The most in-demand industries for freelancers probably aren’t what you’d think, which presents a new challenge for building skills.
As the freelance economy continues to grow, a number of industries have emerged as top employers, and they may not be the ones you typically associate with freelancing.
The short-term lending market could be the first major market to see transactions recorded by the ledger made famous by bitcoin.
In the latest sign that the financial industry is getting serious about the blockchain, an industry group that tracks securities ownership says it’s working on tools to shift some records for one $2 trillion market to the shared-ledger technology.
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Anand Sanwal, the CEO of CBInsights—a research firm that tracks investment in startups—had an idea for an April Fools’ Day joke that made fun of Silicon Valley’s unicorns and the venture capitalists who fund them.
The Community Screening Series helps prisoners connect to each other, the world outside, and new educational opportunities.
The poster on the wall was a kind of marquee. “TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE COMMUNITY SCREENING SERIES — ‘3 ½ MINUTES, 10 BULLETS’ — FEBRUARY 17TH, 2016.” But the venue was very different from the usual fare of Tribeca, best known for its glamorous annual film festival in New York, founded by Robert De Niro. Tonight’s screening was in Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security state prison about 60 miles northwest of Manhattan. The audience was a roomful of prisoners in muted green and maroon clothing, several of whom were serving out life sentences.
Photographer Helena Price’s touching project features designers, engineers, and product managers who break white-bro stereotypes.
“I was born in Thailand in 1980 in a refugee camp near the border of Thailand and Cambodia.”
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