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 S22Don't Let Bad Onboarding Slow You Down in Your New Job   Far too many managers fail to give employee onboarding the critical attention it needs, leaving their newly hired workers lost in the weeds. When this happens, it can negatively impact your experience in a new role, resulting in low morale and feelings of isolation. Here’s what to do in that situation:
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S1The Worldwide Web of Chinese Business  Most discussion of today’s global economy centers on three powerhouses: North America, Europe, and Japan. In turn, economists usually divide Asia into Japan, a People’s Republic of China that is rapidly changing and on the rise, and the industrialized “dragons” of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Yet this standard economic definition doesn’t match Pacific Rim realities. In fact, Chinese businesses—many of which are located outside the People’s Republic itself—make up the world’s fourth economic power.
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S2Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. Conventional wisdom suggests that there are only two ways to exit a company: either it grows such that it can hold an initial public offering, or it gets acquired by or merges with a strategic partner. For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. There has to be a better way.
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S3The Key to Retaining Employees After an Acquisition I’ve been the CEO of three start-ups, two of which have been acquired by great companies (Yahoo and Google). What I’ve learned about keeping a team cohesive after an acquisition is that ultimately, it’s not what you do to try to retain everyone — after an acquisition you can only do so much — but about the type of people that you choose to hire in the first place.
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S4Out of the Blue and into the Black The date, I’ll never forget, was July 30, 1981. The place was New York’s Park Lane Hotel. The event was a press conference called by my company, Landmark Communications, to announce what we planned to do with our newly acquired satellite transponder. Even then, well before cable television became the powerhouse it is today, a transponder was an asset any media company would prize. Sitting on a communications satellite, receiving signals from a single source on earth, and bouncing them back to a number of receiving stations on the ground, this small device enables even pint-sized cable programmers to send signals from coast to coast.
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S5The CEO of New Mountain Capital on Using PE Management to Ignite Growth  Twelve years ago, in 2010, the private equity firm New Mountain Capital acquired a little-known Wisconsin software company, RedPrairie, for $565 million. In September 2021 it sold that same company, now named Blue Yonder, for $8.5 billion to Panasonic. About $5.7 billion of the gain had come from organic growth, not acquisitions. That success wasn’t driven by any specific lucky break, technology breakthrough, or new product. Rather, it was the result of continual investment and improvement in the company’s management, strategy, and governance—the same approach that best-in-class private equity firms have employed for years across dozens of industries and thousands of companies. By explaining how New Mountain transformed Blue Yonder, this article shows how private equity firms create value for businesses and for the economy. And it underscores how much the PE industry has evolved since its inception.
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S6The Strategic Pivot: Rules for Entrepreneurs and Other Innovators Silicon Valley culture is built around great pivots — a sudden shift in strategy that turns a mediocre idea into a billion-dollar company. Groupon began not as a local coupon business, but as a platform for collective action. Pay Pal started back in 1999 as a way to “beam” money between mobile phones, Palm Pilots, […]
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S7Covid-19 Vaccine Trials Are a Case Study on the Challenges of Data Literacy  It’s dangerously easy to misinterpret data, especially when it’s reported in percentages rather than absolute numbers. The author showcases a number of dangers by focusing on the vaccine-efficacy results reported in November of 2020. He then shows how similar dangers can apply in business contexts, and offers three main lessons for managers hoping to make good decisions using data: be wary of big data, be wary of precision, and beware of post-diction.
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S8S9Yelp's IPO Will Test the Flaws in Its Business Model Yelp’s IPO filing comes hot on the heels of successful IPOs and high valuations for Angie’s List and Groupon. Yelp’s timing reflects both a tech-friendly market and the company’s current position as the dominant consumer-review web site. Yelp has 22 million reviews, and the supposedly imminent onslaught of competing review sites has yet to materialize. But is Yelp really poised for long-run success? My research shows that there are points in its favor — but there are others that should raise investors’ concern.
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S10Strategies for Low Market Share Businesses During the past several years, a great deal of research on profitability and market share has uncovered a positive correlation between the two. One study shows that “on the average, a difference of ten percentage points in market share is accompanied by a difference of about five points in pretax ROI.”1 Although in general market share and return on investment do go hand in hand, many of the inferences that both managers and consultants have been drawing from this finding are erroneous and misleading.
