“These models will predict your likelihood of separating from your employer based on everything we know about you and the position.”
You did everything by the book when you went in for that job interview. But, after going through all the effort, would you feel slighted if the interviewer made the ultimate decision about whether or not to hire you based on an algorithm?
Software engineers now outnumber farmers and have almost caught up with lawyers.
Over the last two years Shawn and Stephanie Grimes have spent much of their time in pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.
Continue reading… “Boom in app development lures coders but it’s tough to make a living”
Text messaging on the decline.
Around the world, text-message traffic has been declining because Internet-powered alternatives are becoming so widely used. American cell carriers have fought off the decline until now.
Continue reading… “Text message use falls in the U.S. for first time ever”
People are shifting from the TV screen to smaller tablet screens for streaming video.
There has been a dramatic increase over the last six months in the amount of streaming video content veiwed on tablet devices, according to a report released by Ooyala’s Q3 Global Video Index. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Streaming video viewed on tablets is up 90%”
You won’t just hire a person, you will hire their network in the future.
When you look at HR trends people tend to look at what we do today and discuss ways it can be done better in the future. Applications and tools for recruiting, training, on-boarding, etc. are being developed at dizzying rates. The problem is that these new HR innovations are going to have a short half life.
Continue reading… “Top 5 trends that will change HR in the future”
Futurist Thomas Frey: For most of us, the language we speak is like the air we breathe. But what happens when we wake up and find that our air is going extinct?
Continue reading… “Creating a Global Language Archive”
3D bio-printer
In the growing field of desktop 3-D printers they can already pump out a little trinket, a gear set or even parts to make another printer. Researchers in the medical field are also taking advantage of this accelerating technology to expand their options for regenerative medicine.
Continue reading… “Better regenerative implants with 3D bio-printing”
41% of US consumers planned to shop on Black Friday this year.
Holiday promotions by retailers are earlier and earlier every year. The buzz has moved progressively from “Cyber Monday” to Black Friday and finally to Thanksgiving Day itself, with reports of mass merchants beginning their sales in the middle of what is for many still an important family holiday.
Continue reading… “Cyber Monday will remain biggest ecommerce day of the year”
Tourists in Paris.
When we travel are we really the stereotype of the “ugly American”? LivingSocial and Mandala Research carried out a new survey that says we seem to be. And to make it worse it was mostly Americans ranking fellow Americans.
Continue reading… “Americans are the worst tourists in the world: Survey”
Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts performs.
Over the past twenty years the geography of popular music has changed considerably. The internet and social media have obviously played a large role. While industries like automobiles or steel still cluster around resources, cheap labor and transportation routes, or high-tech companies cluster around skilled labor and universities, the forever altered music industry now has fewer physical reasons to cluster — musicians no longer need to be near any particular resource to record and distribute their work anymore. And yet, they clearly still do cluster, just perhaps for slightly different reasons.
Continue reading… “Most popular music scenes in America”
More men from Shanghai than those in other parts of the country want women to split the bill.
A recent survey in Shanghai polled around 44,000 eligible men and women in China found that some Shanghai guys out on their first date expect their women to split the bills!
Continue reading… “Dating survey has men in Shanghai seeing red”
Faster internet connections have made viewers more impatient.
Revenues are declining for the traditional forms of online advertising. Emerging as a bright spot for many media companies is the video. It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.
Continue reading… “Online viewers abandon video if it doesn’t play in 2 seconds: Study”
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