10/31/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Marathons, Hong Kong life hacks, artificial intelligence, Uber’s mysterious wages

10/31/2014 - Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo exploded during an engine test

10/31/2014 - Here’s how Wall Street is spending on US elections this year

10/31/2014 - Werewolf is the most sexist word in the English language

10/31/2014 - Russia’s drastic rate hike bought the ruble about five minutes of respite

10/31/2014 - This is what it’s like inside an Ebola testing lab in Mali

10/31/2014 - The roots of ISIL’s appeal

10/31/2014 - The Bank of Japan totally rocked global markets this morning

10/31/2014 - Starbucks wants to have coffee ready on your desk when you get to work in the morning

10/31/2014 - How one small creamery sparked a chocolate milk craze in New Zealand

10/31/2014 - Americans don’t mind being tracked online—but they hate it in stores

10/31/2014 - There’s a lot more to Zambia’s new president than his whiteness

10/31/2014 - Who’s riding Honda’s motorized unicycles? Today, it’s rock stars—but tomorrow it might be your grandma

10/31/2014 - An HSBC director just likened Hong Kong’s citizens to slaves

10/31/2014 - Women of color are upset over the catcalling video—but not why you think

10/31/2014 - Get excited: Netflix’s upcoming dramas are brimming with ambition

10/31/2014 - This week’s top new iPhone app is helping kids cheat on their math homework

10/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Japan expands stimulus, Russia-Ukraine gas deal, PlayStation boosts Sony, eagle ruins birdie

10/31/2014 - The Roma may be just what Europe needs to recover

10/31/2014 - A scrapped IPO offers a raw look at China’s rampant overfishing of tuna

10/31/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Japan expands stimulus, Russia-Ukraine gas deal, Burkina Faso ruler defiant, skinny women’s salaries

10/31/2014 - Tim Cook’s memo is not what will play on the minds of gay Indians this week

10/31/2014 - I lived through the Sikh riots—and 30 years later, I’m not ready to forgive or forget

10/31/2014 - Pro-Beijing lawmakers want to investigate the churches supporting Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

10/31/2014 - I see debt people: 10 scary economic charts for Halloween

10/30/2014 - The 5 things I never learned at IIM Ahmedabad

10/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Russian ruble-rousing, Burkina Faso’s fire, Tim Cook’s sexuality, skinny women’s salaries

10/30/2014 - How to create more silence in your life

10/30/2014 - People who have their kids after 35 are happiest

10/30/2014 - What Putin’s Russia and other homophobes around the world are doing with their iPhones

10/30/2014 - Why it makes no sense for London to have an NFL team

10/30/2014 - This map shows the weird names Americans have given the night before Halloween

10/30/2014 - A new partnership is beating the Fed to real-time payments

10/30/2014 - The SAT has a cheating problem in Asia

10/30/2014 - The US has some of the worst child poverty rates in the developed world

10/30/2014 - Your brain’s response to vile images says a lot about your politics

10/30/2014 - Apple CEO Tim Cook says he’s proud to be gay

10/30/2014 - On digital silence and how to deal with noise overload

10/30/2014 - The bittersweet trade policy that has kept America’s sugar prices high for decades

10/30/2014 - Who is flying drones over French nuclear plants?

10/30/2014 - An Ebola vaccine may be close but it won’t stop the epidemic

10/30/2014 - Why stay-at-home parents are better for older children

10/30/2014 - There’s a 30% chance your shrimp isn’t what you think it is

10/30/2014 - Hong Kong is still a very easy place to do business, even after a month of protests

10/30/2014 - How Indian ecommerce disrupted the carpenter who takes six weeks to build your bed

10/30/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Russia tests NATO, Samsung’s struggles, China’s bad loans, brain wave duets

10/30/2014 - The rise of Europe’s fringe political parties will only make a bad situation worse

10/29/2014 - Delhi, not Mumbai, is the city for entrepreneurs

10/29/2014 - The Fed just took the training wheels off the US economy

10/29/2014 - What the Antares rocket explosion looked like on weather radar

10/29/2014 - The court document that shows how Tim Cook does business

10/29/2014 - These four charts show how Indians and Chinese are running after American real estate

10/29/2014 - Why you shouldn’t get too excited about Marvel and DC’s long-term movie plans

10/29/2014 - And the award for the worst climate change record in the industrialized world goes to…

10/29/2014 - Modi was half-right: World’s first plastic surgeon may well have been Indian (but he wasn’t Shiva)

10/29/2014 - Why teaching kindergarten is among the scariest jobs in America

10/29/2014 - Hacker, wifi, botox—these are now Spanish words

10/29/2014 - Everything you think you know about the news is probably wrong

10/29/2014 - The dual roles of the CIO in the digital age

10/29/2014 - Why middle-class Americans can’t afford to live in liberal cities

10/29/2014 - This woman got catcalled 100 times in one day in New York—now watch it happen around the world

10/29/2014 - American fans, meet the most entertaining man in soccer

10/29/2014 - Deutsche Bank: A legal defense fund with a bank attached

10/29/2014 - Most entrepreneurs aren’t born that way

10/29/2014 - Beijing’s warnings to Hong Kong are growing more ominous by the day

10/29/2014 - The biggest lesson I learned after a week without cash or credit cards

10/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Nintendo’s gold coins, Virginia rocket explosion, Fed ends QE, NY street harassment

10/29/2014 - Hong Kong can’t afford to lose the Umbrella Movement generation

10/29/2014 - These early offices of India’s hottest startups show how far they have come

10/29/2014 - London is showing how cities should treat dirty cars in the 21st century

10/29/2014 - In the charmed life of a Kashmir cop, servants tie shoelaces and golf caddies carry carbines

10/29/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—US rocket explodes, Fed ends QE, Facebook scares investors, ancient virus released

10/29/2014 - Why is India’s pursuit of offshore black money so confusing?

10/29/2014 - These two charts show how the Rs100 crore hit is changing Bollywood

10/29/2014 - Samsung has rocketed to the top of the world R&D charts

10/28/2014 - A spectacular explosion marks the first failure of NASA’s commercial rocket program

10/28/2014 - Why ISIL is so hard to defeat

10/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Farewell to QE, share buybacks, global Macy’s, violence genes

10/28/2014 - Facebook just said something that sent its shares plummeting

10/28/2014 - Facebook is more addictive than ever

10/28/2014 - China’s trade dominance is bringing more pollution from an unexpected source

10/28/2014 - Why it took 15 years for Apple Pay to launch

10/28/2014 - How Harvard can be the #1 university in the world but #2 in the US

10/28/2014 - The US government is suing AT&T for unfairly and deceptively cutting mobile internet speed

10/28/2014 - Why the startup that publishes all employee salaries is doing the same with its fundraising

10/28/2014 - China continues to raise its minimum wage—but employment could be suffering

10/28/2014 - Americans are the least miserable they’ve been in years

10/28/2014 - Life as an Indian woman isn’t as bad as you imagine—it’s worse

10/28/2014 - Turns out, violent crime may be genetic

10/28/2014 - Here’s a tour of movie-inspired hotels you can stay in

10/28/2014 - The real reason pop musicians die young

10/28/2014 - Aside from a few billion-dollar legal problems, UBS is doing pretty well

10/28/2014 - An Alibaba-Apple Pay marriage could pit both companies against Beijing

10/28/2014 - Women soccer players earn only 3% of the prize money of their male counterparts

10/28/2014 - Astronaut Chris Hadfield took 45,000 photos from space—here are some of the best

10/28/2014 - The cold logic of drunk people

10/28/2014 - Why there are so many conspiracy theories about Ebola

10/28/2014 - This is why people leave your company

10/28/2014 - Here’s what stands in the way of a one-hour train ride between Washington and New York

10/28/2014 - Two incredibly troubled economies have the world’s hottest stock markets

10/28/2014 - It only took 45 years for the US to completely change its mind about weed

10/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Alibaba-Apple flirtation, Softbank’s India expansion, China’s train merger, rotten-egg comets

10/28/2014 - Goldman Sachs spooked the market by dethroning OPEC and declaring the US king