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S11Green Shoots: Fabricly and Bolder Quick — what will the shape of the recovery be: U, V, W, or L? Wrong question. The right one — unless all you want to do is resuscitate yesterday’s business as usual — is, “How do we build a better economy?” Hence, a new, semi-regular series of blog posts here: “Green Shoots.” It’s going […]
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S12S13Four Economic Benchmarks We Need Now Should governments accept the dictates of markets? It’s the question raging across the econoverse in the wake of demands for austerity from bondholders. But it’s the wrong question. The right question is: are organizations and markets making decisions that help make people, communities, and society better off in the long run, by allocating their scarce […]
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S14Forget Mentors -- You Should Build a Circle of Advisers  For many, the “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts” attached to mentorships are stressful and can become a deterrent to pursuing much needed support. Instead, swap the term “mentor” for “adviser,” and build a circle of people with varying specialties who can support you throughout your career. How can you find the right advisers for you?
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S15If Your Brand Promises Authenticity, You Better Deliver Your culture might be positive. Your brand messages might be powerful. But the greatest potential your organization has is the special case when culture and brand are completely aligned. The slightest divergence between them can undermine even the most brilliant (and expensive) marketing campaign.
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S16Want to Be a Leader? Read More Fiction.  What do you usually do when you’re faced with moral dilemmas at work (or in life)? Most of us would probably do a quick Google search on how to address the issue or reach out to a friend to ask how they might have handled it in the past. But did you ever consider the power of fiction for understanding and approaching tough calls?
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S17The Right Way to Process Feedback  We all receive feedback from time to time. But are we able to process it and make the most of it? Not always. Processing feedback goes far beyond listening to it in the moment and implementing it; it involves continuous reflection, conversation, and practice. While much of this happens because of the way we receive feedback, there is much we can do, too, to make sure we’re processing feedback the right way.
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S18How to Manage a Perfectionist Do you have a perfectionist on your team? The good news is that your direct report has high standards and a fine attention for detail. The bad news is that he fixates on every facet of a project and can’t set priorities. Can you harness these positive qualities without indulging the bad? Can you help him become less of a stickler? Yes and yes. Managing a perfectionist can be challenging but it’s not impossible. And when done well, you both will benefit.
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S19Why No One Gets Away with Trash Talk Anymore  This summer, a milestone crept up on me—I realized it’s been twenty-five years since I began my career as a professor. So naturally, I’ve spent some time reflecting on how my choice of profession has worked out. I spend most of my classroom time with executives who are there because they are unhappy with where they are – or they at least understand they won’t be satisfied for long. Their hope is that whatever we do together in class will help them find something they’ll find more fulfilling. How thankful I am that I’ve never had to wrestle with that.
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S20Stop Procrastinating...Now  It seems that no one is immune to the tendency to procrastinate. When someone asked Ernest Hemingway how to write a novel, his response was “First you defrost the refrigerator.” But putting off tasks takes a big hit on our productivity, and psyche. Procrastination is not inevitable. Figuring out why you postpone work and then taking concrete steps to prevent it will help you get more done and feel good about yourself.
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S21A Warning Sign from Global Companies Multinational companies have long been vital to the U.S. economy, accounting for a large share of GDP, R&D spending, exports, and capital investment—not to mention labor-productivity growth and good-paying jobs. But in the past decade, a worrisome trend developed: As MNCs pursued faster growth abroad, their role in the U.S. economy declined on many measures.
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S23What You Should Know About Layoffs (Before, During, and After)  On the morning of September 14, 2011, I received an Outlook invite to a meeting with my manager and HR. They informed me that my position was being terminated. “You have five minutes to write the last email before you leave your laptop in this room. Your account will be disabled. We will escort you to the exit,” the HR representative said.
