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 S22Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)   Sometimes you know your job just isn’t right for you. Maybe you’re in the wrong field, don’t enjoy the work, feel surrounded by untrustworthy coworkers, or have an incompetent boss. Most people would tell you to find something that’s a better fit. But that may not be possible. There are many reasons you may not […]
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S2To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM  By the middle of the 20th century, Alfred P. Sloan had become the most famous businessman in the world. Known as the “inventor of the modern corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S. economy. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Sloan was president of a small company that made ball bearings, which GM acquired in 1918. When Sloan became president of General Motors in 1923, it was already a $700 million company (about $10.2 billion in sales in today’s dollars). Yet, you never hear who built GM to that size. Who was the entrepreneur who founded what would become General Motors 16 years earlier, in 1904? Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? What happened to him? William Durant founded GM and was widely hailed as a visionary. But Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint, Michigan, in 1947. The question for Tesla watchers is whether Musk is more like Durant or Sloan. As Tesla struggles in the transition from a visionary pioneer to a reliable producer of cars in high volume, one wonders if Musk’s $2.6 billion compensation scheme would be better spent finding the company’s Alfred P. Sloan.
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S3S4Reviving Entrepreneurship  New enterprises don’t exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care. Their decisions could shore up—or further weaken—what has long been America’s greatest economic asset.
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S5Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave  Right now venture investment is falling and the tech market is cooling. Startup founders are thinking more about survival than an exit. But the market can turn around quickly, as it did in 2010. It pays to position yourself now for the startup M&A wave that will likely arrive in the next couple of years. To prepare, you need to see your startup through the eyes of a potential acquirer.
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S6The Soul of a Start-Up  But all too often, companies lose their souls as they mature. Firms add new systems and structures and bring in experienced professionals—and in the process somehow crush their original energizing spirit. In research into more than a dozen fast-growth ventures and 200-plus interviews with founders and executives, the author has discovered how firms can overcome this problem. His work shows that there are three crucial dimensions to a start-up’s soul: business intent, or a loftier reason for being; unusually close customer connections; and an employee experience characterized by autonomy and creativity—by “voice” and “choice.” All three provide meaning to stakeholders.
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S7Research: The Pros and Cons of Soliciting Customer Reviews  Many companies chase customers for online reviews by sending them solicitation emails. These emails aren’t always a good idea, according to new research. Solicitation will push your ratings from the extremes to the average. This could be good or bad. Email prompts disproportionally triggers moderate reviews as the passionate reviewers are more likely to leave reviews of their own accord. Thus, for those products with generally-high average ratings, reminders will lower the average rating. In contrast, products with generally-low average ratings might benefit from reminders. The exception is platform companies such as Amazon or Booking.com–they should always send out reminders as all that matters to them is volume. Also, the research found that companies that do solicit reviews don’t need to offer financial rewards–a reminder email is equally effective.
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S8Research: How to Effectively Market Green Products  A study, involving Edelman and nine major brands, finds that despite corporate hesitations, sustainable products are growing twice as fast as conventional ones, appealing across all demographics. Brands should ensure that product quality is not compromised while promoting sustainability. Combining sustainability claims with core brand attributes can broaden consumer appeal. Effective sustainability messages prioritize the personal and community benefits, while technical or scientific claims are less compelling unless tied to consumer benefits. Sustainably-marketed goods are consistently growing across demographics, indicating that compelling sustainability claims can boost customer engagement and business growth.
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S9When Virtue Is a Vice Reprint: F0807D Choosing duty over pleasure today can cause regret down the road—whereas regret over the reverse is fleeting. Marketers of luxury products and services should consider prompting customers to predict their future feelings about choices made now.
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S10Can Big Data Smoke Out the Silent Majority? After Fox News ran a story marveling at the fact that Mitt Romney’s campaign was prying donations out of neighborhoods that are traditional democratic strongholds, an AP reporter tried to get some insight into how it is doing that. Jack Gillum picked up the trail where Fox left it, with Dick Boyce—an active fundraiser in the San Francisco Bay area and a former Bainie. A veteran marketing executive turned private equity guy (he’s with TPG), Boyce is precisely the kind of person who would port a successful business practice over to the political realm. He reportedly connected the Romney camp to Buxton Co., a customer analytics firm.
