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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S3The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC  We launched our consulting arm because we were constantly hearing from readers that while they wanted to implement AI throughout their operations, product, and services, they were struggling to. We're now working with select businesses to co-innovate, research, analyze, recommend, implement, and, finally, train their organizations on AI. Interested? Contact us to start a conversation.In a burnished-oak corridor outside the committee room at IBM's headquarters in August 1980, two engineers pace nervously. Eventually, a door opens. Their boss, Bill Lowe, emerges from the board room next door. Before they can say anything, he smiles and nods. They laugh. They can't quite believe it. It's official. IBM is going to try and build a home computer.
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S6Broaden Your Influence by Adapting How You Listen | Nancy Duarte The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
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S9No, gain of function research did not cause COVID-19 In late 2019, unbeknownst to all, a new virus first infected humans in Wuhan, China: SARS-CoV-2. This infectious virus — which turned out to be airborne, highly infectious, lethal to a few but capable of causing long-term damage to many — is the cause of the COVID-19 illness that has now infected at least 700 million (and likely billions) across the globe. By January of 2020, dozens of infections had spread to several countries, and the global response was insufficient to prevent a pandemic. As a result, at least seven million people (and possibly tens of millions) died while tens-to-hundreds of millions more were left with long-term, often disabling, conditions. That novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has gone on to mutate many times and continues to be infectious: to humans and animals both.And yet, one popular conspiracy theory continues to thrive in the media and in politics: the idea that unlike all other virus-caused pandemics, which originated naturally, this virus was instead created in the lab.
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S10The upside of feeling dissatisfied with the world: How to work your "weltschmerz" It doesn’t seem like the world is a great place lately, does it? The last few years have witnessed major political strife, devastating wars, economic struggles, and protests teetering on the edge of civil disorder. And before that there was the COVID-19 pandemic. And before that there was the Great Recession and its prolonged recovery. And before that there was the War on Terror and the 9/11 attacks. And before that there was the 1990s (just all of the Nineties).With the news and our social media feeds crowded-to-bursting with tragedy, many have come to feel an overwhelming discontent with the state of the world. Turns out, that emotion has a name: weltschmerz.
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S11Women tend to be better physicians than men. Here's why. In a study recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers reported that female Medicare patients seen by female physicians had a lower risk of readmission and death than those seen by male physicians. The roughly quarter-percentage-point difference in mortality rate was small but significant. It translates into 5,000 potentially unnecessary deaths per year. Male patients also fared slightly better under the care of women, though the 0.08% difference in mortality was not statistically significant.While this result may surprise members of the general public, it did not surprise scientists who have studied differences in patient outcomes.
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S12Google Will No Longer Rank Sites That Don't Render on Mobile Google announced Monday that it will no longer index websites that aren't accessible on mobile devices after July 5. This marks its final step of migration to a mobile-first index for Google search, which started in 2016 and was initially announced as completed in October 2023.So, how does this affect your business's website? If your site's mobile page displays an error or doesn't load at all, Google won't index or rank it. It won't appear anywhere in Google's search results, therefore you'll lose potential traffic and leads.Â
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S13Atlanta Mayor Pledges to Aid Businesses Harmed by Water Outages Atlanta's mayor on Wednesday pledged support of a plan to spend $5 million to reimbursing businesses for losses during water outages in the city since Friday, as he promised an assessment of the city's infrastructure and to deploy monitors to detect leaking pipes.Mayor Andre Dickens made the announcements a day after workers finished repairs on a ruptured water main. Officials said they had restored water flow and normal pressure to customers after troubles began Friday. Downtown Atlanta and nearby neighborhoods had an order to boil water before drinking it canceled Thursday.
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S14Customs Crackdown on No-Tariff Shipments Disrupts Shein, Temu Orders A new U.S. crackdown on customs brokers handling billions of dollars in inexpensive online shopping orders from giants like China-linked Shein and Temu is likely to cause delivery delays and bottlenecks, industry experts said.U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced late last week it suspended "multiple" brokers from an expedited clearance program for those duty-free, direct-to-consumer imports partly over concerns that contraband was being brought into the country this way. While the agency did not specify a number, customs experts they were aware of up to six suspended companies.Â
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S15Popular U.S. News App Has China Roots, 'Writes Fiction' With AI Help Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined "Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns."The problem was, no such shooting took place. The Bridgeton, New Jersey police department posted a statement on Facebook on December 27 dismissing the article--Â produced using AI technology--as "entirely false".