10/28/2014 - Hong Kong’s chief executive sort of apologized for offending almost everyone

10/28/2014 - Japan’s richest man just became a major player in India’s internet economy

10/28/2014 - The only way Shah Rukh Khan can redeem himself now

10/28/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Twitter disappoints, new NSA leaker, China train merger, rotten-egg comets

10/27/2014 - Amgen, under pressure, moves to boost profitability—but that’s hurting earnings in the short term

10/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Sweden’s stuck, Air France fumbles, US Fed meeting, rotten comets

10/27/2014 - Twitter is actually going to generate more than $1 billion in sales this year

10/27/2014 - Masculine men don’t cut it for many women

10/27/2014 - The wearable technology future is coming, and it sounds pretty awful

10/27/2014 - Photos: A crazy 36 hours with the man who started Ukraine’s revolution

10/27/2014 - Why falling gas prices may do little for the US economy

10/27/2014 - This terrible CVS receipt shows why Apple Pay has little to fear from retailers

10/27/2014 - Here are the world’s top space universities

10/27/2014 - Watch John Oliver make the case that candy is not a Halloween treat if you’re eating it all year

10/27/2014 - One reason China’s housing market collapse will get even uglier: home ownership is already 87%

10/27/2014 - Google’s dominance in search is nearing its peak

10/27/2014 - These are the countries where it makes more sense to rent than buy

10/27/2014 - The psychology of “backburner” relationships

10/27/2014 - Windowless planes could be here in 10 years—and they look amazing

10/27/2014 - The exact reasons why expats love India

10/27/2014 - What movie night means to patients in an Ebola ward

10/27/2014 - Cerberus said it would stay out of the gun debate. Why are executives it appointed fighting gun safety laws?

10/27/2014 - Where hard work gets you ahead, charted

10/27/2014 - Beyonce wants to upgrade your sweatpants game

10/27/2014 - India names three people it is investigating in ‘black money’ case

10/27/2014 - Six charts that show Dilma Rousseff’s challenges in Brazil are just beginning

10/27/2014 - Dubai’s prize for civic responsibility is, literally, solid gold

10/27/2014 - Let’s not turn Ferguson into another tweetable, teachable moment

10/27/2014 - Remembering the Jewish refugee who composed the All India Radio signature tune

10/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Brazil’s Rousseff re-elected, Ebola quarantine loosened, Twitter results, scary clowns unfunny

10/27/2014 - The two things that could hurt Google

10/27/2014 - Police are using Hong Kong’s computer crime law to crack down on pro-democracy organizers

10/27/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Brazil’s Rousseff re-elected, Ebola quarantine loosened, Twitter results, scary clowns unfunny

10/27/2014 - India’s air force has grounded smartphones made by Chinese high-flyer Xiaomi

10/27/2014 - How crowdsourcing and supercomputing are helping Sierra Leone combat its Ebola epidemic

10/26/2014 - Apple should make a better MacBook Air and not fret about the iPad

10/26/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Twitter results, Ebola in the US, Apple Pay fightback, wine production

10/26/2014 - France reclaims top spot as biggest wine-producing country in the world

10/26/2014 - The best life hacks from Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement protests

10/26/2014 - Europe stress-tested its banks again—for real this time—and flunked 25 of them

10/26/2014 - How to handle toxic people

10/25/2014 - Tunisia’s elections will show whether it’s still the model country of the Arab Spring

10/25/2014 - Proof that New Yorkers aren’t scared of Ebola infections on the subway

10/25/2014 - NASA has a new SoundCloud page and these are the best clips

10/25/2014 - Real Madrid vs. Barcelona is the $1 billion game everyone has been waiting for

10/25/2014 - Photos: The ridiculous mansion that Ukraine’s president abandoned and is now a museum

10/25/2014 - A glossary of Ebola contact types

10/24/2014 - This is how the media turned an Iranian into an Indian

10/24/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Brazil’s election, SpaceX grows up, the breakdown of Liberia, the dental divide

10/24/2014 - Here’s how many houses you can buy in other cities for the price of one in Silicon Valley

10/24/2014 - The real reason Indians are buying Mein Kampf

10/24/2014 - A glimpse at how technology might cut the hassles and bring back the romance of snail mail

10/24/2014 - The most affordable city in the world for young people is … Paris?

10/24/2014 - Here are photos and an interview with Dr. Craig Spencer before he became New York City’s first Ebola case

10/24/2014 - Who needs Lindsay Lohan? Look who’s endorsing Aécio Neves now

10/24/2014 - Procter & Gamble is acknowledging the death of the single-use battery

10/24/2014 - This is what Ebola is doing to West African economies

10/24/2014 - How the tax wizard of Luxembourg made corporate burdens disappear

10/24/2014 - Pandora needs to get its mojo back, and quickly

10/24/2014 - Here’s what Frank Gehry thinks of the rest of you architects

10/24/2014 - The world’s wealthiest terrorists

10/24/2014 - Where bribery works, charted

10/24/2014 - This is the roadmap for closing a nuclear deal with Iran

10/24/2014 - Why a Boston photographer is seeking legal help against Narendra Modi’s social media team

10/24/2014 - Here is the Queen’s first tweet

10/24/2014 - Jingle profits! UPS says it will be ready for Santa

10/24/2014 - Finally, an art museum tour for people who hate art

10/24/2014 - Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are holding a vote of their own

10/24/2014 - The 19th-century Mumbai plague may offer clues in dealing with Ebola

10/24/2014 - We could’ve stopped Ebola if we’d listened to the data

10/24/2014 - Why sending weapons to Ukraine would be a terrible idea for the US

10/24/2014 - Here’s the train that could take you from New York to DC in 60 minutes

10/24/2014 - NYC is better equipped to deal with Ebola than anywhere else in the country

10/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ebola reaches New York, EU revolt, vaping IPO, ugly dinosaurs

10/24/2014 - How an unprecedented face-to-face meeting of 11 geeks will make the internet more secure

10/24/2014 - How Mohammedan Sporting’s glorious past is linked to its uncertain future

10/24/2014 - Surprise! ISIL is using banks, and that makes it vulnerable

10/24/2014 - Why you shouldn’t freak out about getting Ebola on the New York subway, or at a bowling alley

10/24/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ebola reaches New York, Amazon tests patience, vaping IPO, ugly dinosaurs

10/23/2014 - These charts show what’s on the minds of midsized business owners

10/23/2014 - Why startup tricks no longer work for midsized businesses

10/23/2014 - Amazon’s Fire Phone is officially a bust

10/23/2014 - Microsoft’s Surface tablet just isn’t taking off yet

10/23/2014 - A look at the global affordable housing gap, in charts

10/23/2014 - How millennials will save us all

10/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Calm Canada, Amazon anxiety, ugly dinosaurs, drug lord action figures

10/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Calm Canada, Amazon anxiety, ugly dinosaurs, drug lord action figures

10/23/2014 - Amazon is testing its investors’ patience

10/23/2014 - Ottawa shootings: Canada “lost its innocence” a long time ago

10/23/2014 - Gap is betting its lowest-priced brand will work as well in the Middle East as it has in Asia

10/23/2014 - This Chrome extension will brighten your day every time you open a new tab

10/23/2014 - GrubHub is craving more customers—and has a TV strategy to get them

10/23/2014 - Why was America’s top spy also a fertilizer day-trader?

