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- Here are the programs that will help you finally learn to draw
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 08:00 PMThese apps and programs have been most useful for me, a drawing-challenged person who aspires to be able to make useful visuals.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Joby Aviation stock jumps after air taxi company nabs critical FAA certificate ahead of schedule
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 03:50 AMJoby’s eVTOL’s aerial taxis can reach speeds of 200 mph and travel 150 miles on a single charge.
Joby Aviation, the Santa Cruz, California-based air taxi company, has reached a major milestone.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 90% of Asian Americans worry about being attacked as anti-Asian violence and hate crimes spike
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 06:20 AMA shooting at a Dallas hair salon this month is part of a wave of attacks against Asian Americans, prompting many to change their daily routines.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watch out for falling Ben & Jerry’s: Flytrex is now delivering ice cream by drone
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 10:33 AMWith The Ice Cream Shop, Unilever’s first online-only store, Flytrex drones will offer delicious treats to consumers from the sky.
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Drone delivery company Flytrex announced its new partnership today with The Ice Cream Shop, Unilever’s first online-only shop, offering ice cream delivery straight from the sky to residents in North Carolina and Texas. - Bye, Zoom: This smart new app is the future of online meetings
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 08:00 PMSwitchboard brings a whole new approach to remote teamwork—and makes familiar videoconferencing seem archaic in comparison.
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Accepted standards are funny things. You can use a tech tool for months or even years without ever thinking about its shortcomings—and then, the second you experience a better alternative, you wonder how you ever dealt with the now-clearly-flawed setup you’d stuck with for so long. - As temperatures skyrocket, Barcelona has devised a simple (and replicable) way to keep people cool
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 02:00 AMBarcelona set up 163 climate shelters to help residents stay cool in the scorching summer months.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to future-proof your job by thinking like a futurist
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 03:00 AMIt’s about considering where (and how) you can add value.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amazon opens its first fashion store in Los Angeles
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 07:47 AMThe 30,000-square-foot retail space features fitting rooms where the Amazon Style algorithm will deposit suggested pieces for shoppers to try on.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - These 7 fun, fact-filled podcasts will teach you something new
Tuesday - 05/24/2022 - 08:00 PMEntertainment facts meet great content with this collection of brain-tickling podcasts.
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There may be a seemingly endless supply of podcasts available today, but it can be difficult to find ones that toe the line between style and substance.Read Full Story - Niantic positions itself as a capable rival to Apple, Meta in coming AR wars
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 12:00 AMThe company behind ‘Pokémon Go’ formally announced its digital map of the world for AR developers, as well as a new AR app discovery space.
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Niantic, the augmented reality gaming platform best known for the hit Pokémon Go, announced a number of enhancements to its Lightship development platform that may help it compete with larger, cash-rich tech companies that will soon go full throttle into 3D spatial computing.
- How Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ brand partnerships can turn its fortunes upside down
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 11:01 PMThe brands promoting ‘Stranger Things’ season 4 tie-ins offer a glimpse into its future.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This ingenious tool helps cities avoid rabid NIMBY arguments over housing
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 04:00 AMBalancing Act helps calm the contentious process of deciding where housing should get built.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Silicon Valley has given tens of thousands to Republican organizations that back pro-gun politicians
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 07:22 AMGoogle’s affiliated NetPAC gave $30,000 each to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee in the past year—both of which have used gun control opposition to drum up voter support.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 takeaways from Sequoia’s dire ‘Adapting to Endure’ presentation
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 12:06 PMThe company lays out a collection of risks founders could face in the months ahead, calling the current environment a ‘crucible moment.’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This is how my anxiety helped me learn how to work better
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 01:30 AMLeanna Lee lived with anxiety and situational depression for over 15 years. Seems like a recipe for disaster—especially since she runs her own business—but here’s what she’s learned to be successful.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why Australia has had only one mass shooting since 1996
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 02:00 AMAustralia’s government banned automatic and semiautomatic guns, created a national firearms registry and made a 28-day-long waiting period for gun purchases.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This fund wants to give you $100,000 to launch your climate tech startup quickly
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 06:30 AMInstead of waiting weeks to hear back from investors, climate solution startups can fill out an application for the chance to get funding in just 10 days from Shared Future Fund.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The polling is clear: Americans want background checks
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 10:55 AMOver the years, polls have consistently revealed broad support for common-sense gun laws, especially background checks for firearm sales.
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In a Twitter video that has since gone viral, NBA basketball coach Steve Kerr is seen so shaken up over the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday that he can’t even talk about basketball. - Meet the 2022 winners of the ‘Green Nobels’ working on environmental activism
Tuesday - 05/24/2022 - 11:30 PMA woman who successfully sued the Dutch government for failing to protect its citizens from climate change is just one winner of the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hybrid work can backfire if you don’t have strategies for these 4 obstacles
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 01:00 AMIn theory, hybrid work is a wonderful idea. In practice these arrangements also introduce new challenges and complexities for managers and organizations.
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In theory, hybrid work is a wonderful idea for three reasons.
- There’s a big problem with Apple and Google’s plans to nix passwords
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 08:00 PMEliminating the password means trusting that big tech companies won’t lock you into their platforms.
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Apple, Google, and Microsoft have big plans to eliminate the password.Read Full Story - Your BIPOC employees are sick and tired of getting asked this question
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 06:00 AMThis microaggression is another example of ostracizing or ‘othering’ employees of color in the workplace.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Your constructive feedback helps no one if you trigger this emotional reaction
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 06:30 AMYour great feedback makes no impression without being mindful of this universal human trait.
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If you take a scroll through your LinkedIn feed, you’ll likely notice a trend: former employees relaying cautionary tales about how they were mistreated by companies who shamed them for minor mistakes or during performance reviews. - 5 lessons I learned from helping to launch Tesla’s Model S
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 08:00 PMI assumed I’d have about five months to put together the car’s launch. Instead, I had five weeks.
Having served in executive roles at LEGO and Apple, and now running my own startup at Uplift Labs, I’ve been put in a few tight situations with some pretty high stakes involved.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This leadership style is powerful and effective
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 01:00 AMThere are four distinct characteristics that allow these leaders to make a lasting impact on the lives of others.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Nike designer builds a boot that could prevent 80,000 amputations a year
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 03:00 AMWhen a career podiatrist teamed up with a former designer from Nike, they created a fashionable medical product that’s clinically proven to save more limbs from diabetic ulcers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - JetBlue is staging a hostile takeover of Spirit. What would a merger mean for flight attendants?
Thursday - 05/26/2022 - 03:00 AMA merger between JetBlue and Spirit—which currently have different unions representing their flight attendants—would force attendants to conform to new business models, change their entire routines, and likely place many of their jobs at risk.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What would an Electronic Arts merger look like for Apple, Amazon, or Disney?
Tuesday - 05/24/2022 - 08:00 PMElectronic Arts is reportedly looking to merge with a media company. Here’s who would (and wouldn’t) be a good fit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Computer scientists explain why Musk’s obsession with Twitter bots misses the point
Tuesday - 05/24/2022 - 08:00 PMEstimating the percentage of bots on Twitter has become a difficult task—and it’s not a particularly worthwhile one anyhow.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why we need ’emotional diversity’ at work right now
Wednesday - 05/25/2022 - 01:30 AMA truly human workplace is not one that wants to make us happy all the time, contends Tim Leberecht, the cofounder and CEO of the House of Beautiful Business.
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