Business
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Finally, Someone’s Designing A Fix For The Nightmarish Open-Plan Office
When the door slid closed, everything went silent. I couldn’t hear any of the chatter or construction outside. It was weirdly cosy. I was sitting in a tiny pod — wrapped in a deep green felt, with its own built-in bench, desk, and lighting — designed by a company waging war on the open office.
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Yelp Vigilantes Are Organising Against Businesses In The Name Of Justice
After the owner of a pizzeria said last week that he wouldn’t cater a gay wedding, a group of Yelpers took action, using their reviews to bring down the business. Not customers unhappy with the service, but social justice protesters reviewing the business based on ideology. And it’s not just an isolated case.
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Why Did NPR Take Down Its Podcast About The ‘Expert’ On Women In Tech?
An episode of On the Media’s podcast TLDR was unceremoniously removed from the NPR website today, and people are not at all happy. Rightly so.
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HP EliteBook Folio 1020: New Thin And Light Business Laptop
The new Macbook Air-esque Folio 1020 business laptop comes in two editions: standard, which weighs 1.2kg (and can be fitted with a touchscreen), and a ‘special’ edition, which weighs in at 1kg without any touchiness. Guts-wise, it’s what you’d expect from a modern high-end laptop: 8GB of RAM and SSD storage.