FIRE-FIGHTING FOAM starves the flames of oxygen. A handful of overused words have the same deadening effect on people’s ability to think. These are words like “innovation”, “collaboration”, “flexibility”, “purpose” and “sustainability”. They coat consultants’ websites, blanket candidates’ CVs and spray from managers’ mouths. They are anodyne to the point of being useless. Listen to …
A FAVOURITE PASTIME in Silicon Valley, second only to inventing the next new thing, is bubble-spotting. Even industry insiders tend to get these things spectacularly wrong. “You’ll see some dead unicorns this year,” Bill Gurley, a noted venture capitalist, predicted in 2015, the year that incubation of these startups worth more than $1bn really got …
May 12, 2022 – Emma, a 29-year-old communications manager, recently found out that she is six weeks pregnant. The choices she faces about her health and body are starkly different from eight years ago when, as a college student in Indiana, she decided to have an abortion. Emma, who asked that her last name not …
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By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Is there a way to make eating out more environmentally friendly? A team of German researchers thinks the answer is a bright green yes. They’d like restaurants to offer menus that clearly label the environmental impact — or “carbon footprint” — of specific …
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No product achieves a position of preeminence by accident. It is earned, and when it’s earned in a sector of the consumer electronics market as rabidly competitive as wireless active noise-canceling over-ear headphones, it’s earned the hard way. Sony’s WH-1000XM4 wireless active noise-canceling headphones launched in 2020, and they’ve been top dog ever since. Just …
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Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals The latest inflation data included a number that was shocking, though not exactly surprising to anyone who has been booking their summer travel lately: Airfares rose 18.6% in April, the most on record for a single month, which accounted for about a quarter of the overall surge …
Microsoft Corp. and several other companies are covering the travel costs for employees seeking out-of-state abortions. Microsoft said in a statement to Bloomberg on Monday that it supports “employees and their enrolled dependants in accessing critical health care – which already includes services like abortion and gender-affirming care – regardless of where they live across …
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San Francisco, CA — (ReleaseWire) — 05/09/2022 –On Air Parking, the leader in low price city and airport parking, is excited to announce a new parking market in Louisville, KY, offering parking spaces to travelers through On Air Parking at only $3.95 per day. “We’re excited to open a new market in Louisville,” said On …
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Stitch Fix partner Keegan-Michael Key on his style evolution and the life hacks he lives by. By Max Berlinger and Lauren Ingram May 9, 2022 Like so many of us, Keegan-Michael Key is a busy guy. The screenwriter, performer, producer, sports enthusiast, and new Stitch Fix ambassador has got a lot going on. And, like …
Decentralized finance (defi) protocols are having a hard time weathering the storm, as the total value locked in defi today is down 39.26% since April 3, from $230.18 billion to the current $139.81 billion. The sudden value drop stemming from Terra’s native assets, LUNA and UST, has pushed Lido down to the third-largest TVL position …
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