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You don’t need to be married to your job in order to get ahead.

Advancing in your career means putting in more hours, taking on more assignments, and becoming “married to your job,” right? No, say career coaches. Overachievers who live at the office tend to burn out fast and often neglect doing the very things they need to do in order to advance. In doing too much, they do too little. Being 100% committed to your work doesn’t guarantee you a promotion. So how can you get ahead without making work your life?

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A new study examines the reasons why women are less likely to be considered for positions abroad.

Moving employees through different departments gives them a more holistic experience of a company. Moving them to offices in other countries is not only good for their personal career growth, but is also a positive driver of business success, according to data from PwC.

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You probably spend nearly half your workweek in meetings, and most of them have no agenda. Here’s seven steps to make them less painful.

Meetings are like burpees: They drain your energy and nobody likes them. About 40% of the average workweek is spent in meetings, and more than half of participants would rather be waiting in line at the DMV or watching paint dry, according to a poll by software company Clarizen.

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Comments sections are increasingly useless and nasty. Hypothes.is thinks it has a better way to make the Internet more democratic.

Larry Hanley, an English professor at San Francisco State University, is the kind of man who aggressively annotates his books. He believes a particularly beautiful verse of poetry deserves to be underlined; a thought-provoking line of prose requires an equally intelligent comment scribbled next to it. In his classroom, he gently nudges his students to engage with books by writing notes in the margins.

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Lemonade.io wants to help prepare people for the future of the global economy, when creativity will be at a premium.

Angad Singh thinks there’s a good chance that within 20 years, your job will no longer exist. And if it does, a bot will do it.

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Does this foreshadow a new space age of health spa tourism?

When astronaut Scott Kelly returned to earth a few days ago after being in space for 340 days, he could brag about a few other things than just being the person who has achieved the longest space flight for an American. Kelly returned to Earth taller and younger than he would have been if he’d never left. As CNN reports, Kelly came back to Earth two inches taller than he was when he left. His increased height isn’t due to bone growth, however. Being up in space where there is no gravity exerting force on the human body means that a person’s spine can stretch out by as much as three inches.

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The technology could one day serve as the basis for a product that embraces the physical book, while adding cool digital content on top.

Technology that would bring the experience of reading a book into the 21st century—and not by replacing the book with a computer—was patented today by Google, according to filings posted today at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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The service had less than 54,000 pay TV subscribers at the end of 2015—and growth is slowing.

Research firm MoffettNathanson has issued a scathing report saying Alphabet is having serious subscriber and growth issues with the pay TV service part of its Google Fiber offerings, reports Re/code. The report says Fiber had just 53,390 pay TV subscribers at the end of 2015. That’s up from 30,000 at the end of 2014, but growth is slowing. In the last six months of 2014, Fiber’s pay TV service grew 136%, but in the last six months of 2015 it only grew 78.8%.

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Known for his bold claims, entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong says that immunotherapies can tackle cancer as well as infections.

What do breast cancer, lung cancer, and Zika virus have in common? They can all be treated with the same medications, claimed biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong at a genetics conference in San Diego on Thursday. The doctor doesn’t shy away from bold statements based on preliminary data and was met with adoration as a kickoff speaker at the Future of Genomic Medicine conference—a science-heavy gathering at the Scripps Institution of geneticists, oncologists, data scientists, and other experts.

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The surprising move comes at a time when Apple is battling with the FBI over the necessity of encryption.

It’s come to light that Amazon quietly disabled encryption on all of its Fire OS devices with its latest major software update. The revelation comes at a time when Apple is in an unprecedented legal battle with the FBI and a heated debate over the very importance of encryption technology in every user’s life. The disabling of Fire OS’s encryption happened with the update to the company’s Fire OS 5 software that runs on the Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, Amazon Fire HD, and Amazon Fire TV Stick, reports The Verge.

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