After 12 games at the World Chess Championship in London, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, who is aiming to become the first American chess champion since Bobby Fischer in 1972, are tied.
The Copa Libertadores final is the biggest match in South American club soccer. And this year was something special. For the first time in the 58 years of the competition, River Plate and Boca Juniors—two arch-rivals from Buenos Aires—would meet to determine the best team on the continent.
A report from Sporting Intelligence reveals that NBA basketball players and elite European soccer stars make the most money in the world of sports. And in soccer, the English Premier League is the most lucrative league for players.
A new report has calculated the annual wages of the world’s major professional sports teams—and basketball dominates.
There are 1.2 billion residential air conditioners in the world today. That is expected to increase to 4.5 billion by 2030 as the world gets hotter, which will only make climate change worse.
Vincent van Gogh moved to Paris in 1886 to learn his craft and become a successful artist. He sold only a couple of paintings to a few art dealers. None of the major galleries would exhibit his work. He felt himself a failure, committing suicide at the age of 37 in the south of France in 1890. ”I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell,” van Gogh once said. “But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”
The World Cup of rugby takes place next year in Japan and the race to take the final spot is here.
One of the biggest heavyweight clashes in sports is about to get under way in London—but not in boxing, nor soccer, nor any in the alphabet soup of American sports.
It’s tough being a soccer manager.
Blockchain “venture production studio” ConsenSys has announced its acquisition of Planetary Resources—a space startup once focused on mining precious materials from asteroids—in an announcement that could set a record for meaningless buzzwords. (Please email if you have found better.)
The Brooklyn Burger Factory has a simple, trendy banner image on its UberEats page and sells a variety of tasty-looking burgers—including a jerk burger—to people in the fast-gentrifying Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. For locals, it looks like the perfect lazy delivery option after a long day at work. The only thing is that the Brooklyn Burger Factory doesn’t exist.
We need buildings in which to live, but crafting those buildings is making it harder to live on this planet. As much as 10% of global carbon emissions come from the production of concrete. One ton of CO2 is generated by making one ton of cement, which is made from limestone and a few other things heated to an extremely high temperature.
About 50,000 people will take part in the New York Marathon this Sunday (Nov. 4), but only 15,500 spots are designated for general entry. To get in, you have to win a lottery. And roughly 105,000 people applied this year.
To the list of things that young people can’t do anymore because of their smartphones, add becoming a surgeon.
In November 2017, after years of an economic crisis that has seen 2 million people flee, Venezuela finally defaulted on its debts. Since then, it has missed more than $5 billion in interest and principal payments on outstanding debt. Yet the country has been making payments on at least one bond.
People are not playing Bach like they used to.
“Electric flying is becoming a reality and we can now foresee a future that is not exclusively dependent on jet fuel.”
The Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-18 this weekend in front of 85,870 at London’s Wembley stadium, the largest crowd there to ever see a NFL match. That is more than the 75,128 that showed up to Twickenham in May to watch the English Premiership rugby final.
Engineers can stay calm.
McKinsey and Co., the esteemed management consultants who charge a fortune to advise something like 90 of the top 100 companies worldwide (paywall) on what to do with their businesses, now wants to make things more beautiful.
The American buffalo that roamed North America by the tens of millions were an integral part of the culture of the Native Americans of the Great Plains. After the mass slaughter that followed the colonization of what would become the US, there were just 23 such bison left at the start of the 20th century, according to Smithsonian magazine.
Before he became the most powerful man in US data, DJ Patil was turned down by Google. He was turned down by Yahoo. Finally, he was hired by eBay because his mother knew someone there—and they didn’t know what to do with this young mathematics PhD from the University of Maryland with Defense Department experience.
In cars, electric or otherwise, the bulk of the car is basically deadweight.
Since 2016, Tesla has had a feature called Cabin Overheat Protection that allowed its Model S cars to automatically regulate inside temperatures, keeping the cabin to a maximum of 40°C (104°F). That feature came to the Model 3 this year, the mass-market offering on which Tesla’s hopes and dreams rest.
