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April 30, 2017The Next Generation of Jobs Won't Be Made up of Professions Alina Dizik, BBC To prepare for the future, we need to shift from thinking about jobs and careers to thinking about challenges and problems. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Brushing Your Teeth Should Be Better A thoughtfully designed electric toothbrush (from $25), quip makes it simple to keep your mouth…
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April 30, 2017Why Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times Part of what got me interested in using Instagram more was the war between Facebook and Snapchat, the picture-messaging app that has created genuinely new ways of communicating online — and whose features Instagram and Facebook’s other subsidiaries recently copied. Save to Pocket SPONSORED Move Your Startup…
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April 30, 2017How eBooks Lost Their Shine Paula Cocozza, The Guardian Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what’s behind this resurgence? Save to Pocket SPONSORED Finally! Dress Shirts That Actually Fit Hugh & Crye has…
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April 25, 2017Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future Tim Urban, Wait But Why The mind-bending bigness of Neuralink’s mission, combined with the labyrinth of impossible complexity that is the human brain, made this the hardest set of concepts yet to fully wrap my head around—but it also made it the most exhilarating when, with enough time spent zoomed on both ends, it…
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April 25, 2017You’ve Never Heard of Tech Legend Bob Taylor, But He Invented ‘Almost Everything’ Leslie Berlin, Wired Last week the world lost the most important tech pioneer whom hardly anyone has heard of: Bob Taylor. When I asked Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt to tell me about Taylor—Schmidt worked in Taylor’s Silicon Valley computer science lab as a graduate student—Schmidt said,…
How Google Cashes In on the Space Right Under the Search Bar
April 25, 2017How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All Jerry Useem, The Atlantic Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer. Save to Pocket How…