| Katherine Noyes 01/08/15 10:51 AM PT | |
 | NASA's Kepler observatory has discovered two new "Goldilocks" planets, which earned the nickname by appearing to be just right for supporting life as we know it. The planets' potential for habitability is based on their size, distance from their suns, and likelihood of being rocky. "We don't know for sure whether any of the planets in our sample are truly habitable," said astronomer David Kipping. [More...] |
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 | BlackBerry Jingles Its Keys to Recovery BlackBerry has been hurting over the last several years, but recently it's starting to look like the stars may be lining up for recovery. If BlackBerry does make a comeback, it will be a very different company. This time, the focus will be on security -- plus one more important factor. BlackBerry succeeded years ago. It was the first successful smartphone maker. [More...] |
 | Intel Takes Up Diversity Challenge to the Tune of $300M Intel will invest $300 million over the next five years to promote gender and racial diversity, CEO Brian Krzanich announced Tuesday at CES 2015. The company plans to have full representation at all levels in its workforce by 2020. That's close to 100,000 people. "This is a highly relevant issue, and one that we all need to address," Krzanich said. [More...] |
 | Better and Better James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds and business and finance columnist for The New Yorker, published an article in the magazine's Nov. 10, 2014, issue entitled, "Better All The Time." The piece connects the importance of culture-wide continuous incremental improvement using data and analytics -- what the Japanese call kaizen -- to business and employees. [More...] |
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