Some of the executives were reportedly "not people in whom Jack [Dorsey] has the highest faith."Five major executives abruptly left Twitter in a surprising Sunday-night shakeup. The social media giant's heads of product, media, engineering, and Vine are no longer with the company, according to Re/code and the New York Times. The move is a massive and unexpected shakeup for the social media company that was once the darling of the tech world but lately has found its stock price plummeting and its position in the world of online media on unstable footing as social media companies like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook increasingly encroach onto Twitter's role as media messenger.Read Full Story

Almost half of millennials want to leave their jobs in the next two years, and women feel like they have fewer opportunities.Here is what we know: Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025, and they have different priorities than their predecessors. Motivated by a different set of values and ideas despite facing challenges such as student debt, the recession, and the resulting jobs crisis, Deloitte's Millennial Survey revealed that for young adults, making the world a better, more sustainable, and compassionate place trumps a hefty paycheck.Read Full Story

A gold-based compound will help clean toxic metals released by China's vast polyvinyl chloride industry -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

In a world of unlimited options, how can TV companies get consumers to watch a particular channel or show? Advertise it!Traditional advertising is running into a problem: When it comes to television, more and more people are cord-cutters. According to a recent study, about 2.5% of Americans dropped their cable service in 2015, with many of them getting streaming television adapters such as the Google Chromecast, Apple TV, the Amazon Fire Stick, and Roku.Read Full Story

The World Economic Forum suggests climate change remains the most severe challenge to global business -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

UX research isn't about proving users hate carousels; it's about embracing uncertainty, Airbnb's Matt Gallivan writes.When you spend your days studying how people use products, your intuition around such things gets pretty well-honed. You start to see patterns and themes. You reach a point where you can identity a behavior, ask "What might this mean?" and generate some great high-level and philosophical discussions with stakeholders. People start to seek you out for answers to questions about users, even when you haven't done research that could answer those questions.Read Full Story

Wind provided 40 percent of Texas’s electricity for 17 straight hours one windy day in December -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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The Silicon Valley blood-testing company has been on a rocky road since October."Serious deficiencies" have been found at one of Theranos's labs in Northern California, which could see its blood tests suspended from the Medicare program, reports the Wall Street Journal, citing sources.Read Full Story

Researchers pinpoint the cerebellum as particularly vulnerable to blast injury -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

How the founder of Framebridge stumbled across funding and mentorship from the last person she expected.When Susan Tynan joined LivingSocial in 2011, she was struck by its CEO, Tim O'Shaughnessy. She had known him a little bit back when they worked at another startup; O'Shaughnessy, though quite young then, was rapidly rising through the ranks. But now, as O'Shaughnessy addressed hundreds of employees at the first all-staff meeting Tynan attended at LivingSocial, she was struck by what a forceful and charismatic leader he had become. He communicated the company's progress and mission with great clarity and precision. The whole staff listened, admiring and rapt.Read Full Story

Case announced hours after the World Health Organization declares spread of virus stopped in west Africa -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is "doing reasonably well" in the country.Tesla CEO Elon Musk is hoping to have a factory in China to produce Tesla electric vehicles by the middle of this year, reports Engadget. Musk, also CEO of SpaceX, told Engadget that the company is "doing reasonably well" in mainland China, where it has 15 stores across seven of the country's major cities. Musk also said that there are currently 340 Superchargers and more than 1,600 destination chargers throughout China.Read Full Story

The enormous herbivore is the newest permanent exhibit to join the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Compared to the same time last year, iPhone sales saw their slowest growth since the product was launched in 2007. The post Apple Sold A Record Number of iPhones—But Just Barely appeared first on WIRED.

A study found that kids who ignored both rules and their parents grew up to earn higher salaries.If getting your kid to do homework, finish chores, or put down their damn phone is met with a resistance better suited to 1940s France than your living room, take heart: New research suggests that particularly stubborn kids frequently grow into particularly successful adults.Read Full Story

Shrimp demand satisfied with slave labor is also driving an environmental disaster in Southeast Asia -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

No, Walmart isn't getting into the cloud computing business. But it has open sourced some of its own cloud infrastructure software. The post Walmart Doesn’t Want You to Get Locked Into Amazon’s Cloud appeared first on WIRED.

Project management, managing personalities, patience: There are a lot of ways parenting prepares you to succeed at work.Talk to any entrepreneur or business leader and they'll often admit that their company is their "baby." They brought it to life, spent time raising it, and are emotionally invested in its growth. Entrepreneurs who are also parents to real babies say that many of the skills they use at home have enhanced their workplace.Read Full Story

Two scientists working on the Giant Magellan Telescope explain the mammoth and intricate construction -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

This is the third consecutive quarter Apple hasn't offered specific figures for how well its Watch is selling. The post Apple Still Didn’t Say How Many Watches It Sold appeared first on WIRED.

Retail therapy meets art therapy.Whether you call them lighthearted anxiety-relieving tools or regressive escapes from reality, coloring books for adults have become a full-fledged craze (and lucrative market for print publishers).Read Full Story

When food is plentiful and chimps are more chummy, they harbor an increased number of different bacterial species in their bellies   -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Despite a record quarter, Apple apparently feels like it has some explaining to do. The post Tim Cook Blames the Dollar for Not Making More Dollars appeared first on WIRED.