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The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

Gen Z didn’t stop passing notes, they just went electronic. Gone are the days of handwritten note passing. Today, it’s all about digital note taking and real-time communicating behind (read: in front of) the teacher’s back. Ingenuity should be one of the main attributes assigned to this generation teaching the pedagogues a thing or two. 

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/584857/

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Boiler Room expands beyond music streaming to culture and politics with new video push

Boiler Room has been “democratizing underground music” and exposing audiences to lesser-known cultural experiences for close to two decades. Now, they are branching into additional content formats. 

https://digiday.com/media/boiler-room-expands-beyond-music-streaming-culture-politics-new-video-push/

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Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning

Closed captioning has become a way for easily distracted individuals to focus better on the content in front of them. Gone are the days when subtitles were considered a blight on the screen.

https://medium.com/s/the-upgrade/why-gen-z-loves-closed-captioning-ec4e44b8d02f

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Particle Physics Is Doing Just Fine

A friendly reminder that experiments are not failures for not proving a hypothesis. Often times, a lack of discovery can be just as instructive as discovery.

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Self-Driving Cars More Likely To Hit Black Pedestrians than White Ones

Self-driving cars may be the future but bias needs to be programmed out first. 

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New York City CBD Crackdown Threatens To Derail Booming Industry

Disruption and tapping into booming trends often get held up due to regulations. New York’s new crackdown sends mixed messages about access to CBD products. Officially, “CBD on its own can be sold as long as it's not included in food or drinks.” Keep an eye out for laws to evolve as demand grows. 

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Lines for salads out of control after ‘eat healthy’ resolutions

Staying true to New Year's resolutions can become a literal fight not just a mental one. “New Yorkers trying to make good on “eat healthy” resolutions are mobbing salad joints — leaving many on long lines cursing their radicchio-strewn diets.”

https://nypost.com/2019/01/03/lines-for-salads-out-of-control-after-eat-healthy-resolutions/

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How Belichick’s Master Plan Unfolded

Unconventional strategies from one of the NFLs most decorated tacticians. “The Rams on third down were as arrhythmic as on first and second down. The Rams endured an outright butt-whooping at the hands of an only modestly talented Patriots defense. Afterwards, McVay put it succinctly: “I got out-coached.”

He’s not the first Super Bowl foe Belichick had done that to.”

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/04/bill-belichick-sean-mcvay-super-bowl-liii

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Fortnite’s Marshmello concert was a bizarre and exciting glimpse of the future

“Even if you’re not a huge fan of electronic music or have never heard of the EDM producer Marshmello, Fortnite’s live in-game concert was still a shockingly stunning sight to behold — it was also an unprecedented moment in gaming. It truly felt like a glimpse into the future of interactive entertainment, where the worlds of gaming, music, and celebrity combined to create a virtual experience we’ve never quite seen before.“

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/2/18208223/fortnite-epic-games-marshmello-concert-exciting-bizarre-future-music

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Spotify will soon let you mute and block artists

“Spotify is getting ready to enable a block feature in its apps to mute artists you don’t want to hear from. Spotify is currently testing the “don’t play this artist” feature in its latest iOS app. The feature simply lets you block an entire artist from playing, so that songs from the artist will never play from a library, playlist, chart list, or even radio stations on Spotify.”

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Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class?

Spotify’s payment structure to artists influences everything from the music created to the value of fans. “Spotify and other prominent streaming services have divorced the listening habits of individual users from the allocation of the money that each pays for the service. Critics of this approach say it hurts smaller artists who don’t attract gobs of casual fans or rack up passive listens through Spotify’s increasingly influential playlists. “It’s really contributing to income inequality in music,”

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model

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How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

Errand paralysis, post office anxiety — they’re different manifestations of the same affliction. How did a generation labeled lazy & entitled while being hustlers & grinders get to where we are? 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

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Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

Erin Griffith from the NYT posits the above in a recent article aimed at hustle culture. "Welcome to hustle culture. It is obsessed with striving, relentlessly positive, devoid of humor, and — once you notice it — impossible to escape.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html

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Apple just endorsed AT&T’s fake 5G E network

There’s a lot of hype and traction happening around 5G with carriers in an “arms race” to first develop and go to market with usable 5G. In the process, AT&T jumped the gun by confusing consumers (similar to past ruses) and Apple has cosigned even though they won’t be releasing a 5G phone till 2020.  

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18211044/apple-att-5g-e-network-icon-iphones-misleading-ios-software-update-beta

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Your Brain Is Wired to Suck the Joy Out of Good News

Author discusses “hedonic adaptation” and our constant pursuit of s’ustained happiness, never quite reaching it, forever chasing the reward that remains fixed in the distance.” It’s an interesting exploration of why we live in the pursuit of new things/goals/ideas/experiences.

https://medium.com/s/thenewnew/your-brain-is-wired-to-suck-the-joy-out-of-good-news-f8b06aba1db8

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Financial Times tool warns if articles quote too many men

The tool not only warns about minimizing female voices but it also provides a way to track inclusion of geographic and ethnic diversity. As the tool expands in capabilities, there is potential for it to be proactive in making suggestions to writers before pieces are submitted to editors or to the tool for review. A real-time inclusion app might be an interesting solve to a lack of diversity in other industries as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/14/financial-times-tool-warns-if-articles-quote-too-many-men

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UberEats is so popular it’s reshaping the entire food service industry

“Ghost restaurants” (restaurants with no brick-and-mortar presence) have been gaining in popularity since 2016, allowing companies like Green Summit to crank out different cuisines under multiple virtual restaurant brands all from one industrial kitchen. These brands have been so successful that UberEats is now using its data to actively encourage their creation.

https://thehustle.co/ubereats-ghost-restaurants/