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The biggest tech trends of 2021

As we come to the end of a crazy 2020, many of us are suffering from COVID-19 exhaustion. But as two vaccines begin their rollouts, we’ve also begun to visualize what post-pandemic life might be ...

Climate Change 2021: What to Expect | Time

2020 was a year of extreme weather around the world. Hot and dry conditions drove record-setting wildfires through vast areas of Australia, California and Brazil and Siberia. A record-breaking ...

The future of cities is walkable, healthy, resilient places

Cities throughout time have faced challenges, vast changes, and civil strife, but our future—much like our past—will be urban. The nature of humanity and progress is that we need to be around ...

Science Made Simple: What Are Quarks and Gluons?

Quarks and gluons are the building blocks of protons and neutrons, which in turn are the building blocks of atomic nuclei. Scientists’ current understanding is that quarks and gluons are ...

The coolest towns in the United States to visit in 2021

2020 HAS BEEN like a giant magnifying glass for our country, our cities, and ourselves. The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to reevaluate our priorities and examine what it is ...

Do You Have Post-Vacation Syndrome? Follow These Tips to Get Back into a Routine

Christmas is a special time when we break the monotony, relax, spend time with our loved ones, and pamper ourselves a little. But, if we didn't have a routine to return to, we wouldn't enjoy the ...

Can California Stop Big Tech from Decamping to Cheaper Places? | Newgeography.com

For the past half-century, California has dominated America’s tech industry. From the development of precision farming to the incubation of aircraft, space, semiconductors and computer systems, ...

The Year Ahead: Twenty-Four Ways Congress and the Biden Administration Can Advance Good Tech Policy in 2021 | ITIF

Before the ink was dry on November’s ballots, pundits were out in full force proclaiming that once again nothing would get done in Washington. Senate Republicans would block Biden and House ...

How the coronavirus vaccine relies on Maryland’s strangest fishery: horseshoe crabs - Baltimore Sun

Far from the medical labs and test tubes, a fisherman in old rubber boots walks across the docks of West Ocean City to inspect his catch. He peers in a crate of spiny tails and grasping claws, ...

Reflecting Community Priorities in Economic Development Practices - Smart Incentives

We are pleased to share our latest report, Reflecting Community Priorities in Economic Development Practices.* This report builds on our past work addressing how incentives can be used to support ...

Worried You Might Be in a Dying Industry?

Any business in any sector is ultimately vulnerable to disruption or obsoletion if it doesn’t plan and adapt for the future. Technological progress creates lots of opportunities but also leaves ...

Digital performance management: From the front line to the bottom line

For the past several years, manufacturers around the world have begun devoting substantial resources to join the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Industry leaders are starting to see ...

2020 Tested Us Beyond Measure. Where Do We Go From Here? | Time

This is the story of a year you’ll never want to revisit. There have been worse years in U.S. history, and certainly worse years in world history, but most of us alive today have seen nothing like ...

The big question on every startup’s mind for 2021 | TechCrunch

My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? I think we’re in the early ...

A tale of 2020 in 20 McKinsey charts

This year, we launched a new series to highlight our best charts and data visualizations—the ones that deserved lives of their own outside the articles they were originally created for. Every ...

Bill Gates on the State of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response | Time

Bill Gates isn’t about to be contemplating his touchdown dance yet. You don’t get to devote your life to battling the world’s most intractable problems by declaring victory before a fight is ...

5 New Year's resolutions every entrepreneur should make | EU-Startups

At last, we’re headed into another new year! Most of us just want to forget 2020 and hope that 2021 fulfils the promises of economic recovery. January 1st is always seen as new opportunity and ...

The 7 things Biden should do first to tackle climate change

If 2020 hadn’t been the year of COVID-19, it might have gone down as the year that the climate crisis became more obvious than it had ever been before. By the end of January, fires in Australia ...

Welcome to 2021: The Year of Ubiquitous Intelligent Assistants |

By the end of 2021, Intelligent Assistants (IAs) of the automated variety will be everywhere. They will take the form of chatbots, voicebots, virtual assistants, conversational IVRs and personal ...

How I Lost 65 Pounds In 18 Months Without Any Fad Diets or Gimmicks | by Mark Suster | Jan, 2021 | Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. But I’ve been promising to publish how I lost 65 pounds in the past 18 months without any ...

Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Actions To Convince Your Boss You Are Accountable

Are you often frustrated that people reporting to you, or key peers, seem to dodge accountability for their actions? They are quick to claim the credit for things in their domain that work, but also ...

7 Ways To Manage Healthy Internal Business Conflicts - Startup Professionals Musings

Most business professionals I know will go to great lengths to take a neutral position on internal business conflicts, on the assumption that all conflict is bad for the company as well as their ...

What I Ate on My Weight Loss Journey of 2020 | by Mark Suster | Jan, 2021 | Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote about my weight loss journey of the past 18 months where I lost 65 pounds in 18 months with no gimmicks or fads. No paleo, keto, intermittent fasting — just sensible eating. If ...

Our Best of 2020: Leadership Between Two Worlds | INSEAD Knowledge

The year’s top INSEAD Knowledge articles took stock of the Covid-19 pandemic’s shattering global impact, while imagining what life will look like when the smoke clears. From forms of emotional ...

6 Trends In Social Enterprise And Impact Investing In 2020

As this dreadful year comes to a close, it’s time to look back and assess what happened. Here are six trends of note that occurred in the world of impact entrepreneurship and investing during ...

Council Post: Key Skills Of A 21st-Century Entrepreneur And Why They're Important

Being a 21st-century entrepreneur is a demanding and exciting challenge. This is because the world is growing and changing so rapidly that it requires innovative thinking skills of an entrepreneur ...

Chicago Inno - Here are the top angel groups between the coasts

The economic upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has created a once-in-a-generation surge of startups across the U.S. According to government data and a Goldman Sachs report, the share of ...

These Were The Largest Funding Rounds of 2020 – Crunchbase News

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many speculated there would be a slowdown in funding for the remainder of 2020. But while the markets felt the initial shock of the pandemic, funding picked back up ...

6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street - Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most have the technical challenges well understood, but many are a bit short on some basic street smarts, or basic business realities. ...

U.K. Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Oxford and AstraZeneca - The New York Times

LONDON — Britain on Wednesday became the first country to give emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, clearing the path for a ...

8 Business Lessons You Need To Learn Before Repeating - Startup Professionals Musings

How many entrepreneurs do you know that “almost” made it big? Startups are very risky, and most fail. Yet entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing trends in business today. Surveys show ...

7 Reasons why 2021 will be even bigger and better for remote workers

This one was a banner year for remote work, but 2021 is poised to be even bigger, and better, for those who continue to enjoy a flexible work arrangement. Most Americans who work remotely today were ...

And, by the way, what does climate have to do with it all, anyway?! – Air Quality Matters

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the word “sustainability” come up in conversation lately. The word seems to be all the rage. That straightforward construct here undoubtedly needs ...

9 Ways To Make Innovation Happen In This Time Of Need - Startup Professionals Musings

One of the biggest challenges in any business, large or small, is overcoming the natural human preference for status quo, or fear of change. It means that most team members and executives alike have ...

‘Startup City’: Accelerated Growth Strains Austin - WSJ

AUSTIN, Texas—A few years ago, some blocks of Austin’s South Congress Avenue featured a castle-themed wax museum and comic book shop, a neighborhood bar with $1 taco deals, an auto shop and, in ...

Novavax Candidate COVID-19 Vaccine Moves into Phase III Trial

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced the commencement of the Phase III trial (NCT04611802) of the Novavax investigational COVID-19 vaccine, in a press release ...

The 10 most exciting world-changing ideas of 2020

Despite the deep tragedies of 2020, it was also a year of hope. Behind the daily toll of the pandemic was the knowledge that scientists were working at record speed to make a vaccine using a new ...

European Union Announces New Big Tech Regulations | Time

Big tech companies could face multibillion dollar fines in Europe and the threat of being broken up unless they comply with sweeping new regulations announced by the European Commission on ...

Happy New Year 2021

Happy New Year from Rich Bendis and the Innovation America ...

7 alternatives to setting resolutions for 2021

If you look back on your 2020 resolutions, you may be chuckling to yourself at how the universe threw us all a big ol’ curveball. Given the unexpected circumstances of this year, perhaps it’s a ...