Move over, London and Paris. On tourism charts, Western cities no longer reign supreme. In 2012, Bangkok, London, and Paris competed fiercely for the spot…
MIDDLE KINGDOM
The new satellite image of Earth on WeChat’s splash page features China at its center—for a reason
Updated | WeChat’s nearly 1 billion users might have noticed a subtle change today. The Chinese messaging app announced that it will be rolling out…
SPY NOT?
Bannon’s simple instruction on infiltrating Facebook: “Can u get on this”
A new investigation by BuzzFeed News reports that Steve Bannon was interested in trying to infiltrate Facebook’s hiring process in the days before he took…
POWER SWAP
The future of transportation may be about sharing batteries, not vehicles
In the future, some transportation experts say, vehicles will no longer be individually owned. They envision a world of “fractional” ownership, in which autonomously driven…
GAMECHANGERS
The technology firsts that have shaped modern life as we know it
There’s a first time for everything, as the saying goes. It might feel like we’ve been sending email attachments forever, but actually the first one…
NO RIDE
Map: All the places where Uber is partially or fully banned
Despite contracting 40,000 drivers and serving 3.5 million users, Uber has lost its favor with the London government. The city’s transport regulator announced yesterday that…
TAKE OFF
You can now take an online course to learn how to build a flying or self-driving car
Yesterday, online learning platform Udacity revealed two new programs in flying and self-driving cars. “Intro to Self-Driving Cars” promises to teach students “the essentials of…
UNPLUG AND PLAY
An MIT Media Lab startup is creating beautiful wooden toys to teach children the basics of coding
Kimberly Smith was a master’s student in the MIT Media Lab’s social computing group when she first began dreaming up wooden toys to teach children…
DEEP BREATHS
The complete guide to the Equifax breach
Every day brings new details—and questions—about the Equifax breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers to hackers. It can be hard to…
SHINE, BABY, SHINE
Solar is now so cheap in the US it beat government goals by three years
Though US president Donald Trump has promised many times that he will bring back coal, he really can’t do much to fight the forces of…
QZ&A
Can victims of the Equifax breach simply ignore it?
Last week, Equifax revealed a security breach that may have compromised the personal data of some 143 million customers—Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and…
SPECIAL EVENT
Animoji, Portrait mode, FaceID: Here are the new software features that Apple announced today
Hardware took center stage today at Apple’s September event, but software is still behind much of the magic. Here are five major software updates to…
