The pursuit of happiness is as old as consciousness itself, but the actual desire to be happy seems to be burning brighter than ever before, especially for young professionals. For example, Harvard’s “happiness” course is one of the most sought-out classes among its MBA students. Young entrepreneurs aren’t the only ones seeking happiness, however. High demand across all groups has given birth to a variety of apps and gadgets with the promise of improving our mental we
You might be confident in your ability to tell a real face from one created using artificial intelligence. But a new study has found that your chance of choosing accurately would be slightly better if you just flipped a coin—as you are more likely to trust the fake face over the real one. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was conducted by Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Sophie J. Nightingale, a lecturer at En
Eighteen years ago, gamers still had a PlayStation 2 in their living rooms. The Xbox 360 was still being referred to as Xbox Next. And the Wii was called by its codename: the Nintendo Revolution. We didn’t realize we were on the precipice of a tidal shift in gaming, where the number of people playing games would expand exponentially – and there was certainly no way to predict what would be happening today. That didn’t stop a handful of brave developers from giving it a shot,
We’ve all been through the onboarding process at a new job—some of us more often than others. For those who have been with the same company for a while, many things may have changed since that original “getting to know you” process. This is where re-onboarding can accomplish three goals:
Shape employees’ understanding of how the company has evolved Help teammates get a complete understanding of our business achievements Lay out the major goals and obstacles o
One year ago, Pat Gelsinger gave up his Mac. When Apple adopted Intel’s processors for its computers back in 2005, he explained to me, “I flipped from being a PC guy to a Mac guy.” Now Apple was transitioning away from Intel chips in favor of ones it designed itself. For Gelsinger, becoming a PC guy again was not a matter of choice. There was a certain symbolism to his platform switch, but it was just minor fallout from one of several major setbacks that the 54-year-old chip
A new story anticipating the decline and fall of Google Search comes out about every month, but a blog post Tuesday, called “Google Search is Dying” by the blogger DKB was different. The blog shot up to the top of Hacker News on Tuesday, and is already the 11th most upvoted post on Hacker News of all time, with more than 1,500 comments. The core argument is that many people have become so disappointed in—or distrustful of—good old Google search results that they now a
Lately, I’ve been in the market for a new webcam for no other reason than I’m in a lot of Zoom meetings and last bought a webcam—Logitech’s C920–in 2017. Five years ago is an eternity when it comes to consumer electronics. Imagine my surprise when I began researching new Zoom cameras and kept seeing the C920 series being recommended. That’s all well and good, but the main takeaway here is that webcam technology has been evolving at a glacial pace. So, in
During the pandemic, eating disorders skyrocketed among teens. Now, investors are putting their money behind a relatively new startup that hopes to help kids and young adults work with their families to recover from this ailment. The company, Equip, has raised $58 million led by The Chernin Group, bringing its total funding to $75 million. It plans to use the money to push its service nationwide by mid-year. CEO Kristina Saffran, who is in recovery from anorexia, co-founded Equip in 2019 with CO
It’s hard to get worked up about a calendar tool. Which is one reason it was notable when a big Twitter slap fight broke out recently over Calendly—a scheduling app. The ensuing Calendly kerfuffle—with critics who claim the service encourages a blatant flexing of social status squaring off against loyal customers who counter that it’s simply efficient, all drawing bemused media scrutiny—at first looked like an embarrassment for the nine-year-old startup.
One of SpaceX’s upcoming missions will send astronauts farther from Earth than they’ve traveled at any time since the early 1970s—with hopes of upgrading health care and communications for the rest of us stuck down here. Polaris Dawn, announced on Monday, will be the first of three privately-funded spaceflights commissioned by Jared Isaacman, the financial-services billionaire and pilot who led and paid for last year’s Inspiration4 mission. With Polaris Dawn, Isaacman