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S11Marketing in an Unpredictable World It’s time for producers of entertainment—movie studios, broadcast and cable TV networks, video game makers, publishers, music labels—to change the way they launch and market their products. In entertainment markets, a sizable portion of revenue is typically generated by a small number of blockbuster movies, best-selling books, and hit songs. But even talented, experienced executives acknowledge that predicting these hits is effectively a crapshoot. How else to explain why Miramax paid ten times as much for Happy, Texas—which grossed $2 million at the box office—as Warner Independent paid for March of the Penguins, which grossed close to $80 million?
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S12Does America Really Need Manufacturing? Too many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don’t consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products.
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S13S14How Humans and AI Are Working Together in 1,500 Companies  Artificial intelligence is transforming all sectors of the economy, but there’s no reason to fear that robots will replace all human employees. In fact, companies that automate their operations mainly to cut their workforces will see only short-term productivity gains, say the authors. Their research, involving 1,500 firms in a range of industries, shows that the biggest performance improvements come when humans and smart machines work together, enhancing each other’s strengths.
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S15In Defense of Routine Innovation  Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Venture capitalists tout their latest investments as potential disruptors. Even executives of large corporations talk about the need to make their behemoths into nimble disruptors.
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S16Exploring and Exploiting Your Way to Growth So far, 2012 has been another banner year for the ‘tyranny of success’ as once great companies slide ever closer to the abyss. Kodak’s bankruptcy, Nokia’s vanishing profits, and the continuing struggles of Blackberry maker Research In Motion to find an answer to the iPhone, show how rapidly heroes lose their edge. Each of these firms is struggling to respond to and lead disruption in their industries. Nokia and RIM have watched as Apple and Android have wiped away their leading position; each attempted to respond, but neither could execute. The question though is, why didn’t they move earlier? Why are companies often left flat-footed when competition strikes?
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S17The Institutional Innovation Manifesto If you want to be a 21st century company (or economy), if you want to survive and thrive during this Great Stagnation, you’ve got to to have the courage, foresight, and determination to step up to a higher rung on the ladder of innovation. It’s time to master what I sometimes call “I-squared”: the art and practice of institutional innovation.
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S18How to Build a Career in a New Industry  Deciding to switch career paths can feel daunting. Where do you even begin? In this piece, the author offers four concrete ways to ease the transition: 1) Start by mapping the terrain. Read the bios and LinkedIn profiles of senior leaders or fast-rising colleagues and reverse-engineer the path they followed. This will enable you — if you wish — to craft a similar roadmap. 2) Recognize that you’ll need to take the lead. 3) Network to give yourself optionality. As a new entrant in your field, it’s possible you may have landed at a suboptimal company (for instance, one with a toxic work environment or declining fortunes) without realizing it, because it’s likely easier for outsiders to break into an industry at a firm that insiders are avoiding. So network widely, because if your initial landing pad isn’t a fit, you’ll want to change quickly. 4) Identify emerging opportunities. If you can become the “go-to” person around an area that’s growing in importance, you can often build a career path around it.
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S19How to Recover from Work Stress, According to Science  To combat stress and burnout, employers are increasingly offering benefits like virtual mental health support, spontaneous days or even weeks off, meeting-free days, and flexible work scheduling. Despite these efforts and the increasing number of employees buying into the importance of wellness, the effort is lost if you don’t actually recover. So, if you feel like you’re burning out, what works when it comes to recovering from stress? The authors discuss the “recovery paradox” — that when our bodies and minds need to recover and reset the most, we’re the least likely and able to do something about it — and present five research-backed strategies for recovering from stress at work.
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S20What to Do If Your Job Interviewer Is Biased  While the main purpose of a job interview is to learn about candidates and how they can uniquely contribute to an organization, unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. Offensive and often illegal questions are sometimes asked that can lead to discrimination against your candidacy. In some cases they can indicate an interviewer’s bias against you, while in others, the interviewer may not realize they have been inappropriate. If you find yourself in an interview that isn’t going well, or worse, in which the interviewer is displaying obvious bias, here’s how to respond.
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S21Companies Should Help Veterans Get Skills to Work  There are an estimated 600,000 open advanced manufacturing jobs across America, and the White House recently announced that 34,000 troops are returning from Afghanistan over the next year. While these two facts are seemingly unrelated, an innovative program connects them in a meaningful way.
