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3 Ways Sellers Can Cut Supply Chain Costs   Optimize processes earlier on to set your business up for success. Continued here

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Loneliness Is Now an Epidemic. Here's How You Can Support Your Workers   Experts recommend that companies make more meaningful connections with employees to support their mental health. Continued here

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The iBuyers Model Is Not Feasible   The high-tech home buying model is sustainable, but there are still viable hybrid alternatives to traditional real estate sales. Continued here

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This Is Why I Drove to an Angry Customer's House Right Away   A 1980 Coca-Cola study saysan angry customer complains to tenpeople about your business. Continued here

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How Microsoft Became Innovative Again   How did Microsoft revive its culture of innovation? For years, the company has been written off for playing defense on its position in the tech world. But, as signaled by its partnership with OpenAI and its challenge to Google’s search supremacy, it has gone back on the offense. The about face was, at its core, a cultural shift, driven by CEO Satya Nadella. He drove this by inviting an existential moment when he stepped into the job, reconsidering the company’s purpose. Then, he laid out strategic changes that would enable the company to think more like a startup, and made business decisions that committed the company to this new direction. Continued here

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Some Crabs Are Losing Their Sense of Smell as Oceans Acidify   Commercially valuable Dungeness crabs lose their sense of smell as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide and becomes more acidicCLIMATEWIRE | New research has revealed an unexpected consequence of climate change. Some crabs are losing their sense of smell. Continued here

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Is there such a thing as an addictive personality?   During the 1990s,  the term "addictive personality" was used by some pharmaceutical companies – and, perhaps ironically, to promote addictive painkiller drugs.While marketing the opioid prescription drug OxyContin, for example, US pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma instructed their representatives to tell doctors that only people with an "addictive personality" were at risk of becoming addicted, despite knowing that it was highly addictive and widely abused. Highly addictive drugs such as OxyContin and the opioid fentanyl are blamed for fuelling the opioid crisis in the US, which caused more than half a million deaths between 1999 and 2020. Continued here

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The Economy Is Uncertain. Can You Still Negotiate a Raise?   In a business environment rife with budget constraints and layoff fears, asking for a raise can be complicated. Like most important workplace conversations, asking your manager to increase your pay comes down to preparation and timing. Here is some advice designed to help you get to the answer you want. Continued here

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5 Steps to Take to Stand Out in a Rough Market   Follow these steps and the market might not mean your startup will die. Continued here

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Why Rational Marketing Fails With Gen Z   Emotions are the new currency to create meaningful connections with this generation Continued here

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Tweaking Vegetables' Genes Could Make Them Tastier - And You'll Get to Try Them Soon   Flavor is a tricky target, but technology and powerful genetic techniques are making it more feasible to improve the taste of vegetablesToday’s Brussels sprouts taste better than you might remember from childhood. It’s not that your refined adult palate appreciates them better. Rather a new variety has displaced the original vegetable. You can thank plant breeders for the change. And modern breeders, armed with new gene-editing technology, are looking to replicate Brussels sprouts’ reinvention. Continued here

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Read Just 1.5 Books a Month to Join an Elite Group of Achievers   Successful leaders, founders, and CEOs read more books than average. Continued here

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The Weird Way Australia's Bushfires Influenced a Weirder La Ni   The colossal bushfires that tore through Australia in 2019 and 2020 charred some 37,500 square miles, obliterating iconic ecosystems and pushing already-threatened species to the brink. The blazes were so big they spawned their own towering thunderclouds.Thousands of miles away, clear across the Pacific Ocean, the bushfires were affecting something more subtle yet very consequential: New modeling shows that the smoke helped cool the waters off South America, greatly increasing the chances of the rare three-year La Niña that ensued. That's the band of chilled water in the Pacific that lasted from late 2020 to early 2023. La Niña influences weather around the world, so the bushfires ended up having a widespread effect, long after the last embers stopped glowing in Australia.  Continued here

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Will we ever...hibernate in space?   The year is 2039, and you're an astronaut on your way to Mars. You're only three months into the eight-month-long journey, and already your body is facing an onslaught of radiation from outer space. In zero gravity, your bones and muscles are at risk of wasting away.You're not worried though, as you are about to enter your own private stasis booth. Cocooned inside, you'll blissfully sleep away the hours and days until you emerge fresh and rejuvenated at your destination. Continued here

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462-Million-Year-Old Fossil Trove Holds Miniature World of Marine Creatures   Paleontologists have uncovered a miniature world of sea creatures whose tiny guts, eyes and even brains remain visible 462 million years after they perishedHidden inside a rocky outcrop near a flock of grazing sheep, a miniature world of marine creatures—whose guts, eyes and even brains remain visible after some 462 million years—has been uncovered by researchers. Continued here