10/23/2014 - “Smart cities” are coming—but will need some better ideas

10/23/2014 - All is well for airlines in the US—for now

10/23/2014 - What Comcast’s earnings tell us about the state of cable in America

10/23/2014 - Tesco’s Value Destruct-o-Meter: $21 billion and counting

10/23/2014 - The countries that bend over backwards for rich foreigners

10/23/2014 - Christian Bale is the next Steve Jobs

10/23/2014 - Indians in the US make the most because they studied the most

10/23/2014 - The backstory to seven of the most popular protest slogans in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

10/23/2014 - How to lay off good people

10/23/2014 - Malcolm Gladwell on the key to success: don’t be afraid to look like a fool

10/23/2014 - A budget airline is offering insanely cheap transatlantic flights

10/23/2014 - Having children is not the formula for a happy life

10/23/2014 - Everything you need to know about introverted leaders

10/23/2014 - “Organic” is a misleading label. Here’s how technology could create something better

10/23/2014 - The man who taught Warren Buffett how to manage a company

10/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe’s manufacturing improves, Tesco’s woes deepen, another White House intruder, Hong Kong language wars

10/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Europe’s manufacturing improves, Tesco’s woes deepen, another White House intruder, Hong Kong language wars

10/23/2014 - Poor voters aren’t bad for Hong Kong—prosperity and democracy often go hand in hand

10/23/2014 - Why India’s art scene is increasingly being defined by foreign collectors and museums

10/23/2014 - The “Avengers 2” trailer was supposed to save “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Oops.

10/23/2014 - India can stop the mauling, harassing, and killing of northeasterners—yet chooses not to

10/23/2014 - Europe’s ailing economy, in 10 depressing comments from execs doing business there

10/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Canadian terror attack, White House intruder, Asia’s manufacturing bump, China language wars

10/23/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Canadian terror attack, White House intruder, Asia’s manufacturing bump, China language wars

10/22/2014 - This town toils all year so that India’s Diwali is grand and loud

10/22/2014 - Here’s why the name of Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Movement” is so subversive

10/22/2014 - The most important things Mark Zuckerberg just said in broken Chinese

10/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Sweden’s budget, Canadian chaos, Boeing’s success, tractor beams

10/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Sweden’s budget, Canadian chaos, Boeing’s success, tractor beams

10/22/2014 - 300,000 one-day-old babies die in India every year–here’s how technology can save them

10/22/2014 - Boeing profits on demand for jets and a NASA contract

10/22/2014 - Google wants to “fix” email—by turning it into Google Now

10/22/2014 - These are the conversations your colleagues are having about egg freezing

10/22/2014 - Let’s accept it—Enid Blyton’s books aren’t perfect, but they are awesome

10/22/2014 - The richest person in the world explains why inequality matters

10/22/2014 - Here are some great holiday gifts for your favorite Joan Didion super-fan

10/22/2014 - The introverted face

10/22/2014 - Hong Kong’s Occupy Central now has its own video game

10/22/2014 - It’s the perfect time for Warren Buffett to roll out the Berkshire Hathaway brand

10/22/2014 - Why more American pet store puppies are being banned

10/22/2014 - US Bank underscores US economic momentum

10/22/2014 - Warren Buffet just lost over $2 billion in two days

10/22/2014 - Harassment on the internet is even more common than you think—especially for women

10/22/2014 - People really aren’t smoking much anymore in the US and Europe

10/22/2014 - Pandora just launched a Chartbeat for music

10/22/2014 - A London school teacher pays more UK tax than Facebook

10/22/2014 - Anyone who says the US economy is getting weaker is completely wrong

10/22/2014 - It’s time for Americans to stop giving their junk to the poor

10/22/2014 - How kids are screwing up dinner at Chipotle

10/22/2014 - What happens when chemists don’t wash their hands

10/22/2014 - These are the US colleges where student loan defaults are skyrocketing

10/22/2014 - Why every newborn you see on Facebook is wrapped in the same baby blanket

10/22/2014 - Here’s why you only have a 0.2% chance of getting hired at Google

10/22/2014 - This statistical model can predict outbreaks of violence in Liberia

10/22/2014 - The Mac is back: Why Apple just set an all-time Mac sales record

10/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—EU banks flunk, HK protesters retool, Ben Bradlee RIP, chess shrinks brains

10/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—EU banks flunk, HK protesters retool, Ben Bradlee RIP, chess shrinks brains

10/22/2014 - Money keeps pouring into London’s tech sector—not all of it from the usual sources

10/22/2014 - Kenny G just visited the Hong Kong protests

10/22/2014 - More than 100 Indian policewomen are in Ebola-ravaged Liberia and the government has no plan to evacuate them

10/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Yahoo scrapes along, Total’s new CEO, North Korean generosity, bears hate computers

10/22/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Yahoo scrapes along, Total’s new CEO, North Korean generosity, bears hate computers

10/21/2014 - Call centers are imposing a new form of colonialism

10/21/2014 - These devices send scented messages and alerts that target 1,000 smell sensors in your nose

10/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bank fines, Nokia rebranding, North Korean generosity, bears hate computers

10/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bank fines, Nokia rebranding, North Korean generosity, bears hate computers

10/21/2014 - Marissa Mayer’s vision for the future of Yahoo is starting to unfold

10/21/2014 - The gap between Chipotle’s success and McDonald’s woes is wider than ever

10/21/2014 - 75% of infant deaths are preventable and the world’s oldest startup is leveraging co-creation to solve for it

10/21/2014 - Soccer is now a conduit for Ebola fears in Africa

10/21/2014 - Finally, you can share your Spotify account with friends and relatives

10/21/2014 - This vaccine may be our best hope yet in stopping Ebola

10/21/2014 - The credit crunch for American homebuyers is unlikely to loosen anytime soon

10/21/2014 - The latest action figure at Toys R Us—an infamous TV drug kingpin

10/21/2014 - Does England have the solution to the grade-inflation problem?

10/21/2014 - This app will help kids cheat on math tests

10/21/2014 - The US government actually stood up to a would-be corporate tax dodger

10/21/2014 - How to ditch Apple for Google—and vice versa

10/21/2014 - What Google really means by “Don’t be evil”

10/21/2014 - How Oscar de la Renta charmed those of us who never got to wear his dresses

10/21/2014 - These are the ridiculous suggestions for dealing with Qatar’s heat during the World Cup

10/21/2014 - Everything is going wrong for McDonald’s

10/21/2014 - Coca-Cola sales still looks incredibly flat

10/21/2014 - Arun Jaitley is walking an impossible tightrope in trying to open up India’s coal sector

10/21/2014 - The real winner of Brazil’s elections is democracy

10/21/2014 - Is the Mahatma more in demand overseas than in India today?

10/21/2014 - The US should include entrepreneurs in its definition of service

10/21/2014 - Why Kayak has always been wrong about the best time to book your holiday flights

10/21/2014 - Don’t believe anyone in France who says they don’t see race

10/21/2014 - “I am Darren Wilson”: St. Louis and the geography of fear

10/21/2014 - This is what happens in a society where people can’t touch each other

10/21/2014 - The Hong Kong government-protester sit-down finally took place—and nobody is satisfied

10/21/2014 - How to keep online advertisers away from your kid’s grades, detention records, and yearbook photos

10/21/2014 - What it took for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to disrupt Boeing, leapfrog NASA, and become a serious space company

10/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Pistorius sentenced, China GDP, Total CEO killed, Nickelback conspiracy

10/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Pistorius sentenced, China GDP, Total CEO killed, Nickelback conspiracy

10/21/2014 - What women want for Diwali: An end to the pointless gift culture

10/21/2014 - Why Bollywood’s biggest star approached a small YouTube channel for help

10/21/2014 - Christophe de Margerie was willing to go anywhere in search of oil—and unwilling to apologize for it

10/21/2014 - Apple Pay also works in New York City taxis

10/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Hong Kong sit-down, China GDP, Total CEO killed, fish sex pioneers

10/21/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong sit-down, China GDP, Total CEO killed, fish sex pioneers

10/20/2014 - China’s GDP number is a fiction, but a symbolic one

10/20/2014 - Hong Kong has too many poor people to allow direct elections, leader says

10/20/2014 - Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future

10/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Hong Kong talks, Nigeria beats Ebola, Google’s gold, Scotland’s sexy invention

10/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong talks, Nigeria beats Ebola, Google’s gold, Scotland’s sexy invention

10/20/2014 - Why music must embrace the latest wave of industry disruption

10/20/2014 - Apple sold 39 million iPhones last quarter and is predicting a huge Christmas