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S23The New Rules of Work Clothes  After two years of hastily throwing a business jacket over a T-shirt and sweatpants while letting people into our homes during the Covid-19 pandemic, our tolerance for conformity — and discomfort — has changed. The business dress code is evolving. Have you been rethinking your work attire as you transition back into the office, but you’re worried about what others will think? In this piece, the author offers practical steps to try if you’re considering changing things up.
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S24How to Get Feedback When You're the Boss The higher up in the organization you get, the less likely you’ll receive constructive feedback on your ideas, performance, or strategy. No one wants to offend the boss, right? But without input, your development will suffer, you may become isolated, and you’re likely to miss out on hearing some great ideas. So, what can you do to get people to tell you what you may not want to hear?
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S25S26S27S28S29S30S31S32S33S34S35Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case  Regulators in the United States and Europe have been taking on Big Tech, challenging what they say are the companies’ anti-competitive and predatory strategies that harm consumers and third-party users of their platforms. This article examines the FTC’s case against Amazon and explores the economic arguments in favor of and against each of the agency’s key claims. They highlight fundamental trade-offs between the benefits of aggregating economic activity on a single marketplace and the costs of that marketplace setting the rules for everybody relying on it.
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S36How to Lead Across a Siloed Organization  It’s long been recognized that cross-functional collaboration is essential. Still, stubborn silos that bog down execution, hamper innovation, and slow decision-making are still a common and persistent challenge. In their work with company leaders, the authors have found that, without leaders working together at the top, silos and dysfunction are inevitable. The onus is therefore on senior leaders to knock down these silos — moving beyond their ability to lead their own teams to also prioritize leading across the organization. The authors discuss what sets successful cross-functional leaders apart.
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S37How Companies Can Support Employees Experiencing Menopause  Demographic change, driven by decades of low birth rates and increased longevity, is remaking labor markets and economies worldwide at an astonishing pace. That means that organizations need to quickly shift how they recruit and retain employees of all ages, including by developing new policies and benefits. Organizations that take employee well-being seriously realize early on that getting ahead of conditions like menopause reduces an incredible burden on their workforce and can improve the bottom line. The authors discuss why it’s critical for organizations to support employees in menopause — and highlight several that are doing so effectively.
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S38Taupo: The super volcano under New Zealand's largest lake  Located in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, the town of Taupo sits sublimely in the shadow of the snow-capped peaks of Tongariro National Park. Fittingly, this 40,000-person lakeside town has recently become one of New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations, as hikers, trout fishers, water sports enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies have started descending upon it.The namesake of this tidy town is the Singapore-sized lake that kisses its western border. Stretching 623sq km wide and 160m deep with several magma chambers submerged at its base, Lake Taupo isn't only New Zealand's largest lake; it's also an incredibly active geothermal hotspot. Every summer, tourists flock to bathe in its bubbling hot springs and sail through its emerald-green waters. Yet, the lake is the crater of a giant super volcano, and within its depths lies the unsettling history of this picturesque marvel.
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S39Message sticks: Australia's ancient unwritten language  The continent of Australia is home to more than 250 spoken Indigenous languages and 800 dialects. Yet, one of its linguistic cornerstones wasn't spoken, but carved.Known as message sticks, these flat, rounded and oblong pieces of wood were etched with ornate images on both sides that conveyed important messages and held the stories of the continent's Aboriginal people – considered the world's oldest continuous living culture. Message sticks are believed to be thousands of years old and were typically carried by messengers over long distances to reinforce oral histories or deliver news between Aboriginal nations or language groups.
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S40Did Australia's boomerangs pave the way for flight?  The aircraft is one of the most significant developments of modern society, enabling people, goods and ideas to fly around the world far more efficiently than ever before. The first successful piloted flight took off in 1903 in North Carolina, but a 10,000-year-old hunting tool likely developed by Aboriginal Australians may have held the key to its lift-off. As early aviators discovered, the secret to flight is balancing the flow of air. Therefore, an aircraft's wings, tail or propeller blades are often shaped in a specially designed, curved manner called an aerofoil that lifts the plane up and allows it to drag or turn to the side as it moves through the air.
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S41The new drugs that may bring an end to constant itching  Shayanne Boulet was 18 and at the end of her first year of college when, out of nowhere, she developed an excruciating itch."I couldn't take hot showers, I couldn't focus on my homework at school, I couldn't sleep because I would have to itch for almost two hours in my bed. I would have to get up to clean myself because there was blood on the sheets."
