How to get the best use out of your Alexa

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Last year Amazon and Google sold 73 million smart speakers. Since Amazon

Move fast and don’t break things: innovation at speed and scale

As CEO of Pearson, Andy Bird presides over one of the world’s largest textbook publishers. Yet when thinking about Pearson’s long-term direction, Bird doesn’t necessarily look to his fellow Goliaths; often he’s drawing inspiration from the Davids of the world.

“We are desperately trying to be a startup,” he said during a panel on innovating at scale at the Fast Company Innov

There’s one thing that makes employees want to return to the office, says a new Microsoft report

The hybrid work world has been a reality for several months now, but whether it’s working well is really a matter of debate. A new report from Microsoft, entitled “Empowering your workforce in economic uncertainty,” checks in with both employers and employee

Brian Chesky had a bad dream just before Airbnb’s IPO filing. It changed how he ran the business

Airbnb is, by nearly every measure, a Silicon Valley success story.

The company was founded during the Great Recession, shot up through the prestigious Y Combinator program, made its market debut during the pandemic, and is now worth more than $70 billion. But things might have looked different if it wer

Mozilla says users are being denied browser choice. It’s not that simple

The people behind the Firefox browser are feeling fired up about how desktop and mobile platforms shape browser choices these days. And they went to the trouble of publishing a 66-page report Thursday to make that point.

But while this “Five Walled Gardens” report documents some clear cases of what it calls “the foreclosure of browser engines and independent brow

What the Adobe-Figma deal says about the future of deep collaboration

Adobe just announced its intention to buy Figma for $20 billion, which would be among the largest software acquisitions in history. More notable still is the timing and price paid: $20 billion represents more than 50 times the startup’s annual recurring revenue at a time when public comps are trading at around one-tenth of that level.

Why is Adobe willing to risk so much to buy Figma? Because it has to. With this acquisition, Adobe is recognizing that its persona-based approach

Polaroid’s new jam is music

Even without their logos, you might be able to identify them as Polaroid products. They’re all emblazoned with the company’s “spectrum” stripe of rainbow colors and have white plastic cases and big red buttons linking them to other Polaroid devices all the way back to the 1970s.

It’s just that these Polaroid products

The courts are opening the floodgates to the worst of social media

It will soon be illegal in the state of Texas for YouTube to ban videos from white supremacists or ISIS. The same will be true for Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.

In fact, with a few limited exceptions, any content moderation these sites do—including “de-boosting” or “de-monetizing” videos or posts—will open them up to being sued in Texas. In effect, they’r

How educators can enourage students to stay in STEM fields

Jen, a student I taught early in my career, stood head-and-shoulders above her peers academically. I learned she had started off as an engineering major but switched over to psychology. I was surprised and curious.

Was she struggling with difficult classes? No. In fact, Jen’s aptitude for math was so strong, she had been recruited as an engineering prospect. In her first year, her engineering classes were filled with faces of other women. But as she advanced, there were fewer an

How to edit and unsend iPhone messages on iOS 16

So, has everyone updated their iPhones yet? There’s lots of good stuff to unpack


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