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S16Lame-Duck Boeing CEO Will Testify Before Senate Investigations Committee Boeing CEO to testify before US Senate panel on June 18Outgoing Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will testify before a U.S. Senate panel on June 18 after a series of incidents raised concerns about safety and quality, and led regulators to cap the planemaker's production of its best-selling 737 MAX.Blumenthal said after two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, "Boeing made a promise to overhaul its safety practices and culture. That promise proved empty, and the American people deserve an explanation."
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S17New Details About the Ticketmaster Hack Reveal a Simple Way to Help Prevent Breaches Like These In a government filing, Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, said that in May it realized that customer data had been accessed through a third-party cloud database provider--now believed to be a company called Snowflake--and was being advertised on the dark web, which includes the online forums where hackers post and sell stolen information. A group called ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach and is reportedly selling the data for $500,000.Also in May, Spanish bank Santander said that customer and employee information had been stolen in a similar manner. ShinyHunters again claimed responsibility for that attack and reportedly posted for sale bank account details of 30 million customers and other information.
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S18Why Pitbull Invested in This Immigrant-Owned Taco Chain Morfin, now 52, was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. When he was 10 years old, his father told him and his 10 siblings that they were leaving for the U.S., and together, they crossed the U.S. border through Tijuana. The family ultimately settled in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, where his father found work cleaning dishes at a Chinese restaurant and his older siblings started working in factories. Morfin, the sixth sibling, went to school. In 1986, he and his family members became American citizens, and in 1991, he became the first in his family to attend college. Â
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S19The Wing's Audrey Gelman Is Back, This Time With a Hotel This time, the entrepreneur is offering something narrower. Whereas the Wing was a multi-city, celebrity-laden enterprise that had raised almost $118 million at its 2019 peak, Gelman's new project is a hotel in Rosendale, New York with 11 guest rooms and a decidedly cottagecore aesthetic."I seek out hospitality experiences that are like this," Gelman told the Wall Street Journal, which broke the news of her new venture Thursday morning. "I would prefer to stay in an Airbnb that's shaped like a giant potato than I would at a Ritz-Carlton."
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S20Employees Don't Want to Take PTO. They're Quiet Vacationing Instead The term, similar to "hush trips," means taking vacation days without informing one's employer. But employees aren't necessarily taking quiet vacation days because they are out of paid time off. In fact, nearly 50 percent of employees say they do not use all their PTO, according to a 2023 Pew Research report. According to the Resume Builder survey, many workers are too anxious to ask for official time off: Around 30 percent of survey participants indicated they think using their PTO makes them look less hard-working, and about 40 percent thought it might impact their job security.
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S21How the Founder of Tala Financial Platform Finds Customers For Starters brings you stories of the entrepreneurs building our future. Hosted by investor Alexa von Tobel, each weekly conversation digs into a founder's professional playbook to reveal what makes them tick. Listen to episodes here. Shivani Siroya started Tala not because she wanted to build a company, but because one problem consumed her thoughts: 4 billion people were excluded from the traditional banking system and lacked access to essential financial tools to help them use, protect, and grow their money.
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S22GenAI Is Leveling the Playing Field for Smaller Businesses Typically, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) don’t have the resources to hunker down at an annual strategy retreat or to stop everything they’re doing to respond to unexpected emergencies or events that threaten the bottom line. This puts them at a disadvantage compared to their larger competitors. This article shows how AI is proving to be a transformative force for small and medium enterprises. The authors describe three crisis scenarios in which AI-driven brainstorming and scenario generation enabled SMEs to break free from their built-in limitations to produce innovative strategies.
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S239 Questions to Help You Figure Out Why You're Burned Out The World Health Organization characterizes burnout as comprising three key dimensions: sustained feelings of exhaustion, feelings of personal inefficacy, and increased mental distance from one’s job. In this article, the author outlines nine questions to ask yourself under each of these three categories to help you diagnose what’s causing your burnout. It’s likely a combination of factors, requiring a number of changes over time to fully address it, and not something a one-off vacation can reverse right away. Nonetheless, the answers to these questions serve as a starting point and can inform steps you can take to address your burnout and possibly prevent it from happening again in the future.
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S24S25What's trending on Spotify in Africa? Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy is Spotify’s managing director for Sub-Saharan Africa. The music streaming platform has played a significant role in the global growth of Afrobeats, Africa’s biggest music genre.The thing that fascinates me is the rise of gospel music. I know that spirituality is important to us as Africans, but I didn’t think it was that important to the youth — Gen Z in particular. If you take Nigeria, for example, Christian podcast streams on Spotify have grown by 482% since 2022. Gospel music streams have grown by 1,228%.
