"Headphones are the new wall," he said, pointing to the covered ears of his neighbors. Cubicle culture is already something of a punch line - how many ways can we find to annoy one another all day? - but lately the complaints are being heard by the right people, including managers and social scientists.
Smart genes The largest brain study of its kind had found a gene linked to intelligence, a small piece in the puzzle as to why some people are smarter than others. A variant of this gene "can tilt the scales in favour of a higher intelligence", says study leader Paul Thompson, stressing though that genetic blessings were not the only factor in b...
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Click to Tweet!: http://bit.ly/KqXwk4 Watch what happens when a member of the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier team applies for an internship at IGN and uses his training and futuristic equipment to climb the corporate ladder.
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Truthfully, I thought everyone knew about the 'Lucky 7 Lounge'. It's a secret room at Pixar that's really not so secret now. But I took a quick poll of some friends and coworkers and drew a blank, so here goes.
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A small village in southeast Wales - home to just over 8,800 people and the birthplace of King Henry V - is set to become the world's first "Wikipedia town," as visitors will be able to scan barcodes to look up information about local people and places on the free, user-edited, Web-based encyclopedia.
How much is Zuckerberg worth? Facebook stock costs Meaning facebook is worth Facebook Stock market value for the last minute Which would make him worth
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Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be temporarily blind? Of course you have. In fact, there is a way to trick your body into becoming blind, at least for a few minutes. Writing on Mindhacks, Vaugn Bell-perhaps one of the best neuroscience writer around-explains the...
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Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday targeted May 19 for the launch of its upcoming demonstration mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff time is at 4:55 a.m. EDT, with a launch window that is instantaneous.
By: Zach Epstein | May 18th, 2012 at 08:00AM Samsung said earlier this year that is hoped to sell 10 million units of its smartphone-tablet hybrid, the Galaxy Note, in 2012. End-user sales reached 5 million units in March, putting Samsung well on its way to achieving the lofty goal.
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Launching this Saturday is Music Kickstarter, the "world's first cloud-based record label." The Helsinki-based company aims to update the recording industry by throwing a lot of the standard recording label tasks into the cloud,. The platform aims to both give artists a publishing platform for physical and digital distribution, while also giving...
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