Virginia State Police (VSP) have been waging cyberwar against Chevrolet Impalas and Ford Tauruses and found that even non-networked cars are susceptible. Researchers found they could make it impossible to shift gears from park to drive, cause a spike in engine RPMs, cause the engine to accelerate without applying a foot to the pedal, and cut off the engine completely.
The retailer is plagued by negative customer feedback due to lack of convenience in shopping Supercenter formats, below-average customer service, and below-average quality, freshness, and breadth of produce.
It’s inherently invasive, even when complimentary. And it’s objectifying and reductive in the manner of all online reviews. Being watched and judged, at all times, by a gaze to which you did not consent.“That’s feedback for you!” Cordray (the founder) enthuses. “You can really use it to your advantage.”
Most urban neighborhoods are not Brooklyn, and most 25- to 34-year-olds don’t have bachelor’s degrees.
The dirty little secret of smartphones is that the hardware differences don’t matter much anymore (but) the benefits to switching—cheaper hardware, more open software and services—usually don’t outweigh the cost of switching. Buying an iPhone is really about getting a golden ticket to Apple Land, where all the tools to run a modern life come included.
Nearly 50 percent of vegetables and legumes available in the U.S. in 2013 were either tomatoes or potatoes. Lettuce came in third. And while the USDA's own dietary guidelines recommend that adults consume 2.5 to 3 cups of vegetables a day, only 1.7 cups per person are available.
Airbnb has vehemently opposed any plan to fork over its data and curb housing nights.
Brands are king in fine art. Names like Rothko and Pollock distinguish them from unknown artists the same way the Coke and Pepsi brands distinguish them from sugar water. The market for fine art is “curated” to keeping prices predictable and pegged to signals of quality. The result is to turn artists into brands, which introduces enough certainty for the market to function.
There are arguments to be made against the change from a tech angle, but ultimately it comes down to this: If we wanted Twitter to be like Facebook or Instagram—social-media platforms that have been overtaken by epic rants and 500-word-long updates—we would simply use those sites. Sometimes, a little restraint is exactly what the world needs
Every technology asks us to confront human values. This is a good thing, because it causes us to reaffirm what they are. (For instance) people are less likely to post opinions on social media when they fear their followers will disagree with them. It is wise to approach our relationship with technology in the context that goes beyond it.
The number of gun deaths in the United States since 1989 exceeds the number of American combat fatalities in 239 years of US history—from the Revolutionary War to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Uber's lawyers must be incredibly busy.
Consolidation has resulted in chains that have grown so big that buying by instinct isn’t an option. But that scale comes at a price. Stores all start to look the same. Price optimization software has become common. Rather than having a merchant decide when to mark down, the computer solves that problem. (But) you now need so much data that opportunities can pass.
The same default passwords were used for different models of a device, and in some cases a manufacturer warned customers that if they changed default passwords they might not be eligible for support. That's apparently because support teams needed passwords to service the systems.Next time you're getting hooked up to a machine and you see an Ethernet cable going to the wall, it makes you think twice.
If “the algorithm is the new shift boss”, the business rules driving the algorithm, and whether it increases or decreases the opportunities offered to workers, make a huge difference. Is technology empowering workers, or making them more helpless cogs in a profit machine?
The fact that users now pay close attention to detail may have marketers rethinking the content they’ve been putting out there. Ads no longer feature perfectly positioned actors and products. Brands are now all about promoting products through authentic ideals and messages.
"There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels," Black told Exxon's Management Committee.
Employees at headquarters often feel as if remote employees don't do their fair share. Remote workers often feel as if they are ignored.
Consumers could be the big winners, as could some workers. As we’ve seen, many companies’ profit margins are being squeezed, all experienced price declines in recent years because of the emergence of new platforms and tech-driven competitors. Nobody is immune, but at risk include those that rely on large physical investments to provide services or that act as intermediaries in a services value chain
Whole Foods showed disappointing sales numbers last quarter, in part because of lingering bad press.
Only one in a thousand TV ad impressions prompts a sale compared to data from a study which tracks digital media performance using photo recognition technology, that an unnamed major brand generated sales from 40 in 1,000 digital impressions by targeting owners specifically.
Companies settle on the “dominant design”; economies of scale are achieved, forcing smaller players to be acquired or exit. Barriers to entry become very high, as consolidation occurs. I’m going to refer to this phase of the robo-advisor lifecycle as “bayoneting the wounded”.
These latest-generation iPhones are laying new ground for Apple to build upon for all future versions. There is simply no going back.
Frivolous lawsuits are nothing new, but recent shifts have made trade secrets a particularly attractive claim for anyone looking to go after a tech company. As courts weaken patent protection to counteract trolls, companies have been keeping more of their intellectual property as unregistered trade secrets. That gives trolls more cover if they want to puff up a shaky claim into a quick settlement.
Despite investors’ growing pique over CEO rewards for poor performance, paying dismissed chiefs remains common. Nearly 60% of publicly held companies have policies or agreements to pay cash severance to top bosses ousted. Boards don’t want to have severance pay practices that are problematic in the eyes of investors.
Ad tech does offer marketers nearly magical new powers. But getting useful ads more cheaply than in traditional buying is not one of them. Marketers expect programmatic buying to be 10 times cheaper than traditional means because they think only about the ad inventory itself and don't anticipate the surrounding expenses,
The key human resources problem (is) not gender, as management believe(s) but rather a culture of overwork.The people who can compete and succeed in this culture are an ever-narrower slice of American society: largely young people who are healthy, and wealthy enough not to have to care for family members.
In his 43-page decision, Judge King ruled the copyright invalid, finding that though Summy Co. may have owned the copyright to “Good Morning to All,” it never had proper rights to the “Happy Birthday” lyrics. It was not clear that the Hill sisters had written the original song, but they never asserted a claim for the lyrics, though they did sue for rights for the original melody.
Future technologies could lead to personalised shopping assistance, highly specific help building your business, and the type of financial advice currently only available to billionaires
Spammers are using takedown notices to (very ironically) promote their own stolen and/or bootlegged wares — like sunglasses, handbags, software, and designer clothes. Not to mention spammers’ bread and butter: male enhancement pills.
The ongoing transition to 'digital government' is a phrase that, like 'cutting red tape', has been used in the past to justify more or less anything -- from introducing new services to shrinking existing ones. But it has also resulted in real benefits.
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As a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv and PredictivAsia, Jon specializes in management performance and organizational effectiveness for both domestic and international clients. He is an editor and author whose works include Invisible Advantage: How Intangilbles are Driving Business Performance.
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