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S26Bolt's drive-to-win insurance scheme is putting drivers' lives at risk Femi Oladipo, a Lagos-based driver for Bolt, started getting constant headaches and chest pain in mid-August last year. He struggled to understand what was happening to him, until he realized that he was overworked.At the start of August, Oladipo had learned that Bolt was promising health insurance cover to its “top performing” drivers every month. The insurance would include benefits such as malaria treatment, accident and emergency care, and cover major and minor surgeries. Oladipo wanted to get the perk.
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S27Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work Turning to a friend or coworker can make tricky problems easier to tackle. Now it looks like having AI chatbots team up with each other can make them more effective.I've been playing this week with AutoGen, an open source software framework for AI agent collaboration developed by researchers at Microsoft and academics at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Washington, and Xidian University in China. The software taps OpenAI's large language model GPT-4 to let you create multiple AI agents with different personas, roles, and objectives that can be prompted to solve specific problems.
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S28Starship's Successful Test Moves SpaceX One Step Closer to Mars SpaceX has completed a mostly successful fourth test of its revolutionary new Starship rocket, a key step toward returning humans to the Moon and, maybe one day, landing on Mars.The flight, integrated flight test 4, lifted off today from SpaceXâÂÂs Boca Chica test site in Texas at 7:50 am Central time. Standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, the rocket and its 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines roared to life, raising StarshipâÂÂthe largest rocket in historyâÂÂinto the sky over the Gulf of Mexico from the test site, called Starbase.
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S29OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT ChatGPT developer OpenAI's approach to building artificial intelligence came under fire this week from former employees who accuse the company of taking unnecessary risks with technology that could become harmful.Today, OpenAI released a new research paper apparently aimed at showing it is serious about tackling AI risk by making its models more explainable. In the paper, researchers from the company lay out a way to peer inside the AI model that powers ChatGPT. They devise a method of identifying how the model stores certain conceptsâincluding those that might cause an AI system to misbehave.
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S30S31The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever A hack against customers of the cloud storage company Snowflake looks like it may turn into one of the biggest-ever data breaches. Last week, Snowflake, which allows companies to store huge datasets on its servers, revealed that criminal hackers had been attempting to access its customers' accounts using stolen login details. Data breaches targeting Ticketmaster and Santander have been linked to the attacks.In the days since Snowflake first said a "limited number" of customer accounts had been accessed, however, cybercriminals have publicly claimed to be selling stolen data from two other major firms and alleged the information was taken from Snowflake accounts. At the same time, TechCrunch has reported that hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords have been found online and are accessible to cybercriminals.
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S32Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch Cleared in US Fraud Trial British entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been cleared of fraud charges by a jury in a court in San Francisco on Thursday, avoiding the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence. The once-celebrated cofounder of software company Autonomy was acquitted of all criminal charges, ending a 12-year legal saga accusing him of wire fraud and conspiracy.In the course of a meandering, 11-week trial, the US Department of Justice accused Lynch of overseeing an elaborate, multiyear fraud that served to inflate the value of Autonomy before its purchase by Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
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S33The Case for MDMA's Approval Is Riddled With Problems Only two drugs are formally approved for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and they donâÂÂt help everyone. A lack of effective treatment options has led some patients to seek out the psychedelic drug MDMA, also known as ecstasy, to help relieve their symptoms when traditional medications and therapy donâÂÂt work.In the US, momentum has been growing to legalize MDMA and other psychedelics. Lykos Therapeutics, which has been testing MDMA alongside psychotherapy in clinical trials for years, had a chance this week to prove that the combination is effective at treating PTSD. But at a June 4 meeting, a panel of advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted that there wasnâÂÂt enough evidence to recommend its approval. Just two of the 11 committee members were convinced that the treatment was effective, and only one said its benefits outweighed the risks.
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S34US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets Last year, the White House struck a landmark safety deal with AI developers that saw companies including Google and OpenAI promise to consider what could go wrong when they create software like that behind ChatGPT. Now a former domestic policy adviser to President Biden who helped forge that deal says that AI developers need to step up on another front: protecting their secret formulas from China."Because they are behind, they are going to want to take advantage of what we have," said Susan Rice regarding China. She left the White House last year and spoke on Wednesday during a panel about AI and geopolitics at an event hosted by Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered AI. "Whether it's through purchasing and modifying our best open source models, or stealing our best secrets. We really do need to look at this whole spectrum of how do we stay ahead, and I worry that on the security side, we are lagging."
