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Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]

Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party

1. Plexiglass was first put around the ice rink after a 1979 brawl between the players and fans. The brawl broke out at the end of a Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers game when a spectator grabbed a player’s stick and cut his face with a game program. Three Bruins players were fined $500 and suspended […]

Research has long shown that layoffs have a detrimental effect on individuals and on corporate performance. The short-term cost savings provided by a layoff are often overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation — all of which hurt profits in the long run. To make intelligent and humane staffing decisions in the current economic turmoil, leaders must understand what’s different about today’s larger social landscape. The authors also share strategies for a smarter approach to workforce change.

In a win for workplace dignity, a French high court recently decreed that businesses cannot force their employees to participate in supposedly enjoyable activities.

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

We know that Tweetie has been bought by Twitter, and should be released soon in the App Store under the name of “Twitter for iPhone”, but Loren decided to release a little surprise for us, available now in the App Store. The latest (and maybe last) update for Tweetie 2 contains a sort of slot

Physical security keys provide extra protection for your Apple ID against phishing attacks.

Soon, we won't need to write much any longer. Artificial Intelligence will do it for us.

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HBS Working Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders

Conventional wisdom holds that when a firm gets into trouble due to lagging sales and rising costs, cutting the size of the organization to reduce fat and waste is a normal and effective response. In...

Publicly traded companies downsize via plant closings and layoffs to reduce expenses, improve financial results, and ultimately increase the firm's va…

Revisiting the great PCP mystery of 1996 with one of James Cameron’s former crew members.

The tidying queen continues to find ways to spark joy, but these days, that doesn’t hinge on having a perfectly organized house.

(TL;DR: Russian business man is heavily investing into companies behind the bots, mentions of FSB, Shell companies in tax-evasion and weak business law countries, Huge industry and money laundering)…

We recently cancelled our cable/general TV subscription, which left us with a bit of an entertainment void. Not that TV was entertaining – we hardly watched anymore, hence the cancelling – but we do like to just “put something on” every now and then. So we decided to get Apple One (Premium, because we’re sharing with my mom).I was, at first, a bit hesitant to enable iCloud Photos – we have near...

This might be the most fun way to make a custom keyboard.

Since the early days of the pandemic, I’ve observed an increase in the number of spammy submissions to Clarkesworld. What I mean by that is that there’s an honest interest in being published, but not in having to do the actual work. Up until recently, these were almost entirely cases of plagiarism, first by replacing the author’s name and then later by use of programs designed to “make it your...

The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.

The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a memo this week clarifying one of the biggest open questions after the NLRB rules broad non-disparagement clauses were illegal.

I picked up this poster at an antique shop. It appears to be a joke about a fake auction sold at a curio shop called Bloch Mercantile in San Francisco around the 1920s. Is there anything else you...

Wikenigma An Encyclopedia of Unknowns

The same grift by the same grifters.

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.

A trademark can be a word, phrase, symbol, or design that distinguishes the source of the goods or services. Also, as trade dress, it can be the appearance of a product or its packaging, including size, shape, color, texture, graphics, and appearance (e.g, retail store or website).

hi folks! jae here. welcome to the first financial update of 2023! this is a long one with a lot to discuss so strap in. as always, I recommend taking a look at past financial updates [https://cohost.org/staff/tagged/financials] for context on terminology and concepts. first off: where have we been? why has this financial update taken so long to come out? 2023 has been kind of a mess for us t...

so, the reddit API protest has taken a different direction, now people are uploading gigabtyes of videos to reddit which are just noise. i cannot stress this enough, do NOT run the command ffmpeg -...

Survey says most would prefer a gentle request

Faculty and students are taking to learning in the metaverse, but universities wonder how they will pay for it once Meta’s two-year pilot program ends.

Here's how to easily move your passwords from 1Password to iCloud Keychain

Many people of color found remote work lessens the racism they face on the job. Now they must decide: Is it worth trying to never return to the office again?

Friends, Scott Klopfenstein’s health is in trouble and he needs massive community support to … Jesse Heid needs your support for Help Scott Beat Lyme Disease