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We Know Diversity is Good for Business, So Why Do Corporate Leaders Remain Predominantly White and Male?

An examination of diversity in senior leadership roles at America’s top companies Diversity is more than just a buzzword, it’s a recipe for corporate success. Multiple studies have shown that a more diverse workforce in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, as well as veteran, disability, and LGBTQIA+ status can bolster innovation.i A more diverse corporate talent pool is […]

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Are women really no better off in the workplace after #MeToo?

The #MeToo movement seemed poised to help us create more equitable workplaces — where women thrive as much as men. Unfortunately, we have yet to see this come to fruition in any significant way. And, in some cases, the backlash has made it even more difficult for women to get ahead. The hashtag #MeToo was […]

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Nick Harkaway’s playlist for his novel “Karla’s Choice”

"I use music as a way into writing; it's a bit of Pavlovian self-programming, and particularly handy if you've got a full day and only narrow windows in which to write. You teach yourself that a particular piece of music means work, and your brain will generally go along. It makes the transition from shopping list to fiction much faster and smoother, at least for me."




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Sung J. Woo’s playlist for his novel “Lines”

"Lines is my fifth novel, and it is the most formally challenging work I've written."




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Mike Fu’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Masquerade

"Every song is a portal into the past, a chance to connect with countless mundane moments from before: where you were, what you felt, who you were with when you happened to be listening to the same thing."




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Andie Davis’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Let Me Liberate You

"I didn’t listen to music while writing the manuscript, but I was attuned to its musicality. "




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S. H. Fernando Jr.’s Book Notes music playlist for his book The Chronicles of DOOM

"For an artist who departed way too soon, at age 49, Daniel Dumile aka MF DOOM also left behind a huge body of work for us to dissect, reflect upon, and enjoy from here ‘til eternity."




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Jordan A. Rothacker’s playlist for his novel “The Shrieking of Nothing”

"The Berlin Trilogy of Bowie albums (Low, “Heroes,” and Lodger) were a huge thematic and aesthetic influence on these books, especially his nods back to early 20th century futurism."




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Megan Staffel’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Causative Factor

"...while I’m writing I need total silence, but even so, the music shares such a similar landscape with the text it’s hard to believe it wasn’t present from the beginning."




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C.H. Hooks’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Can’t Shake the Dust

"My characters are real to me somewhere out there in the world and this is the soundtrack to their life."




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Apple’s AI notification summaries are unintentionally hilarious

What’s worse than getting broken up with over text? Getting broken up with over summarized text. Apple rolled out its Apple Intelligence suite of AI tools in October, and one feature has made headlines over and over again for its absurdity: Apple Intelligence notification summaries. What it is:…




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Dogecoin spikes ~20% after Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE; Dogecoin is up 153% since Election Day

Dogecoin shot higher on Tuesday night, extending its postelection surge after President-elect Donald Trump formally announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, which he referred to as "DOGE" in his statement. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, former Republican…




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Another major healthcare provider files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy




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YouTube is now letting creators remix songs through AI prompting

YouTube added a capability for select creators in the U.S. to create AI-generated songs via prompts using the vocals of artists like Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Sia, T-Pain, and Troye Sivan last year. Now, the company is adding a feature for select creators to remix a track…




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Trump says he will nominate anti-‘woke’ showman for defense secretary

Pete Hegseth, a 44-year old NATO-skeptic, is perhaps Trump's most surprising pick as he fills out his cabinet ahead of the 20 January inauguration




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Should You Buy This Millionaire-Maker Stock Instead of Palantir Technologies?

There may not be a hotter stock on Wall Street right now than Palantir Technologies. The company's artificial intelligence (AI) software is revving its growth engine, and there is a wide-open market opportunity in both government and the private sector. The stock is up approximately 800% since the…




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Germany Sets Early Election With No Time to Lose




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Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards

Humphreys's product dramatically reduces the price and increases the portability of the life-affirming treatment. Read more: Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards




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AltLayer unveils ‘Autonome,’ a platform to create and deploy autonomous AI agents

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the…




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‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

There is “no sign” of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon emissions. The new data, released at the UN’s Cop29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, indicates that the…




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Indian Fund Teams Up With UK and Norway to Boost Struggling Power Grid with $300 Million Injection




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A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims to match GPT-4o's coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well…




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TV to watch in November, from 'Dune: Prophecy' to 'A Man on the Inside'

A new comedy from 'The Good Place' creator, a prequel to 'Dune' and the conclusion of one of America's most popular shows




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Trump win could be a double whammy for Hungary's economy

By Gergely Szakacs and Karin Strohecker BUDAPEST/LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's victory may be a political boon for Hungarian leader Viktor Orban but on the economy, Trump is bad news for Hungary - adding to inflationary risks due to a weak forint and lower output due to possible tariffs on…




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China's renaming of its regional jet is another clear sign its homegrown planemaker is coming for Boeing and Airbus

The ARJ21, COMAC's first commercially available plane, was rebranded on Tuesday to the C909. Chen Xiao/VCG via Getty Images China's COMAC is rebranding its regional jet to the C909, keeping with the naming style of its newer C919. That might not get COMAC more C909 sales, but it markets the plane…




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Just Eat Takeaway announces that it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020

Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway announced today that it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a deal valued at $650 million. The company said that it expects the deal to be completed by Q1 2025. “The sale of Grubhub to Wonder will increase the cash generation capabilities of Just Eat Takeaway.com…




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China said to hold meeting on economic woes

The Chinese authorities are seeking to host a meeting with the representatives of major international economy-focused organizations to discuss its progress and the situation around the globe, the Sout...




