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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S48Studies reveal new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation   Since the 1960s, scientists have known that the tiny tardigrade can withstand very intense radiation blasts 1,000 times stronger than what most other animals could endure. According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, it's not that such ionizing radiation doesn't damage tardigrades' DNA; rather, the tardigrades are able to rapidly repair any such damage. The findings complement those of a separate study published in January that also explored tardigrades' response to radiation.
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S69Why Biden Should Not Debate Trump  The networks want their show, but to give the challenger equal status on a TV stage would be a dire normalization of his attempted coup.A consortium of television networks yesterday released a joint statement inviting President Joe Biden and his presumptive opponent, Donald Trump, to debate on their platforms: "There is simply no substitute for the candidates debating with each other, and before the American people, their visions for the future of our nation."
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S59What Happens When You've Been on Ozempic for 20 Years?  In December 1921, Leonard Thompson was admitted to Toronto General Hospital so weak and emaciated that his father had to carry him inside. Thompson was barely a teenager, weighing all of 65 pounds, dying of diabetes. With so little to lose, he was an ideal candidate to be patient No. 1 for a trial of the pancreatic extract that would come to be called insulin.The insulin did what today we know it can. "The boy became brighter, more active, looked better and said he felt stronger," the team of Toronto researchers and physicians reported in March 1922 in The Canadian Medical Association Journal. The article documented their use of insulin on six more patients; it had seemingly reversed the disease in every case. As John Williams, a diabetes specialist in Rochester, New York, wrote of the first patient on whom he tried insulin later that year, "The restoration of this patient to his present state of health is an achievement difficult to record in temperate language. Certainly few recoveries from impending death more dramatic than this have ever been witnessed by a physician."
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S7Everyday Philosophy: "Should I have to work the same hours as my inefficient colleague?"  “I work for a PR company. It’s big enough that you’d know it. I’m really good at my job. That’s not arrogant. It takes me 30 minutes to do things my colleagues take half a day to do. In my mind, they are inefficient and/or not that good at their job. I often resent and moan to my wife that I have to work until 5 p.m. when everyone else is mucking about. So, should I resent working as long as my inefficient colleagues do? And should I have to?”I’m going to do something a bit brave in this week’s column. I’m going to mention Marx and socialism. If my editor is smart, he’ll put them in the title. All attention is good attention, after all. Because there are few things more likely to bait the caps-lock smashers than the word “Marx.” I can already imagine their screens flecked with angry spittle. But fret not; it’s all for a good cause.
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S3317 Best Xbox Series X/S Games You Can Play Now (2024) If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDMicrosoft Might be looking beyond just consoles, but the Xbox Series X and its little sibling, the Xbox Series S, are still powerful next-gen consoles. Hardware is nothing without the games to play on it, though. We've tested dozens of Xbox titles on Microsoft's latest hardware, and there are definitely several that make the console worthwhile.
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S65A Before-and-After Moment in the Middle East  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Israel's response to Iran's attack this past weekend signals an "astonishing win," my colleague Graeme Wood wrote yesterday. With help from several allies, Israel managed to fend off what could have been a mass-casualty event (though one 7-year-old girl sustained life-threatening injuries). But the attack was also "a gift to the hapless Benjamin Netanyahu," Graeme argues. I called Graeme in Tel Aviv yesterday to talk about how the prime minister could use this moment as an opportunity to revitalize Gaza negotiationsâand why he's not likely to do so.
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S68Welcome to Pricing Hell  The ubiquitous rise of add-on fees and personalized pricing has turned buying stuff into a game you can't win.On February 15, Ron Ruggless was sitting in his home office in Dallas, listening to a Wendy's earnings callâsomething he does every quarter as an editor and reporter for Nation's Restaurant News. When the new CEO of Wendy's mentioned that the company might introduce "dynamic pricing" in 2025, Ruggless wasn't surprised; many restaurants have started adjusting prices depending on the time of day or week. It seemed like minor news, so he wrote up a brief report. He didn't even bother to post it on social media.
