This Parody Video Perfectly Explains The Most Frustrating Part Of Being A...
Software engineers are often put in a bizarrely challenging situation.Essentially, they're sometimes forced to collaborate with business and sales executives who don't understand the first thing about...
View ArticleHere's Goldman's Quick Prediction For Tomorrow's Jobs Report
Here's Goldman's forecast for tomorrow's big Jobs Report:We forecast a 200,000 increase in nonfarm payrolls in March, in line with consensus expectations. We view the reasonably solid February gain of...
View ArticleEveryone Should Follow This Legendary Marine General's Advice On Leadership
What should a brand new leader or manager do upon joining a new organization?The short answer is to listen, according to retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, the former commander of Central Command who...
View ArticleFive Quick Ways To Make Yourself Happier
Happiness isn't about winning the lottery according to Happify, a website and app that uses games and tasks based in positive psychology to make you happier.Happiness is a combination of three things:...
View ArticleMICROSOFT: Here's How We'll Get Better Games For Xbox Than The PlayStation...
In its war to control tech in the living room, Microsoft's Xbox One is fighting on multiple fronts.From the low end of the market, it's fighting against Apple, Amazon and Roku, which stream video...
View ArticleWEARABLE APPS: Inside The Race To Create A New App Ecosystem
Several prominent wearable devices have hit the market in the past year — Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Pebble Smartwatch, and the Explorer version of Google Glass. But despite the flurry of launches, there...
View ArticleR.E.M.’s Bassist Reacts To Breaking David Letterman’s Retirement News On Twitter
Tonight, David Letterman will announce his retirement from "The Late Show" on CBS.However, before the announcement aired on TV, R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills broke the news on Twitter.When asked backstage...
View ArticleLook How US Birth Rates Soared And Then Plunged In The Past Century
Birth rates have varied over time, but especially prominent is the "baby boom" after WWII.This boom is especially visible in new data collected by researchers at the University of Michigan. They...
View ArticleMicrosoft's New Plan To Make People Love Windows 8 Is Starting To Work (MSFT)
When it comes to Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Microsoft has been caught in a Catch-22. People buy devices for the apps. Developers only want to write apps for devices that already have a lot of...
View Article'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Is A Disappointingly Dumb Movie
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" may be one of the better Marvel movies, but it is a stretch to call it a smart and subversive spy thriller as many have claimed. Beneath the surface, it is just as...
View ArticleThe Wikipedia For Numbers Just Made My Job Easier, But It Needs Your Help To...
Do you want to know the population of China? (1,363,650,000 in 2014.) How about the number of Xbox Ones that were sold? (4,000,000)A new crowdsource site called Meterfy wants to make surfacing those...
View ArticleAlex Trebek Has Incredibly Awkward Moment With 'Jeopardy!' Contestant Over...
A break in the gameplay on "Jeopardy!" for small talk among the contestants is usually a light-hearted affair, but it got really awkward for host Alex Trebek after one contestant told him about his...
View ArticleHere's Who Is Rumored To Be Replacing David Letterman
David Letterman just announced he's retiring next year and the rumor mill is already buzzing over who will replace him at the "Late Show."As of now, there are four main names being tossed around: Craig...
View ArticleThese Maps Show That Android Is For Poor People
This map showing the locations of 280 million individual posts on Twitter shows a depressing divide in America: Tweets coming from Manhattan tend to come from iPhones. Tweets coming from Newark, N.J.,...
View ArticleFacebook Could Be Working On Its Own 'Secret' App (FB)
Thanks to the buzz surrounding anonymity apps like Secret, Whisper and Yik Yak, Facebook could be working on a Secret-like app of its own, reports Re/code's Mike Isaac.Facebook has even contacted...
View ArticlePeople Are Worried That It Might Be 1997 All Over Again In Japan
Here's an important chart we've seen in various permutations recently. This particular version comes from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and it shows the trajectory of current Japanese consumption vs....
View ArticleMicrosoft Featured A Famous Apple Blogger During Its Keynote
There was a clear underlying current throughout the various presentations during today's keynote at Microsoft's Build conference: "We're cool with Apple now."Most of that had to do with the tools that...
View ArticleFacebook's Sheryl Sandberg Is Going To Star In Her Own Comic Book
The COO of Facebook is going to be the star of a new "Female Force" comic book, "Female Force: Sheryl Sandberg."The 22-page book will be a visual biography of her life, without any superhero powers,...
View Article25 Entrepreneurs Confess What They Wished They’d Known Before Founding Their...
Founding a company isn't for the faint of heart.Every entrepreneur — no matter the size of their company — faces tough decisions and seemingly insurmountable struggles at some point in the process of...
View ArticleThis Sustainable Home In Silicon Valley Is The Perfect Alternative To A...
To many observers, Silicon Valley is the land of cookie-cutter developments and massive McMansions. But a recently completed home in the area could provide a useful model to change that.Situated on a...
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