10/20/2014 - We have not yet seen peak Chipotle

10/20/2014 - Here’s what companies are saying about Ebola

10/20/2014 - The complete guide to Apple Pay

10/20/2014 - Academics are using emoji to explain their research

10/20/2014 - This is how Uber’s surge pricing is supposed to work—if the company isn’t lying to you

10/20/2014 - Apple is America’s favorite stock—except in five states

10/20/2014 - Nigeria’s president may finally do what he should have done all along: bring back the girls

10/20/2014 - Amazon’s new Kindle Voyage is getting surprisingly glowing reviews

10/20/2014 - Jeff Bezos is either the world’s best CEO—or a terrible underperformer

10/20/2014 - The Houthi coup in Yemen is a new political era that may end in ruin

10/20/2014 - The vast, untapped potential of YouTube

10/20/2014 - All your #selfie questions, answered

10/20/2014 - A new biography reveals just how sad and lonely Mandela was at the end of his life

10/20/2014 - Why Marc Andreessen thinks tech’s diversity problem is overstated

10/20/2014 - Alcohol, and other boosters of male fertility

10/20/2014 - Watch John Oliver skewer the US government for failing its war zone interpreters

10/20/2014 - This year’s holiday gift for America’s unemployed: seasonal jobs

10/20/2014 - IBM profits plummet to below Facebook levels—at least this quarter

10/20/2014 - ADHD is different for women

10/20/2014 - British politicians may tear Europe apart trying to save themselves

10/20/2014 - For SAP, the cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away

10/20/2014 - An oil contrarian has scored another coup against his Wall Street rivals

10/20/2014 - The firm that won the quarter in trading

10/20/2014 - Here’s who should be happiest about falling oil prices

10/20/2014 - China may be hacking every iPhone user in the country

10/20/2014 - Sometimes it pays off to be the nonconformist entrepreneur

10/20/2014 - Do the media really have an alternative to distribution via Facebook and Google?

10/20/2014 - In South Africa, this is the disease that demands our attention

10/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Russia vs. McDonald’s, IBM chip giveaway, Abe’s cabinet resignations, American pumpkin riot

10/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Russia vs. McDonald’s, IBM chip giveaway, Abe’s cabinet resignations, American pumpkin riot

10/20/2014 - Forget Scotland, London is the UK region that deserves the most autonomy

10/20/2014 - Beijing broke its own air-quality rules and held a marathon in toxic conditions

10/20/2014 - All you need to know about the irresistible force that is Americai Narayanan

10/20/2014 - The US is no role model in Hong Kong’s democracy fight

10/20/2014 - Museum treasures dating back to the second century were lost in the Kashmir floods

10/20/2014 - The fate of these Indian prisoners in Pakistan’s jails hangs on the power of crowdsourcing

10/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Reebok-Adidas split, IBM chip giveaway, Apple Pay launch, American pumpkin riot

10/20/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Reebok-Adidas split, IBM chip giveaway, Apple Pay launch, American pumpkin riot

10/19/2014 - The new iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6 Plus have changed my mind about the iPad mini

10/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia Edition—Apple Pay and earnings, Petrobas corruption, German apprenticeships, Scrabble

10/19/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Apple Pay and earnings, Petrobas corruption, German apprenticeships, Scrabble

10/19/2014 - When you’re an ER doctor and the answer to how you’re doing is “Ebola”

10/19/2014 - The end of reading glasses is approaching—for those who aren’t squeamish

10/19/2014 - Here’s why emerging markets are a challenge for Apple Pay

10/19/2014 - Kill the weekly meeting

10/19/2014 - What a hacker can learn about your life from the coffee shop’s Wi-Fi network

10/19/2014 - What the assembly poll results are about, apart from the continued rise of Narendra Modi

10/19/2014 - Why Germany is so much better at training its workers

10/19/2014 - Muji’s “Vertical House” isn’t the only nifty prefab home on the market now

10/18/2014 - A Bollywood-backed Twitter campaign saved the Mumbai Film Festival—but crushed its spirit

10/18/2014 - Meet the smallest team ever to play in elite European soccer

10/18/2014 - This is the Fortune 500 of companies taking the lead to fight climate change

10/18/2014 - If Shakespeare wrote in JavaScript, here’s what it would look like

10/18/2014 - The bottom ninety percent of US families are no wealthier than in 1986

10/18/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Market madness, Ethiopian land grabs, Mumbai’s wealthy, ocean soundscapes

10/18/2014 - The world, mapped by countries’ greatest fears

10/18/2014 - What the Sunday verdicts in Maharashtra and Haryana will mean for Narendra Modi

10/18/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Market madness, Ethiopian land grabs, Mumbai’s wealthy, ocean soundscapes

10/17/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Market madness, Ethiopian land grabs, Mumbai’s wealthy, ocean soundscapes

10/17/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Market madness, Ethiopian land grabs, Mumbai’s wealthy, ocean soundscapes

10/17/2014 - Kickstarter takes down the internet’s hyped project of the moment

10/17/2014 - Facebook is now bigger than IBM

10/17/2014 - Mark Cuban thinks Netflix could be a takeover target, for some reason

10/17/2014 - Banks tell petrostates to keep calm and bet on oil bouncing back to $100

10/17/2014 - How the Gujaratis took over Belgium’s diamond trade

10/17/2014 - Ebola is getting worse in Guinea and no one’s paying any attention

10/17/2014 - How we predicted the winner of the Man Booker Prize with tweets

10/17/2014 - The depressing truth behind the internet TV revolution

10/17/2014 - Mayhem is breaking out in Hong Kong again as protesters stand off against police

10/17/2014 - What everyone’s getting wrong about Amazon

10/17/2014 - Unfortunately, no clever gadget can keep you entirely safe online

10/17/2014 - As a mainlander, Hong Kong’s protests inspire and sadden me

10/17/2014 - These are the pervasive brain myths that teachers around the world believe

10/17/2014 - Here’s who shareholders think can run Berkshire after Buffett

10/17/2014 - Behold the awesome power of the spreadsheet, destroyer of worlds

10/17/2014 - Who and where America’s poor people are, in charts

10/17/2014 - Morgan Stanley doubles down on stocks

10/17/2014 - The new anti-censorship tool in China: Evernote

10/17/2014 - Plastic containers protect and poison your food

10/17/2014 - Low oil prices won’t make Iran more conciliatory

10/17/2014 - How carpooling turned a decade-old startup into a multimillion-dollar prize

10/17/2014 - Drink coffee—for your health

10/17/2014 - Let’s do some math on Ebola before we start quarantining people

10/17/2014 - In Ethiopia, foreign investment is a fancy word for stealing land

10/17/2014 - Why so many people are out on the streets celebrating Jayalalithaa’s bail

10/17/2014 - Long live the TV remote control!

10/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Ebola cruise fears, Jimmy Choo’s IPO, Apple’s disruptive SIM, middle-aged hip-hop

10/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ebola cruise fears, Jimmy Choo’s IPO, Apple’s disruptive SIM, middle-aged hip-hop

10/17/2014 - Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers are about to “Occupy” the government

10/17/2014 - Stop freaking out about our bodies, Bollywood’s new generation of actresses tell the world

10/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Obama’s Ebola czar, Apple’s OK computers, Google’s old age, rooting for R2D2

10/17/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Obama’s Ebola czar, Apple’s OK computers, Google’s old age, rooting for R2D2

10/16/2014 - The last thing America needs is a scaremongering Ebola TV show—but here it comes, anyway

10/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Old man Google, footloose Jimmy Choo, the Apple factory, Star Wars X-rays

10/16/2014 - Most Airbnb rentals in New York are illegal

10/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Old man Google, footloose Jimmy Choo, the Apple factory, Star Wars X-rays

10/16/2014 - New drone photos show killer whales’ beautiful choreography

10/16/2014 - Apple has lost the plot on simplicity

10/16/2014 - Google remains a fascinating company with a boring business

10/16/2014 - This new “Apple SIM” could legitimately disrupt the wireless industry

10/16/2014 - The countries that gained and lost the most millionaires this year

10/16/2014 - 3 things we learned from Airbnb’s proprietary data

10/16/2014 - Delta’s CEO is wrong about Ebola

10/16/2014 - The company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, and Saint Laurent is getting into crocodile management

