Research from 2017 suggests that almost 60% of US companies allow their employees to use their personal mobile phones for work purposes, while the report The state of enterprise mobility of Samsung found that only 17% of companies provided their workforce with corporate mobile phones and 31% managed using their own device. The remaining 52% adopted a hybrid. And of course, one of the disadvantages of using your own smartphone is the distractions. At Xataka we have talked extensively about it, about the use of personal WhatsApp in the corporate environment, etc. The solution of the technological companies to avoid…
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Russia’s attack and subsequent invasion has not only wreaked havoc in Ukraine, it has destabilized markets around the world and hit the fortunes of even its closest allies. Tens of billions of euros have been erased from the fortunes of the elite Russia’s billionaire when the country’s stock market and the ruble plummeted after President Vladimir Putin unleashed his troops on Kiev. Russia’s wealthiest people were already feeling the strain of rising tensions between the nation and Ukraine. But his net worth was made much worse by recent actions. In less than 24 hours, they lost 35,000 million euros. plummeting.…
“No to war!” shouted the crowd of mostly young Russians gathered on Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg’s main street, last night. Hours after Putin ordered his troops to advance into Ukraine Russians across the country took to the streets to criticize his actions: “I am ashamed for my country. To be honest, I’m speechless. War is always scary. We don’t want this. “Why are we doing it?” said one protester. Like her, thousands have joined the protests against the war. The results have been predictable. Police have arrested more than 1,700 people as protesters continue to take to the streets with…
The experience of life passing before our eyes has been reported for more than a century. In 1892, a Swiss geologist named Albert Heim fell off a cliff while climbing a mountain. In the account of his fall, he wrote that it was “as if I were on a distant stage and my whole life unfolded in numerous scenes.” More recently, in July 2005, a young woman named Gill Hicks was sitting near one of the bombs that went off on the London Underground. In the minutes after the accident, she was on the verge of death where, as she…
Russian President Vladimir Putin a few days ago recognized two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent entities. Hours later, he crossed a point of no return: he announced a “special military operation” in Donbas and large explosions were recorded at various points in eastern Ukraine. With artillery shelling, heavy equipment and small arms, Russian troops launched attacks in different parts of the country, with an estimated balance of 40 dead so far. In his earlier speech, Putin described Ukraine as an integral part of Russian history, saying that eastern Ukraine was former Russian land and that he was confident…
“Over the past few months I have been very active on Twitch. I support various streamers as I can: subscriptions, donations, etc… and I really want to help them as much as I can, but I think I may be going too far and I am afraid that it is becoming an addiction. I don’t want to stop supporting them, but does anyone have any advice on how I can limit myself, or should I just delete my PayPal or something and stop?” It’s a user’s post on Reddit. There are dozens of them like this one, from people asking…
After decades of low wages, harsh working conditions and few benefits, unionization is having a hot moment in the US food and beverage industry. Starbucks, the famous Seattle-based coffee chain, has seen a wave of unionization across the country in recent months, with workers at more than 60 locations in 14 states organizing. And of course, the company has not exactly given a good welcome to these groupings. In fact, workers say Starbucks has engaged in a wide range of anti-union practices, from actively encouraging employees to vote against it to allegedly firing those involved. How did it all begin?…
Like so many composers, artists, and other great historical figures who existed before the invention of photography, the only way we can have a vague idea of what they were like in appearance he is relying on the artistic renderings of his creative peers in paint and marble of the time. But what if we could have photographed the greats of history? Well, luckily for us, we don’t have to imagine as much anymore thanks to Artificial Intelligence. Brazilian artist Hidreley Diao (@hidreley) has been using various AI algorithms to bring photographic life to portraits and sculptures by Mozart, Beethoven,…
Vladimir Putin explained in his speech yesterday that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Bolshevik Russia and recalled that the neighboring country then benefited from “gifts to Ukrainian nationalism from territories historically belonging to Russia” such as, according to him, the case of Donbas, which was “shoved into Ukraine”. He thus announced the recognition of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states and signed a decree ordering the Russian Defense Ministry to “guarantee peace” in both rebel enclaves by sending Russian troops to their territories. Strategy or historical pattern? Russia’s military aggression in Donbas and the annexation…