Sandberg: "Men need to step up" in workplaces Women are still navigating the effects of male-dominated workplaces a year and a half after the rise of the #MeToo movement. A new study by LeanIn.org found 60 percent of male managers said they are uncomfortable interacting with women at work – up 32…

PARIS (Reuters) - The party of far-right leader Marine Le Pen will top the upcoming European Parliament elections with 22 percent of the vote, just ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s REM party, an Ipsos poll released on Sunday. It was the first time Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) - formerly…

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed creator of bitcoin, has filed registrations with the U.S. Copyright Office supporting his claims of authorship over the original bitcoin code and the Satoshi white paper. The registrations, which are visible here and here , pertain specifically to “Bitcoin: A…

Macron Goes Full Machiavelli Ahead Of The European Elections by Wed, 05/22/2019 - 02:00 0 SHARES Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print Authored by Bill Wirtz via The American Conservative, The French president is gathering unlikely allies to challenge the populists. But he's so unpopular, it might not…

This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest Yancey Strickler May 20 Photo by Rosie Fraser on Unsplash In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem , author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its…

Share Email Guo Wengui Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012, according to a Chinese dissident with close ties to Beijing's military and…

Flashpop/Getty Images Earlier this spring I had the chance to witness two of the “farewell talks” that Ed Catmull gave to the people of Pixar. Catmull, the company’s cofounder and long-time leader (and also president of Disney Animation Studios since the Disney acquisition of Pixar over a decade…

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A small boat in the Illulissat Icefjord is dwarfed by the icebergs that have calved from the floating tongue of Greenland’s largest glacier, Jacobshavn Isbrae. Credit: Michael Bamber, Author provided Antarctica is further from civilisation than any other place on Earth. The Greenland ice sheet is…

The author George R. R. Martin at a Game of Thrones premiere Matt Sayles / Invision / AP This story contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones. For many years, George R. R. Martin has been repeatedly asked the morbid question of what would happen if he were to die before finishing his…

Opinion The End of Snow? Slopes were closed last month at Fichtelberg mountain in Oberwiesenthal, Germany. Credit Jan Woitas/European Pressphoto Agency OVER the next two weeks, hundreds of millions of people will watch Americans like Ted Ligety and Mikaela Shiffrin ski for gold on the downhill…

Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext. The search giant disclosed the exposure Tuesday but declined to say exactly how many enterprise customers were affected. “We recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite…

Podcast: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Download Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important. Transcript Work as hard as you can Naval: Let’s talk about hard work. There’s this battle that happens in Twitter a lot between, should you work hard and…

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) I n March, Google announced with much fanfare the launch of the Google News Initiative, a $300 million program aimed at “building a strong future for journalism,” as the company put it. That came on top of the previous Digital News Initiative, which…

The Gardens of Ninfa, Italy. Built on the site of a Roman temple to the water nymphs, Ninfa grew into a thriving medieval town of 150 houses. In 1382, it was sacked during Papal wars, and a malaria outbreak left it a ghost town. It is now a public garden. May 15, 2019 While time and age in standard…

The election of Donald Trump has, of course, unleashed the latent racist which lurks within millions of Americans. We know this because enlightened opinion keeps telling us so. The New Yorker , for example, ran a piece in November 2016 declaring ‘Hate on rise since Trump’s election’, and quoting a…

Na Kim The bet was on, and it was over the fate of humanity. On one side was the Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich. In his 1968 best seller, The Population Bomb , Ehrlich insisted that it was too late to prevent a doomsday apocalypse resulting from overpopulation. Resource shortages would cause…

A Bold Strategy To Put People First! As a veteran, Tulsi Gabbard ’s experience has profoundly shaped her as a person and her approach to American foreign policy. She discussed the need for a military that is ready and capable of protecting our nation’s security, but should not be supporting…

Editor’s Note: The essay below is adapted from Robert Zubrin’s Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism , published in 2012 as part of our New Atlantis Books series. The Truth About DDT and Silent Spring We have discovered many…

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A helicopter sprays DDT on trees in Wallowa Whitman National Forest in Oregon to combat the infestation of the tussock moth. Photo: Copyright Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images Crushed eggs. Dead eagles. Birth defects. The 1960s and ‘70s were a trying time for the American environment, thanks to DDT. The…

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Rob Malda May 14 I get asked some variant of this question surprisingly often. It’s an oddly loaded inquiry without a real answer because technically speaking, Slashdot marches on. Regardless, many people have offered me their opinion, so here is a brief list of answers given to me over the years in…

If you somehow didn’t guess from the title, this article is going to have spoilers for both Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones S8E3, “The Long Night.” You’ve been warned. With that out of the way, today I’m going to be looking at two of the most fascinating examples of nihilism in the culture-…

Artificial intelligence isn’t creating fake photos and videos — it can do fake voices, too. Up until now, these voices have been noticeably stilted and robotic , but researchers from AI startup Dessa have created what is by far the most convincing voice clone we’ve ever heard — perfectly mimicking…

I’ve now worked with or invested in ~25 successful start-ups beyond my own companies and I’ve watched a lot of VP hire train wrecks. Probably the most common is “the wrong VP of Sales”. We’ve talked about that for 6+ years on SaaStr, and we’ll keep talking about it. Hiring someone for the wrong…

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Chad H. Van Iddekinge is the Bank of America Professor of Management at FSU's College of Business. A common hiring philosophy used for generations is being flipped on its head by new research from Florida State University. Screening job applicants based on their prior work experience is often a…

THIS amateur photographer’s prayers were answered when she snapped this perfectly-timed picture of what appears to be Jesus Christ with his arms out. Monica Aramayo was in San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina when she noticed the holy figure shining through the thick clouds. The picture which has…

The great generation that barely was. This Gen X Mess The tech, music, style, books, trends, rules, films and pills that made Gen X … so so-so. Like many things considered “cool,” Gen X is pretty exclusive. You had to be born between 1965 and 1980 to get in to this gloomy, goofy club of forgotten…

It is important to decide which of 3 life tracks you want to be on: Super-successful sales rep / individual contributor . I.e., make $200k or even $500k+ someday, just closing deals yourself. Crush your number, live the life, take nice vacations, wear expensive suits, buy a cool condo. Live the high…

Helen Sloan / HBO This article contains spoilers through Season 8 Episode 5 of Game of Thrones . In his A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin frames every chapter around the perspective of a single character. This strategy not only helps him build out his complex world, but also…

T hroughout Game of Thrones ’ celebrated, history-making run, it has only brought on one female director and three female writers. Michelle MacLaren directed four episodes of the HBO series, the last of which aired in 2014. Jane Espenson, Vanessa Taylor, and Gursimran Sandhu have contributed to a…

UPDATED : After last Sunday’s episode of “ Game of Thrones ,” Jessica Chastain criticized the show for using the rape and torture that Sophie Turner ’s character, Sansa Stark, endured in previous seasons as the reasons for her strength and cunning. “Rape is not a tool to make a character stronger. A…

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X Story Stream recent articles It was bad enough when the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder engaged in spying on journalist James Rosen (and even spied on his parents' phone records). And the same cast of characters secretly spied on Associated Press reporters -- also in the…