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S42The lost ancient practice of communal sleep  In 1187, a medieval prince slipped into his grand wooden bed, accompanied by a new companion. With a thick mane of auburn hair and strapping frame, Richard the Lionheart was the ultimate macho warrior, renowned for his formidable leadership on the battlefield and knightly conduct. Now he had formed an unexpected friendship with a former enemy – Philip II, who ruled over France from 1180 to 1223.Initially, the two royals had forged a purely pragmatic alliance. But after spending more time together, eating at the same table and even out of the same dish, they had become close friends. To cement the special relationship between themselves and their two countries, they agreed to a peace treaty – and slept alongside each other, in the same bed.
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S43NASA's Troubled Mars Sample Mission Has Scientists Seeing Red  NASA’s Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a “dumpster fire”An artist's impression of NASA's Perseverance rover exploring Mars. As part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, Perseverance is gathering and caching specimen-filled tubes for future retrieval and subsequent analysis. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.
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S44Simple Math Creates Infinite and Bizarre Automorphic Numbers  Mathematics is often about uncovering patterns. For example, certain areas of topology revolve around categorizing knots or geometric shapes, and number theory explores properties such as the distribution of prime numbers. If we restrict ourselves to somewhat simpler relationships, we can observe a pattern with the numbers 5 and 6 that was recognized by the Babylonians millennia ago: the square of 5 is 25, which ends with 5; the square of 25 is 625, which ends with 25; and the square of 625 is 390,625, which ends with 625. What seems like a fun gimmick made popular by mathematician Maurice Kraitchik in 1942 leads to one of the most important number systems in mathematics—and one of the strangest.If you play with the number 6, the result is not quite as impressive, but here, too, a pattern emerges: 6 squared gives 36; 36 squared gives 1,296. Although 36 no longer appears in the sequence of digits, the result always ends with 6. In general, numbers whose square ends with the same digit or digits as the number itself are called automorphic. There are an infinite number of these: 0, 1, 5, 6, 25, 76, 376, and so on. As it turns out, aside from 0 and 1, all automorphic numbers end with either 5 or 6.
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S45This Doctor Helped Spare Women from Radical Mastectomy  Canadian radiation oncologist Vera Peters pioneered the use of lumpectomies and postoperative radiation to treat breast cancer patients.Radiation oncologist Vera Peters began her career studying treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She used techniques that had seen positive outcomes for Hodgkin’s to treat breast cancer patients. And she discovered a treatment that was equally effective and much less invasive than radical mastectomy, sparing hundreds of thousands from that life-altering surgery.
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S46Thousands of U.S. Cities Could Become Virtual Ghost Towns by 2100  These projected findings about depopulation in U.S. cities are shaped by a multitude of factors, including the decline of industry, lower birth rates and the impacts of climate changeThe Urban U.S. could look very different in the year 2100, in part because thousands of cities might be rendered virtual ghost towns. According to findings published in Nature Cities, the populations of some 15,000 cities around the country could dwindle to mere fractions of what they are now. The losses are projected to affect cities everywhere in the U.S. except Hawaii and Washington, D.C.
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S47S48Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution  A dinosaur skull first discovered in the 1980s was originally catalogued as a T. rex. Now some scientists argue it represents a new species of tyrannosaur and could shed light on where the massive animals originatedRevisiting a partial dinosaur skull first discovered in the 1980s has some scientists convinced that what was originally catalogued as a Tyrannosaurus rex in fact represents the closest relative of the “king of dinosaurs” ever known. But other paleontologists disagree.
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S49S50What's Behind the Recent Surge of Prime Age Women in the Workforce?  Penn Wharton Budget Model director joins the show to discuss a new report that shows historic levels of prime age women in the workforce in 2023.Alex Arnon, director of business tax and economic analysis with the Penn Wharton Budget Model, joins the show to discuss the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s new research on prime-aged women and their employment and higher education rates.
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S51S52It's time for infectious generosity. Here's how  What would happen to humanity if generosity went viral? Sharing transformative stories from around the world, head of TED Chris Anderson outlines why the time has come for the internet to realize its power to supercharge small acts of kindness, changing lives at a scale never experienced before. Learn how to cultivate a generous mindset — with or without giving money — and get inspired with tools to amplify your impact. "Be brave. Give what you can, and then be absolutely amazed at what happens next," Anderson says.
