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In 2014, the National Retail Federation estimates that consumers spent an average of $460 just on gifts for their families. Pile on all the food, decorations, clothing and other presents most people splurge on for the holidays, and your budget is sure to get bloated. So, with these strategies,…
Amex Helps Make Airbnb A Little More Corporate
The two companies announced a new integration on Tuesday.
In the latest sign that Airbnb is no longer a hippie approach to adventure travel but rather a mainstream accommodation service that is competing with hotels, American Express announced on Tuesday that it would be integrating with the platform.
Welcome To The Cloud Hospital, Where Big Data Takes On Mysterious Medical Conditions
Medical researchers are pooling their data to find diagnoses and cures for patients with extremely rare and sometimes undiscovered diseases.
You probably haven’t heard of a disease called arterial calcification due to deficiency of the CD73 enzyme, which causes painful calcium buildup in the joints and blood vessels. Discovered in 2011 through the Undiagnosed Disease Program (UDP) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, only a handful of individuals are believed to suffer from the disease, which is also known as ACDC.
The Website That’s Helping Workers Across Industries Organize
From paid sick days to fairer scheduling practices, Coworker.org is attracting employee networks who are influencing change.
Whether they’re seeking better pay or working conditions, employees—especially low-wage workers—have typically had to traverse a tough road of organizing to get their message across and then getting others to listen. Now, dozens of employee networks have found a new place to gather, organize, and create change: Coworker.org.
How The Internet Of Things Is Changing Work
Here’s how technologists think the world of IoT will change the workplace—and how it’s already changing how we do business today.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting concept, a future where “billions of things are talking to each other,” as technology consulting company SAP describes it. We’ve seen gadgets and domestic appliances connect to the Internet and ping your smartphone with info, but it’s becoming more clear that these toys are a prelude to a vastly connected world. And yet, we spend most of our day at work. Here’s how technologists think the world of IoT will change the workplace—and how it’s already changing how we do business today.
What The Top CEOs Have In Common
Many who reach the C-suite rise through the ranks, but company location and industry play a part in making it to the top slot as well.
The steps to make it to the top slot at a company aren’t cut and dried. The current CEOs of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500 have examples of both entrepreneurs and those who climbed the career ladder in a more traditional way. There’s Jeff Bezos who started Amazon as an online bookseller in 1995, and Frederick Smith who launched FedEx. Then there’s Tim Cook, who joined Apple in 1998 and worked his way up to CEO when Steve Jobs resigned in 2011.
Greenpeace Wants to Buy One Of Europe’s Largest Coal Mines–And Shut It Down
But so far, Greenpeace’s offer has been rejected out of hand.
The environmental group Greenpeace is famous for direct actions that disrupt fossil fuel activities—it has confronted big ships on kayaks, scaled offshore drill rigs, and climbed up smokestacks in its quest.
Inside Facebook’s MemNets And The Drive To Bring Advanced AI To Everyday Tasks
Facebook opens up about their proposed personal digital helper.
Facebook has long said its core mission is to connect everyone in the world. Now it wants to use artificial intelligence to automatically help those connected billions with everyday tasks.
Why Should Your Self-Driving Car Look Like A Car?
A startup called Next has a big idea for self-driving cars: Make them multipurpose, linked-together boxes.
The Google Car looks like a VW bug post-castration. The Tesla is a ride for the rich and boring. Both vehicles feature AI that can take the wheel for you—and yet, both cars are still, notably, cars with four wheels, doors, and rear trunk space. Where’s all the imagination?
