Why some people and some organizations never get lucky

The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humour was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

As restrictions continue to lift and companies prepare to bring employees back to the workplace, many workers don't want to return to the office

The long read: For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it’s often the informal, unplanned interactions and rituals that matter most in any work environment. So how much are we missing by giving them up?

We examine the interesting and creative ways type has been used across the horological world...

Microsoft Round Island One has no employees except directors

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The Performance Category had a number of scoring changes to align...

In this section we will discuss implicit differentiation. Not every function can be explicitly written in terms of the independent variable, e.g. y = f(x) and yet we will still need to know what f'(x) is. Implicit differentiation will allow us to find the…

How not to bloat container images and decrease the cyber attack surface as a result.

Boom says its first commercial supersonic jet, the Overture, will fly at Mach 1.7 and cut some flight times in half.

There is a surprising correlation between baseline pupil size and several measures of cognitive ability

The world's most decorated gymnast attempts such difficult moves, "Because I can."

Android 12 makes interest-based advertising obsolete to set off an irreversible collapse in Facebook’s ad ecosystem

Microsoft promised in March that End to End Encryption would be available in Microsoft Teams soon, and today the company has finally provided an update on the feature\'s debut.
End-to-end encryption e...

Kamau Bobb, the global lead for diversity strategy and research, wrote in a 2007 post that Israel had an "insatiable appetite for vengeful violence."