While rumbling over Mount Sharp on Mars, NASA‘s Curiosity rover found a strange crackled terrain. These distinct patterns in dry mud, found over 100 million miles away in space, are a thrilling discovery for geologists. The cracks form a lattice of hexagons, signaling that the land has gone through intermittent spells of wetness and dryness….
Successful hiring often hinges on one key element: the interview. If an interview goes well, there’s a much better chance you’ll hire the candidate. If the interview goes south . . . well, we all know how that can turn out. The interview process is so important that when Gem surveyed talent acquisition specialists at…
X (formerly Twitter) this week changed how its crowdsourced fact-checking Community Notes feature works. In the new design, users will be able to review all the notes that have been proposed as annotations to an X post, rather than just the one note they’re currently reviewing. In other words, it will allow contributors to consider…
MrBeast just signed a $100 million contract with Amazon Studios. With this partnership, he will be able to bring his the upcoming reality TV show Beast Games to the masses, which will have 1,000 competitors fighting for a whopping $5 million cash prize. Beast Games When Beast Games was announced in January, MrBeast did not…
If you missed our stories this week about the latest updates to WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is a good time to catch up thanks to our summary. Among the 5 stories we shared, the best news of the week is about the new dark interface in development for WhatsApp Web! Common…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining the world of work, especially how we work, and it’s top-of-mind for everyone from employers and job seekers to marketers and sellers. According to our Global Talent Trends report, released today, job posts mentioning AI or Generative AI (GAI) have more than doubled (2.2x) globally in the last two years…
Are you ready for some marketplace mayhem? On this episode of Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, tech entrepreneurs share their grand visions of digital platforms built to fill the needs of businesses and customers alike. But while their two-sided marketplace pitches might sound polished, do these companies have that one thing that all investors crave — profitability?…
The message editing feature got an upgrade and it finally allows users to edit media captions. This expanded capability enhances communication by allowing users to edit captions for images, videos, GIFs, and documents after sending them, and it’s available after installing the recent versions of WhatsApp for iOS and Android. CAPTION MESSAGE EDITING In the…
The platform formerly known as Twitter has provided some updated usage stats, which are very similar to the same data points that it’s been promoting for months, but may provide some additional context as to where Elon Musk’s X project is at, and what type of performance it’s currently seeing. Across a series of posts,…
Google has warned that inactive Google accounts – including Gmail, Photos, and more – will be deleted sometime in December. If you want to keep that account, this guide will show you how you can do that. According to Google, any account that has not been signed into or used for at least two years…
Taylor Swift made history at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, becoming the only person in the award show’s history to win Album of the Year four times. The previous record was jointly held by musical icons Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, and Stevie Wonder. Announced by Celine Dion, Swift shares her Grammy for Album…
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Today, we’re announcing that we’ve begun to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use E2EE by default. Our aim is to ensure that everyone’s personal messages on…
Ghost jobs. They sound like the perfect role for a fun and spooky Halloween. But for job seekers — and recruiters too — they’re usually more trick than treat. Ghost jobs are postings for roles that either don’t exist or have already been filled. According to MyPerfect Resume, they’re also a common practice. The resume-building…
In our article on the best type of content to post per platform, we discovered something interesting: LinkedIn carousels get the third highest engagement after videos and images. Perhaps more interestingly, we also discovered that LinkedIn is the social media channel where we saw the smallest difference between the various media types. For example, video…