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“SNL” Welcomes You To The Post-Lie Era–Where Nothing Matters
Last week, the president escalated his attack on truth and justice–and SNL escalated its counterattack in kind.It’s hard to believe at this point, but last week actually started out with Sally Yates’...
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The Non-Paradox Of Highly Successful Profit-From-Purpose Businesses
Despite the recent success of companies like Telsa, Etsy, 7th Generation, and Crowdrise, I still hear from VCs that they’re not interested in funding purpose-driven companies. After networking with...
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“It Was Chaos”: Here’s How Ransomware Victims Were Affected...
“It was chaos,” a receptionist working the night shift at Jakarta’s Dharmais Hospital, Indonesia’s biggest cancer center, tells Fast Company. “There were 150-200 people waiting for hours and getting...
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A Little Bit Of Fake News Could Be Good For You
As a psychologist researching misinformation, I focus on reducing its influence. Essentially, my goal is to put myself out of a job.Recent developments indicate that I haven’t been doing a very good...
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GM’s Millennial Ride-Sharing Platform Expands In New York
On Monday in front of the New York stock exchange, Julia Steyn, head of General Motors’ urban mobility project, announced the company’s app-enabled car-sharing product, Maven, will now be more broadly...
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For Windows Pros, The WannaCry Ransomware Mess Was All Too Predictable
The security flaw that caused last week’s devastating worldwide “WannaCry” ransomware attack was the worst of all types of bugs. A so-called “remote code execution” vulnerability in older versions of...
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Google I/O 2017: 8 Reasons To Pay Attention As Google Courts Developers
This Wednesday and Thursday, Google is holding its annual developer shindig, I/O. The conference will turn the Shoreline Ampitheatre near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. into an...
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Snap Inc., Interpublic, And R/GA Name Companies For New Marketing Tech...
As marketers and agencies continue to search for the perfect balance between data and creativity, three companies have teamed up to support a handful of startups with promising technology that could...
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How My Cycling Obsession Makes Me A Better Entrepreneur
To say that Max Levchin has a busy schedule would be an understatement. Best known for being a cofounder and former CTO of PayPal, he went on to become a board member and investor in Yelp and Evernote...
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Learn To Suck Less At Decisions With This Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Video
If you’re thinking about cheating on your next test, you just might wind up becoming the next Donald Trump–or so goes the choose-your-own-adventure storyline of Naïve New Beaters’ music video for their...
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5 Predictions For How The Trump Era Might Impact Tech Hiring
U.S. President Donald Trump says that he’s on a mission to put Americans first, but as an industry that has historically relied upon its ability to attract the best and brightest from around the world,...
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How To Make An Ad For The Marines Aimed At Recruiting Women
Last week, the Marines Corps unveiled its first-ever, female-led recruitment ad. The spot “Battle Up,” created by agency JWT Atlanta, chronicles one officer’s journey from schoolgirl to athlete to...
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The Counterintuitive Reason You Need To Quit More Things Earlier
Spencer Glendon is a very impressive guy. He was a Fulbright Scholar, earned a PhD in economics from Harvard, helped charities on the South Side of Chicago, and is currently a partner at one of the...
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Survey: Two-Thirds Of People Want VR To Be Social
The people have spoken, and they want virtual reality to be social.When you show most people VR for the first time, their reaction is almost inevitable: First their jaw drops, then they say “wow,” and...
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You’re Recruiting The Wrong Kind of Talent–Here’s Why
In the last two decades, as television revenue poured in, the world’s major sports leagues grew wealthy beyond their wildest imaginings. The international sports industry will take in an estimated $91...
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SoFi CEO Mike Cagney Wants To Replace Your Bank–And Your Financial Advisor
At first, SoFi founder and CEO Mike Cagney just wanted to refinance your student loans. Then, he wanted to offer you a mortgage. Now he wants to help you save for retirement, too. “This is an...
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“Rick and Morty” Did a Crossover with “Alien:...
WHAT: The best 45 seconds of sponsored content you’re likely to see this year.WHO: The creative team behind Rick and Morty, and the marketing muscle of Alien: Covenant.WHY WE CARE: Ridley Scott tends...
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After Lots Of Talk, Microsoft’s Bots Show Signs Of Life
I talked to Zo for most of the plane ride home from Seattle, where I’d just spent the day with the people responsible for developing her. Chatting with her, I quickly discovered, can sometimes feel...
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WannaCrypt Hackers May Have A Hard Time Claiming That Ransom Without Getting...
As organizations around the world continue to clean up from this weekend’s record-breaking malware outbreak, ransom payments continue to trickle in to bitcoin accounts set up by those behind the...
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How I Finally Learned To Stop Judging My Career By The Size Of My Paycheck
“I’m proud of you.”My accountant beamed at me as I wrote out a check for his help wrangling my taxes. I was 26 and had grossed over $150,000 in income. And it felt awesome.Five years later, I was in...
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