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Hide the Pain Harold’s new autumn ‘stock photos’ perfectly capture your dark day blues Embrace the darkness with a pain-surpressed smile Story byMár Másson Maack Már tries to juggle his editorial duties with writing the occasional weird article. He also loves talking about himself in the third person.Már tries to juggle his editorial duties with writing the occasional weird article. He also loves talking about himself in the third person....

Hide the pain, Harold — study shows memes help ease pandemic stress Go ahead, enjoy your memes A meme experiment The first step inour researchwas combing through hundreds of real memes we found in the wild on social media. We asked participants to rate them for how funny and cute they were, as well as how authentic they seemed as popular internet memes. Using that data, we developed two pools of memes using the same images: One set had captions about COVID-19 and another set had captions unrelated to COVID-19....

Hide the pain, Harold — study shows memes help ease pandemic stress Go ahead, enjoy your memes A meme experiment The first step inour researchwas combing through hundreds of real memes we found in the wild on social media. We asked participants to rate them for how funny and cute they were, as well as how authentic they seemed as popular internet memes. Using that data, we developed two pools of memes using the same images: One set had captions about COVID-19 and another set had captions unrelated to COVID-19....

High fashion to high tech: What startups can learn from industry icon François Kress 5 lessons tech CEOs can learn from high fashion brands Move slow, do things well During his career in luxury, Kress was sucked into tech when he was offered a board position at a biopharmaceutical company, and was surprised by the fast pace of tech companies. “Coming from big luxury groups, which have hundreds of years of history and where everything is very slow and very careful, to this fast-paced biotech world andstartupsand VC money was a shock....

High-quality video service Stage6 soon to be history Story byErnst-Jan Pfauth Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He a(show all)Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He also served as The Next Web’s blog’s first blogger and Editor in Chief, back in 2008....