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How To Make Those Emergency Phone Alerts More Useful And Less Terrifying
Monday's alert asked New Yorkers to be on the lookout for suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami with little information. What can be done differently?New Yorkers had a particularly rude awakening on Monday...
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Four Reasons Why Gender Equality In The Workplace Is Closer Than You Think
More women are investing in each other's success, writes Sallie Krawcheck, putting gender parity in closer reach than ever before.The "queen bee" is dying. You've heard of her, right? She's that senior...
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Doppler Labs And The Quest To Build A Computer For Your Ears
Leveraging everything from advanced hardware engineering to AI, this startup wants to give you control over your world's sounds.I'm trying to listen as Doppler Labs cofounder and CEO Noah Kraft walks...
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AT&T's New San Francisco Flagship Is Rather Grandiose For A Phone Store
A little bit of San Francisco history becomes a setting to get people to think of AT&T as something more than a phone company.There's absolutely nothing remarkable about the AT&T store near my...
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Why Your Backup Plan Is Holding You Back
New research finds that your efforts are more likely to be successful if you get rid of your safety net.Creating a Plan B (and maybe even a C, D, and E) sounds like practical, levelheaded advice. Life...
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The Anti-Drone Arms Race Is Taking Off
On the margins of technology and the law, companies and governments are hacking unmanned vehicles and putting up their drone shields.Last week, the director of the Federal Aviation Administration...
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Forget Dash Buttons, This Drinks Company Lets You Reorder By Text
Most of Dirty Lemon's over 50,000 monthly SMS messages are answered by a bot—is this the future of commerce?I recently started drinking a new brand of supplement-infused beverages called Dirty Lemon....
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Meet Trace Genomics, The "23andMe" Of Soil
For $199, farmers can understand their soil better—which is key to keeping their crops healthy.For the founders of Trace Genomics, strawberries are the low-hanging fruit.The company's cofounders, Diane...
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Creativity Secrets From The Man Behind The "Sleep With Me" Podcast
Librarian and lifelong insomniac Drew Ackerman found a creative outlet for his storytelling skills: bedtime stories for grownups.Always-on technology and digital devices creeping into our bedrooms have...
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Are High-Def Video Clips The Future Of Work Communication?
Rather than coax people into real-time communication, Vidii uses AI and pop-culture content to improve the kind you can wait around for.You know how it sometimes takes a Mariah Carey GIF to really get...
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4 Books That Changed Business Leaders' Lives
Why a fairy tale inspired a highly successful approach to leadership.The average American read 12 books in 2015, according to findings from the Pew Research Center.Reading for pleasure, according to...
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How This Cloud-Based Security Tool Protected The Super Bowl From Hackers
ProtectWise says handling security analytics in the cloud lets it store more data and move faster than its competitors.When football fans checked their email and uploaded photos from Super Bowl 50 this...
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Inside Apple And IBM's App Making Machine
This is how the (unlikely) partnership actually works, as told by the people from both companies who manage it every day.On a July day in 2014 some people from IBM and Apple got together in a room at...
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What Elite Athletes Can Teach You About Being A Better Business Leader
Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, and perseverance—all necessary traits of great leaders.Playing sports at an elite level requires commitment, humility, perseverance, and...
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Can Armies Of Interns Close The Cybersecurity Skills Gap?
One company is tapping talent pipelines far outside Silicon Valley pretty much as soon as they're built, but can it do that fast enough?Cybercrime damages cost the world $3 trillion last year alone,...
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These Startup Founders Swear By The ROI Of Reading
For the executives of growing companies, devoting the time to read for a few hours a week adds value in more ways than one.Jessica Mah, the CEO of inDinero, a San Francisco-based accounting software...
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Four Ways To Show Respect Without Overdoing It
Here's what it takes to strike the right balance between being polite and seeming overly deferential.It's normal to err on the side of being respectful, especially if you're at the earlier stages of...
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This American Fight
When This American Life signed a deal with Pandora, it amplified a raucous, behind-the-scenes debate over the future of public radio.This spring, This American Life and its creator and host, Ira Glass,...
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New Walmart Purchase Jet Raided Local Pet Stores When Distributors Wouldn't...
Sources claim that when distributors won't sell to Jet.com, it sometimes buys out brick & mortar stock instead, to the ire of manufacturers.Last fall, Barbara*, who works in the marketing...
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Retailers Big And Small Want A Piece Of The Thriving Korean Beauty Business
From Sephora to Ulta to independent startups, the cosmetics industry is embracing what is clearly much more than a passing fad.I showed up at a Korean beauty blogger panel discussion in Los Angeles...
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