10/16/2014 - In pursuit of a $500 million harvest, India is gearing up for a deep dive

10/16/2014 - “UFO clouds” are a delightful (if somewhat ominous-looking) natural phenomenon

10/16/2014 - American nurses lack the most important protection from Ebola—training

10/16/2014 - Tim Cook says the iPhone just had its best first month ever

10/16/2014 - Netflix is still struggling with this fundamental problem

10/16/2014 - How men and women think differently about airline travel

10/16/2014 - Blame Kim Kardashian for the coming avalanche of celebrity-themed gaming apps

10/16/2014 - If its currency wasn’t in free fall, Russia would really be in trouble

10/16/2014 - All that frantic deal-making in the tech sector seems to have finally slowed down

10/16/2014 - How the world orders and delivers in 10 charts

10/16/2014 - The US—and its economy—is heading into another polar vortex

10/16/2014 - Your smartphone can help scientists crowdsource cosmic rays

10/16/2014 - HBO has embraced Netflix’s business model, but not its net neutrality politics

10/16/2014 - “How do pirates divide their treasure?” and other questions you need to answer to get into Oxford

10/16/2014 - With two key appointments, Modi adds firepower to economic policymaking

10/16/2014 - Goldman Sachs’ giant bet on its own trading prowess just paid off

10/16/2014 - DC and Marvel are waging an epic war over superhero supremacy in cinemas

10/16/2014 - The House of Barbie is struggling as the holiday season approaches

10/16/2014 - These five charts underscore why IndiGo just bought 250 jet planes

10/16/2014 - How businesses can move beyond the startup

10/16/2014 - Three designers’ takes on the perfect chair

10/16/2014 - The Wells Fargo worker who asked for a pay raise shows the limits of going it alone

10/16/2014 - Hollywood won’t stop until it turns every movie into a TV series

10/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong negotiations, Airbnb’s New York setback, new iPads, bikers vs. ISIL

10/16/2014 - How side projects saved our startup

10/16/2014 - How to watch today’s Apple event live

10/16/2014 - The world needs to stop listening to American MBAs

10/16/2014 - What to expect from today’s Apple event

10/16/2014 - Hong Kong’s chief executive just gave protesters three unappealing choices—and one possible compromise

10/16/2014 - This tiny device turns every corner store into a convenient ATM

10/16/2014 - Here is why India has no clue how bad its air pollution problem is

10/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Stock market swoon, US Ebola flight, Netflix vs. HBO, bikers vs. ISIL

10/16/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Stock market swoon, US Ebola flight, Netflix vs. HBO, bikers vs. ISIL

10/15/2014 - Larry Summers explains why the world is too optimistic about China’s economic future

10/15/2014 - What everyone is missing about today’s wild ride in the markets

10/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Bears on Wall Street, nuclear fusion, Google’s new goods, Bono’s apology

10/15/2014 - Amex boosts its profit amid moves to broaden its appeal

10/15/2014 - eBay is still feeling the effects of a damaging cyber-attack

10/15/2014 - Netflix and HBO are ready for their fated battle

10/15/2014 - Apple’s iPad problem is a real one—here are four suggestions for fixing it

10/15/2014 - How Pepsi hopes to get millennials to drink carbonated sugar water again

10/15/2014 - It won’t be easy for HBO to break the cable bundle

10/15/2014 - With data breaches part of daily life, banks seek freedom to robotext

10/15/2014 - Bad meetings aren’t just boring—they cost a lot of money

10/15/2014 - HBO is going to sell standalone subscriptions on the internet, without cable TV, starting next year

10/15/2014 - To find a job, start speaking like an employer

10/15/2014 - The world’s biggest supporters of capitalism are Asian—and mostly Communist

10/15/2014 - What it’s like to live above Manhattan

10/15/2014 - Americans prefer male bosses, even though women are better for business

10/15/2014 - Global markets are genuinely freaking out right now

10/15/2014 - Welcome to Britain, where jobs are plentiful but pay is pitiful

10/15/2014 - What the US doesn’t want you to know about chemical weapons in Iraq

10/15/2014 - IndiGo makes a massive bet on Indian aviation—worth 250 Airbus jets

10/15/2014 - ISIL is suffering a big oil hit

10/15/2014 - Soccer in England is so expensive, fans are travelling all the way to Germany

10/15/2014 - The brutal beating of a Hong Kong protester puts the city’s famed “rule of law” on trial

10/15/2014 - Bank of America had an ugly—but unsurprising—quarter

10/15/2014 - Cable networks will save themselves by focusing on what they do best

10/15/2014 - After Hong Kong police are taped beating a protester, authorities are eating their words

10/15/2014 - How to improve your odds of a divorce-proof marriage

10/15/2014 - This is what it’s like to work in an Ebola clinic

10/15/2014 - This company is putting its entire crop of tobacco plants toward curing Ebola

10/15/2014 - How whiskey defeated vodka in the battle for American hearts and wallets

10/15/2014 - YouTube is making itself increasingly indispensable to the music industry

10/15/2014 - Airbnb is courting entrepreneurs and shunning corporate road warriors

10/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—More Texas Ebola, AbbVie backs down, Airbus mega order, football disruption drones

10/15/2014 - The humble coconut might hold the key to making hydrogen-powered cars viable

10/15/2014 - Catching up with Balloon Boy and his family, five years later

10/15/2014 - A new use for drones—triggering a politically-charged riot at a Balkan soccer match

10/15/2014 - This secretive New York firm is quietly fuelling India’s e-commerce revolution

10/15/2014 - How long should the ideal Bollywood film be?

10/15/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong protest violence, France’s budget plan, Intel’s PC rebound, football disruption drones

10/14/2014 - Hong Kong’s tense face-off between police and protesters took a violent turn

10/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—France’s recovery plan, Iran’s nuclear program, America’s deficit, South Korea’s procreation funk

10/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—France’s recovery plan, Iran’s nuclear program, America’s deficit, South Korea’s procreation funk

10/14/2014 - Sorry, Mr. Prime Minister, Apple didn’t kill Nokia—Nokia did

10/14/2014 - How Putin’s power grab is punishing Russia’s poorest neighbors

10/14/2014 - No, Ireland isn’t shutting down its tax avoidance strategy

10/14/2014 - US flight attendants want to take away your iPhones. Here’s why they won’t succeed

10/14/2014 - Apple and Facebook will pay for employees to delay having kids

10/14/2014 - Petro-dictators are in even more trouble than we thought a few days ago

10/14/2014 - We’re about to find out what the future of HBO will look like

10/14/2014 - Decades of corruption have left African nations prey to Ebola

10/14/2014 - A casino that has no house aims to change gambling

10/14/2014 - It’s getting easier to keep companies from watching you online

10/14/2014 - Uh-oh, those shady “exports” from China to Hong Kong are back

10/14/2014 - Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive could be in very hot water with Beijing

10/14/2014 - The French really, really need the Chinese to drink more wine again

10/14/2014 - Why rushing off to fight Ebola in West Africa isn’t the right choice

10/14/2014 - Citigroup is a lot less global than it used to be

10/14/2014 - Just what was America’s top-secret space drone doing up there?

