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What can you learn from the accounts these 12 tech moguls and billionaires follow on Twitter?

You can tell a lot about a person from the accounts they follow on Twitter, whether they’re using the platform to get intel on the latest hot startup, track trends in Web3, see rise-and-grind affirmations, or just read up on celebrity gossip. To get a glimpse into the mindset of a dozen leaders in business and tech on Twitter, we took a look at the kinds of accounts they follow and then mapped out some commonalities between them. Of course, in the same way a retweet isn’t an end

Can VR act as a digital therapeutic?

Our digital, two-dimensional lives leave little room for focus. Our eyes dart from screen to screen over the course of the day as notifications and messages draw our attention away from tasks, from relaxation, from the faces of our loved ones. Through all of its flatness, our digital lives are dominated by distraction—so much so that we can sometimes forget to breathe.

Finding lasting inner peace from within this flattened world can be a neurological nightmare. Mindfulness and m

Inside the design studio creating uniforms for pregnant Marines

Fashion designers are problem solvers, but often, their challenges involve creating comfortable jeans or supportive bras. The stakes are higher for Emily Madden: She’s tasked with preparing pregnant women for combat.

Madden is a clothing designer in the Army, whose department is tasked with creating clothes for all branches of the armed forces. Over the past four years, she’s supported the Marine Corps

How to know if you’re being stalked with an AirTag

Apple AirTags are an undoubtedly nifty product: quarter-size Bluetooth tracking devices that you can stick on an iPhone or set of keys. But like with so many tech innovations, there’s that pesky human element to deal with—namely, that AirTags can be used by a stalker to find where you liv

An economic slowdown could be the reset Silicon Valley needs

Interest rates are up, markets are down. Inflation continues to haunt the economy while the supply chain continues its wild, chaotic swing.

While we look for hope in employment stats and public market upswings, economists and pundits are arguing about just when NBER (the National Bureau of Economic Research, the government organization responsible for identifying a U.S. recession) is going to officially utter the “R” word. Companies and firms throughout the startup and ve

NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. It could one day save Earth from catastrophe

On September 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit.

The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a 1,340-pound (610-kilogram) probe into Didymos’ moon at a speed of approximately 14,000 mph (22,500 kph), NASA is going to complete the world&#x201

From Giphy to CloudApp, these are the best tools for making GIFs

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GIFs are great for adding life to emails, documents, or presentations. Some can be

What is the SpaceX Starship?

There’s a lot that can be said about Elon Musk–but there’s no denying the fact that the entrepreneur and engineer has seriously disrupted the aerospace industry with SpaceX. The private spacecraft engineering company was first launched by Musk just twenty years ago in 2002 and has already become one of the leaders in space transportation and in

How to go live on TikTok: Everything you need to know to get started

Looking to enhance your social media presence and grow your following quickly and efficiently? Going live on TikTok–like most social media platforms–is one of the best ways to engage with your followers in real-time while ensuring your face or brand circulates on the platform.

When you go live on TikTok, you open up a whole different sid

Mars is littered with over 15,000 pounds of human trash

People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, nations have sent 


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