchat. Facebook. Netflix. Spotify. Kik. Which app best accommodates disabilities? Google’s new Accessibility Scanner tells us.
If you haven’t heard the term “inclusive design” yet, you will soon. It’s a simple idea: By designing to accommodate people with disabilities, we can make products that are better for everyone. Just look at the typewriter, originally invented to help a blind person write letters. The idea is old, but the movement is picking up speed as companies such as Microsoft are using it at the core of their design philosophy.
Several new reports illustrate the complexity of the gender wage gap, why it persists, and why there’s hope for closing it.
Today is Equal Pay Day. That’s the approximate day in the year where the average woman working full time gets to catch up to the salary of her male counterpart (or about 79¢ for every one of his dollars).
NASA projects we’ll be on Mars by the 2030s. RedWorks has created a 3-D printing system to build your first home on the red planet.
For most of history, the idea of humans journeying to Mars has existed purely in the realm of imagination. As early as the 1880s, science fiction writers began publishing alternate realities in which people built flying machines to visit the red planet. Last year, movie audiences were captivated by Matt Damon’s struggle to stay alive in The Martian. But the prospect of putting men on Mars is no longer a fantasy. It’s now just a question of sorting out the logistics. NASA is working to achieve a manned Mars mission by the 2030s.
It captures two hours of 360 degree video, but Facebook “doesn’t want to be in the camera business”—so it’s all open source.
Facebook revealed a 360 degree video camera and software system today at its F8 developer conference. The camera includes 17 different capture devices that are synchronized, and can record two hours of 360-degree video at up to 60 frames per second, as much as 8k per eye.
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