The nerd culture icon reflects on the pain and pleasure involved in bridging Star Trek‘s past and its future.
Simon Pegg was all set to return for his third go as the U.S.S. Enterprise’s engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the J.J. Abrams-rebooted Star Trek movie franchise when he was thrown a curveball: The opportunity to not only once again star in the film…but help write it as well. Did the well-documented sci-fi geek nearly break something jumping at the chance?
The e-marketplace has a splashy new home that aims to open people’s eyes to more inventive—and environmentally friendly—design.
Etsy started out in 2005 as a small online marketplace for makers and DIYers, but the company has turned into an e-commerce behemoth that’s enabled housewives to knit their way to millions. Along the way, the $3.5 billion company has aggressively tried to do business the right way by hiring a diverse workforce, building community, and offering generous employee perks that go beyond a free lunch.
This futurist explains why her generation isn’t just next in line for retiring Baby Boomers’ jobs but uniquely poised to take them.
I got into Northwestern University despite far-from-perfect SAT scores and missing the valedictorian spot by one grade. If I were a millennial, I would have had much longer odds. Born in 1976, I’m a late Generation X-er and have had less competition for everything pretty much all my life.
In its quest to be the largest freight broker in the world, the company is looking ahead to autonomous driving.
Self-driving trucks are increasingly becoming a reality. Yesterday, Daimler announced that one of its autonomous buses completed a 12.4 mile route involving turns, tunnels, and a series of stops. Its CityPilot is based on the same driverless trucks that drove 1,200 miles across four countries earlier this year.
Women and minorities don’t participate in accelerators at the same rates as white men. A new virtual program aims to change that.
Most accelerators require entrepreneurs to spend three to six months in residence, which can be difficult for women entrepreneurs, particularly if they have families. So, in 2015, serial entrepreneur and former investment banker Carolyn Rodz founded Circular Board, a virtual 90-day accelerator for women entrepreneurs.
Even if you aren’t working nights and weekends, the expectation of constant availability can cause you to burn out.
It’s 9 p.m. and you suddenly remember that you wanted to ask your employee about an upcoming project. Before you fire off an email, ask yourself, “Is this urgent?” If you’re sending the email simply because you don’t want to forget, your employee may not know your response expectations, and this can cause stress that negatively impacts your staff’s productivity and performance.
Indeed combed millions of anonymous employee ratings on Fortune 500 companies to generate this list of top employers.
Finding a good balance between work and the rest of your life is a constant challenge for the connected employee—even when they’re in a dream job and have an empathetic supervisor.
The comfort shoe company has found a way to jump on fashion trends while staying true to its loyal, lifelong customers.
“It happens every several years,” says David Kahan, CEO of Birkenstock USA, the American division of the German company. “The planets line up and Birkenstocks become fashionable again.”
The 737-sized Aquila is meant to fly on solar power at altitudes of 60,000 feet or more and deliver wireless Internet for three months at a time.
At dawn on June 28, one future vision of mobile broadband Internet connectivity for as many as 1.6 billion people took to the sky for the first time.
Advanced sequencing technologies are the centerpiece of an ambitious project to identify 70,000 fallen soldiers by 2020.
“In Vietnam, religious traditions hold that the ghosts of the dead cannot rest without a proper burial in a place appropriate to the family,” explains William Frasure, a professor of government at Connecticut College who has both lived and worked in the country. And yet, tombstones throughout the country still bear little else than the words “liet sy—chua diet ten,” which translates to “martyr—name unknown.”
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