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#1,819 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It’s a technical process that is 5 million times more efficient than current storage methods, according to researchers. Smithsonian Magazine explains: The keyboard, made by a company called EmojiWorks, is the result of a weird communication quandary. ” Emoji Keyboard: Now you can type in emoji.

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The Hyper-personalization Data and Privacy Debate?-?Solved

Tullio Siragusa

Recently caught up with Jacob Borgeson on the Tech Backstage Podcast. The Tech Backstage Podcast is a live streamed video podcast that goes behind the scenes with today’s leaders of industry to learn what technologies are solving business problems, and how Design Thinking applied to the future of technology is impacting the world.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

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PBTO56: The Inevitable – Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kelly

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show today: Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003.

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Five Innovators You’ve Never Heard Of

IdeaScale

Knight sued Annan for copyright infringement and won due to her detailed sketches and plans. Knight put her plan into action, but while it was being made at a machine shop, Charles Annan copied the idea and received the patent instead. She later established her own paper bag company and enjoyed large royalty checks as a result.

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The Profitability of Well-Being: The New Corporate Priority

Business and Tech

Dealing with the loss of family and friends due to the pandemic and the mental health impact of the health crisis forced many workers to rethink their whole life vis-à-vis “work.”. This is evident in a recent report from MIT Sloan Management Review , which found more employees quitting their jobs to run away from toxic workplace culture.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. And the size of the problem increases with the success of the company. Refactoring” organizational debt.