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Branson, Zuckerberg, Trump and More: How The World's Top CEOs Construct Their Online Brands
Learn how these top CEOs create and communicate their own personal brand.<p>Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page has more than 80 million followers. If you follow him you'll be the latest to hear about his recent travels, diseases he's trying to cure and his political opinions such as freedom of speech.<p>Why …
Social MediaHere's everything you missed at Tuesday's Google event
Google's product announcement in San Francisco Tuesday centered on the company's answer to Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri: Google Assistant.<p>The tech …
Android NewsJames Bond-style jet packs to become a reality in the UK from next year
The world's first jet packs which attach to people's backs and let them fly through the air took to the skies over the river Thames yesterday, and are set to become available for use by the British public from next year.<p>The James Bond-style mode of transport is the only jet pack ever built that can …
Ben Stiller's Essay About Prostate Cancer Is Moving But Not Scientific
Ben Stiller went public with his prostate cancer diagnosis in an essay on Medium on Tuesday. The comedian was diagnosed in 2014 and has been cancer-free since treatment that year.<p>He credits a controversial screening test ― the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test ― with saving his life:<p>Taking …
CancerBuilding a High-Tech Library at Home
Clever products that will let you make the most of your personal literary lounge<p>Even a Nook-carrying, digitally devoted iPad acolyte can appreciate a …
24 Brilliant Books You Must Read This Autumn
Recommended reading in October and November. UK release dates.
10 Crazy Things That Could Happen When Cars Drive Themselves
Elon Musk, Robin Chase and others share their visions of a driverless future.<p>Self-driving cars are currently being tested by the public in Singapore, and even safety-obsessed Volvo says it will start selling fully autonomous vehicles in five years. In other words, self-driving cars will probably be …
Autonomous Vehicle6 ways climate change is threatening food security — and what we can do about it
Climate change could have a devastating impact on food security around the world.<p>Eliminating hunger and curbing the effects of climate change are …
AgricultureA Google Maps for the Human Body
A group of scientists has taken the first important steps towards creating the Human Cell Atlas—a complete inventory of our staggeringly diverse cells.<p>Earlier this year, Steve McCarroll announced that his team had discovered the gene that most powerfully drives our risk of schizophrenia. Known as …
GeneticsHow to read a book a week
In February, I read Belle Beth Cooper’s <i>Fast Company</i> piece “How I became a morning person, read more books, and learned a language in a year,” which listed the four steps to assuming a new hobby: set small goals, focus on one new thing at a time, remove obvious barriers, and build the new routines …
BooksRussia and the West: Where did it all go wrong?
<b>It is hard to imagine a period since the end of the Cold War when relations between Russia and the United States have been quite so bad.</b><p>US officials have described the joint Russian-Syrian onslaught against Aleppo as "barbarism" and warned that war crimes are being carried out.<p>The Russian president …
GeopoliticsElon Musk provides more details about how first Mars colonists will live | Ars Technica
During a reddit AMA , the tech mogul fielded questions about colonizing Mars.<p>When he delivered his Mars colonization presentation at the …
Elon Musk11 Underrated Salad Greens And How to Eat Them
Salad greens are nutritional all-stars: They’re packed with vitamins (including A,B, and K) and are rich in minerals your body needs (like potassium, …
Healthy EatingInsider Uber’s Plan to Take Over the Skies With Flying Cars
In less than a decade, Uber has redefined the idea of flexible labor and gutted the American taxi industry. The company launched a fleet of …
Hillary Clinton's emails: Everything you need to know about the potential game changer for Donald Trump
The row surrounding Hillary Clinton’s email server is one of the few cards Donald Trump had in his hand during TV debates.<p>He used it to brand her …
GovernmentThis Year, The Antarctic Has Suddenly Started To Disappear
Against expectations, the South Pole’s ice sheet has been growing–until now.<p>The Arctic is melting. We know that already. But now we’re in worse trouble, because the Antarctic is disappearing too.<p>By studying 36 years of satellite images, researchers have spotted the worrying trend. Until now, they …
25 Trips of a Lifetime
If there were ever a place that could get by on its looks, it would be this Greek isle. Whitewashed cave houses framed by bougainvillea and backed by …
Family VacationsThe 8 Best Pieces of Advice Top Nutritionists Ever Received
Ever wonder what the absolute best jewel of advice nutritionists ever got from their mentors, professors, peers and even friends and family? So did we. When it comes to empowering yourself to eat healthy and feel energized, nutritionists have no shortage of amazing deets (and perhaps some outdated …
New York UniversityWhat Science Says About Going Outside Your Comfort Zone
Why just going outside your comfort zone doesn't always work, and what does.<p><i>"Step outside your comfort zone."</i><p>That has become a mantra among success gurus.<p>Of course, it makes sense. If you only do the same old things, then you won't change your current circumstances. If you keep doing what you …
ConnectivismInteractive periodic table finally clues us in to what elements are used for
Looking at the periodic table, most of us have no issues identifying the use of certain elements. Sodium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and others are no-brainers but what about the less talked about elements.<p>Seriously, do you know what Vanadium is used for? How about Polonium? Of course you don’t. …
ChemistryMove over Bitcoin, the blockchain is only just getting started
Subscribe to WIRED<p><b>It's easy to think we've reached peak Bitcoin, but the blockchain</b> at the heart of cryptocurrencies contains the seeds of something …
BlockchainDonald Trump’s presidency: A guide to five key issues
Donald Trump has spent decades in the spotlight, as wealthy real-estate developer, a reality-television star, and, in the past year and a half, an extremely effective political agitator, if not a smooth political operator. We know what he is like, and it is unreasonable to think that the office of …
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