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Employees Are Feeling Burned Over Broken Work-from-Home Promises and Corporate Culture ‘BS’ as Employers Try to Bring Them Back to the Office

We found a disconnect between workers and management that starts with but goes beyond the issue of the remote-work policy itself.

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Paying People to Get Vaccinated Might Work – But Is It Ethical?

In the United States, incentives and disincentives are already used in health care.

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The New Space Race Will Be Run by Robots

Given the risks of space travel versus the potential rewards, it seems like robots are better suited for this role than humans.

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Why Do We Hate the Sound of Our Own Voices?

The discomfort we have over hearing our voices in audio recordings is probably due to a mix of physiology and psychology.

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If a Satellite Falls on Your House, Space Law Protects You – but There Are No Legal Penalties for Leaving Junk in Orbit

Looking at environmental law here on Earth may give some ideas on how to improve the current legal regime with respect to space debris.

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The Cybersecurity Executive Order Is a Missed Opportunity

This executive order is designed to strengthen federal cybersecurity, not that of the private sector, including critical infrastructure providers.

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Zero Trust or Bust

One primary consideration should drive implementation: who gets to see what content? 

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Here’s How Much Your Personal Information Is Worth to Cybercriminals – and What They Do with It

Though data breaches can be a national security threat, 86% are about money, and 55% are committed by organized criminal groups, according to Verizon’s annual data breach report.

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Modernizing Container Security Is Essential to Secure Application Development

Most traditional security tools agencies rely on aren’t designed to effectively show what’s going on inside of a container.

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Look to the Roman Empire to Truly Understand Zero Trust

With the network border blurry at best, we no longer have a single and convenient point of telemetry collection to force the attacker in the open.

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Make Your Mom Happier

Plenty of moms feel something less than unmitigated joy around their grown-up kids. Make sure yours feels that she’s getting as much out of her relationship with you as she gives.

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How Design Thinking Can Improve Public Sector IT

With its push to provide faster, more predictable and higher quality software, public sector IT organizations may have discounted the need for design.

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COVID-19 Lockdown Stressed All Ages, But in Different Ways

Overall, more than one-third of the children and adolescents screened positive for one of the mental health problems assessed in the study.

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Why We Remember More by Reading – Especially Print – than from Audio or Video

Learning is generally more successful when it’s on paper than onscreen.

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Busting the Bureaucratic Myth, One Amazing Achievement at a Time

Federal employees accomplished a lot last year—it’s time to give them the respect they deserve.

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Beeple, Meet CPARS

Forget art. What if agencies used non-fungible tokens for reporting contractor performance?