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S53How to build democracy -- in an authoritarian country  "Today, Hungary is in the gray zone between a dictatorship and a democracy," says activist Tessza Udvarhelyi. "This did not happen overnight." In a rousing talk, she reminds us just how close any country can come to authoritarianism — and offers on-the-ground lessons for how to keep democracy alive through focus, determination and imagination. (Followed by a brief Q&A with TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks)
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S54What happens when we deny people abortions?  How does getting an abortion — or not — influence a woman's life? Demographer Diana Greene Foster puts forward the results of The Turnaway Study, her landmark work following nearly 1,000 women through abortion or childbirth, presenting definitive data on the long-term physical, mental and economic impacts of the right to choose on pregnant people and their families. "Access to abortion is about control over one's body, life and destiny," says Foster.
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S55TVs Got Even Bigger, Brighter, and Totally See-Through at This Year's CES  It seems CES 2024 just barely crested the horizon, and yet it’s already rapidly sinking into the rearview. As the sun begins to set on the biggest electronics show of the year, we’re taking stock of some of the biggest, coolest, and wildest TV innovations we saw in the expo halls.CES is as much a television showcase as anything, unveiling a flurry of cool display tech as some of the biggest names in the industry flexed their most intriguing creations coming to market this year. These are the standout TV trends we saw at CES 2024 that could soon land in your living room.
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S56All the CES Trends That Mattered  It's CES week. Yes, it's time to dive back into that glitzy, chaotic showcase where thousands of startups, companies, and general technology weirdos gather to show off all the new tech and futuristic devices that will give us a glimpse of the year in tech to come. AI is in everything, we're getting ChatGPT in our flying cars, and TVs are getting so big and bright you need sunglasses to watch them.This week on Gadget Lab, we come to you straight from lovely Las Vegas, Nevada, where CES is in full swing. We huddled together in a Vegas hotel room to talk all about the big trends, crazy tech, and just plain weird stuff we saw this week
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S57Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks  For those who trade in child sexual exploitation images and videos in the darkest recesses of the internet, cryptocurrency has been both a powerful tool and a treacherous one. Bitcoin, for instance, has allowed denizens of that criminal underground to buy and sell their wares with no involvement from a bank or payment processor that might reveal their activities to law enforcement. But the public and surprisingly traceable transactions recorded in Bitcoin's blockchain have sometimes led financial investigators directly to pedophiles’ doorsteps.Now, after years of evolution in that grim cat-and-mouse game, new evidence suggests that online vendors of what was once commonly called “child porn” are learning to use cryptocurrency with significantly more skill and stealth—and that it's helping them survive longer in the internet's most abusive industry.
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S58Toyota's Robots Are Learning to Do Housework--By Copying Humans  As someone who quite enjoys the Zen of tidying up, I was only too happy to grab a dustpan and brush and sweep up some beans spilled on a tabletop while visiting the Toyota Research Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts last year. The chore was more challenging than usual because I had to do it using a teleoperated pair of robotic arms with two-fingered pincers for hands.As I sat before the table, using a pair of controllers like bike handles with extra buttons and levers, I could feel the sensation of grabbing solid items, and also sense their heft as I lifted them, but it still took some getting used to.
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S59The Big Problem With the Giant Stanley Cup  Once a masculine emblem of construction workers and hikers, Stanley drinkware is now a status symbol for the wellness-oriented internet trend-chaser. The ubiquitous 40-ounce Quencher H2.0 FlowState Tumbler is at the heart of some of the 2020s’ most recognizable woman-dominated and pastel-toned trends, like the “hot girl walk” and TikTok’s controversial #WaterTok niche. The Stanley cup, as it is universally known, is toted by countless influencers and even some A-list celebrities who praise its supposedly superior functionality even as it draws mockery for its sometimes comical impracticality.The movement against disposable containers is urgently needed, and reusable water bottles have been fashionable for decades. In the past, consumers signaled their love of hydration and the environment with water bottles from brands like Nalgene, Swell, Hydro Flask, and Yeti. But none of Stanley’s predecessors inspired a frenzy on a scale so large that it threatens to symbolize the very kind of environmentally-harmful consumption that reusable containers are supposed to end.
