It’s time to embrace the career pivot
Contributor Judith Humphrey has had a number of jobs over the course of her professional life. After studying music in school, she taught English in Toronto before pivoting to the business world....
View ArticleHow to watch the 2024 Emmy Awards live online, on TV, or on a phone,...
Hollywood is celebrating television’s biggest night on Sunday, September 15, with the 76th Emmy Awards, which recognizes the best and brightest talent on the small screen. For those of us without the...
View ArticleFBI: Trump was the subject of apparent assassination attempt at his Florida...
The man who authorities say pointed a rifle with a scope into former president Donald Trump’s golf club and was arrested is Ryan Wesley Routh, three law enforcement officials told the Associated...
View Article5 great writing tools for busy (and easily distracted) people
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. Pens. Pencils. Typewriters. Computers. Wordstar....
View ArticleHow techbio is shaking up pharma
All tech companies start from the same premise: “Our industry is big and bloated. The model doesn’t work, and we tech disruptors are here to change that.” Techbios are no different. We are united in...
View ArticleDisney and DirecTV have ended their blackout. Here’s what each side gets,...
The Walt Disney Company and DirecTV have ended their dispute over how to offer the Mouse House’s content—and at what price—to DirecTV satellite, streaming, and U-verse customers, according to a joint...
View ArticleBoeing strike: Why 94% of its union workers rejected a ‘historic’ deal
Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed by the depth of fury among workers who tossed out a 25% pay rise deal...
View ArticleForward Thinking: Meet the real-world innovators in email marketing
In this thought-provoking panel, Fast Company and Intuit Mailchimp convened the winners of Mailchimp’s Forward Awards to discover the innovative strategies and key learnings behind their email...
View ArticleTarget ramps up seasonal staffing, will hire nearly 100,000 workers
Target said on Monday it would employ about 100,000 seasonal workers, in line with the last three years of holiday hiring, as the retailer gears up for the all-important shopping period. Holiday...
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Why SpaceX suits look so sleek, and NASA’s look so clunky
When Jared Isaacman popped out of the hatch of the Dragon spaceship Resilience and into the vacuum of space, he really looked pretty spiffy. For the first time in history, a private citizen got...
View ArticleHow Intel lost billions in a failed bid to Sony PlayStation
Intel lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony’s PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s AI Copilot will now help you make pivot tables and write Python...
Microsoft Excel is the de facto standard for a lot of corporate number crunching, but even some frequent users don’t know everything that’s possible to do in the spreadsheet program. And many data...
View Article‘Anti-woke’ backlash in U.S. won’t stop the sustainable investing movement....
Maria Lettini already knew of the backlash against ESG investing when she took over as chief executive of US SIF last year.US SIF is an advocacy group that supports sustainable investing, which...
View ArticleBuffett’s children aren’t sure yet how to donate their father’s fortune
The next generation of Buffetts—Howard, Susie, and Peter—are poised to become one of the most powerful forces in philanthropy when their 94-year-old father, the legendary businessman and leader of...
View ArticleSpaceX Polaris Dawn crew with tech billionaire returns after first private...
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX‘s capsule splashed down in...
View ArticleEmployees voted on the worst workplace jargon. Here’s the number-one phrase...
The modern workplace is getting harder and harder to navigate. Between mass layoffs, return-to-office mandates, long hours, and the constant barrage of Slack pings and emails, it’s no wonder workers...
View ArticleWhat is World Liberty Financial? Trump’s new crypto exchange launches...
In 2019, former president Donald Trump tweeted that he was “not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air.” That was...
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Chipotle’s new robot can cut, core, and peel an avocado in 26 seconds
For the first time, Chipotle is bringing two new robots into its restaurant kitchens to help staff prep orders.Called “cobots” for “collaborative robots,” Chipotle’s new machines automate processes for...
View ArticleEven with a $150 billion valuation, OpenAI is far from a sure bet
OpenAI continues attracting unprecedented levels of funding, but the company’s one-model-to-rule-them-all approach to generative AI comes with its own set of risks. OpenAI is already the best-funded...
View ArticleMusk’s post about lack of assassination attempts on Biden and Harris on...
The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it was aware of a post by billionaire Elon Musk‘s on the X social media platform musing about a lack of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice...
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