Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project. | | | | Gene Hackman spying in "The Conversation" (1974)
(Paramount Pictures) | | | | |  | “Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.”
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 | The Verge |
| Drone racing is still a niche hobby, but can it find an audience on ESPN? | | |
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 | Variety |
| The herd may be starting to thin for "unicorns," the label Silicon Valley reserves for its most promising start-ups. This story first appeared in the June 20, 2017 issue of Variety. The number of private companies that exceeded a $1 billion valuation is roughly one-third of what it was prior to 2016, according to research Goldman Sachs issued in March. | | |
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 | Project Syndicate |
| Economic reality is beginning to catch up with the false hopes of many Britons that the UK's withdrawal from the EU will not reduce their standard of living. The Brexit referendum cannot be undone, but people can change their minds about what their vote meant. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| In June 2016, a hacker targeted a virtual currency known as ether. This is the story of the bold attempt to rewrite that history. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Music It was 1986, and New Edition needed a slam dunk. The all-male singing collective from Boston housing projects was on its way to becoming a true supergroup - but only if its remaining members could convene and create the album that Jheryl Busby knew they had in them. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Thoughts on conversational UI. | | |
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 | Harper's Magazine |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| In his first interview atop the storied film power, the former Fox chairman talks getting fired by the Murdochs, how Trump impacts his job and the strategy to restore stability: "It's surprising it got so bumpy here ... because all the elements are in place." | | |
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 | Racked |
| Long absent from discussions about employment, workers from Walmart to Bloomingdale’s are taking matters into their own hands. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The multibillion-dollar college sports industry exploits African-American athletes and has left historically black schools behind. Some people think there's a better way. | | |
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 | New Space |
| This paper is a summary of Elon Musk's presentation at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, September 26–30, 2016. In February 2017, SpaceX announced it will launch a crewed mission beyond the moon for two private customers in late 2018. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The quality and variety of food in the U.S. has never been better. The business seems to be struggling. What’s really going on? | | |
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 | GQ |
| For decades, Barbie’s boy achieved icon status by being a basic, buff, blue-eyed bro. But as Caity Weaver discovered, he’s a whole new man. (Well, men.) | | |
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 | The Outline |
| Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA. | | |
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 | NBC News |
| Sci-fi may have us worried about self-aware robots, but it’s the mindless ones we need to be cautious of. Conscious machines may actually be our allies. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Once considered among the richest countries in the world, Venezuela is now known for food shortages, lack of basic medical care, 800 percent inflation, and daily protests against President Nicolas Maduro. Hannah Dreier has witnessed and documented the worst of the crisis in three years as a foreign correspondent in the country’s capital, Caracas. | | |
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 | Mother Jones |
| Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a "low-performing" school. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| Digital media is an interesting thing. While most mainstream sites do not actively partake in the facilitation of fake news, a term with a very specific definition (i.e., entirely fabricated stories put forth for political or monetary gain), that is not to say that the information put forth by some of our "trusted" media sources is accurate. | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Autonomous vehicles, electric powertrains, vehicle sharing, and other advances are transforming urban mobility. Planning ahead can help cities capture the benefits of the shift, from cleaner air to easier journeys. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| 'Better Call Saul' started out as a good spin-off -- after last night's finale, it's officially become a great show. Here's how it secretly happened. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| Amid diplomatic tensions, a great, troubled experiment in news faces pressure to close. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| In the summer of 2015, Alexandra Franco got a letter in the mail from a company she had never heard of called AcurianHealth. The letter, addressed to Franco personally, invited her to participate in a study of people with psoriasis, a condition that causes dry, itchy patches on the skin. | | |
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 | Bitcoin Magazine |
| In an interview with Bitcoin Magazine , Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discussed some of the scaling issues Ethereum is currently dealing with, the rising interest in Ethereum in Asia and his thoughts on the ICO ecosystem in general. In late May, developers from the Ethereum-based job market platform Ethlance introduced an issue its freelancers were struggling to deal with. | | |
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