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Why hasn't new technology made us more productive than it has?

The findings of the new poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the L.A. Times dispel the notion that California's...

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.11756.pdf Apple’s machine learning research team has developed a no-code Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform called...

There's something happening in the E Ink space, somewhat quietly, but ...

Don’t just golf — become a mentor.

Every organization makes plans. They don’t have to be rigid and bureaucratic.

Five strategies for success.

Take 10 minutes to follow these five steps.

A good relationship depends on both people.

China’s economic development has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty and resulted in a burgeoning middle class.

Sometimes they hurt minority job candidates.

Alfred Chandler, the great business historian, died in May. One of his many achievements was to highlight the way technology influenced the...

People who once rejected the vaccine or simply waited too long are now grappling with the consequences, often in raw, public ways.

Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of...

Objectives Highly effective vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been developed but variants of concerns (VOCs)...

An air of disbelief greets plunging covid-19 cases | Britain.

US imaging company Kodak has removed an image of China’s Xinjiang from its Instagram page taken by a photographer who described the region as an “Orwellian...

How to foster informal communication in a remote company.

Neal Stephenson, of course, is one of the many people I interviewed for my Wired article on this new generation of VR, but after many rigorous edits, his...

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week,...

EduBabble Bingo A natural outcome of my Educational Jargon Generator, EduBabble Bingo is an excellent "engagement strategy" for long meetings and...

Thoughts and reflections inspired by the frenzied pace of investing and deal making we are seeing in the early stage ecosystem in India…

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week,...

Despite a steady stream of negative news, or "FUD," in recent months, the bitcoin price has quietly mounted a powerful rally.

That is the new forthcoming Ross Douthat book, focusing on his struggles with Lyme disease.  It is very much a memoir, starting with talk of Connecticut,...

Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's plan to launch an ultra low-cost airline could give Boeing a chance to regain lost ground in India.

I'm fundraising for Special Olympics. It's an amazing organization. Everybody please check out my campaign! Find out more and donate here:...

 This week, we speak with Dr. Charity Dean, former asst. director of the California Department of Public Health in 2020. She is a lead character in...

My visit to the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, Colorado on Colfax Avenue. This old theater is such a beautiful shop!

Crypto exchange FTX sports sponsorship deal with the Major League Baseball (MLB) has advanced to giving away free bitcoin.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced this month the recession officially ended in April 2020. Anyone paying attention has known this...

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Starbucks coffee, grab a seat on the beach, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Tao of Snoop...

Fourteen years ago I was wrongfully convicted of murdering my roommate. Ever since, the world has believed it can tell me who I really am.

Matrix-backed OfBusiness raises $160M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

> Even though we normally think of grief in the context of the death of a loved one, a broadly similar reaction can occur when a close relationship is ended...

A human can safely fall into a black hole under the right conditions, but there's no coming back.

Simone Biles might have just made it that much easier for young women everywhere. Her decision to pull out of the Olympics tells girls that they matter,...

That is the new Amartya Sen autobiography, and it is well…a biography.  You learn that he loves Sichuan duck and “hilsha fish” (if done properly with the...

B2B commerce startup valued at $1.5 billion; New capital to be used for acquisition, expansion.

Moody’s downgraded El Salvador’s rating and maintained its negative view of the country’s economy partly because of its new Bitcoin law.

Difference Between Egoist and Egotist Egoist vs Egotist Though the two words ‘” egoist and egotist’” look similar, they are different in meaning and also in...

Six Crimson Cranes and The River Has Teeth — two new July YA novels — both focus on monstrous mothers and folkloric family magic. But apart from that, they...

A team of physicists working with Google claim, in pre-print research, they've created actual time crystals inside a quantum computer. This could be huge!

Sachin Agarwal has lived in San Francisco for 15 years. But the former tech worker only began paying attention to local politics over the past few years. It...

Omar El Akkad talks about “What Strange Paradise,” and Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang talk about Facebook and “An Ugly Truth.”.

Officials believe subject will help pupils learn modern foreign languages and could bring improvements in English and maths.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

I used to use hundreds of plastic bags. Now I get almost none.

Need a distraction? Three prickly, skin-crawling new thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat.