The more outrageous he became, the more unassailable he got—until now. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released today (Nov. 27) shows Donald Trump losing 12 percentage points of support among Republican voters in less than a week, his biggest drop since he launched his campaign a little over five months ago.
Update at 9pm ET: Colorado Springs police are now confirming that one police officer was killed in the shooting.
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One feature of Israel’s control over Palestine is its stranglehold on the mobile market. The two Palestinian cellphone companies, Jawwal and Wataniya, have to license their wireless spectrum from the Israeli government and route their traffic through Israel. And while Israel’s government granted 4G licenses to six Israeli mobile operators earlier this year, Palestinians have remained stuck two generations behind. Only today did Israel sign a deal with the Palestinian Authority that will extend 3G and maybe 4G to the Palestinian firms.
The gig economy, the platform economy, the networked economy, the sharing economy, the on-demand economy, the peer economy, the bottom-up economy… You’ve probably heard these and maybe other terms bandied about, often interchangeably, to describe how companies like Uber, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, and countless others operate.
Mikhail Lesin, the man who first helped Vladimir Putin squash independent Russian media, has been found dead in a hotel in the US capital, ABC News reports.
Three computer scientists studying Uber’s “surge pricing” have devised a simple recommendation for thwarting the algorithm: Walk.
Jack Dorsey isn’t wasting time in his new appointment as Twitter’s permanent CEO. He’s planning to fire over 300 people in an attempt to get the struggling company back on track. And he’s trying not to waste words, either. In a memo to the staff released today, he wrote, “Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I’m going to give it to you straight.”
Hot on the heels of the release of the action movie The Martian—and the discovery that the red planet still has liquid water—NASA has unveiled a bold three-stage plan for getting humans to Mars within the next couple of decades.
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The comparisons between Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn and the US’s Donald Trump have ranged from hand-wringing to lightly amused to downright derisory. But with Corbyn, once the 100-to-1 outsider, now looking set to win the Labour leadership this weekend (though he might still not), it no longer seems absurd that Trump could bag the Republican primary.
After shooting Alison Parker and Adam Ward dead yesterday morning in Roanoke, Virginia, Vester Flanagan—a.k.a. Bryce Williams—posted a video showing the murder from his vantage point to Facebook and Twitter, and told everyone to look.
So far, the shockwaves from the Ashley Madison hack have been muted. Though the details of more than 30 million users of the website for extramarital affairs have had their data dumped online, celebrity adulterers have not been outed en masse, and it’s too soon to know if it will endanger millions of marriages or thousands of military jobs. It’s possible, as one commentator argued, that “millions of lives may be about to change profoundly.” But what if they don’t?
So you’ve just found out that a work colleague (or their partner) is among the 32 million users of Ashley Madison, the dating site for people seeking extramarital affairs, whose details were just leaked online. How to navigate this potentially explosive privacy issue? Here’s Quartz’s guide to handling it with sensitivity, tact, and grace.
Within a few minutes of the start of tonight’s Republican presidential debate, it was clear that Donald Trump—the blond-thatched, buffoonish tycoon who seems to revel in saying the most absurd things he can—was winning.
In May, Amazon hosted the “Amazon Picking Challenge“—a competition to build a robot that can identify objects of any shape and take them off shelves. Such a machine could one day replace most of the human workers in Amazon’s warehouses. So what will life be like when those jobs are gone?
It’s said of Jimmy Carter that he’s America’s best ex-president. Barack Obama, on the other hand, may be shaping up as its best soon-to-be-ex-president.
Last month, 24 years after the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine began “decommunization.” The country has more than 4,000 towns and villages (paywall) whose main street is named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, plus countless thousands of squares, avenues, boulevards, villages, factories, schools, and other places with Soviet-related names. Under a new law that bans both Nazi and communist symbols and propaganda, all must be changed.
Voicemail changed our lives. But has anybody ever liked it? That wretched PIN number you keep forgetting. That idiot who leaves you a long, rambling message meant for someone else. The one who set an “on vacation” greeting two years ago and never changed it back. The people who record messages while standing in crowded airport lounges chewing cereal bars. The ones who never answer their phones and never pick up voicemails either.
The internet came down like a ton of bricks yesterday on Alice Huang. The 76-year-old microbiologist and virologist has been a Harvard Medical School professor, New York University dean of sciences, and president of both the American Society for Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also, according to most of the things published about her in the past 24 hours, an idiot.
At Christie’s New York this morning, Jussi Pylkkanen, the auction house’s global president, held open the doors of an elevator and beckoned a handful of waiting journalists: ”Come in, there’s plenty of room!” We filed in, trying not to crowd the gallery hand who was standing in one corner holding a medium-sized, white-framed painting with its back to us. Pylkkanen glanced over at him.
Update (March 2, 2016): Kelly and his crewmates Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov have returned safely to Earth.
Is the global economy shifting gears—or grinding them?
