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The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of at least two of the following three ranking systems: (1) Times Higher Education World University Rankings, (2) Quacquarelli Symonds, (3) The Academic Ranking of World Universities” […]

This work futurist predicts new waves of worker unrest are on the horizon—especially as some companies press a return to the office.

Spotify’s first hardware product is both a seamless way to play music in the car and an expensive way to keep you locked in.

It’s the perfect tool for digital nomads.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.

1600 SAT is about 135 IQ if you were wondering

Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed

Every year in the spring, small towns throughout New England host their annual town meeting. Town meetings take place in high school gyms or town halls, and anyone can come. In fact, in Vermont, Town Meeting Day is a public holiday. Everyone gets the day off work to make sure they have the chance to

A new law will require employers to post more pay and benefit information in job ads. A similar effort in Colorado is being met with mixed results.

Capitalism is on the wane. Cloudalists, owners of a new form of “command capital,” have gained exorbitant power over everyone else.

New Yorkers still tell stories of browsing at Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore or spending the afternoon at Scribner’s.

It is found or it arrives. It is hosted many places or it has a single home. It earns and delivers on permission, or it’s spam. It changes over time or it’s static. It’s the work …

The internet has made credibility harder to detect, opening the door for misinformation and conspiracy theories. The internet has led to great advances, namely the dissemination of massive amounts of information to billions of people around the world. However, this glut of information has made it easier for malicious actors to publish misinformation and conspiracy […]

Lapsus$ hackers leaked Microsoft’s Bing and Cortana source code. How bad is that, really?

Posted on Monday 11 Apr 2022. 873 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Some of the comments in regards to Dwayne Haskins' untimely death shows we have a long way to go in how we look at athletes

Hustle uses shortcuts and effort to bend the conventions of society to get more than the hustler’s fair share of attention. Hustle burns trust for awareness. Because it’s a shortcut, hu…

Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the