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S5Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime?  One of the most enduring ideas in all the Universe is that everything that exists now will someday see its existence come to an end. The stars, galaxies, and even the black holes that occupy the space in our Universe will all some day burn out, fade away, and otherwise decay, leaving what we think of as a “heat death” state: where no more energy can possibly be extracted, in any way, from a uniform, maximum entropy, equilibrium state. But, perhaps, there are exceptions to this general rule, and that some things will truly live on forever.One such candidate for a truly stable entity is the photon: the quantum of light. All of the electromagnetic radiation that exists in the Universe is made up of photons, and photons, as far as we can tell, have an infinite lifetime. Does that mean that light will truly live forever? That’s what Anna-Maria Galante wants to know, writing in to ask:
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S17Stop Talking, Just Listen: 5 Sales Tips From a Fractional CMO  That's according to Brian Town, a fractional CMO and serial entrepreneur who is the owner and CEO of Michigan Creative, a Lansing-based creative agency with 20 full-time employees. It's not enough to have a great product or service, Town says--entrepreneurs must prioritize sales skills to succeed.That's the advice he always gives to new business owners. "If you don't have money coming in the door--if you don't have a strategic sales plan, [and don't] know who your customer is, and how you can help solve their pain, you're not gonna make it." He shared his insights--gleaned from years of selling his services to clients--with Inc.Â
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S11U.S. Trade Chief Tai Says Taking 'Serious Look' at Tools to Deal With China  U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will tell lawmakers on Tuesday that the Biden administration is "taking a serious look" at U.S. trade defense tools to deal with threats posed by China's trade and economic policies, including a review of Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports.In excerpts of testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee released ahead of a hearing on Tuesday, Tai said that China's policies were causing  "dependencies and vulnerabilities in multiple sectors, harming American workers and businesses and creating real risks for our supply chains.""This is why we are taking a serious look at how our existing tools are addressing this problem, including through our four-year review of the China Section 301 tariffs," Tai said.Â
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S32How 'Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley' Hit Its Antiauthoritarian Stride Snufkin said ACAB. OK, not literally âÂÂall cops are bastards.â Rather, the hero of Hyper Gamesâ Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley says things like, âÂÂIf you remove all the signs in a park, the police officers leave.â Still, the message remainsâÂÂand itâÂÂs getting noticed. Ever since the game hit Steam and Nintendo Switch, it has been pulling in devotees thanks to SnufkinâÂÂs proactive objections to finding his beloved Moominvalley overpoliced, reviving some of the 80-year-old franchiseâÂÂs long-held philosophies for fans eager to share them on social media.A family-friendly cozy game set in the world of legendary Finnish cartoonist Tove Jansson, Melody follows SnufkinâÂÂs iconic return to Moominvalley after a winter spent wandering the world. Moomintroll has disappeared; ever the optimist, heâÂÂd tried reasoning with the police, resulting in his indefinite arrest. SnufkinâÂÂs main objective is to undermine the Park Keeper, a haughty hemulen who wants to fill the valley with monoculture lawns, manicured hedge mazes, caged animals, a river-destroying dam, and an ocean of signs dictating how nature must be enjoyed.
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S38The New Hot Handset Is a Cute and Transparent Dumb Phone You Can't Buy We're only spending more and more time staring at our smartphones, and over the past few years, tech companies have tried to offer salves to this very problem they created. Apple and Google launched tools within their respective mobile operating systems to curb screen time. Devices like the Light Phone, designed to act as a secondary phone with limited features so you're not staring at Instagram when youâÂÂre at a social gathering, are enjoying some popularity. This kind of digital-detox mentality is also behind a wave of AI-powered gadgets like the Humane Ai Pin, which promises to offload some smartphone-native tasks to voice controls on a screenless interface.The latest to hop on the trend is The Boring Phone, announced today ahead of Milan Design Week. The company manufacturing it is Human Mobile Devices (HMD), better known as the company making Nokia-branded phones since 2017 thanks to a licensing partnership. The Boring Phone is cute, transparent, and retrolicious. But it is not a phone you can buy.
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S40The Impact of AI on Financial Literacy | Michael Roberts  Professor Michael Roberts discusses whether generative AI can help improve financial literacy.Generative AI can help improve financial literacy, but the current models aren’t sophisticated enough to serve as standalone advisers, says Wharton’s Michael Roberts. This episode is part of a series on “Financial Literacy.”
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S46S55'Nostalgia for a Dating Experience They've Never Had'  Say you're in a bar. You see someone across the room who looks appealing. But do they think the same of you? You don't want to stare for too long, so you turn back to your drink. No worriesâthe electronic tentacles attached to your shoulders give a wiggle, indicating that the hottie, mercifully, has glanced your way.That's the premise of a device called "Ripple," named, I guess, for the undulating sensation triggered by a stranger's horny gaze. Equipped with two cameras, it connects computer-vision technology with sensors to detect when someone is looking at you. (Unfortunately, it can't really distinguish between the eyes of an admirer and someone noticing you because you're wearing tentacles out to the bar.) Ripple's creators pitched it as a way to help people meet in personâthe old-fashioned way, with, um, one minor difference.
