Author: timbatchelder
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Figure your real career aptitude with data and online tools
How To Find The Best Job For You By David Zax, fastcompany.com Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson’s Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers. There aren’t many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thompson, has built … RT @FastCoLead: Find the…
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Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode
How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape. Years ago, when spooks and government employees needed a secure smartphone, they turned to Research in… RT @nealunger: iSpy: Inside the #NSA’s best practices…
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Visualize the management team’s mutations
Infographic: Watch A Company’s Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What would your corporate structure look like if you tracked every employee, manager, and department over years? Maybe a lot like this. Unless you’re self-employed, we’re all cogs in a larger machine. The problem can be, how do you track that……
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Convert NYC into wetlands to hurricane proof the city
A Plan To Hurricane-Proof New York, With A Ring Of Wetlands By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com A grassy buffer zone around Lower Manhattan might work better than big seawalls—and look better, too. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, there have been a flurry of ideas on how to deal with the prospect that storms of such…
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Talented workers bring their own devices
Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…
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Why the walking dead is so addictive yet mindless
loafersansocks: I don’t watch The Walking Dead anymore. When I did, however, this is exactly how I felt. The large portion that is pink was ultimately enough to make me steer clear for the rest of the series. Related articles Walking Dead continues to Bore us all (reviewsofthetube.wordpress.com)
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IBM’s Cognitive Computing Plans: Giving Smartphones 5 Senses
Antone Gonsalves, readwrite.com IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing, which essentially means making computers think more like humans do. To IBM, that includes giving computers sensors that enable it to touch, see, hear, taste and smell – sensory input as… RT @RWW: IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing; making computers think…
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Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers
Christina Bonnington, wired.com It’s been a few months since Passbook was announced, and talk has died down to almost nothing. Is anyone even using the service? It turns out, yes, and we’re using it a lot. Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers http://flip.it/CjHIO http://flip.it/vOHyS Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers Related…
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Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription
Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content…
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Obama knew you’d vote: social science
How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did Dan Rowinski, readwrite.com Imaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at……
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Tim Ferriss and the quest for instant permanence
Raiding the Medicine Cabinet to Become Superhuman Peter Rubin, wired.com If you’ve read Tim Ferriss’ books, you know he’ll do almost anything to himself in the name of self-improvement. And if you thought he took this too far in The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, just wait until The … Raiding the Medicine Cabinet…
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