Looking to freelance for a company that treats free agents well?
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Inside oil giant Shell’s Race to remake itself for a low price world
The energy industry is radically transforming.
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Pushbots vs Pullbots: How businesses can step up their game
“Why a Chatbot?”
It’s a simple, three-word question I’ve posed to various entrepreneurs recently, particularly in sectors like FinTech and InsurTech. Some of these entrepreneurs have built a chatbot as a feature, others have developed it as core to their product, and a few even offer to license their chatbot to third parties (Chatbot-as-a-Service).
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Welcome to the age of micro satellite swarms
Finnish start-up ICEYE has designed tiny micro-satellites that can image through poor weather and darkness. Their plans to launch fleets of these satellites are ambitious, but how much privacy are we owed?
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DJI’s new Mavic Air drone shoots in 4K, does 43 MPH, and fits in your pocket
We were admittedly a bit disappointed when DJI showed up to CES earlier this year without any new drones to show off, but it appears that the company had something new to show off all along. At a January 23 press event in New York City, the company unveiled the Mavic Air: A lighter, more streamlined version of the company’s popular Mavic Pro.
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A tsunami of store closings is about to hit the US — and it’s expected to eclipse the retail carnage of 2017
More than 12,000 stores are expected to close in 2018 – up from roughly 9,000 in 2017, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
A rash of bankruptcy filings and announcements to close stores are expected at the start of the year, when retailers are flush with cash from the holiday season.
Among the companies most likely to file for bankruptcy within the next year are Sears, Bon-Ton Stores, Bebe Stores, Destination Maternity Corp., and Stein Mart.
The closings would push hundreds of shopping malls to the brink of death.
The biggest fitness trends of 2018
How do we know them already? Because we asked some of the brightest minds in the business.
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18 exponential changes we can expect in the year ahead
Where will the trajectory of the tech world, from cryptocurrencies to Silicon Valley culture, take us in 2018?
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The history of 2017 in seven charts
When we try to remember 2017 (or more likely, try to forget it), there’s a list of names and places that immediately come to mind – Trump, Weinstein and Las Vegas, where the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history happened. But what were the broader trends of the year? Here we try to understand the context in which the headlines happened.
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4 technology trends that will transform our world in 2018
Predicting the future requires hubris, and it should therefore be met with more than a terabyte of skepticism. In past years, I’ve made some calls that have proved prescient like predicting way back in 2011 that social media would determine the U.S. presidential election. Meanwhile, some took decades longer than I had foreseen such as my 1992 prediction that this new thing called the Internet would lead Hollywood studios to merge with telecommunications companies.
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America’s great renter boom is over
The foreclosure crisis dumped a lot of high earners who have traditionally bought homes into the rental market.
Rapidly rebounding housing markets, with skyrocketing home prices in big cities, kept them there. Now the number of renters has reached a plateau, and it could be about to fall.
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Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the World as We Know It—Including Where We Live
The revolution is coming—and it’s driving itself.
As autonomous cars make their autobahn-paced transition from fanciful, emerging technology to mainstream reality, they’re expected to leave a forever-altered world in their rear-view mirrors. And it isn’t just highways and commutes that will be transformed—it’s also the homes and towns where we choose to live.
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