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S66The Commons: American Cowardice  Scot Peterson stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jamie Thompson wrote in the March 2024 issue. Does the blame lie with him, his trainingâor a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings?The American people relate to guns as addicts relate to drugs. Addicts change everything in their life to accommodate their drug use. They filter their relationships, alter their schedule, and change their living situationâall to facilitate their access to the substance. They blame everything and everyone for what goes wrong, but never the drug.
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S8Everyday Philosophy: "Can I ever swear in front of kids?"  “I’ve got two kids — 3 and 7 — and I’ve done a pretty good job at not swearing around them. We went on the bus last Tuesday, and two middle-aged men got on next to us. They started dropping F-bombs and other obscenities for 20 minutes straight. I was shocked. Genuinely shocked. I didn’t say anything to them, and I think my kids knew something was up. Should I have said something? Good question, Irene. Good question. It’s a dilemma I’ve had myself. Before we dig in, I think we’re going to have to clarify one thing: What kind of swearing are we dealing with here?
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S9Everyday Philosophy: "Is it OK to ghost the people you date?"  “I recently met a guy on a dating app and we went on a few dates. He was nice enough, and there were no red flags, but after the fourth date, I could tell things weren’t clicking, at least for me. Last week, he sent me a text inviting me to a group outing to meet some of his friends. I didn’t know what to say, so I didn’t say anything and decided to ghost him. I’m feeling guilty and conflicted. I’ve been ghosted before, and I know how it feels. It felt awful. Is it ever OK to ghost somebody who really did nothing wrong?”Ghosting was only added to the dictionary four years ago. If you asked your grandma if she’s ever ghosted a boy, she’ll likely look at you sideways. Ghosting might seem like a modern phenomenon but it’s probably only as old as awkward breakups. Emily doesn’t text back, but Georgina in the 16th century didn’t return letters, and Sibi the Babylonian stonemason moved villages to avoid a hard conversation. Return to Sender is Elvis Presley’s jangly lament of a ghosted relationship. So, there is precedent for ghosting.
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S12The Cost of Poaching Talent Just Hit a Record High  The lowest wage that job seekers are willing to accept to switch jobs spiked to $81,822 in March, up from $73,391 in November 2023, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This is the highest reading since the New York Fed started reporting the measure a decade ago, with men, younger workers, and workers with an annual household income of more than $60,000 leading the charge.  And more people are looking. The proportion of workers searching for a job in the past four weeks also reached a decade-high to more than 25 percent, up two points from November. Men, again, drove the increase, along with respondents over the age of 45 and those without a college degree. Â
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S53The Man Who Died for the Liberal Arts  In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailorâmy uncleâwrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for.Chugging through Pacific waters in February 1942, the USS Crescent City was ferrying construction equipment and Navy personnel to Pearl Harbor, dispatched there to assist in repairing the severely damaged naval base after the Japanese attack. A young ensignâ"real eager to get off that ship and get into action," in the recollection of an enlisted Navy man who encountered himâsat down and wrote a letter to his younger brother, who one day would be my father.
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S56Prestige TV's New Wave of Difficult Men  The small screen is offering up heroes who are resolutely alienated, driven to acts of violence that they don't want to inflict and can't enjoy.The horror of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley, to me, isn't that he's a killer, or an aspirant, or even a literary version of the parasitic wasp that nests gruesomely inside the zombified form of its prey. Rather, it's that he's that most familiar of contemporary monsters: an incurable narcissist. At the beginning of the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, as Ripley is moldering in poverty in New York and scraping together a living via petty mail scams, he's sustained by an illogical faith in his own superiority. The "crummy bums" he socializes with aren't really his friends; the grime in his borrowed tenement apartment is not his dirt. Ripley is pathetic, but we can't escape him as readers, mired as the novel is in his interiority. We suffer the physical pain he feels when he's forced to have conversations not focused on himself. We're steeped in the envy, the self-pity, and the crippling status anxiety that drive him to murder. (It's not all darkâat one point Ripley feels so pathetically validated when someone sends him a fruit basket that he breaks into sobs.)
