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Dr. Beia Spiller is a Fellow and Transportation Program Director at Resources for the Future. She had previously served as a Lead Senior Economist at EDF. This post is the final in a series dedicated to the future of the electricity sector and new scholarship supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foun

Women Developers Academy and Google Cloud Platform helped Women Techmakers ambassador Annalisa Arcella become a machine learning engineer.

Building Trust At Scale When Trust Has Fallen Off A Cliff – a DisruptHR talk by Kelsy Trigg VP + Global Head of HR Project Office at SAP and Darryl Stickel – Executive Consultant DisruptHR Vancouver 8.0 – June 6, 2019 in Vancouver, BC #DisruptHRYVR

Scaling Trust with DevRel, Pt. 1

The role of systems in making big organizations seem small

How to build and re-create trust at all different levels of your career and your community's maturity - a clear system

You hear it throughout corporate boardrooms everywhere as 2020 kicks off. How do we scale our business? How do we […]

CVP Automated Packaging Solutions are inline auto-packers. This fit-to-size technology creates the perfect parcel. Learn all about the benefits.

Senior executives involved in global operation to thwart law enforcement, leaked files reveal

Emmanuel Macron is among leaders who helped the ride-hailing company disrupt new markets.

Regulators entered Uber’s offices only to see computers go dark before their eyes as the company used covert tech to thwart government raids, leaked records show.

In military intelligence, he was renowned for his skill connecting the dots and finding terrorists. But somewhere along the way, his dot detector began spinning out of control.

Ten years ago, Techdirt was one of the few sites to be following closely some obscure but important machinations at the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to create a top-down regulat…

Today on TAP: Beware the disabling potential of facile comparisons.

And one Google-funded academic’s role in it

The Israeli kibbutz have long been moving away from utopian socialism towards “renewing kibbutz”; a kind of cooperative in which member wages differ, consumption is unequal, many resources are privately owned but there is some mutual aid–a “safety net”–and some common ownership typically of land. Abramitzky et al. look at how kibbutz members vote and […]

Emergent movements, including a resurgence of the KKK, led to more anti-immigration policy, eugenics laws, religious fundamentalism and conservative leadership.

In addition to the obliteration of privacy and criminalization of women’s health, it’s a waste of money.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience.

Wasted and unaccounted work is a low level of visibility among employees and leaders that costs millions of dollars in wasted time.

An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process

What we think will happen is more important then ever. But pictures of the future are just fiction, that don’t exist. Yet, never before in the history of our species have we devoted so much of our time, energy and … Continue reading →