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WorkWorkAmazons costly space race is grounding profit margin hopes - WSJ The e-commerce giant’s market cap has stayed mostly below that level since its last earnings report two months ago. That report contained a disappointing operating income forecast for the just-ended quarter. That itself isn’t unusual; Amazon is typically conservative with this projection, which has come in below Wall Street’s expectations for 16 of its past 20 quarterly reports, according to data from FactSet.
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WorkWhat makes Europe so liveable? - The Economist EVERY YEAR the EIU, our sister company, ranks a big group of global cities on their liveability. This year’s rankings have seen quite a bit of movement. But the top of the index remains dominated by the continent that best combines stability with a high quality of culture and the environment, education, infrastructure and health care, all of which the index’s authors aim to measure objectively. When the scores are done, Europe can take another bow. Work
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WorkThe 4 Interview Red Flags Hiring Managers Say Concern Them Most - Harvard Business Review If youre being called in for interviews but dont get the job, its possible that something youre doing is raising red flags, causing the interviewer to question your suitability for the position. A recent survey found that the most concerning red flags range from obvious mistakes like lying, to more subtle slip-ups that job seekers might not even be aware of. The most concerning behavior from job candidates by a significant margin is dishonesty, with 63% of hiring managers saying they view it as the biggest red flag. Hiring managers see rude language or behavior as a red flag in potential hires. Despite your technical skills being strong, hiring managers are often also judging your interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. Criticizing or badmouthing previous employers is also a red flag with 62% of executives viewing badmouthing as a deal-breaker. Lastly, being unprepared can harm you in more ways than simply not knowing about the companys background. For example, being inadequately prepared can cause some people to panic during interviews, leading them to overtalk and fill the silence with unnecessary details. Use these tips to support your interview preparation and have a better chance at getting an offer. Work
WorkWorkBig tech is bringing nuclear power back to life - The Economist Nuclear nightmare, screamed the headline in Time magazine on April 9th 1979. One of the two reactors at a nuclear-power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had suffered an accident. The governor ordered an evacuation of all vulnerable people within five miles of the plant as radioactive gas escaped.
WorkWorkThe K-Pop King - The New Yorker Scooter Braun was in a tailspin. It was February, 2021, and the music manager, who had made his name launching the careers of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, was nearing forty and facing a brutal divorce. An equally nasty battle with Taylor Swift, over his ownership of her song catalogue, had sullied his public image. Rumors circulated that the future of Brauns company, Ithaca Holdings, was in doubt. Amid this tumult, he was surprised to receive an invitation to speak with someone who had long fascinated him: the South Korean producer Bang Si-hyukknown to admirers as Hitman Bang. WorkWorkYou Dont Know Jack about Bandwidth Communications of the ACMImagine you are a company with a lot of remote employees, and they all hate the local Internet service providers (ISPs). Videoconferences are the worst: People cannot hear each other, they randomly start sounding like Darth Vader, and they occasionally just disappear from the conversation. WorkWhat a Second Trump Term Would Mean for Trans KidsA second Donald Trump presidency would pose not only an existential but a literal threat to vulnerable young people who are already, in many cases, being targeted by their state and local leaders. As spelled out on his own campaign website, Trumps 2024 promises include a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in all 50 states, along with pulling Medicaid and Medicare funding for any hospital that offers treatments like puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy to minor patients. Trump also vows to pass a federal law the only genders recognized by the U.S. government are male and female and they are assigned at birth, thus erasing the very existence of trans people. WorkThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkThe Strange Romance of SeahorsesAs the first blue hues crept into the otherwise lightless black sky, I carefully continued down the slippery ladder. Donning full scuba gear and tank—with a clipboard, fins, and underwater camera somehow all wedged, clipped, or balanced around my body—I sank into the inky, inscrutable water. Earthly burden lifted, I joined the weightless and serene world of the coral reef at dawn. WorkInstagram and Threads moderation is out of controlOn Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics. Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri is directly replying to some complaints and said he’s “looking into it.” And I’m one of many people who’s had their account deleted for allegedly being a child — which I am not. WorkWorkWorkMiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research | TechCrunchNatasha is a senior reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based in Europe. