What do Google, Target and General Mills have in common?
Meditation.
Increasingly, big companies are embracing the practice with Eastern roots, providing courses and opportunities for employees to find their center, the Financial Times Magazine reported.
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In what is by all accounts a pathetic bid for social currency, Mitt Romney’s campaign has officially become the first political campaign to buy a trending topic on Twitter. More »
Lately, it seems like few weeks go by without Tritton announcing a new gaming headset. Now that its full range of Xbox-licensed cans has reached shelves, the company seems focused on updating its former corded stars. Following the recently announced Ax Pro+ “true 5.1” headset ($200), Tritton has unveiled the 720+ 7.1 surround sound headset ($150) — the successor to the venerable AX 720. Aside from sporting the Pro+’s edgier aesthetics, the 720+ has been gifted with beefier 50mm drivers (up from 40 on the 720) for improved fidelity and the same selective microphone monitoring found on the Warhead. As expected, an included Dolby decoder box handles the audio processing and connections, while an inline remote lets you set your levels. Rather than having multiple drivers dedicated for each audio channel crammed in both earcups like the Pro+, the 720+ takes a virtual route with Dolby Headphone — a method that’s generally produced better results to our ears for owning, and clearly hearing the virtual battlefield. The 720+ is set to arrive this September, and it’s currently up pre-order direct from Tritton.
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At a campaign event on Wednesday, President Barack Obama latched onto remarks made by Neil Newhouse, a pollster for Mitt Romney, who said this week the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign would not “be dictated by fact-checkers.”
Speaking to a crowd in Virginia, Obama brought up the Romney camp’s sustained attacks on his welfare waiver policy. The ads have been widely panned for being factually inaccurate.
“I mean, somebody was challenging one of their ads — they made it up — about work and welfare. And every outlet said, this is just not true. And they were asked about it and they said — one of their campaign people said, we won’t have the fact-checkers dictate our campaign,” Obama said. “We will not let the truth get in the way.”
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TAMPA, Fla. — Less than 10 minutes into Rep. Paul Ryan’s vice presidential nomination speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was seen with a big tear running down his face.
At the time, Ryan had just finished introducing his family and mentioning his father, also named Paul Ryan, who died when Ryan was a teenager.
Walker isn’t known as a particularly emotional lawmaker, not like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who is known for getting emotional, sometimes even weeping outright at political events.
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When you want to cool a can of soda (or beer) quickly, what do you do? Stick it in the freezer! Wait a little bit and then boom, bang, icy deliciousness. We all do this. We don’t expect the can to explode in our face and cut us up until we need 38 stitches like this poor boy in China. More »
TAMPA, Fla. — After protesting on the floor at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Ron Paul delegates on Wednesday accused convention security guards of confiscating their signs in support of the former presidential candidate in order to bolster the image of official nominee Mitt Romney.
Mike Zentz, an alternate delegate for Paul from Honolulu, told The Huffington Post that private security guards hired by the convention first told Paul’s legion of supporters that “all outside signs” were prohibited from being brought into the Tampa Bay Times Forum. But as soon as the guards crossed the entry point, scores of convention volunteers were handing out signs in support of Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan.
According to Zentz, one Nevada delegate managed to make it past the guards with a paper sign, no more than two feet in length, and held it proudly when a camera zoomed in on the state’s delegation during Tuesday’s roll call vote to formally nominate Romney.
Text messaging is arguably the most casual form of communication available—and, back when we all first began to text on our dumbphones, the sort of shorthand style that developed was perfectly reasonable. Why strain to type out full words, when a universally understood abbreviation could do the job just as well? More »
Microsoft’s oddly named music service put its official resignation in earlier this summer, but the Zune brand isn’t in its coffin just yet — although Redmond is certainly driving in the nails. Zune Pass subscribers, for instance, are now receiving word that the service’s Mixview playback and channel playlist features will be discontinued on August 31st, along with music video streaming from the Zune desktop software. User licenses to previously purchased music videos are being reworked as well, cutting off user access to old content on new machines. The service’s once heavily touted social aspect seems to be making way for Xbox Music as well: users will no longer be able to send or receive messages, invite friends or share songs, playlists, and play history. Last, but not least, the company is dealing its old hardware one final blow by discontinuing Zune HD apps — not that there were many to kill off. Microsoft has little else to say in the brief email, but promises to share more information about Xbox Music soon. Check it out for yourself after the break.
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Cube is offering you their latest Android 4.0 ICS tablet, the U20GT Dual Core. Priced at $209.99, the device sports a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 IPS capacitive multi-touch display, a 1.60GHz Rockchip RK3066 Cortex-A9 dual-core processor, a Mali-400 GPU, a 1GB DDR3 RAM, a 16GB of flash storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual cameras (2.0MP front, 2.0MP back), 1080p Full HD video playback support, Flash 11.1 support, 3G dongle support, WiFi, Bluetooth, a mini HDMI port, a 7600mAh battery and runs on Android 4.0.4 ICS OS. [Product Page]
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