10/14/2014 - Mark Zuckerberg is the latest tech giant to buy (part of) an island

10/14/2014 - Stanford scientists have engineered a smart battery that can detect fires before they happen

10/14/2014 - JPMorgan Chase socks away more money for legal expenses

10/14/2014 - As Chinese demand fizzles, Burberry’s first-time CEO faces his first real test

10/14/2014 - Blessings from your favourite God, now home delivered. Refund if unsatisfied

10/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Kim Jong-un is back, Europe’s deflation flirtation, Ireland closes loophole, Crumbs rises again

10/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Kim Jong-un is back, Europe’s deflation flirtation, Ireland closes loophole, Crumbs rises again

10/14/2014 - This startup has a simple code to solve India’s complex address problem

10/14/2014 - Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement protesters are now vulnerable from all sides

10/14/2014 - The true cost of Bangalore’s traffic gridlock is staggering

10/14/2014 - Annals of desperate measures: How DLF used the wives of its executives to camouflage control

10/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Kim Jong-un is back, Iliad drops T-Mobile, US rethinks Ebola, Crumbs rises again

10/14/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Kim Jong-un is back, Iliad drops T-Mobile, US rethinks Ebola, Crumbs rises again

10/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—India’s inflation, Ireland’s tax loopholes, a cupcake empire strikes back

10/13/2014 - These tiny glass globes were all the rage in London 200 years ago

10/13/2014 - What one US regulator is doing to shrink the original mega-bank

10/13/2014 - US CEOs come from the Ivy League, while CFOs begin at the Big Ten

10/13/2014 - Wells Fargo makes more loans, earns less on them

10/13/2014 - China is buying up Italy, one company at a time

10/13/2014 - Nerd culture is destroying Silicon Valley

10/13/2014 - Britain hopes it does better selling high-speed rail than it did with the postal service

10/13/2014 - Meet the economics Nobel laureate who explains net neutrality and app stores

10/13/2014 - The internet’s best-known body wants everybody to stop asking it do things

10/13/2014 - DLF, builder of modern Gurgaon, is banned from the markets for lying in IPO documents

10/13/2014 - Finland is in trouble, and it blames Apple for everything

10/13/2014 - For a real taste of fall, skip the pumpkin spice latte and fry some maple leaves instead

10/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Clashes in Hong Kong, US Ebola transmission, financial war games, evil geniuses

10/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Clashes in Hong Kong, US Ebola transmission, financial war games, evil geniuses

10/13/2014 - Masked men and Anti-Occupy groups attacked Hong Kong’s main protest site

10/13/2014 - In pictures: Cyclone Hudhud tears through India’s east coast

10/13/2014 - It’s hard not to be skeptical about what the ISL can do for Indian football

10/13/2014 - Long before the Indian Super League, there was an Iranian boy who mesmerized Kolkata

10/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—China’s exports grow, US Ebola transmission, financial war games, dumbed-down presidents

10/13/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—China’s exports grow, US Ebola transmission, financial war games, dumbed-down presidents

10/12/2014 - HP strayed from its strengths long before its recent dysfunction

10/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Financial war games, Ebola in the US, Facebook crawlers, French wealth taxes

10/12/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Financial war games, Ebola in the US, Facebook crawlers, French wealth taxes

10/12/2014 - Why you should care about other people’s kids as much as your own

10/12/2014 - How countries use war games to prevent future catastrophes

10/12/2014 - Meet Profile Engine, the “spammy” Facebook crawler hated by people who want to be forgotten

10/12/2014 - A short history of France’s battles over taxing the wealthy

10/11/2014 - This match featuring Messi and Neymar sums up the crazy world of soccer

10/11/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Workplace sexism, Spanish elevators, troll-feeding, Project Cybersyn

10/11/2014 - The times of day when your kids need you to disconnect

10/11/2014 - My neighbour, the Nobel laureate

10/11/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Workplace sexism, Spanish elevators, troll-feeding, Project Cybersyn

10/10/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Workplace sexism, Spanish elevators, troll-feeding, Project Cybersyn

10/10/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Workplace sexism, Spanish elevators, troll-feeding, Project Cybersyn

10/10/2014 - Why the cloud is an attractive target for sophisticated hackers

10/10/2014 - Russia doesn’t have much to show for the billions it has spent bolstering the ruble

10/10/2014 - JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, back on the public stage, is bearish on bad actors and bullish on the US economy

10/10/2014 - The secret history of Hong Kong’s stillborn democracy

10/10/2014 - Pandora Media’s growing pains are starting to hurt

10/10/2014 - The right to be forgotten is affecting Facebook, not the freedom of the press

10/10/2014 - People in this country believe in individualism even more than Americans

10/10/2014 - Twitter trolls are attacking Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

10/10/2014 - Malala Yousafzai’s journey to the Nobel Prize, in her words

10/10/2014 - The Chinese economy has everyone worried—except the Chinese

10/10/2014 - Here’s what will happen if you refuse an Ebola screening at a US airport

10/10/2014 - Here’s the trouble with letting Chinese investors buy their way into North America

10/10/2014 - These five charts—and one child—show why the Indian Nobel prize winner’s work is so important

10/10/2014 - This is what it looks like when a Tesla drives itself

10/10/2014 - Culinary salvation is officially coming to Olive Garden

10/10/2014 - In the bylanes of Kalkaji, nobody knows the Nobel winner in their midst

10/10/2014 - Watch South Korean activists launch $1,000 and 200,000 leaflets across the border to North Korea

10/10/2014 - Here’s the simple, democratic way to hold a Chinese election

10/10/2014 - Scientists are a step closer to creating the memory eraser from “Men in Black”

10/10/2014 - The 17 best bots on Twitter

10/10/2014 - From one Nobel laureate to another: Amartya Sen reacts to Kailash Satyarthi’s win

10/10/2014 - Beijing’s point man on Hong Kong has a history of cracking down on protesters

10/10/2014 - These hackers are developing apps to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa

10/10/2014 - Jony Ive’s copy-cat complaints about Xiaomi sound eerily familiar

10/10/2014 - Five reasons why Sunday is TV’s best night

10/10/2014 - The unsafety net: How social media turned against women

10/10/2014 - Someone should preserve Hong Kong’s protest art before it’s too late

10/10/2014 - What you need to know about the life-saving work that won Kailash Satyarthi the Nobel Prize

10/10/2014 - How millennials will save the world—one text at a time

10/10/2014 - Facebook is unleashing its ads—and surveillance—onto the internet at large

10/10/2014 - This is how much Europeans think they should be paid for their personal data

10/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Malala’s Nobel Prize, Kim Jong-un no-show, Tesla’s AWD, tiger flees Putin

10/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Malala’s Nobel Prize, Kim Jong-un no-show, Tesla’s AWD, tiger flees Putin

10/10/2014 - The daughter of Hong Kong’s chief executive threatens to sue everyone for her Facebook rants

10/10/2014 - In the throes of Make in India, why is Nokia shutting a factory that once employed 8,000 people?

10/10/2014 - How India went from 15,000 cyclone deaths in 1999 to just 38 last year

10/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Kim-watch continues, Nobel Peace Prize, Microsoft gender gaffe, Siberian tiger defects

10/10/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Kim-watch continues, Nobel Peace Prize, Microsoft gender gaffe, Siberian tiger defects

10/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Progress in Kobani, German economic fragility, an elusive Dear Leader

10/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Progress in Kobani, German economic fragility, an elusive Dear Leader

10/9/2014 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, here’s the real definition of karma

10/9/2014 - Oil prices have plunged through another psychological barrier

10/9/2014 - Two rich financiers are verbally abusing each other on television, and it’s awesome

10/9/2014 - London’s Tube is on its way to going driverless

10/9/2014 - How one African country beat Ebola

10/9/2014 - Suddenly, the heart of Germany’s economy looks shaky

10/9/2014 - All—Yes, all!—the charts from the White House report on millennials

10/9/2014 - Ben Bernanke may have a missed connection

10/9/2014 - The future of wearable tech will be invisible

10/9/2014 - PepsiCo is trying to prove that it still makes sense to sell soda

10/9/2014 - Carl Icahn wants to rescue Apple investors from a record high stock price and flawless balance sheet

10/9/2014 - Americans apply to so many schools that it’s messing up college admissions

10/9/2014 - Apple’s new iPhone is a giant win for Taiwan Semiconductor

10/9/2014 - An end to Hong Kong’s unrest is now more distant than ever

10/9/2014 - These beautiful works of art were made using algorithms

10/9/2014 - Have you ever sat in the perfect chair?

