April 15, 2024 5 new ways TurboTax made filing your taxes harder this year It’s no secret that the more nightmarish your taxes are, the more Intuit’s tax-preparation giant benefits. BY Clint Rainey “The tax code is too complicated—everyone needs an advocate in their corner to get the best outcome during tax season,” Intuit, the maker … Continue reading 5 new ways TurboTax made filing your taxes harder this year
April 11, 2024 This stylish office chair is made out of paper Arper collaborated with the startup PaperShell on a more sustainable version of its iconic Catifa 53 chair. BY Grace Snelling The Italian design brand Arper just debuted a new version of its iconic office chair, the Catifa 53. But instead of leather, metal, … Continue reading This stylish office chair is made out of paper
March 29, 2024 How Sam Bankman-Fried made things worse for himself with his arrogance For someone obsessed with betting, SBF turned out to be a pretty lousy gambler. BY James Surowiecki Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to prison for 25 years on Thursday for having pilfered customer funds from his crypto exchange FTX, became famous for … Continue reading How Sam Bankman-Fried made things worse for himself with his arrogance
60% expect brands to text them at least once a week, but 71% said too many messages are why they no longer want to get them. Constantine von Hoffman on February 6, 2024 Three-quarters of U.S. consumers say they buy things as a result of SMS messages from companies, according to a new study. What’s … Continue reading 75% of consumers made purchases as a result of SMS marketing
Without an authentic commitment to the community you want to connect with, you’re riding a pogo stick across a minefield. Constantine von Hoffman on February 5, 2024 When it comes to marketing and Black History Month, remember the words of chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower as looked at an empty board, “The mistakes are all there, … Continue reading Black History Month: The mistakes waiting to be made
Jessica Conditt @JessConditt Pippin Barr is what happens when you hand a philosopher a video game controller. He received a Ph.D in Computer Science in 2008 with a thesis titled, Video Game Values: Play as Human-Computer Interaction. He’s built a tongue-in-cheek series of games based on Greek mythology where players are handed impossible tasks, … Continue reading Why we haven’t made the ‘Citizen Kane’ of gaming
Trackable Digital Refunds And Payments Made Possible Through SKUx, Emplifi Partnership by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 18, 2023 SKUx, a payments and consumer engagement platform founded in 2018, plans to announce a partnership with Emplifi that will make it easy to send a one-to-one serialized, encoded and trackable digital payment to consumers. The instantaneous payments … Continue reading Trackable Digital Refunds And Payments Made Possible Through SKUx, Emplifi Partnership
Insta360 Evo captures 180- and 360-degree content for VR headsets Richard Lai @richardlai Following the powerful One X 360 camera (and some fun updates), Insta360 is now back with a rather eccentric device that aims to make better use of your VR headsets. The new Insta360 Evo is a dual-mode camera that captures … Continue reading Canon made a prototype 180- and 360-degree VR camera
Sam Rutherford @samrutherford| Earlier this year, Alienware released what’s arguably the best all-around gaming monitor on the market right now: the AW3423DW. But last week, LG quietly announced its latest batch of UltraGear gaming monitors and after getting a chance to check them out in person, I can say that Alienware’s display has some formidable … Continue reading LG made a 49-inch HDR monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate
By Dave DuBois February 16, 2023 Ever feel like you’re in too many meetings? You’re not alone: 92% of employees consider meetings costly and unproductive, according to the Harvard Business Review. Now, many organizations are trying to cut down on the meeting clutter. In a dramatic step to improve productivity, Shopify went … Continue reading Saying no to meetings made my team more productive. Here’s why