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S24How to Determine Your Work Style as a New Manager  Self-awareness in the workplace is always a superpower, but when you’re new to management, it’s even more important. You need to understand and communicate how you do your best work. Here are two exercises first-time managers can use to develop self-awareness: First, identify your work style: Are you more introverted or extroverted? Are you more task-oriented or people-oriented? Ask yourself: Do I do my best work in collaboration with others or by myself? Do I tend to place more value on doing things quickly and efficiently or on bringing people along in the process and generating consensus for the path forward? Where you fall will determine which of four work styles you fall into: the analyzer, the director, the collaborator, or the promoter. Then, articulate your values. Imagine yourself late in life, reflecting on your career. In the end, what was most important to you? Write down 10 values that represent your ideal of that fulfilled life. Narrow the list down to five values, then three. Then, write down activities that embody each value. If your value is excellence, for example, an activity might be that you never deliver a project unless it’s nearly perfect. As a last step, be open with colleagues and direct reports about your work style and key values so they can understand what motivates you and how best to work with you — and provide feedback on the unconscious biases your values will inevitably create. You can even create a “Working with Me” document that clearly outlines how you like to work, your management style, your communication preferences, and more.
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S25S26S27S28S29S30S31S32S33S34S35How to Intervene When You Witness Workplace Aggression  Given the many impacts of workplace aggression, organizations are exploring a number of prevention initiatives. One increasingly popular initiative, bystander intervention, involves training people who witness acts of aggression to intervene. Although bystanders can play a pivotal role in determining outcomes of workplace aggression, many individuals who speak out against perpetrators of aggression experience backlash. This is because when a bystander steps in, it challenges the perpetrator’s perception of themselves as a good person and colleague, triggering a defensive response. Therefore, the way that bystanders intervene matters. It’s not enough to just tell people to intervene; we need to tell them how to do so in a way that minimizes unintended backlash effects.
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S36Bringing True Strategic Foresight Back to Business  Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. And they should be again. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. With modern updates and improvements to these combined disciplines, leaders can sharpen their vision for the future, empowering managers to make informed strategic choices and propelling teams towards superior performance. This domain is true strategic foresight: a disciplined and systematic approach to identify where to play, how to win in the future, and how to ensure organizational resiliency in the face of unforeseen disruption. This article aims to define strategic foresight for leaders, advocating for its integration as a core competency in every organization, regardless of size.
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S37The Best Leaders Can't Be Replaced by AI  There are some areas where AI is surpassing human capabilities — but there are several it can’t replace. Based on their research into employees’ comfort with AI in management, as well as their decades of research on the qualities of effective leadership, the authors identify the promise (and perils) of AI-enabled management, as well as the three uniquely human capabilities leaders need to focus on honing, especially as AI begins to figure more in management: 1) awareness, 2) compassion, and 3) wisdom.
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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 US is bringing back nature's best firefighters: beavers  Jay Wilde stared at the dry creek on the ranch his family had owned for decades for the umpteenth time that week. He was trying to remember what had changed on the land – when he was a child, Birch Creek would run year-round. Now he was lucky if they got six months' worth of water. Wilde had been away from his southern Idaho ranch for 30 years, returning to run cattle in 1995. And the cows needed water."Without water, it was becoming really hard for me to manage the ranch," Wilde explains. "I eventually put in a water system for the cows to drink from, but it seemed wrong to me that the stream should be drying up. There's a lot of life that depends on that water."
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S42Cosmic megastructures: The largest objects in the Universe  In 2021, British PhD student Alexia Lopez was analysing the light coming from distant quasars when she made a startling discovery.She detected a giant, almost symmetrical arc of galaxies 9.3 billion light years away in the constellation of Boötes the Herdsman. Spanning a massive 3.3 billion light years across, the structure is a whopping 1/15th the radius of the observable Universe. If we could see it from Earth, it would be the size of 35 full moons displayed across the sky.
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S43How Covid-19's symptoms have changed with each new variant  "For almost four years, I've managed to dodge Covid-19," TV broadcaster Mehdi Hasan tweeted a fortnight ago. "But it finally got me. At the end of 2023."Hasan added that his symptoms were thankfully mild, but he is just one of many people reporting their first ever positive test for the virus responsible for the pandemic, Sars-CoV-2, four years on from when it first began spreading around the world.
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S44Earth's Wobble Wreaks Havoc on Astronomers--And Astrologers, Too  Our planet’s precession is scarcely noticeable during anyone’s lifetime, but across history, it has had enormous effectsA view of Polaris (center), the North Star. Although Polaris is now closely aligned with Earth’s North Pole, our planet’s precession ensures that this arrangement is temporary. In the distant future, other stars will take Polaris’s present place as our North Star.