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S63Is This the End for 'Bluey'?  The third-season episode "The Sign" seems to point to an ending of sorts for the hugely popular Disney show.A few weeks ago, I found myself, fairly late at night, Googling Is Bandit Heeler depressed? This is, I admit, a ridiculous thing to wonder about a cartoon dog, but what can I say? The vibes had just been off for the patriarch of Bluey, Disney+'s wildly popular show about a family of Australian Blue Heelers. In "Stickbird," something is clearly bothering Bandit, to the point where he's grouchy and detached on a family vacation. And in "TV Shop," a transcendent piece of small-scale storytelling set in a drugstore, Bandit goes to buy vitamins because he's been feeling down, and while he's shopping, his kidsâBluey and Bingoâmanage to choreograph a multipart video performance with more dynamism and emotional heft than anything by Ivo van Hove. (At home, this is the part where my kids and I unfailingly break into frenzied, humiliating Dance Mode.) But Bandit, although he appreciates what his children have done, can muster only a small smile and a foot tap while watching. It felt a little unsettling.
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S13Boeing Pushes Back on Whistleblower Allegations on Airframe Assembly Flaws  Boeing is defending the integrity of the fuselages on two of its largest planes, which have come under criticism from a whistleblower who warns that panels on the outside of one of the planes could eventually break apart during flight.Two Boeing engineering executives went into detail Monday to describe how panels are fitted together, particularly on the 787 Dreamliner. They suggested the 787's carbon-composite skin is nearly impervious to metal fatigue that weakens conventional aluminum fuselages.
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S23Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy  The ability to develop crisp mental models around the problems you want to solve and understanding the why before you start working on the how is an increasingly critical skill, especially in the age of AI. Coding is one of the things AI does best and its capabilities are quickly improving. However, there’s a catch: Code created by an AI can be syntactically and semantically correct but not functionally correct. In other words, it can work well, but not do what you want it to do. Having a crisp mental model around a problem, being able to break it down into steps that are tractable, perfect first-principle thinking, sometimes being prepared (and able to) debate a stubborn AI — these are the skills that will make a great engineer in the future, and likely the same consideration applies to many job categories.
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S25What India can tell us about Netflix's future  When I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance at the Ambani pre-wedding celebration last month, I may have skimmed over how much business was going on in the background. That’s not to say Zuckerberg was sweating over a counteroffer while Rihanna danced in the background, but this week saw unconfirmed reports that Ambani’s Reliance Industries may host Meta’s first data center in India, another significant win for the omnipresent mogul.Then, there’s Ambani’s business with Disney CEO Bob Iger. The day before the celebration launched, Disney and Reliance announced plans to merge their Indian television and streaming assets. If confirmed, it brings together the companies behind the country’s two biggest streaming apps: Reliance’s JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar. Rest of World’s Ananya Bhattacharya already took a closer look at the new streaming giant, but the biggest takeaway is just how many more subscribers those two apps have in India than Netflix. JioCinema has over three times as many Indian users as Netflix, and Disney+ Hotstar has over 10 times as many — a whopping 333 million users.
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S29Celebrity Deepfake Porn Cases Will Be Investigated by Meta Oversight Board As AI tools become increasingly sophisticated and accessible, so too has one of their worst applications: non-consensual deepfake pornography. While much of this content is hosted on dedicated sites, more and more it's finding its way onto social platforms. Today, the Meta Oversight Board announced that it was taking on cases that could force the company to reckon with how it deals with deepfake porn.The board, which is an independent body that can issue both binding decisions and recommendations to Meta, will focus on two deepfake porn cases, both regarding celebrities who had their images altered to create explicit content. In one case about an unnamed American celebrity, deepfake porn depicting the celebrity was removed from Facebook after it had already been flagged elsewhere on the platform. The post was also added to Meta's Media Matching Service Bank, an automated system that finds and removes images that have already been flagged as violating Meta's policies, to keep it off the platform.
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S31Review: DJI Avata 2 Drone If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDWith their origins in the world of drone racing, FPV drones (that's first-person view for the uninitiated) offer a faster, smoother, and more exciting flying experience than the camera drones we've typically covered in the Gear section.
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S35Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday in protest of the company's $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government.The sit-in, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, is happening at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons of Google's New York office. The sit-in will be accompanied by outdoor protests at Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Seattle beginning at 2 pm ET and 11 am PT.
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S36S41What you can do to stop economic crime  It might sound like the plot of a movie, but economic crime is all around us — from drug trafficking and fraud to cybercrimes, tax evasion and more. Economic crime fighter Hanjo Seibert breaks down the complexities of money laundering and how we can all wield our collective power to dismantle the underworld economy and turn off the money tap for criminals.
