5 reasons to stop neglecting your email signature

Time and again, I see too many businesses overlooking their email signatures when communicating with customers. You might think that this small detail at the end of every email you send is insignificant. But just think about it — it’s at the end ofeveryemail you send. And with310 billion emailsexpected to be sent and received every day in 2021, you want your emails to stand out from the crowd and make a lasting impression....

5 min · 911 words · Michael Drake

5 reasons why autonomous cars still aren’t on our roads

5 reasons why autonomous cars still aren’t on our roads 1. Sensors Autonomous cars use abroad set of sensorsto “see” the environment around them, helping to detect objects such as pedestrians, other vehicles , and road signs. Cameras help the car to view objects. Lidar uses lasers to measure the distance between objects and the vehicle. Radar detects objects and tracks their speed and direction. These sensors all feed data back to the car’s control system or computer to help it make decisions about where to steer or when to brake....

5 min · 855 words · Candice Byrd

5 reasons why living in space is way harder than solving climate change

You can hardly blameRichard Branson,Jeff Bezos,Elon Musk, and all their rich buddies for ditching planet Earth to have a hot billionaire summer in space. After all, even rich people were stuck inside for a year while the COVID-19 pandemic raged its way around the globe. Who among us couldn’t use an out-of-this-world vacation? But it can be difficult not to feel a little saltyover the fact that us regular poor folk can only dream of leaving atmosphere....

7 min · 1281 words · Ryan Williams

5 Reasons why open source will shake the CMS establishment

Early this past May, co-founder and CTODries BuytaertofAcquia, a provider of commercial open source, social publishing solutions forDrupal, shared his insights for web-based business owners, developers and marketers on Drupal in the Enterprise at the 2011 CMS Expo Learning and Business Conference. CMS stands for content management systems, which are platforms that we use everyday, either built in-house to manage company workflow or well-known platforms like WordPress, which are used by most online publishing sites (like this one)....

3 min · 527 words · Kevin Martinez

5 reasons why video games should be mandatory in every classroom

In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China hasbanned students from playing them during the school weekand limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, weekends and holidays. The new rule took effect Sept. 1, 2021. From my standpoint as a video game designer and scholar whospecializes in game-based learning, I don’t see a need to limit video game play among students during the school week....

6 min · 1123 words · Ronald Harvey
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