How Amazon redesigned Prime Video for a new streaming world

Amazon’s Prime Video app is about to look a lot different.

An update this week will overhaul the entire interface on TVs, with a new sidebar for navigation, a grid-based live channel guide, and a bigger emphasis on Amazon’s burgeoning sports catalog. It also more clearly distinguishes core content included with an Amazon Prime subscription from Amazon’s ad-supported offerings, a la carte purchases, and add-ons.

The new Prime Video app may help address some c

This tech leader was a hybrid work skeptic—until he wasn’t

Despite all the talk about flexibility as the future of work, more and more prominent business leaders are pushing harder than ever to get their people back into the office. Tech leaders have gone on record saying they still don’t un

TikTok SEO is a thing now—here’s how to improve your rank

For more than a decade now, when companies talked about search-engine optimization (SEO), by default, they were talking about Google. With the rise of digital juggernauts in the e-commerce and social media spaces—including the buy-anything platform Amazon and video-sharing apps like TikTok—online searches for products, entertainment, and information have begun to migrate elsewhere.

At a recent conference in Aspen, Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president of Google Knowle

Leaders: You’re sitting on a goldmine that will help you create better flexible-work policies

Apple’s new work policy, which mandates that employees be in the office three days per week, stripped their hybrid model of its flexibility. The announcement led to intense pushback from employees, including the departure of one high-level director who

Amazon’s new Fire shows why 7″ tablets have become superfluous

In 2022, Amazon’s Fire 7 feels like a tablet from a bygone era.

7-inch tablets made a lot of sense back when our phones were smaller and less sophisticated. Reading books or playing games wasn’t as much fun on a 4- or 5-inch screen, and Amazon’s smallest Fire tablet was a cheap way to enjoy that same entertainment on a larger surface.

These days, howev

The secretly powerful little app that you could write an entire book in

I started writing a novel one evening a week when my oldest child was a baby. I’ve just completed a big rewrite and finally feel ready to take the next steps toward getting my story out into the world.

But I didn’t get here by spending days at a peaceful writing retreat. More often, managing my time around work and three kids takes almost as much creativity as planning the next plot point.

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A former Google data scientist says you can use big data to find happiness and success

“You can make better life decisions. Big Data can help you.” So begins Don’t Trust Your Gut, a new book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Seth, a former Google data scientist, has mined massive data sets in order to answer some of life’s most vexing questions: “What predicts a happy marriage?” and “How do you get rich?” and “What really makes us happy?” The answers may surprise you.

Listen to Seth’s a

See Jupiter in all its infrared glory through the eyes of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope’s magnificent first photos, which scientists will dissect for years to come, have been feted this week in a parade of debuts from NASA.

After a flurry of deep space images were unveiled Tuesday—showing technicolor clouds of cosmic nebulae, and a sky speckled with galaxy clusters over 13 billion light-years aw

Celsius bankruptcy: What’s happening with withdrawals as crypto lender seeks protection?

On June 12, crypto lending platform Celsius announced it was pausing the ability of customers to withdraw their funds due to “extreme market conditions.” Those market conditions, presumably, were the death spiral that cryptocurrencies have been experiencing for much of 2022.

The news sent a shockwave through crypto investors—particu

Influencers are out—authenticity is in

The influencer economy is on the brink of a seismic shift. Catalyzed by the popularity of TikTok and its algorithm, which prioritizes content types over creators, brand marketers and digital agencies are increasingly allocating


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