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Commuters Now Spend 63 Hours a Year Stuck in Traffic. That’s More Than a Week of Work

It’s not your imagination. Traffic is worse than it’s ever been, study shows. source https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/commuters-now-spend-63-hours-a-year-stuck-in-traffic-thats-more-than-a-week-of-work/91276805

OpenAI turns 10 today. Where will it be in another decade?

On December 11, 2015, OpenAI arrived on the scene with a bang. Announced on the penultimate day of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an academic confab held in Montreal’s Palais des Congrès by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others, the organization had been in the planning for months (an infamous July 2015 meetingContinueContinue reading “OpenAI turns 10 today. Where will it be in another decade?”

The hardest startup in America

Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, surveys the sky from a sunbaked hillside 5 miles from Utah’s Great Salt Lake. On this balmy Sunday afternoon in late September, the lake is calm, but its serenity belies a potentially catastrophic problem: The Great Salt Lake is shrinking—and is at risk of disappearing altogether.ContinueContinue reading “The hardest startup in America “

Is it really so bad to be fake at work?

Faking tends to get a bad rap. We celebrate authenticity, praise, and honesty, and preach radical transparency—as if the workplace would magically improve if everyone walked around expressing their unfiltered “true selves.” But, imagine for a moment what unedited human authenticity would actually look like in a corporate setting: colleagues announcing every irritation, managers confessingContinueContinue reading “Is it really so bad to be fake at work?”

This startup is building a network of home batteries to help solve the grid’s woes

As data centers strain the power grid, utilities are scrambling to build new power plants. But a startup in California is one of a handful focusing on the problem from a different angle: building a network of batteries and solar panels at homes to relieve pressure on the grid more quickly. In some cases, thanksContinueContinue reading “This startup is building a network of home batteries to help solve the grid’s woes”