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S45AI-Optimized Catheter Design Could Prevent Urinary Tract Infections without Drugs  A 3-D-printed tube stymies microbes with a tiny obstacle course to combat rampant infections in hospitalsMore than 100 million people worldwide require a urinary catheter every year. The devices can be lifesaving, especially after surgery. But many of those who used them—about one quarter in developing countries and about an eighth in the U.S.—may develop a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), commonly caused by bacteria building up inside the tube.
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S46Information Theory Can Help Us Search for Life on Alien Worlds  Information theory can help us decode signs of biological activity hiding in the atmospheres of distant exoplanetsFew questions are more intriguing than the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. But since aliens are not visiting our planet, and we are not going to their faraway homes any time soon, indirect evidence for the existence of biology on distant worlds is our best bet for answers.
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S47S48Ancient DNA Reveals Origins of Multiple Sclerosis in Europe  A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans‘Pormose man’, whose skull was punctured by an arrow thousands of years ago, lived in today’s Denmark. Analysis of DNA from him and other ancient humans has revealed waves of migration to Europe over the past 45,000 years.
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S49Biden Pours $623 Million into Electric Vehicle Charging Void  The Biden administration is doling out more money for charging infrastructure because range anxiety is considered a major challenge to Americans’ widespread adoption of electric carsCLIMATEWIRE | America’s ability to charge future electric vehicles got a jolt Thursday as the Biden administration announced recipients of $623 million in infrastructure funds, with a focus on disadvantaged communities and freight trucks.
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S502023 Was the Hottest Year on Record by a Long Shot  The year 2023 is officially the hottest on record, edging close to the mark of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. But that doesn’t mean that the goals of the Paris climate accord are out of reachA farmer walks by dry cracked earth on his farm where he usually grows crawfish on October 10, 2023 in Kaplan, Louisiana.
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S51How Does the World's Largest Seabird Know Where to Fly?  Joseph Polidoro: Imagine for a moment that you’re a very hungry bird soaring over 30-foot ocean swells in high winds, with no land for thousands of miles.According to a new finding in October’s Proceedings of the National Association of Sciences USA, this seabird navigates using sounds below our thresholds for hearing.
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S52What's Behind the 'Arctic Blast' Plunging into the U.S.?  This week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive Arctic outbreaks of this century,” one climate scientist saysAfter months of record-breaking warm temperatures, much of the U.S. is facing a harsh, fast-approaching blast of frigid air from the Arctic that could plunge wind chill factors below zero degrees Fahrenheit (–18 degrees Celsius)—all close on the heels of a serious winter storm dumping snow over the Midwest and Great Lakes this weekend.
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S53Motivation Up, Attrition Down: Employee Engagement  Wharton's Matthew Bidwell shares tips on how to elevate employee engagement and maximize the talent of your workforce.Nano Tools for Leaders® — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management — are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success and the engagement and productivity of the people you lead.
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S54AI and Wellbeing: Can Chatbots Play a Role?  As individuals increasingly turn to chatbots for advice, a recent webinar offered by AI at Wharton explored the growing role of AI in mental health and wellbeing.A curious thing happened at Stack Overflow following the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. The world’s largest website for computer programmers to ask each other technical questions lost about 1 million daily visits, resulting in a 15% decline in traffic in about four months.
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S55What's Your Company's AI Readiness Quotient?  Is your organization ready for AI implementation? Use this diagnostic tool by Wharton’s Scott Snyder to assess how you can stay ahead.The following article was written by Scott A. Snyder, a senior fellow at Wharton, adjunct professor at Penn Engineering, and chief digital officer at EVERSANA.
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S56Could AI give you X-ray vision?  What if a robot could find and deliver your lost phone? AI researcher Tara Boroushaki presents how she's using wireless signals and sensors to create AI-powered goggles with "X-ray vision," creating a dynamic new tool with applications from improving efficiency in commercial warehouses to aiding emergency rescues.