10/9/2014 - How Spain’s bloody history gave it the world’s highest concentration of elevators

10/9/2014 - With Modiano’s Nobel Prize, the French continue to dominate the literary world

10/9/2014 - Tesla’s latest earth-shattering, life-changing, epoch-defining announcement is coming. Here’s what to look for

10/9/2014 - A brief history of #Hokkolorob, the hashtag that shook Kolkata

10/9/2014 - Clay Christensen’s theories are great for entrepreneurs, but not executives

10/9/2014 - If you run over someone’s foot with your stroller, please say you’re sorry

10/9/2014 - Why Lego reluctantly agreed to disassemble its deal with an oil company

10/9/2014 - Three ways to get kids to exercise without gym class

10/9/2014 - Yes, the people going to Mars on a Dutch reality TV show will die

10/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Elon Musk’s “D,” Icahn’s Apple letter, Lego dumps Shell, arboreal garlic injections

10/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Elon Musk’s “D,” Icahn’s Apple letter, Lego dumps Shell, arboreal garlic injections

10/9/2014 - Why Brazil’s protests didn’t translate into change at the ballot box

10/9/2014 - These elevated bikeways are trendy solutions to fighting traffic

10/9/2014 - Three grassroots projects that Modi’s Clean India campaign can learn from

10/9/2014 - Britain won’t let companies bury their accounting missteps in bulky reports anymore

10/9/2014 - How China’s anti-umbrella propaganda failed in Hong Kong

10/9/2014 - Meet the man who built the awesome online attendance system for India’s government officials

10/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Fed market rally, PCs aren’t dead, Hong Kong protest economics, arboreal garlic injections

10/9/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Fed market rally, PCs aren’t dead, Hong Kong protest economics, arboreal garlic injections

10/8/2014 - Why Beijing’s hipsters are too cool for a European-themed bar street

10/8/2014 - This US airline could serve you cricket protein bars and mushroom tea

10/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—First US Ebola death, Tesla’s D, protest economics, garlic injections

10/8/2014 - Alcoa’s plan to sidestep a slowing China just might be working

10/8/2014 - We need $1 billion to tackle the Ebola epidemic—and we’re $600 million short

10/8/2014 - Here’s how Satya Nadella got the Microsoft CEO job

10/8/2014 - The perilous position of what once was America’s favorite store

10/8/2014 - How mainstreaming bitcoin makes it more like Wall Street

10/8/2014 - Nope, China’s economy hasn’t yet surpassed America’s

10/8/2014 - How astronauts vote from space

10/8/2014 - Think Norway’s new bank notes are cool? You should see the ones they rejected

10/8/2014 - A look at Pakistan’s amazingly lucrative scorpion trade

10/8/2014 - Shonda Rhimes never had a mentor—she had her fans and Twitter instead

10/8/2014 - The world’s second-richest man thinks we should all be working less

10/8/2014 - If you live in these US cities, chronic flooding is coming to a shore near you

10/8/2014 - Watch this very creepy android woman talk to you in sign language

10/8/2014 - The six-page letter that could fell Hong Kong’s leader

10/8/2014 - English soccer is annoying fans by suggesting matches abroad, again

10/8/2014 - Uniqlo may conquer the world but Japan will do for now

10/8/2014 - We’re counting the world’s unconnected billions all wrong

10/8/2014 - Here’s everything you need to know about the new US passports

10/8/2014 - We ran India’s top ministers’ assets by a financial planner. He is worried about Modi

10/8/2014 - If you’re bad at math, blame your parents

10/8/2014 - There’s no getting around facetime with your kids

10/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Amazon’s stop-and-frisk, Yum’s food-safety slump, Symantec split-up, inheriting coffee addiction

10/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Amazon’s stop-and-frisk, Yum’s food-safety slump, Symantec split-up, inheriting coffee addiction

10/8/2014 - Five things the West can learn from the Ukraine Crisis

10/8/2014 - Why India did well at the Asian Games—a smaller medal tally notwithstanding

10/8/2014 - These charts answer an age-old question—can money win you elections in India?

10/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Amazon’s worker searchees, Yum’s food-safety slump, Wal-Mart cuts benefits, inheriting coffee addiction

10/8/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Amazon’s worker searchees, Yum’s food-safety slump, Wal-Mart cuts benefits, inheriting coffee addiction

10/7/2014 - Tourism is actually up during Hong Kong’s protests, and other economic surprises

10/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Amazon’s pay practices, Wal-Mart’s health benefits, Europe’s recession, inherited coffee addiction

10/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Amazon’s pay practices, Wal-Mart’s health benefits, Europe’s recession, inherited coffee addiction

10/7/2014 - Memo to Warren Buffett: Actually, women are better than men at managing money

10/7/2014 - Spotify is actually making money somewhere

10/7/2014 - The superhero show is the new police procedural

10/7/2014 - Yum Brands’ charmed life in China is a thing of the past

10/7/2014 - Here’s how to seize the cloud’s potential in a secure fashion

10/7/2014 - The fastest growing group of student borrowers are middle-class and rich kids

10/7/2014 - Why Facebook and Twitter should fear productivity apps

10/7/2014 - Hong Kong’s “Umbrella movement” has become a war of attrition

10/7/2014 - Ecuador’s president is going “soft” on drug mules

10/7/2014 - This poet was arrested by Chinese authorities for supporting Hong Kong’s protests

10/7/2014 - Twitter is getting closer to resolving its biggest problem

10/7/2014 - Read what happens when a bunch of over-30s find out how Millennials handle their money

10/7/2014 - Russia’s currency is collapsing—and Putin won’t do anything to stop it

10/7/2014 - Torturers are reminded by a British court that they can be prosecuted anywhere

10/7/2014 - Princeton is giving up ground in its fight against grade inflation

10/7/2014 - Flipkart says sorry for sale day glitches, but just look at these traffic numbers

10/7/2014 - Not your mother’s library

10/7/2014 - Yahoo just sacked nearly all of its engineers in India

10/7/2014 - American companies profit from the world but don’t let it in the boardroom

10/7/2014 - Smoking pot is not as safe as people think

10/7/2014 - Bad Chinese chicken makes McDonald’s Japan see red

10/7/2014 - Cord-cutting is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy

10/7/2014 - Here are the US colleges whose students have the toughest time paying back loans

10/7/2014 - Samsung’s phone business seems to be falling apart

10/7/2014 - How to turn any car into a connected car

10/7/2014 - Outdated, inefficient and humiliating—India deserves freedom from these laws

10/7/2014 - Today’s Nobel Prize-winning physicist only got $200 for his invention

10/7/2014 - More signs point to a recession in Europe’s strongest economy

10/7/2014 - The secret of New York City’s mythic bagel-making water

10/7/2014 - How, and why, Showtime resurrected “Twin Peaks”

10/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—ISIL massacre looms, Samsung’s profit plunge, Glencore chases Rio, doves can’t cry

10/7/2014 - Why children in Assam are crying at the sight of rains

10/7/2014 - Why an iconic New York hotel and a Chinese insurance company are a surprisingly good match

10/7/2014 - China’s leaders don’t have many good options to quell a protracted Hong Kong pro-democracy movement

10/7/2014 - The umbrella movement belongs to everyone who calls Hong Kong home

10/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—ISIL massacre looms, Samsung’s profit plung, Ebola in Spain, doves can’t cry

10/7/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—ISIL massacre looms, Samsung’s profit plung, Ebola in Spain, doves can’t cry

10/6/2014 - Why Modi’s social media strategy to clean India is unlikely to go viral

10/6/2014 - Two years, five countries, and €4,000 later: a Syrian Kurdish refugee’s journey home

10/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Another German recession, Spanish Ebola, Samsung’s struggles, cage-fighting colleagues

10/6/2014 - Hong Kong protestors might fail but that doesn’t mean the West shouldn’t take them seriously

10/6/2014 - Falling prices aren’t the real reason to worry about bitcoin

10/6/2014 - Where in the world people want to work abroad

10/6/2014 - The next battlefield for workplace gender discrimination is artificial turf

10/6/2014 - GoPro is doubling down on what it does best

10/6/2014 - Watch how same-sex marriage has taken America by storm

10/6/2014 - America’s $60 billion plus sports business, in five charts

10/6/2014 - If the market hates uncertainty, why is Hong Kong’s rising?

