Chet Kanojia’s new company wants to do away with ISPs—and traditional Internet as we know it. It’s starting with routers.
I feel sorry for my router. We ignore it for weeks on end. We hide it in a corner covered in spiderwebs and cords. We’ve never said anything good about it. Sometimes, we yell at it.
If people sometimes talk about climate change as a problem of the future, it’s pretty clear it’s already here.
In 2015, the hottest year on record, heat waves killed hundreds of people, a glacier in Greenland lost a chunk of ice the size of Manhattan, and the wettest rainforest in the United States caught fire. 2016 is going be even hotter.
As companies like WeWork make adult housing look more like dorms, a developer is building dorms to look like adult housing. Convergence!
Coliving, the latest trend in real estate, is often compared to “dorms for adults.” Instead of isolated apartments, housing projects like WeWork’s WeLive offer tiny, furnished rooms and abnormally generous common spaces. Others, like Brooklyn-based Common, cater to a more mature crowd (sans WeLive’s laundry-room arcade) but follow a similar concept: Residents rent furnished rooms inside of larger community complexes, just like many of them did in college.
Being bad at time management isn’t necessarily a personal failing, it’s a skills gap that you can help coach your employee to overcome.
You might think that by the time people enter the workforce, they would know how to manage their time. And yet in any office, there is someone who creates chaos and bad feelings because of his or her relationship with the clock. As a manager, “You really shouldn’t be the one who has to teach this,” says Bruce Tulgan, author of Bridging the Soft Skills Gap, and yet if it’s a business issue, then you do. So how can you teach an employee time management?
Bots still need to be kept on a short leash.
For anyone who just can’t get enough of Donald Trump’s social media posts, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has created a bot that generates tweets in the candidate’s style.
Apps and websites are compiling volunteers’ input to help with everything from finding wheelchair ramps to overcoming cognitive impairments.
These days GPS technology can get you as close as about 10 feet from your destination, close enough to see it—assuming you can see.
Watch out for those line drives coming at your head.
When Willie Mays, one of the five greatest players in baseball history, took to the field at AT&T Park in San Francisco on April 7, more than 43,000 Giants fans watched from the stands as he waved his cap and soaked in their adulation.
More than 40% of turnover happens within the first month, which means it’s more important than ever to engage them from day one.
If a new employee is going to quit, chances are it will happen within the first six months. More than 40% of turnover happens within the first month, and another 10% or more leave before their first anniversary, according to a study by Equifax Workforce Solutions. That means it’s more important than ever to engage them from day one.
For women’s health week, women-oriented condom brand Sustain wants to spark conversations about what safe sex really means.
In 2014, Meika Hollender launched Sustain, a condom brand marketed at women, empowering them to take their sexual health into their own hands. She didn’t realize how quickly she would become the target of harassment. When she explains her company’s mission, men regularly ask her whether she would like them to test out the condoms she’s selling. “Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it isn’t,” Hollender says.
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