The latest findings from Glassdoor reveal some predictable positions and some surprises.
You may not be one of the people who believes that money can buy happiness; however, a recent Glassdoor survey revealed that as many as 7 in 10 respondents (68%) said that salary and compensation are top of mind when considering whether or not to accept a new job.
Chronicle, a new concept from the design consultancy Artefact, is like a doctor in your pocket.
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, arthritis—chronic conditions such as these account for 84% of health care spending. Yet many are preventable. An estimated 40% of all premature deaths can be attributed to lifestyle, such as smoking and inactivity. How can the health care system shift focus (and dollars) from acute to preventative care?
The move is not only good for the chain’s image, it will boost the company’s bottom line.
Whole Foods plans to install rooftop solar power farms on 100 of its retail stores and distribution centers, the New York Times reports. The move will see nearly a quarter of the company’s properties covered in solar panels.
And thousands have already expressed interest in the first trip.
Jeff Bezos has announced that his private space travel company Blue Origin is planning to begin taking tourists to space in just two years, reports the New York Times. The Amazon founder and CEO made the comments on Tuesday at the first-ever tour of Blue Origin’s Washington state headquarters.
Regimes like Russia and China are doing a better job at locking down the Internet than early web experts thought possible.
Not so long ago, techno-utopians and mainstream politicians agreed that trying to censor the Internet was essentially impossible.
The storage device would be small enough to fit on a shelf, yet power 100,000 homes.
GE has announced it is working on a way to use CO2 pollution to make new types of solar batteries that could each power up to 100,000 homes. CO2 is the main contributor to climate change, and is released into the atmosphere when coal is processed at power plants. Currently environmental procedures mean that some CO2 from these plants is captured and stored, so it’s not released back into the atmosphere. But the question has always been: What do you do with the stored gas?
Dr. Rogy Masri has a secret weapon: his smartphone.
Dr. Rogy Masri is a doctor stationed at a settlement in Northern Lebanon. His team primarily treats Syrian refugees, who have flooded into Lebanon and other neighboring countries to escape escalating violence.
Dos Equis retires the iconic character in style with a one-way ticket to Mars.
And in a flash of light, he was gone. A man who once ran a marathon because it was on his way. A man whose blood smells like cologne. A man who’s won a lifetime achievement award, twice. He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, you know what beer he drinks.
The lease, which will run five to seven years, should help Amazon exercise more control over its delivery infrastructure.
In an effort to cut out the middleman in its delivery process, Amazon will be leasing 20 Boeing 767 airliners, according to Reuters. The news was disclosed Wednesday by Air Transport Services Group Inc. (ATSG), the company responsible for leasing the planes.
A look at the mysterious algorithm that powers Google’s search engine results
A new study offers a peek behind the scenes at how Google structures its search results. The study focuses on how Google’s RankBrain algorithm, which was first announced in October 2015, parses the English language. It’s one of the most detailed efforts to understand the algorithm to date.
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