Central banks are pretty bullish on blockchain technology, according to a new study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. One in five central banks…
Thousands of huge, aggressive dogs are roaming Tibet after their rich Chinese owners abandoned them
Tibet is full of unwanted dogs. Areas of the Tibetan plateau have become flooded with giant, fluffy unwanted Tibetan mastiffs, once the most sought after…
Justin Trudeau spent his entire UN speech talking about human-rights abuses in his own country
Rich Western countries’ use of the UN as forum to lecture everyone else on human rights is one of the most well-worn—and valid—criticisms of the…
To break our fast-fashion addiction, Greenpeace says we have to embrace “true materialism”
Clothes are cheaper and more disposable to shoppers than ever, and the environment is suffering for it. Between 2000 and 2014, global clothing production doubled,…
TV’s most brilliant comedy is a reality show about social anxiety—and it’s finally back
In the season three finale of the comedy-reality show Nathan for You—which returns to Comedy Central tonight (Sept. 21) in the US—host and creator Nathan…
Tim Cook’s goals for his legacy are opposite what Steve Jobs’s were—and that’s a good thing
Apple CEO Tim Cook is surely one of the most accomplished humans on Earth. He’s the CEO of its most profitable company and the first…
Analysis of 500 million Reddit comments shows how the alt-right made the alt-left a thing
At the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August, a man suspected of being a neo-Nazi sympathizer drove a car into a crowd of…
Artists are mining cryptocurrency with wind to fund climate science
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin rely on millions of computers to crank out the math that process transactions on a public ledger. These “mines” typically depend on…
If Trump pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal it could sink $32 billion in airline sales
Sometimes Donald Trump likes to pretend to be coy. Asked by reporters today about the multilateral 2015 deal that lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange…
Yes, Bill Gates regrets Ctrl+Alt+Delete
This post has been corrected. At the Bloomberg Global Business Forum today, Carlyle Group co-founder and CEO David Rubenstein asked Microsoft founder Bill Gates to…
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…
Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why companies should get involved in politics
Apple CEO Tim Cook has openly campaigned for gay marriage, opposed “religious freedom laws,” and loudly criticized president Donald Trump’s immigration policy proposals, despite a…
Parents in the US don’t prefer boys anymore, according to new research
Parents in the US used to want to have boys. New research suggests this is no longer the case. In 2008, economists Gordon Dahl and…
Imagine how great universities could be without all those human teachers
This is the third in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Here are parts one and…
An economist says India lacks the guts to even admit that it faces epic economic problems
The economy is in a trough. The first quarter of 2017-2018 saw the growth of gross domestic product (GDP, the total value of all goods…
Africa’s universities are not preparing graduates for the 21st century workplace
Across Africa, students arrive on campuses full of hope that a university degree will improve their lives. The reality is far less certain. In 2014,…
The new Watch 3 and iPhone X interfaces are examples of a classic Steve Jobs insight
When Steve Jobs launched the original iPhone, he described the new multi-touch feature as a revolutionary user interface (UI). He said it worked like magic,…
A new mathematical equation proves that the T. rex wasn’t such a fast sprinter after all
Outrunning a T. rex might not have been too hard after all. Depictions of giant dinosaurs sprinting after their prey have been around for decades.…
Cassini got to live two lives instead of one
The Cassini spacecraft is poised to commit suicide at NASA’s command. For the last 13 years, the brain-child of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the European…
China’s audacious infrastructure plans could put a major strain on African economies
It has been described by Chinese president Xi Jinping as the “project of the century”. And the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is certainly…
