Новости за 10.01.2018

OhmConnect is creating “negawatts”: units of energy saved by people turning off their appliances.

Electricity has been a fact of life for almost a century and a half, but apparently we’re still working out the kinks. A number of power outages were reported Wednesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where CES—the world’s largest annual showcase of tech and gadgets—has been underway since Monday. Event organizers called the outage …

The City of New York is suing the world’s biggest energy companies, accusing them of willfully deceiving the public, contributing to global climate change, and endangering the city and its residents in the name of lush profits. In a legal complaint that names BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell, the city said the companies …

Facebook is one of those platforms that is very secretive about its inner workings. Though most of us use it every day to read news, connect with friends, and share ideas, the company tells its users very little about how it powers its various features. Case in point: Facebook’s “People You May Know” function, which …

Facebook is one of those platforms that is very secretive about its inner workings. Though most of us use it every day to read news, connect with friends, and share ideas, the company tells its users very little about how it powers its various features. Case in point: Facebook’s “People You May Know” function, which …

Irate candy fans have filed a federal class-action lawsuit claiming Junior Mints puts too much air and not enough candy in its boxes. The original suit was filed by Biola Daniel in New York City, who claims that when she threw down $1.49 for a box of Junior Mints at the Duane Reade pharmacy, she …

WeWork has a gym, The Wing has on-demand blowouts, and WorkHouse NYC offers members access to a landscaped rooftop, but Servcorp has something even better: private jets. The flexible workspace with outposts around the globe is tapping into its members’ business-travel needs, and giving them the perks to help get them wherever business takes them. It partnered with …

The acclaimed actress took a small per-diem fee for “All the Money in the World” reshoots. Wahlberg, meanwhile, got another fat paycheck.

Last night, Stephen Colbert asked the actor to address recent allegations against him. Franco gave a nuanced answer that we’re still deciphering.

Warren Buffett spoke with CNBC this morning, and he didn’t mince words. “In terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say with almost certainty that they will come to a bad ending,” he said.  He added that if he could “buy a five-year put” on all the new coins out there, he absolutely would–although he wouldn’t …

Connecting two strangers in a professional capacity doesn’t have to be awkward.

Fixing the interview process and diversifying their workforce are top of mind at companies looking to add staff this year, according to LinkedIn’s Global Recruiting Trends. And some of them are turning to robots and chatbots to help. LinkedIn’s new report surveyed 8,800+ recruiters and hiring managers on how these trends would impact hiring in 2018. …

Fixing the interview process and diversifying their workforce are top of mind at companies looking to add staff this year, according to LinkedIn’s Global Recruiting Trends. And some of them are turning to robots and chatbots to help. LinkedIn’s new report surveyed 8,800+ recruiters and hiring managers on how these trends would impact hiring in 2018. …

YouTube finally realized that it needed to make it official and publicly state that Logan Paul screwed up by posting a horrifying video of suicide. The video site posted an open letter on its Twitter feed on Tuesday apologizing for the lack of communication. It explained that the video, posted to one of YouTube’s most …

Don’t lose track of your job search progress.

When you’re actively looking for a new job, you can’t afford to wing it on the organizational front. Whether you apply for five jobs or 100, you’ll soon find yourself buried in an extraordinary number of resumes, cover letters, job descriptions, and interview invitations. If you don’t keep them carefully organized, you may not identify the right opportunity–or worse, you’ll flounder when the right opportunity comes along.

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Jenny Hall brings experience from HBO, Netflix, and Hulu to the home of “StartUp,” “Reply All,” and “Homecoming.” She sees huge potential for Gimlet that goes way beyond aural entertainment.

The ambient AI wars are no longer about letting you use a speaker to control other devices–they’re about putting cloud-based brains in gadgets of all sorts.

For services like BroadwayHD, building the platform was the first hurdle. Now it’s time to convince stage purists that live theater belongs on your phone.

To get there, we need technologists to think more like urban planners, and for urban planners to think more like technologists–and for the two sectors to work together.

The graphics chipmaker has revealed that some of its chipsets are among those affected by the Spectre memory flaw, which allows hackers to steal passwords of devices by bypassing their operating systems, reports Reuters. Nvidia says it is providing “an initial security update to mitigate aspects” of Spectre via a software patch and expects to …

Cramming got you through college, but it’s probably paying diminishing returns in your career. Here’s the scientific reason why.