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues. She has also freelanced for organisations including The Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English from Cambridge University, and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths College, University of London. WorkThe WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunchOn October 8, WordPress said that Mary Hubbard, who was TikTok US’s head of governance and experience, will be starting as executive director. This post was previously held by Josepha Haden Chomphosy, who was one of the 159 people leaving Automattic. A day prior to this, one of the engineers from WP Engine announced that he was joining Automattic. WorkBaCta is using engineered bacteria to grow natural rubber and slash CO2 emissions | TechCrunchNatasha is a senior reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based in Europe. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues. She has also freelanced for organisations including The Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English from Cambridge University, and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths College, University of London. WorkExclusive: Health insurtech startup Qantev raises EUR30 million to outperform LLMs with small AI modelsWhat these products might be remains to be confirmed, although underwriting seems to be a strong candidate. For now, Qantev prioritizes claims management, but it is easy to see how it could leverage the legitimacy and data access it is gaining from its early customers to help them streamline other operations, as it is already doing with fraud detection. Looking at the big picture, this would tie back to the trend of AI as a way to fight rising healthcare costs. WorkWall Street shrugs at Google's legal setbacks isn't denial, it's pragmatism: Morning BriefGoogle will also get a chance to reply in court. For now, the company described the government’s proposals as “radical and sweeping," rife with unintended consequences that will hurt consumers and American innovation. Google Search is so enmeshed in how people use the web, it would be unthinkable to fundamentally alter it in the way the government suggests, the company's blog post seemed to say. WorkCollapsing wildlife populations near 'points of no return', report warnsLatin America and the Caribbean recorded the steepest average declines in recorded wildlife populations, with a 95% fall, according to the WWF and the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) biennial Living Planet report. They were followed by Africa with 76%, and Asia and the Pacific at 60%. Europe and North America recorded comparatively lower falls of 35% and 39% respectively since 1970. WorkWorkResidents of Florida Face Agonizing Decisions around Milton Evacuations - Scientific American Debris from Hurricane Helene lines a street in the Redington Beach section of St. Petersburg, Fla., on October 8, 2024, ahead of Hurricane Miltons expected landfall. Milton regained power on October 8 to become a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (270 kph) as it barreled towards west-central coast of Florida and is forecast to make landfall late October 9, according to the National Hurricane Center. WorkWorkHow common are back-to-back hurricanes? A climatologist answers.The US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members. WorkOn 17th century "cocaine"Earlier this year, amid a sea of bones in the vaulted crypt beneath Milan’s Ca’ Granda hospital, Italian researchers made an intriguing discovery. Analyzing mummified brain tissue from two men who died at the hospital in the seventeenth century, they found evidence of coca use—the earliest ever detected outside of South America. Their results, published this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science, push back our documentation of coca’s presence in the Old World by nearly two centuries. It’s one of my favorite historical finds of the year, and I was happy to speak about it to a New York Times reporter who covered the story here. WorkWorkWorkZantac's Developer Settles Lawsuits Claiming Cancer LinkGSK’s settlement on Wednesday will resolve claims by about 80,000 plaintiffs in the United States. The company said it had also agreed to pay $70 million to settle a whistle-blower complaint by an independent laboratory, Valisure, whose testing first raised the alarm about a link between Zantac and cancer. In that lawsuit, Valisure accused GSK of knowing that the drug elevates cancer risk and of keeping quiet about it. WorkWorkOpinion | I Study Political Violence. I'm Worried About the Election.In addition to the “unprecedented spike in threats” that Mr. Garland cited, there is other worrisome evidence suggesting the possibility of violence. At the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, a research institute that I run at the University of Chicago, we have been conducting quarterly national surveys of Americans’ attitudes toward political violence since the summer of 2021. WorkDementia set to become Australia's leading cause of death In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counsellor. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org WorkWorkRepublican Senate candidate's hedge fund managed $415m in Russian debtTaNisha Cameron, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Democratic party, said then: "David McCormick sold himself out to America's adversaries at the expense of Pennsylvanians. When it comes time to stand up for our allies against Russia and China, McCormick has shown once again that he is only out for himself and his bottom line." Work'Bit of a glitch': BBC Weather app forecasts 15,759mph winds in UKA BBC spokesperson said: "We're aware of an issue with our third-party supplier, which means our Weather app and website are wrongly predicting hurricane wind speeds everywhere. That is incorrect and we apologise. We're working with our supplier to fix this as soon as possible." TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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