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As of next year, fast-loading AMP pages—Google’s version of Facebook’s Instant Articles—will be viewable through Google Search.

Google is wasting no time in gearing up its open-source competitor to Facebook’s Instant Articles. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, which launched last month, will be integrated into Google Search starting “early next year,” according to a company blog post. The service has also signed up a number of content creators, advertising partners, and analytics platforms.

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Facebook already had a father-friendly leave policy, but when the CEO takes two months off, it sends a strong message about the culture.

At the end of a year packed with “My Parental Leave Policy Is Cooler Than Your Parental Leave Policy” salvos from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, and Spotify, the biggest news of them all just dropped from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: He’s taking two months of paternity leave when his first child is born a few months from now.

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In most cases you should take every interview, but here’s how to prioritize when things become overwhelming.

So, you were offered an interview—now what? Of course, the obvious answer is to accept enthusiastically. You never know who you’ll meet, or who they’ll know. But if you’ve recently been laid off or are in between jobs, it’s a normal, survival-mode reaction to apply everywhere and see what happens. And then you realize what a full-time job it can actually become to go on interviews, so you start to feel the need to pick and choose. While in most cases you should take the interview, here’s how to prioritize when things become overwhelming:

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There’s a business case for tacking some vacation onto a work trip: Research has shown that travel enhances creativity in tangible ways.

While working as an Istanbul-based consultant for three years, Gillian Morris frequently made work trips to places like Thailand and Abu Dhabi, tacking on a few extra personal days to go dune-riding in a Jeep or attend a camel race on her own dime.

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StyleHaul CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski has made social storytelling a pillar of her business. Here’s how you can, too.

When we talked to her nearly three years ago, StyleHaul CEO Stephanie Horbaczewski was banking on a big investment: her own shoppable video player.

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Who needs a front bumper? Not New Jersey residents, apparently.

Did you know you can drink and drive in Mississippi? Literally drive your car with a beer in your hand, and not get cited as long as you’re under the legal limit? That’s just one of the surprising facts in this new mini-site from Just Park, dedicated to the inconsistencies in U.S. driving laws.

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We can all save the planet by eating bugs instead of meat. But test it on your dog, first.

We should probably all be eating bugs. Insects have as much protein—and more vitamins and minerals—than beef or chicken, and a bug farm takes a fraction of the resources of say, raising cattle. Still, despite a quickly growing market, most Americans may still not quite be willing to swap out steak for ground-up crickets.

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Instead of spending another night in the peace and quiet of the couch, there’s a technological solution.

A new gadget promises to alleviate the biggest problem for people who have to live with snorers: the noise. And it does it using the same technology as noise-canceling headphones.

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The quintessential starchitect’s biography is surprisingly sensitive.

Architect Frank Gehry has designed some of the most iconic buildings of the past two decades, from the Guggenheim Bilbao to Facebook’s new mothership in Silicon Valley. Yet in recent years, he has become something of architecture’s bete noire, lambasted for his extravagant, sculptural style in an era of razor-sharp efficiency, sued for alleged design errors, and mocked for butting heads with journalists. Misunderstood genius? A new biography from Paul Goldberger—Vanity Fair‘s architecture critic and prolific writer—suggests as much, painting a portrait of Gehry as a shy, sensitive man who’s grappling with self-doubt and ego in equal measure.

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Infographics for everything of the distilled and fermented sort.

The folks over at Pop Chart Lab—the Brooklyn-based studio that parlayed the infographic trend into a lucrative business—aren’t strangers to a good drink. In fact, some of their best work has been boozy: the definitive cocktail-mixing chart, a rundown of the most famous fictional beers, and a map of the best places to get sloshed in NYC. So far, the infographics have been confined to prints. Now Pop Chart Lab has its first standalone book, The Visual Guide to Drink published by Avery.

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