Your employees’ relationships with their work environment are just as meaningful as their home environment when it comes to mental health. Improving the work environment means improving productivity, retention, and growth —…
Month: December 2021
Delusional Elon Musk claims Tesla Robot will be ‘like C3PO or R2D2’
Elon Musk made some wildly bold claims on the Lex Fridman podcast yesterday. While he’s certainly no stranger to sensationalism, it’s clear now that the line between trolling humanity and getting-high-off-his-own supply…
How supply chain delays stalled new advancements in mobility through 2021
Have you experienced a shortage of particular foods in the grocery store or been waiting ages for that car you ordered at Christmas last year? Well, it’s been a year of spectacular…
The AI stories that made us smile in 2021 — and 5 that made us cry
AI had a memorable 2021, although not always for the best reasons. The field unleashed an arousing blend of breakthroughs, applications, and ideas — but also discharged a steady stream of bigotry,…
How to run a great hybrid meeting (Hint: It involves emojis)
Nine out of ten organizations will be combining remote and on-site working in the post-pandemic future of work. That’s what the latest McKinsey research says. This new model will dramatically change the…
How should NASA break the news if it discovers alien life in 2022?
The recent launch of the James Webb space telescope has the science world abuzz with dreams of cosmic breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe. Scientists hope it’ll help us gaze back…
China’s new AI policy doesn’t prevent it from building autonomous weapons
The People’s Republic of China recently published a “position paper” detailing the nation’s views on military AI regulation. Having thoroughly perused it, we’ve come to the following conclusion: it’s gibberish. Up front:…
Ebikes sped from zero to critical mass worldwide in 2021
If there’s one segment in the mobility sector that did spectacularly well in 2021, it had to be ebikes. This year we saw investments in ebikes explode. Many companies used the funding…
Is Einstein’s theory of gravity still relevant — we put it to its toughest test yet
For more than 100 years, Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been our best description of how the force of gravity acts throughout the Universe. General relativity is not only very…
3 signs analytics engineering is the job for you
This article was originally published here. I’ve been seeing more and more job postings for analytics engineers in recent months. Every company wants someone that has both data analytics and software engineering…