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S44EV fast-charging comes to condos and apartments  Right now, the electric vehicle ownership experience is optimized for the owner who lives in a single-family home. A level 2 home AC charger costs a few hundred dollars, and with a garage or carport, an EV that gets plugged in each night is an EV that starts each day with a 100 percent charged battery pack. Plenty of Ars readers have told us that a 120 V outlet even works for their needs, although perhaps better for Chevy Bolt-sized batteries rather than a Hummer EV.
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S49S50S51Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap  Anybody can contribute to the Linux kernel, but any person's commit suggestion can become the subject of the kernel's master and namesake, Linus Torvalds. Torvalds is famously not overly committed to niceness, though he has been working on it since 2018. You can see glimpses of this newer, less curse-laden approach in how Torvalds recently addressed a commit with which he vehemently disagreed. It involves tabs.
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S54The Myth of the Mobile Millionaire  The notion that rich taxpayers will flee if the state comes for their money is mostly fiction.In 2010, as California was moving forward with plans to raise taxes sharply on million-dollar earners, opponents issued dire warnings that the hike would drive away entrepreneurs and cripple the state economy. "There's nothing more portable than a millionaire and his money," warned the ranking Republican on the state Senate's budget committee. The tax hike passed anywayâand California's share of the nation's million-dollar earners actually grew, reaching 18 percent in 2021. (Californians make up just less than 12 percent of the overall population.) And yet, when California recently considered a proposal to impose a wealth tax on mega-rich households, even some Democrats echoed the same old worry.
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S61Scenes From Coachella 2024  Crowds of music fans gathered once more in Indio, California, this weekend for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, catching performances by Doja Cat, Jon Batiste, Vampire Weekend, Sabrina Carpenter, Lil Yachty, Gwen Stefani, Peso Pluma, Atarashii Gakko, the Aquabats, and many more artists. Gathered below are images of this year's performances and concertgoers during the first weekend of Coachella 2024. Brittany Howard performs onstage at Coachella 2024 in Indio, California, on April 12, 2024. #
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S62Trump's Willing Accomplice  Yesterday, ABC News's George Stephanopoulos conducted a skillful and revealing interview with New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. Over nine damning minutes, Sununu illustrated how deep into the Republican Party the rot has gone.The context for the interview is important. Governor Sununu is hardly a MAGA enthusiast. During the 2024 GOP primary, he supported Nikki Haley, and over the past several years, he's been a harsh critic of Donald Trump. Sununu has referred to him as a "loser," an "asshole," and "not a real Republican." He has said the nation needs to move past the "nonsense and drama" from the former president and that he expects "some kind of guilty verdict" against Trump. "This is serious," Sununu said last June. "If even half of this stuff is true, he's in real trouble."
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S14With 'Functional' Beverages, Brands Rush to Quench a Thirst for Drinks That Do More Than Taste Good  There are sodas made with mushrooms that supposedly improve mental clarity and juices packed with bacteria that claim to enhance digestive health. Water infused with collagen carries the promise of better skin, and energy drinks offer to help burn body fat.Welcome to the frenzy of functional beverages--drinks designed to do more than just taste good or hydrate. What started in the late 1980s with caffeine- and vitamin-laced energy drinks like Red Bull has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Hundreds of brands are vying for consumers' attention with increasingly exotic ingredients and wellness-focused marketing.
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S20Why AI Alone Is Not the Best Instructor  AI makes it easy to generate content. Within a few seconds, you can build any type of content to share with employees. But creating content is only the first step; its value lies in the learner's ability to understand and recall it. As AI-generated content becomes ubiquitous, leaders must determine how best to present the subject matter so that employees can remember the information later.We can look to neuroscience for well-documented strategies that take advantage of our brains' mechanisms to retain and bring to mind information. The primary objective of any educational program should be to deliver the content in such a way that learners can retain it and recall it precisely when they need it. When you invest in instruction, the instructional design must enhance information retention.
