Tag: business
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Once published in the online magazine of sex Nerve.com, Geoff Dyer’s glorious essay “Sex and Hotels” has fallen off the internet. Slate is proud to republish the essay, which appears… more ›
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Take a good look at a Monopoly board. The most expensive properties, Park Place and Boardwalk, are marked in dark blue. Maybe you’ve drawn a card inviting you to “take… more ›
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This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it… more ›
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“I cannot f*cking do eight hours of zoom calls per day for the rest of my life” Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said, to what I would imagine would have been… more ›
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Thousands of staff at one of the world’s biggest call centre companies face being monitored by webcams to check whether they are eating, looking at their phones or leaving their… more ›
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Nine months since the launch of our first commercial product, the OpenAI API, more than 300 applications are now using GPT-3, and tens of thousands of developers around the globe… more ›
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Everyone is talking about whether the pandemic is going to create a long-term shift toward remote work. But so far I’ve seen very few people talk about the possibility that… more ›
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It’s official: 2009 was the worst year for the record labels in a decade. So was 2008, and before that 2007 and 2006. In fact, industry revenues have been declining… more ›
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Five-year-old company is first challenger to loosen Alibaba and JD. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-pinduoduo-beat-alibaba-to-become-chinas-top-shopping-site-11616232601 more ›
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The pandemic has thrown the future of work into flux. This is especially true in tech, an industry notoriously concentrated in several expensive U.S. cities. But as Covid-19 takes a… more ›