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WeWork CEO, Adam Neumann, Stepping Down Under Pressure
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NY Times
WeWork C.E.O. Adam Neumann Steps Down Under Pressure (Published 2019)
The shake-up is the most significant step that the start-up, valued at nearly $50 billion at one point, has taken to win over Wall Street after a botched I.P.O.
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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
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Quanta Magazine
To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
A brain circuit that suppresses distracting sensory information holds important clues about attention and other cognitive processes.
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WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce
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The Information
WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce
As WeWork investors jousted over Adam Neumann’s future at the company he built, a parallel debate by WeWork executives and bankers has centered on just how deeply WeWork should cut costs to save its business.In recent days, a group of executives from WeWork’s…
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Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO
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Stack Overflow Blog
Announcing Stack Overflow’s New CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting…
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Adam Neumann expected to step down as CEO of WeWork parent but remain chairman
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WSJ
WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
WeWork co-founder and Chief Executive Adam Neumann was forced to step down and cede control of the shared-office startup after its much-anticipated initial public offering was derailed, capping a swift fall from grace for the leader of one of the country’s…
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Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry
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NY Times
It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry (Published 2019)
Errors and controversies involving several high-profile books are forcing writers and publishers to reconsider how they handle fact-checking.
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List of selected stars for navigation
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Wikipedia
List of selected stars for navigation
Fifty-eight selected navigational stars are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately 6,000 stars visible to the naked eye under optimal conditions, the selected stars are among the brightest and span 38 constellations…
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ReactOS 0.4.12 Released
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Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science
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GitHub
GitHub - ossu/computer-science:
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Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
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Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science! - ossu/computer-science
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Why the Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production
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Oil Price
Why The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production
Saudi Arabia has often manipulated the truth a bit when it comes to exports, production or reserves, and following the attacks on its oil infrastructure, Riyadh’s narrative should be taken with a pinch of salt
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Launch HN: Quilt – A versioned data portal for S3
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Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals
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The 64 Milliseconds Manifesto
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Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize
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Vice
Google Contractors Officially Vote to Unionize
The contractors work at a company called HCL, which strongly encouraged its employees to vote against the union.
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Girls vs. Boys: Brain Differences Might Explain Tech Behaviors
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WSJ
Girls vs. Boys: Brain Differences Might Explain Tech Behaviors
Many parents of both boys and girls have witnessed striking differences in the way their kids use technology. Emerging research indicates that brain differences between males and females help account for the split.
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We Need a PBS for Social Media
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NY Times
Opinion | We Need a PBS for Social Media (Published 2019)
Instead of breaking up Facebook, America should create a public alternative.
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How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
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Microsoft News
How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
A stopwatch and a race against time.
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A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland
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Atlas Obscura
How the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Created an Abyssal Wasteland
A nightmare at 6,000 feet.
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MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay
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TechCrunch
MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay | TechCrunch
MegaBots is bankrupt. The Bay Area-based fighting robot startup noted in a video that “this is the end of MegaBots in its current form,” marking the
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V8 adds support for top-level await
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SEC Charges Comscore Inc. and Former CEO with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud
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