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S60Why Crypto Idealogues Won't Touch Bitcoin ETFs  Bitcoin devotees are declaring a historic victory after US regulators approved a new, more accessible way for people to invest in the crypto asset after a decade of resistance. Yet they won't go anywhere near it themselves.On January 10, after a farcical false start, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved the launch of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the country. The ETFs will be issued by a selection of big-name financial institutionsâincluding BlackRock, Fidelity, and Franklin Templetonâand will give people a way to invest in bitcoin through a brokerage, as if it were a stock. The price of the ETF shares will follow the price of bitcoin.
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S61The 25 Best Gadgets From CES 2024 You Can Buy Right Now  It's barely two weeks into the new year, but the flood of new gadgets for 2024 has already started. Thanks to CES, we've seen a ton of innovative tech launch into the marketplace. While many products announced at CES won't be available till later this year, a fair number are already for sale. Check out this curated selection of devices available for purchase or preorder. (The preorder items listed here should ship within just a month or two.)If you miss having a physical keyboard on your smartphone, the Clicks case might be the solution for you.
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S62The 18 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now  When it comes to originals, Netflix and Amazon have the deepest libraries of prestige movies. But ever since CODA won the Best Picture Oscar, it’s become clear that some of the best movies are on Apple TV+.As with any streaming service, not every film on the roster is a winner, but from Billie Eilish documentaries to Sundance darlings, Apple’s streaming service is building up a strong catalog to run alongside its growing slate of beloved TV shows.
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S63The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max  To adapt an old Oscar Wilde quote: To lose one aircraft may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.So what to make of a third Boeing 737 Max suffering a major issue in recent years? Flying at 16,000 feet shortly after taking off in Oregon on January 5, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was still climbing when part of the plane’s body detached, leaving passengers looking out at clear air. The incident raises serious concerns about the viability of this type of plane and the industry’s method of assuring aircraft safety.
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S644 unexpected lessons from the Milky Way's weirdest star  Over the past 13.8 billion years, the Universe has evolved from a hot, dense, largely uniform early state to a clumpy, clustered, star-and-galaxy-rich state, where the typical interstellar and intergalactic distances are absolutely tremendous. The stars that exist today, importantly, are different from the stars that were created in the earliest stages of the Universe. Whereas the stars that are forming today are composed of all the recycled material that was once inside one-or-more stars and returned to the interstellar medium, the stars that were made early on were pristine: made of up primarily of hydrogen and helium alone: the material that existed shortly after the hot Big Bang.Whenever we look at a star, we gain information about the cumulative history of the Universe up until the moment that particular star formed: of all the generations that lived-and-died prior to its formation. But early on, when the first few generations of stars were forming, it’s possible that the chemical enrichment of the “next generation” of stars may have primarily arisen from just one single, massive source. If this is the case, even for a few stars, we should find a population of very old stars with unusual compositions: with highly unusual element ratios compared to the more common varieties that formed from material that was well-mixed within the interstellar medium. With one remarkable discovery, a single star is helping us rewrite our cosmic history.
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S65My brain doesn't picture things. What's wrong with me?  I’m lying down in a white cylinder barely wider than my body, surrounded on all sides by a mass of sophisticated machinery the size of a small camper van. It’s an fMRI machine, one of the technological marvels of modern neuroscience. Two small inflatable cushions squeeze my temples, keeping my head still. “We are ready to begin the next batch of exercises,” I hear Dr. Horikawa’s gentle voice saying. We’re underground, in one of the laboratories of Tokyo University’s Faculty of Medicine, Hongo Campus. “Do you feel like proceeding?”
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S66"Obsessive passion": The surprising links between OCD and radicalization  Mental problems are commonly blamed for extremist violence—radicals and terrorists appear by definition to be selfish psychopaths. Yet research finds that no single psychological profile leads to violent extremism. And while depression is sometimes correlated with political violence, these links are not always reliable and may only occur when combined with environmental factors like recent life stressors. Instead, most research finds that radicalization and political violence stem from environmental factors like marginalization, oppression, and perceived injustice.“Clinical traits that might seem obvious are actually often unrelated,” Jaïs Adam-Troïan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Heriot-Watt University, told Big Think. “So for a long time, researchers assumed that mental health was unimportant for predicting political violence.”
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S67S68Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS  Since the successful launch of the Steam Deck nearly two years ago, we've seen plenty of would-be competitors that have tried to mimic the Deck's portable form factor and ability to run PC games. Thus far, though, these competitors have all been missing one of the Steam Deck's best features: integration with the increasingly robust, Linux-based SteamOS 3.
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