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Google's Pixel 7A Raises the Bar for Sub-$500 Phones   If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThe past week has been one of the busiest I've ever had. I flew to Dallas, Texas, for a friend's wedding, drove to Austin to visit an in-law, drove back for the wedding festivities, then flew back to New York, only to head out to San Francisco the next day for Google I/O 2023. The good news is that the new Google Pixel 7A has been in my pocket all the while, through every leg and layover, and it's never felt limited in any deal-breaking way. This is a $499 phone, and it's just more evidence that you really don't need to spend much more than that to get a good experience these days. Continued here

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More Frequent Dust Storms Could Be in Our Future   A combination of climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices could lead to Dust Bowl–like conditionsThe thick dust cloud formed in minutes, engulfing part of Interstate 55—Illinois’s main thoroughfare between Saint Louis and Chicago—in blizzardlike whiteout conditions on May 1. Drivers slammed on their brakes but not quickly enough. Car after car collided, leaving seven dead and the mangled remains of 72 vehicles lining both sides of the highway. Continued here

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The 'Ted Lasso' Fandom's Push for Polyamory Just Makes Sense   There's a moment in this week's episode of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso, "La Locker Room Aux Folles," when player Jan Maas points out that if 10 percent of the population is gay, statistically there would be members of the Greyhounds club who identify as such. After everyone lets that sink in, gazes turn to Jamie Tartt, who then notices, touches his heart, and tenderly says "I'm flattered."To the casual Ted Lasso fan, that kind reaction might seem like a mild gag about Jamie's love of hair products, but for the show's fervent and wide-ranging queer community, it feels like acknowledgement of what many have believed for years: that Jamie is one of the most deeply queer-coded characters on the show, even given Trent and Colin's quiet coming out parties this season. Continued here

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Africa's role in the global AI race is more prominent than you know   Fatima Tambajang is the Africa head of developer relations, startups, and venture capital at Nvidia, one of the world’s largest suppliers of artificial intelligence hardware and software. Tambajang spoke to Rest of World about the impact of AI on work and business in Africa, and criticized the notion that the continent is behind in the AI race.Despite the challenges faced by Africa with restricted access to hardware, data, and talent, the continent has made significant progress in AI. Africa has over 2,400 AI organizations operating across various industries, including health, wellness, fitness, farming, law, training, and insurance. This includes a rapidly growing ecosystem of startups, several of whom are members of the Nvidia Inception program to support AI startups. Africa’s tech boom is often linked to fintech, but the largest tech acquisition in Africa is an AI-focused enterprise solutions company called InstaDeep, which was acquired for $682 million. Continued here

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Azeem's Picks: Beyond Deep Learning (with Gary Marcus)   Gary Marcus is well known as a deep learning critic. A neuroscientist, founder, and the author of Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust, Marcus believes that researchers need to move past deep learning in order to make true advances in machine intelligence. In 2019, he joined Azeem Azhar to discuss why, how, and when we can expect progress. Continued here

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Is This a Good Time to Buy a House?   Trying to time the market to pinpoint the perfect time to buy is risky. We only know what is happening now. Continued here

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Google Just Added Generative AI to Search   Six months ago, Google didn’t appear remotely worried about its search business. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was unleashed, and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a chatbot.At Google’s annual I/O conference today, the search giant announced that it will infuse results with generative artificial intelligence technology similar to that behind ChatGPT. The company is launching an experimental version of its prized search engine that incorporates text generation like that powering ChatGPT and other advanced chatbots. Continued here

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6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation   Organizational transformations are extremely difficult on a personal level for everyone involved. A team of researchers found that in successful transformations, leaders not only made sure their teams had the processes, resources, and technology they needed — they also built the right emotional conditions. These leaders offered a compelling rationale driving the transformation, and they ensured employees had the emotional support they needed to execute. This meant that when the going inevitably got tough, employees felt appropriately challenged and ultimately energized by the stress. By contrast, leaders of the unsuccessful transformations didn’t make the same emotional investment. When their teams hit the inevitable challenges, negative emotions spiked, and the team entered a downward spiral. Leaders lost faith and looked to distance themselves from the project, which led employees to do the same. The researchers identified six behaviors that consistently improved the odds of transformation success. Continued here

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Becoming a tech powerhouse is harder than you think   The hopes of making Rio de Janeiro a Latin American tech hub to rival São Paulo are high among local enthusiasts, including the city’s mayor who announced this aspiration at the first Rio Web Summit. It’s also a bit of a pipe dream, at least in the short term.Rio, as Brazil’s second-largest city, has many advantages, and is certainly a well-positioned contender. But, to become the tech powerhouse it wants to be, Rio might benefit more from a rigorous self-assessment — something that would also benefit both Brazil and Latin America more broadly. Here are two main hurdles that we thought Rio de Janeiro needs to overcome to achieve tech hub status: Continued here