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'It's crucial to stay profitable': Smartworks' Neetish Sarda
The co-working space CEO says that an IPO is in the works over the next three to five years, despite WeWork's troubled run at the markets; and that co-working cannot be a valuation game as it is not a tech play, but a real-estate play
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Addicted to screens? You are the problem
Nir Eyal, who wrote the industry manual for hooking people on tech in 2014, now has a recipe to free you—even though it was your fault to begin with
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How Boeing vs. Airbus became Trump vs. Europe
The Trump administration said it would tax as much as $7.5 billion of European exports annually, the government's boldest-ever step to protect Boeing, the United States' largest manufacturing exporter
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Business (Lesson from 2002 Dravid option; Edison and Tesla's cutthroat 'Current War' ushered in the electric age), Environment (Oceans and ice are absorbing the brunt of climate change), Neuroscience (The consciousness illusion), and Technology (Robots are coming for India's shop floors)
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What it's really like to 'eat your way around the globe'
A food critic travelled the world to scour the 'best restaurants' for two magazines. The eating was constant, ridiculous and delightful, but also brutal—"It would be wrong to complain about what is obviously a dream job, but allow me one brief lapse to say: This was a very hard few months"
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The sound of silence: How to read music's negative spaces
As social beings, we are hard-wired to interpret breaks in the flow of human communication. We recognise the pregnant pause, the stunned silence, the expectant hush. A closer listen shows musical silence to be just as eloquent
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RBI cuts rates again to spur growth; economists expect more cuts to come
No signs of economic revival yet as RBI lowers growth forecast
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Bombay HC dismisses pleas to save Aarey Forest, tells petitioners to approach SC
Thousands of citizens have been fighting to retain more than 2,600 trees in Mumbai's Aarey for months, opposing Metro car shed construction; the court decision leaves city disappointed
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'Joker' is a risk, but a calculated one, for Warner Bros
Amid high critical praise, Joker is also causing deep unease. Some people worry that the violent, hyperrealistic movie, rather than critiquing the societal failings that have led to the US' mass-shooter crisis, legitimises such atrocities
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Paid child care for working moms? All it took was a World War
It took a bloody war, and its production demands on the country's workforce, for the United States to make meaningful provisions for working parents. When the men came home, the programmes went away