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S572024 Is Going to Be a Rough Year for TV  Numbers tell the story, even if they’re not precise. “About 130”—that’s how many fewer shows Netflix reportedly released last year versus 2022. “Several hundred”—the estimate of how many people Amazon is said to be laying off in the company’s Prime Video and MGM Studios divisions. The number of scripted shows that streaming services plan to release this year is estimated to be around 400, down from a peak of 599 in 2022.Earlier this week, Bloomberg Businessweek noted that the coming year is looking to be a “very boring” one for viewers. Streaming, reporter Lucas Shaw explained, was supposed to be the answer to dwindling cable subscriptions and a movie business still struggling to return to prepandemic levels, but the industry is still shedding cash. “Even though unions secured huge victories [in the Hollywood strikes], writers and actors have returned to an industry that should have fewer jobs.” The day after Shaw’s report went out, Amazon’s massive Prime Video cuts hit the news.
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S58'Bodies' Is a Fun Time Travel Mystery  Visit WIRED Photo for our unfiltered take on photography, photographers, and photographic journalism wrd.cm/1IEnjUHSlide: 1 / of 1.Caption: Caption: Emily Barber as Kathleen and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Det. Charlie Whiteman in Bodies.Matt Towers/Netflix
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S59How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC's  This week, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suffered an embarrassing—and market-moving—breach in which a hacker gained access to its X social media account and published fake information about a highly anticipated SEC announcement related to bitcoin. The agency regained control of its account and deleted the post in under an hour, but the situation is troubling, especially given that the prominent and well-respected security firm Mandiant, which is owned by Google, had its X account compromised in a similar incident last week.Details are still emerging about exactly what happened in each case, but there are common threads that made the account takeovers possible—and there are ways to protect yourself.
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S60CES 2024 in Photos: The Year AI Ate Vegas  The frenzied and intoxicating showcase for consumer technology known as CES took place this week in Las Vegas. Every January, the industry's big shindig descends on this city in the Nevada desert, drawing tech manufacturers, retailers, distributors, members of the press, gadget fans, and regular old lookie-loos into the fray. The Las Vegas Convention Center, hotel expo halls, nightclubs, restaurants, and event centers are stuffed with talking screens, self-driving cars, flying cars, self-adjusting audio speakers, and ChatGPT-enabled appliances for the smart home. Indeed, this is the year that AI ate everything in sight; old products were freshened up by an injection of machine intelligence, and new products were launched to help people interface with these new generative tools. Our photographer Alex Welsh captured some of this consumer tech revolution in full swing as he roamed the halls of CES 2024.© 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices
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S61The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes  As Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 neared 16,000 feet, a boom thundered through the plane as a chunk of the plane’s bodywork was ripped away. The rush of air as the cabin depressurized pulled mobile phones out of hands—an iPhone was found intact on the ground below—and a teenager sitting close to the door was left shirtless. “His shirt got sucked off of his body when the panel blew out because of the pressure, and it was his seatbelt that kept him in his seat and saved his life,” one passenger told the Associated Press.The consequences of being unbelted at such a moment are unthinkable, but there is one group of passengers who are not required to wear a seatbelt during takeoff in the US: babies under the age of two.
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S62These Mining Companies Are Ready to Raid the Seabed  The robot about to be let loose on the Norwegian seabed looks like a giant tripod, kicking up sand as it drills to collect samples from one of the last untouched places on Earth.This eerie contraption belongs to Loke Marine Minerals, expected to be among the first companies to embark on an exploration process that lays the groundwork for deep-sea mining in the Arctic. In a world-first, Norway’s parliament voted on Tuesday to allow a new generation of mining companies to search a large area of Norwegian waters—the size of Italy—for the minerals needed to build electric cars, mobile phones, and solar panels.
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S63The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever .jpg) Following a summer and autumn of planetary extremes—the hottest September by a wide margin, supercharged hurricanes, self-perpetuating heat domes—scientists have now declared 2023 the warmest year on record.Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its 2023 report, finding that last year was 1.35 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit climate research group, released its own 2023 report showing that global average temperatures last year were 1.54 degrees C above preindustrial levels. That smashes the previous record year of 2016, which was 1.37 degrees warmer. Earlier this week the European Union’s Copernicus program pegged it at 1.48 degrees C.