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8 killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon

An airstrike by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon has led to the death of eight individuals, according to reports from the Lebanese state news agency NNA. "The National News Agency corresponden...




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Europe Needs Stronger Autonomy After Trump Win, Greek PM Says




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OCBC Has Enough Capital For M&A, Business Growth, CEO Says

Singapore’s Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. has enough capital for business growth even as Chief Executive Officer Helen Wong signals her appetite for deals while keeping the bank’s dividend policy. Most Read from Bloomberg “We are well-capitalized,” Wong said Wednesday in an interview with Haslinda…





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How Canonical URL’s Effect Search Indexing

Avoiding Duplicate URL’s From Being Crawled The canonical tag was introduced in 2007 and tells the search engines what should be indexed. By allowing the search engines to know the preferred page it eliminates duplicate page indexing. E-commerce or large websites usually run into more issue’s surrounding duplicate indexing problems. This is due to multiple […]




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Disney+ announces official 'Andor' Season 2 premiere date and teases TIE fighter heist

Disney+ announced an official premiere date for "Andor" Season 2, which will return to the streaming service on April 22, 2025.




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Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White, Launching Worldwide on November 18

Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White will be available worldwide on November 18th, 2024 at 3PM PST. This model will cost $679 USD, and will be available in all Steam Deck shipping regions, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong via Komodo.

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NVIDIA Announces Indiana Jones and the Great Circle GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle

Until December 29th, as part of our Indiana Jones and the Great Circle GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle, get the Digital Premium Edition of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (a $99.99 value) with the purchase of a qualifying GeForce RTX 4090, 4080 SUPER, 4080, 4070 Ti SUPER, 4070 Ti, 4070 SUPER, or 4070 desktop or graphics card, or laptop with a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.

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Explaining Oumuamua and Pioneer anomaly using Time relativity

I find that in theory the weird Speed Boost of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua should be 0.217 mm/s above the prediction and that ‘Oumuamua should slow down less than prediction, in proportion of which the difference is 4.28×10-8 near the Sun. For Pioneer anomaly I have computed the gap between real and predicted acceleration and...




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Step by step rotation in normal and high dimensional space and meaning of quaternion

The orientation of body in space is defined 3 by angles. The step by step rotation process and chain of three-dots multiplication give an easy way to compute pile of rotations in 3D and high dimensional space and give a general orientation system. A visualization of quaternion is proposed. The orientation of a rigid body...




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Computing orientation with complex multiplication but without trigonometric function

Today’s methods for computing orientation are quaternion and rotation matrix. However, their efficiencies are tarnished by the complexity of the rotation matrix and the counterintuitivity of quaternion. A better method is presented here. It uses complex multiplication for rotating vectors in 3D space and can compute orientation without angle and trigonometric functions, which is simple,...




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There’s Not Enough Time

By Leo Babauta Sometimes we decide not to do something because it feels like there’s not enough time to do the task — it will take me 2 hours to work on that task, and I only have 20 minutes, so why bother starting? We do this kind of thing more than we realize — […]

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Diaries of Note

Dear all, On 1st January of this year, after what feels like centuries of preparation, I launched Diaries of Note, and though incredibly difficult to plan, the premise is simple: every single day, on the Diaries of Note website, I am featuring a single diary entry from history, published on the same day and month




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Writer Notes: The Wicked + the Divine 25

Spoilers, obv. Let’s just dive in, eh? Jamie’s Cover One of the interesting things about comics is the solicitation process. As such, a sub-section of the fandom will be aware of a cover before it comes out (or the month before it comes out if it’s a comic which puts a NEXT MONTH cover in […]




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Writer Notes: The Wicked + the Divine 26

Spoilers, obv. This felt like a big issue to us. I mean, in a literal sense it was a big issue. We normally are 20 pages of art (plus cheats). This is 23 pages of art, due to me completely fucking up and writing a 22 page script extremely early, thinking I’d go back to […]




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Out Now: Uber Invasion #3

One book out today, being Uber Invasion 3, which is probably the most classically Uber issue I’ve dropped, being primarily focused on a single battle engagement.  Available from your local shop, or Comixology.




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Out NowThe Complete Phonogram, The Wicked + the Divine 28, Doctor Aphra 6 and Mercury Heat 12

Cripes. What a big week. For more details, I direct you to my newsletter which is best for this kind of thing, but in Brief… The Complete Phonogram. 504 pages comprising all three volumes (the first coloured for the first time), all the eighty-odd previously uncollected B-sides and all in an oversized hardback format. If […]




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Writer Notes: the Wicked + the Divine 455

Spoilers, obv. The specials have been quite the time, having several ways to stress everyone the hell out. The amount of work that goes into a special is far more than any single script can justify in cold commercial terms. It’s lucky that I’m only choosing periods that I’m interested in researching to death. I […]




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I Am Not Real: Artificial Intelligence in the Needlework World

The topic of AI in the needlework world has been on my radar for well over a year. But I’ve …





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