Digital Gems

Around 25% of workers changed jobs worldwide in 2021 compared to 2019, according to LinkedIn.

Learn how USB keyboards translate keystrokes to binary digits and the latency in transmitting this data compared PS2.

With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.

Essential costs like housing accounted for 17% of total spending among households earning annual incomes of less than $15,000 while only representing 2% of costs among households earning $200,000+. On the flipside, 19% of total spending among households earning $200K+ went toward personal insurance and pensions compared to roughly 1.5% among households earning less than $15K.

The Defense Innovation Unit released its initial "Responsible AI Guidelines" document Nov. 15, with intent to operationalize the Defense Department's ethical principles of artificial intelligence into

The new research sequenced genomes from the bones of 12 Japanese people who lived across a range of time periods and found that approximately 71 percent of modern Japanese people’s ancestry comes from this third population.

Inventory remains low even with factories producing more than pre-pandemic levels. Supply chain issues are likely to persist until mid-2022.

Covid accounted for 14 percent of all deaths in the United States from March 2020 until all adults became eligible for the vaccine in April, compared with 11 percent of deaths since then.

Companies growing explosively in the mental health arena face three key blind spots: too few clinical therapists, challenges in building a high-gross margin company, and the the possibility of doing more harm than good.

Venture capitalists, who provided a total of $35.2 million for mental health startups in 2011, upped their ante in 2020, providing nearly $2.4 billion in funding.

During the pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, a share that has been largely consistent, up from one in ten adults who reported these symptoms from January to June 2019

When asked questions normally used to screen patients for mental health problems, 24 percent showed clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30 percent showed symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

In our 2020 commissioned survey, 60% of respondents said that current public investment in mental health research is not enough. This is a 9% increase, up from 51% in 2018.

60% of workers felt like they were more productive when working from home, and a variety of major companies seem to understand that getting work done is no longer contingent upon having four walls and multiple conference rooms.

More commission-based workers are popping up on social channels as startups provide the tech infrastructure to help them sell directly.

Centralized crypto exchanges reported more than $14 trillion in trading volume in the year 2021, according to The Block Research.

SOS is up an eye-popping 960% since its surprise Christmas Eve airdrop.

Beauty is an ever-changing goalpost that has everything do with race, class and power. Learn about the western colonization of the beauty industry and how it's shaped standards in the East and among Latinas, including driving patterns of disordered eating.

The 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act included a little-known provision establishing something called opportunity zones. The plan, which was lauded as a way to direct investments into under-developed communities in the U.S., created 8,764 tax havens that were almost immediately exploited by the wealthy to gobble up capital gains tax breaks. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wessel explains how opportunity zones came to be, who is profiting off of them, and why it’s so difficult to tweak the tax code without creating windfalls for the rich.

Nepal has halted Covid-19 vaccinations in children ages 12 to 17 in eight districts because of a shortage of syringes.

Some companies are moving away from education requirements in a bid to be more inclusive. Others, like The Wing, are keeping it more traditional—at least in the case of its CMO job description.

As of Dec. 24, housing inventory fell from 437,000 during the prior week to 310,000, a decline of 29%. Inventory bottomed out in April 2021.

The US unemployment rate hit 4.2% in November, a remarkable drop from the 14.8% peak reached in April 2020. Some analysts say this is the best market for job seekers ever: There are more than 11 million job openings in the US, compared to only 6.9 million people who are unemployed and looking for work.

4 in 10 professionals are considering leaving their job in the first half of 2022, including around half of Gen Z, employees who have been with their company for 2-4 years and technology workers.

At least 2,400 more flights were canceled globally on Monday, including about 900 U.S. flights.

Founded in 2017 by an ex-wireless engineer from Qualcomm, Solana is a layer one blockchain like Bitcoin and Ethereum that has been built to process transactions as quickly and cheaply as possible. Where Bitcoin can process about ten transactions per second and Ethereum around 30, Solana can handle over 60,000 transactions per second, and it can do so at a fraction of the cost. Unsurprisingly, Solana’s network has attracted huge interest from developers, users, and investors alike over the last year.

Spotify generally pays between $.003 and $.005 per stream, but how much you'll be paid differs based on your distribution contract.

Nicholas Christakis is director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University and author of the bestseller "Apollo’s Arrow." He speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the next phase of the pandemic based on previous pandemics.

The Bonneville Salt Flats are perfect for speed. Every year, cars and motorcycles break land speed records on the flat expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats. It’s been a tradition for more than a century, and racers have built a thriving community around the salt races. But how did these salt flats form, and why are they disappearing now?

Aging carries a risk of losing our memory, focus, and ability to take care of ourselves and others. Working can increase the risk if you don't stay actively engaged in cognitive tasks that keep your mind sharp, especially if you're a man.