Just in case you weren't yet convinced, there is new evidence from a study of more than 40,000 workers in 300 U.S. office buildings that open-plan office layouts don't improve productivity. The results, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology,came to the following conclusion:
To be perfectly clear, here's what the paragraph says: "Open-plan offices aren't worth it."
Posted: 07/28/18 [ Read More... ]
[ Nike Meshes the Physical and Digital Worlds in New Concept Store ]
Nike is bringing some features of its mobile app to life in a new Los Angeles concept store that can adapt to consumers’ changing tastes and demands in real time. Nike hopes this will be a string of next-generation store launches. The second one will likely launch this fall on New York City’s Fifth Avenue.
“We’re going to learn a lot from this store,”... Posted: 07/17/18 [ Read More... ]
[ React Native at Airbnb: The Technology ]
React Native is a relatively new and fast-moving platform in the cross-section of Android, iOS, web, and cross-platform frameworks. After two years, Airbnb can safely say that React Native is revolutionary in many ways. It is a paradigm shift for mobile and Airbnb was able to reap the benefits of many of its goals. However, its benefits didn’t come without...
Posted: 06/22/18 [ Read More... ]
[ Mary Meeker 2018 Internet Trends Report ]
It’s that time of year again, when Mary Meeker unloads her highly anticipated internet trends report for the Code Conference crowd in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. This year, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner released 294 slides in rapid succession, covering everything from smartphone behavior in the U.S. to tech company competition in China. Find more information in the linked article.
Posted: 06/01/18 [ Read More... ]
[ Google just gave a stunning demo of Assistant making an actual phone call ]
Onstage at I/O 2018, Google showed off a jaw-dropping new capability of Google Assistant: in the not too distant future, it’s going to make phone calls on your behalf. CEO Sundar Pichai played back a phone call recording that he said was placed by the Assistant to a hair salon.
The voice sounded incredibly natural; the person on the other end had no idea they were talking to a... Posted: 05/10/18 [ Read More... ]
[ Historic Korean Peace Declaration Recorded on Ethereum Blockchain ]
The historic moment when leaders from South and North Korea met on April 27 and signed an agreement for peace between the two nations has now been permanently recorded on the ethereum blockchain.
According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, Ryu Gi-hyeok, a 27-year-old game developer from South Korea, has coded the Panmunjom Declaration, which includes the line "there will be no more war on... Posted: 05/04/18 [ Read More... ]
[ How Telegram Is Trying to Dodge Russia’s Service Ban—And Dragging Google and Amazon Into the Drama ]
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[ Generation X — not millennials — is changing the nature of work ]
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[ Hedge Funds That Use AI Just Had Their Worst Month Ever ]
Chalk one up for the humans.
Hedge funds that use artificial intelligence and machine learning in their trading process posted the worst month on record in February, according to a Eurekahedge index that’s tracked the industry from 2011. The first equity correction in two years upended their strategies as once-reliable cross-asset correlations shifted.
While computerized programs are feared for their potential to render human traders obsolete, the AI quants lagged behind their... Posted: 03/14/18 [ Read More... ]
[ The Toolset of an Elite North Korean Hacker Group on the Rise ]
NORTH KOREA'S MOST prolific hacking group, broadly known within the security community under the name Lazarus, has over the last half-decade proven itself one of the world's most internationally aggressive teams of intruders. It has pulled off audacious attacks around the globe, from leaking and destroying Sony Pictures' data to siphoning of tens of millions of dollars from banks in Poland and Bangladesh. Now, security researchers have detailed the capabilities of... Posted: 02/28/18 [ Read More... ]