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S35Oral-B Sold a $230 Alexa Toothbrush--and Then Pulled the Plug As weâÂÂre currently seeing with AI, when a new technology becomes buzzy, companies will do almost anything to cram that tech into their products. Trends fade, however, and corporate priorities shiftâÂÂresulting in bricked gadgets and buyerâÂÂs remorse.ThatâÂÂs what's happening to some who bought Oral-B toothbrushes with Amazon Alexa built in. Oral-B released the Guide for $230 in August 2020 but bricked the ability to set up or reconfigure Alexa on the product this February. As of this writing, the Guide is still available through a third-party Amazon seller.
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S36Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has hailed the company's new Recall feature, which stores a history of your computer desktop and makes it available to AI for analysis, as "photographic memory" for your PC. Within the cybersecurity community, meanwhile, the notion of a tool that silently takes a screenshot of your desktop every five seconds has been hailed as a hacker's dream come true and the worst product idea in recent memory.Now, security researchers have pointed out that even the one remaining security safeguard meant to protect that feature from exploitation can be trivially defeated.
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S37Why We Need Intergenerational Friendships at Work Managers today are leading up to five generations at the same time. And that brings with it a new challenge: Poorly managed generational differences between employees can be damaging, resulting in age bias, negative impact on job attitudes, dysfunctional team dynamics, and even lower levels of overall job performance. Well-managed generational diversity has the potential to bring substantial benefits, ranging from knowledge transfer and mentoring to innovation and reduced turnover. It creates opportunities to develop something even more invaluable: intergenerational workplace friendships. Here’s how managers can help nurture these relationships:
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S38A snack's journey from the farm to your mouth How does a biscuit make it from the farm to your plate? Sustainable development leader Aruna Rangachar Pohl unpacks the long journey of one of India's most beloved snacks, revealing how the current industrial farming model is eating the planet. Learn about the foundation she started to promote eco-friendly agricultural practices — and hear the success stories of small-scale farmers adopting natural practices to cook up a tasty, healthy and climate-resilient future for everyone.
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S39How to use venture capital for good Freada Kapor Klein isn't your typical venture capitalist. She's thrown out the standard investment playbook in order to close the opportunity gap for low-income communities. She explains how her firm is investing in entrepreneurs and startups solving real-world problems — and the measurable difference it's already making.
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S40S41We've just had a year in which every month was a record-setter June 2023 did not seem like an exceptional month at the time. It was the warmest June in the instrumental temperature record, but monthly records haven't exactly been unusual in a period where the top 10 warmest years on record have all occurred within the last 15 years. And monthly records have often occurred in years that are otherwise unexceptional; at the time, the warmest July on record had occurred in 2019, a year that doesn't stand out much from the rest of the past decade.
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S42S43Watch a 6-axis motor solve a Rubik's Cube in less than a third of a second The last time a human set the world record for solving a Rubik's Cube, it was Max Park, at 3.13 seconds for a standard 3×3×3 cube, set in June 2023. It is going to be very difficult for any human to pull off a John Henry-like usurping of the new machine record, which is more than 10 times faster, at 0.305 seconds. That's within the accepted time frame for human eye blinking, which averages out to one-third of a second.
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S44You can inherit a dead relative's GOG account--if you have a court order "In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable," GOG spokesperson Zuzanna Rybacka tells Ars. "However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it, taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we’d do our best to make it happen."
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S45S46These light paintings let us visualize invisible clouds of air pollution Light painting is a technique used in both art and science that involves taking long-exposure photographs while moving some kind of light source—a small flashlight, perhaps, or candles or glowsticks—to essentially trace an image with light. A UK collaboration of scientists and artists has combined light painting with low-cost air pollution sensors to visualize concentrations of particulate matter (PM) in select locations in India, Ethiopia, and Wales. The objective is to creatively highlight the health risks posed by air pollution, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications.
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S47S48S49S50Lara Trump Failed the Hogan Test In this era of political correctness and cancel culture, it's amazing what you just can't say anymore. Like, for example, that the rule of law is good and worthy of respect.That's what the Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan is finding out. Last week, minutes before a jury announced that it had found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies, Hogan, who is running in Maryland, posted on X: "Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process. At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leadersâregardless of partyâmust not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship. We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law."
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