Thursday, April 30, 2015

Top 50 Best Places To Work For New Dads

More companies are starting to realize that balancing work and family life is just as important to men.

As Jason Freidenfelds considered his next career move in 2007, somewhere in the back of his mind, he had already begun to think about parenthood. Though he and his wife, Sabrina, didn't have their first child, Amelia, until four years later, Jason wanted to find an employer that would help him through that difficult life stage.

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Tag Heuer's $1,400 Android Wear Watch, and Other Tech News You Missed 

Android Wear gets dressed up, Uber plans a big move for local delivery, Pluto gets GIFed. BitStream is all the tech news and rumors you missed in the past 24 hours.

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Watch Jeff Bezos' New Rocket Take to the Skies For the First Time

Yesterday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle ventured out on its first developmental test flight. The Jeff Bezos-founded organization reports that the launch was a success—though it didn’t manage to recover the propulsion module as it hoped.

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6 Steps To Be Viewed As More Powerful At Work

Striking a confident pose might be enough to significantly impact how powerful you're perceived at work, but these steps can get you there.

If there were any logic to our language, power could be a dirty word. Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer posits that the idea of power goes against most people's idea that the world is a just and fair place. "It violates their basic belief that people can get ahead just on the basis of their hard work and good effort," he says.

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IBM Just Cracked One of the Biggest Problems Facing Quantum Computing

Quantum computing could make complex calculations trivial—but it’s currently fraught with problems . Now, though, IBM has solved one of the biggest, allowing it to detect the internal errors that could otherwise render quantum calculation useless.

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Rebuilding Cambridge University's First Computer

In 1946, scientists at Cambridge University built the institution’s first ever computer—the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator. One of the first to be used to solve real scientific problems, it was scrapped to make way for its successor. Now, it’s being rebuilt.

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Understanding the Nepal Earthquake and Its Effects From Space

Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 5,500 people and injured at least 11,000. Now, we’re seeing how the disaster appears from space, with both NASA and the European Space Agency releasing satellite imagery of the event.

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