From TV shows like Succession to billionaire executives bragging about their 100-hour workweeks, the always-on, must-succeed-at-all-cost attitude is celebrated everywhere you look. Luckily (and maybe inevitably), the tide is turning. Employees and companies are putting more of an emphasis on working mindfully and expending energy at a sustainable level. At Slack, we’re encouraging both our…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
A prototype AMD graphics card has been spotted – purportedly a Navi 31 model, presumably the RX 7900 (we’ll come back to that point) – and it shows that the GPU will run with a pair of 8-pin power connectors. The image was aired on Twitter by hardware leaker HXL, who’s a regular contributor to…
Getting the most out of Microsoft Teams on your smartphone could soon be a lot easier thanks to an update rolling out now. First revealed back in September, the video conferencing company has revealed that transcription for 1:1 calls and group calls is now available on the Microsoft Teams app for Android, giving users the…
Donald Trump at a rally in Minden, Nevada, on October 8, 2022. Newly released footage shows Trump complaining about his popularity with American Jews. José Luis Villegas/AP Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to keep his taxes secret after lower federal courts ordered him to turn the records over. Trump filed…
A file photo of Ksenia Sobchak. Ben A. Pruchnie/Stringer via Getty Images A prominent Russian media star who fled the country posted saying she is in “big trouble.” Ksenia Sobchak, who has family ties to Putin, was confirmed last week as being in Lithuania. She has since posted about a media backlash and said she…
Foxconn employees take shuttle buses to head home on October 30, 2022 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. VCG / Contributor Workers are fleeing from Foxconn, China’s largest iPhone factory, amidst a COVID outbreak. Events at the plant could impact Apple’s output in November by almost 30%, according to Reuters. Apple already hinted at slowing…
Mezcal has soared in popularity in the US, and major companies are swooping in to repackage and resell it. It’s left smaller Mexican producers with a fraction of the profits. Fearful that regulations are putting traditional distilling methods at risk, some have left the industry, now calling their product “distilled agave.” The US market for…
Justice Samuel Alito/Sen. Elizabeth Warren Justice Samuel Alito/Sen. Elizabeth Warren Samuel Alito appeared to reference Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case. The justice asked whether someone who identifies as Indigenous based on “family lore” could include that on a college application. The Supreme Court is hearing a case challenging affirmative action…
Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Occupation authorities in Kherson announced a dual-currency system that allows use of the ruble and hryvnia, the Institute for the Study of War said. The Kremlin previously ordered the transition to rubles starting May 1, when the region was fully under Russian control. But…
Google has been making high-end Chromebooks for almost a decade now, dating back to the $1,300 Chromebook Pixel in 2013. At the time, many people saw it as a beautiful but strange device. In the years that followed, both Google and its hardware partners have made premium Chromebooks more and more commonplace. Though, a still-unconfirmed…