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S64How "intersectional leadership skills" harness trust as the currency of collaboration  Leadership is a process of applying social influence to maximize the efforts of others for achieving a common goal. Intersectionality is often used to describe the relationships between individuals and social categories (such as generation, occupation, nationality), and concepts that fall into more than one category. In the “Venture Meets Mission” ecosystem, leadership skills emerge from experience in operating at the interface of public and private, first, through developing a working knowledge of how to operate and succeed in both environments, and second, through understanding the differences in motivating and influencing in very different contexts. To thrive in a mission ecosystem, we need to develop a new set of intersectional leadership skills. In the summer of 1998, following his junior year at Dartmouth University, Nate Fick attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned as second lieutenant upon graduating. The Baltimore native then became an officer in the Amphibious Ready Group of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, training with the Australian Army for humanitarian operations deployment to East Timor. However, following the September 11 attacks in 2001, Nate led his platoon into Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom and eventually, in 2003, into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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S65Ask Ethan: Why doesn't radiation dominate the Universe?  Today, our Universe is filled with stars and galaxies, and is not only expanding, but the Universe’s expansion is accelerating. If we were to break up the Universe into the different types of energy that compose it, we’d find that it was dominated by dark energy, which makes up 68% of the Universe’s energy density. Next would be dark matter, as it composes some 27% of the Universe’s energy density, followed by normal matter (protons, neutrons, and electrons), that makes up about 4.9% of all that’s out there. The other 0.1%? That’s made of things like neutrinos and photons, where all photons and the fastest-moving neutrinos both behave as forms of radiation.But if you think about how all that radiation came to exist, an enormous amount of it is left over from the Big Bang, and was generated when massive particle-antiparticle pairs annihilated. So why, if there were so many more particle-antiparticle pairs that annihilated as compared with the matter particles that get “left over” as normal matter, doesn’t radiation play a bigger role in the Universe? That’s what Terry Bollinger wants to know, writing in to ask:
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S66How loneliness is killing us, according to a Harvard professor  Loneliness is quietly spreading across our society. Robert Waldinger, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explores the roots of this growing epidemic.He draws on research by experts like Julianne Holt-Lunstad, revealing the severe health impacts of loneliness, equating it to smoking half a pack of cigarettes daily. Stress, accelerated brain decline, and overall well-being suffer, but the remedy lies in our relationships—with friends, family, and even casual encounters.
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S67Use the "minimal self" theory to flip workplace stress on its head  Robert Burton’s 1621 work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, is a vast, 900-page exploration of depression. It dances around and calls upon all the sciences of his day — psychology, physiology, astronomy, meteorology, theology, astrology, and demonology — to forensically unpack what depression is and what remedies might exist. After five editions and around 350,000 words, Burton concludes with one summary piece of advice for any depressive: “Be not solitary, be not idle.”What Burton knew in the 17th Century, and what psychologists have proven over and over since, is that when things get hard, people often withdraw into themselves. When someone experiences stress or trauma, they will tend to isolate themselves from the world. The problem, as Burton’s advice reveals, is that the solitude of social withdrawal becomes a vicious circle. Depressive isolation is a black dog that swells to such a monstrous size as to consume the entire room. When you’re alone, problems often magnify and engorge. They are harder to deal with. And so you withdraw more.
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S68The "oxygen bottleneck" may leave aliens stuck with primitive technology  What are the planetary prerequisites for the evolution of an intelligent, technological species? If humanity is going to search the galaxy for exoplanets with signatures of technological intelligence — and we’re starting to do just that — what kinds of planets should we focus on: Planets with a mix of oceans and land? With plate tectonics? Magnetic fields? In other words, what kinds of planets are conducive to the development of a world-spanning technological civilization? This was exactly the kind of question Italian astrobiologist Amedeo Balbi and I asked ourselves about a year ago. The research paper that resulted was recently published in Nature Astronomy, and today I want to unpack it a bit. If we are right, there could be some pretty big implications for where and when intelligent life in the Universe could form.
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S69S70NASA scientist on 2023 temperatures: "We're frankly astonished"  Earlier this week, the European Union's Earth science team came out with its analysis of 2023's global temperatures, finding it was the warmest year on record to date. In an era of global warming, that's not especially surprising. What was unusual was how 2023 set its record—every month from June on coming in far above any equivalent month in the past—and the size of the gap between 2023 and any previous year on record.
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