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S3Editor's Note: TSMC has spent years preparing for exactly this scenario. "TSMC has a long-established enterprise risk management system in place to minimize the potential disruption," the company said, adding that its factories are designed with earthquake prevention in mind and that it conducts regular "disaster drills" among its workforce to ensure that they can get their facilities back up and running quickly. S6Answer these 7 questions to maintain your AI edge  Staying current and competitive with AI will not only require an eye on the horizon for future trends, you’ll also need a vision that extends beyond the initial stages. You’ll need to build a long-term strategy around your AI goals to drive growth and efficiency through your innovation projects. When you’re thinking about a strategy that works for the long term, answer these seven questions:
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S16Scottie Scheffler's Caddie Is the Most Successful on the PGA Tour Because He Takes Advice That's Made Him Wise and Rich  Scott's estimated $1.5 million in earnings so far this year makes him one of the most successful caddies on the PGA Tour. He's not too shabby of a golfer, either. Scott plays to a 4 handicap, which, as any recreational golfer can tell you, is a remarkable skill level. In one extraordinary CNBC interview, Buffett, alongside his business partner Charlie Munger (who died in November), said, "Charlie has given me the ultimate gift that a person can give to somebody else. He's made me a better person than I otherwise might have been. I've lived a better life because of Charlie."
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S19How to Channel Fear to Reach Fulfillment  I wasn't always comfortable in the spotlight. In fact, one of the perks of pursuing my degree in accounting from the University of Georgia was that I didn't have to take a public speaking class to graduate.While I avoided the need to stand at a podium in college, I was forced to face my fear soon after, at just 22. I was barely a year into my professional journey as a controller when my boss, a retired Navy chief petty officer, tasked me to deliver a speech on the new federal cost segregation regulations (what a thrilling subject matter!).
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S22Are You Asking the Right Questions?  Few leaders have been trained to ask great questions. That might explain why they tend to be good at certain kinds of questions, and less effective at other kinds. Unfortunately, that hurts their ability to pursue strategic priorities. Arnaud Chevallier, strategy professor at IMD Business School, explains how leaders can break out of that rut and systematically ask five kinds of questions: investigative, speculative, productive, interpretive, and subjective. He shares real-life examples of how asking the right sort of question at a key time can unlock value and propel your organization. With his IMD colleagues Frédéric Dalsace and Jean-Louis Barsoux, Chevallier wrote the HBR article “The Art of Asking Smarter Questions.”
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S34US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' The United States Senate is poised to vote on legislation this week that, for the next two years at least, could dramatically expand the number of businesses that the US government can force to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant.Some of the nationâÂÂs top legal experts on a controversial US spy program argue that the legislation, known as the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), would enhance the US governmentâÂÂs spy powers, forcing a variety of new businesses to secretly eavesdrop on Americansâ overseas calls, texts, and email messages.
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S18The Best Companies for Career Growth in 2024, According to LinkedIn  Are you prioritizing your employees' career growth? Research shows that amid an overall drop in employee engagement, there is a critical gap -- workers desire career development opportunities, yet many feel their employers are not providing them.On Tuesday, LinkedIn released its eighth annual Top Companies list, highlighting the 50 best workplaces in the U.S. for professionals looking for career advancement. This year, JP Morgan Chase & Co topped the list, followed by Amazon and Wells Fargo, and all three show a commitment to supporting employees' career growth and professional development.Â
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S26Rest of World's 2024 AI elections tracker  As more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, artificial intelligence-generated content is now widely being used to spread misinformation, as well as to confuse and entertain voters. Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.Contributors: Bethany Allen, Masha Borak, Nilesh Christopher, Chantal Flores, Mutaher Khan, Faisal Mahmud, Adi Renaldi
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S30US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here's an $830 Million Plan to Fix It ThereâÂÂs one word that will get any American fuming, regardless of their political inclination: infrastructure. Pothole-pocked roads, creaky bridges, and half-baked public transportation bind us nationally like little else can. And that was before climate changeâÂÂs coastal flooding, extreme heat, and supercharged wildfires came around to make things even worse.US infrastructure was designed for the climate we enjoyed 50, 75, even 100 years ago. Much of it simply isnâÂÂt holding up, endangering lives and snapping supply chains. To bring all those roads, railways, bridges, and whole cities into the modern era, the Biden-Harris administration last week announced almost $830 million in grants through 2021âÂÂs Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The long list of projects includes improved evacuation routes in Alaska, a new bridge in Montana, restored wetlands in Pennsylvania, and a whole bunch of retrofits in between.
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S37Change Healthcare's New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse Change Healthcare is facing a new cybersecurity nightmare after a ransomware group began selling what it claims is Americansâ sensitive medical and financial records stolen from the health care giant.âÂÂFor most US individuals out there doubting us, we probably have your personal data,â the RansomHub gang said in an announcement seen by WIRED.
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