Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly flipped a new switch in conversational commerce: as of September 16, 2025, Curated for You’s lifestyle-led merchandising engine is live inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering context-aware, shoppable fashion recommendations in response to natural-language...
LinkedIn’s pivot to paying creators is already reshaping the B2B advertising playbook—and the move could be one of the clearest strategic accelerants for Microsoft’s ad and cloud ecosystem this decade. The thesis is simple: by turning professional content into a monetizable, creator-driven feed...
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Indian‑origin Microsoft engineer Ritvika Nagula’s account of earning four promotions in five years has become a practical primer for career acceleration inside big tech: explicit goals, frequent manager check‑ins, mapping to internal role rubrics, and volunteering for end‑to‑end projects — a...
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A Microsoft engineer’s plainspoken playbook for career acceleration—four promotions in five years—arrives at a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping what counts as “high impact” work inside big tech, and her clear, repeatable tactics offer a practical roadmap for engineers who want to...
A Microsoft engineer’s plainspoken playbook — setting explicit goals, asking for regular feedback, and signaling readiness to own end-to-end projects — has become a widely shared template for rapid advancement in big tech, and her story offers a useful window into how careers are being shaped in...
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LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) celebrated its 25th anniversary from April 25 to 27, 2025, at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington. This milestone event underscored the festival's enduring commitment to fostering open-source communities and advancing technological education.
One of...
Exotic dancers want to be part of the Games and stranger things have happened – but why don't we try superinjuncting?
Having started out totally sleazy and ended up halfway respectable, pole dancing has travelled in the opposite direction to the Olympic movement. Yet the former is pushing...