10/6/2014 - Want to avoid Argentine-style debt stand-offs? Buy Kazakhstan’s new bonds

10/6/2014 - Thanks to drought (and politics) in Brazil, coffee futures are soaring

10/6/2014 - Why we see so many annoying posts on Facebook

10/6/2014 - HP is splitting into two equally boring parts

10/6/2014 - Africa’s troubled roads and runways are worsening the Ebola crisis

10/6/2014 - First Ebola, now Marburg. Here’s why deadly viruses are on the rise in Africa

10/6/2014 - Watch John Oliver make the case that police have robbed Americans of billions—legally

10/6/2014 - Victims of Colombia’s conflict fight to be recognized as such

10/6/2014 - Brazil’s markets need to relax, Rousseff isn’t out yet

10/6/2014 - The real reason it’s nearly impossible to end the Cuba embargo

10/6/2014 - A top Taliban figure gives away his hiding spot on Twitter

10/6/2014 - Why Hong Kong shouldn’t forget Tiananmen: advice from a 1989 activist

10/6/2014 - Even Mickey Mouse can’t ride out Europe’s ailing economy

10/6/2014 - A law will never end conflict at the US-Mexico border

10/6/2014 - The real reason why India’s shopping websites are at each other’s throats this week

10/6/2014 - Elon Musk is the true successor to Steve Jobs

10/6/2014 - The complete guide to stress relief at the office

10/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong protests dwindle, Brazil’s presidential run-off, Samsung’s chip pivot, Germany’s shared bathwater

10/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Hong Kong protests dwindle, Brazil’s presidential run-off, Samsung’s chip pivot, Germany’s shared bathwater

10/6/2014 - You probably don’t know the real story behind Baby on Board signs

10/6/2014 - One chart explaining what happened to the European debt crisis

10/6/2014 - Samsung is preparing an escape route from its smartphone business—and into everyone else’s

10/6/2014 - Neither Hong Kong’s protesters nor its government appear to have any idea what they’re doing

10/6/2014 - Flipkart’s mega sale day is proving to be a public relations nightmare

10/6/2014 - We refused to tell people in this Bihar village that they need help. It worked wonders

10/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong protests persist, Brazil’s presidential run-off, HP plans split, Germany’s shared bathwater

10/6/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Hong Kong protests persist, Brazil’s presidential run-off, HP plans split, Germany’s shared bathwater

10/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Hong Kong’s crossroads, Brazil’s presidential path, French rants, shared bath water

10/5/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong’s crossroads, Brazil’s presidential path, French rants, shared bath water

10/5/2014 - Jerry Seinfeld ripped apart the advertising industry on its biggest night

10/5/2014 - This lending library is trying to keep Hong Kong’s democracy movement alive

10/5/2014 - Where news media need to focus if they’re going to survive

10/5/2014 - The best way to teach kids math is not in a classroom

10/5/2014 - Apple Pay is such a big deal that eBay already has had to change strategy

10/5/2014 - There are lessons for the US in Jean-Claude Duvalier’s death

10/5/2014 - The most thoughtful critics of the Apple Watch are watch bloggers

10/5/2014 - Microsoft makes more money from Samsung than from Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox combined

10/5/2014 - Here’s a fun and cheap trend straight from the fashion runways you can try right now

10/5/2014 - Hong Kong democracy protesters are pulling back, not giving up

10/5/2014 - The complete guide to organizing a second-hand wedding

10/5/2014 - Amazing new maps of the ocean floor

10/5/2014 - The size of your dining companion can influence what (and how much) you eat

10/4/2014 - Some of the all-time best rants about doing business in France

10/4/2014 - The next 36 hours could determine the future of Hong Kong

10/4/2014 - All the countries—including Sweden—that now recognize Palestinian statehood

10/4/2014 - In Ferguson, the fervor of the street is moving to the ballot box

10/4/2014 - Ferrari’s iconic, headstrong boss of 23 years is stepping down. What next for the Prancing Horse?

10/4/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Hong Kong vs Goliath, American marriage, cocktail calculator, tech sexism

10/4/2014 - The best US college majors for getting very rich

10/4/2014 - How learning Russian can make you better at math

10/4/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Hong Kong vs Goliath, American marriage, cocktail calculator, tech sexism

10/3/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Hong Kong vs Goliath, American marriage, cocktail calculator, tech sexism

10/3/2014 - Quartz Weekend Brief—Hong Kong vs Goliath, American marriage, cocktail calculator, tech sexism

10/3/2014 - Singapore isn’t the global city of the future after all

10/3/2014 - Here’s China’s latest warning to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution

10/3/2014 - Obama is just as good as Reagan at cutting unemployment

10/3/2014 - Abercrombie & Fitch’s absurd dress code is going all the way to the Supreme Court

10/3/2014 - What it will take to convince Americans to embrace more free trade

10/3/2014 - We found mankind’s first computer technology in an ancient Greek shipwreck and robots are going back for more

10/3/2014 - Coral reefs are a $30 billion asset we can’t afford to lose

10/3/2014 - The cloud DVR is going mainstream before anyone knows if it’s legal

10/3/2014 - Nearly all popular movies and TV shows are legally available online

10/3/2014 - The two faces of Hong Kong police in two viral videos

10/3/2014 - This new finding on how young people choose cars could transform the auto industry’s marketing strategy

10/3/2014 - EasyJet is profiting from the misery of others

10/3/2014 - All the key charts from today’s robust US jobs report

10/3/2014 - The impressive US jobs report for September in two simple charts

10/3/2014 - A dangerous line was crossed when Doordarshan telecast Bhagwat’s speech live

10/3/2014 - China is driving a global renewable-energy rebound—but it might not last

10/3/2014 - Live: The US jobs report

10/3/2014 - “Am I safe?” is the wrong Ebola question to ask

10/3/2014 - Here is Mahatma Gandhi’s first interview on film

10/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong’s standoff, JPMorgan’s data breach, Cameron’s Afghanistan visit, smelling imminent death

10/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Hong Kong’s standoff, JPMorgan’s data breach, Cameron’s Afghanistan visit, smelling imminent death

10/3/2014 - What Brazil can learn from Modi’s brand of realistic nationalism

10/3/2014 - Asian factories will need to mechanize or move to stay competitive

10/3/2014 - Pro-Beijing groups are systematically attacking protests in Hong Kong

10/3/2014 - How Hong Kong’s umbrella revolutionaries shut down the government, at least temporarily

10/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong’s standoff, JPMorgan’s massive breach, US-Vietnam embargo lifted, hobbled Angry Birds,

10/3/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Hong Kong’s standoff, JPMorgan’s massive breach, US-Vietnam embargo lifted, hobbled Angry Birds,

10/2/2014 - Narendra Modi is not Reagan. Or Obama. Or Evita. Or Margaret Thatcher

10/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Hong Kong’s standoff, Ukraine’s airport battle, hobbled Angry Birds, the smell of death

10/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong’s standoff, Ukraine’s airport battle, hobbled Angry Birds, the smell of death

10/2/2014 - Growth is stagnant and deflation is looming. What is Mario Draghi waiting for?

10/2/2014 - The most popular university major in the US leads to the least fulfilling work

10/2/2014 - Hong Kong is attacking the protest movement’s biggest weakness—its fragmented leadership

10/2/2014 - Here are the contenders to become the logo of Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Revolution”

10/2/2014 - Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider shows the truth about Kashmir that India can’t wish away

10/2/2014 - From Wall Street to Central—how to Occupy a space

10/2/2014 - Narendra Modi is more “Liked” in America than most American politicians—but these world leaders still have him beat

10/2/2014 - Here are the diseases that kill children around the world

10/2/2014 - Here’s one way to get to the finish line faster

10/2/2014 - The recession’s baby bust

10/2/2014 - EU trade deal will likely crush industry in West Africa

10/2/2014 - A Microsoft applied economist wants to give Nate Silver a run for his money

10/2/2014 - The best live-blogs, live streams and Twitter feeds for following Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Revolution”

10/2/2014 - Your pooch’s poop is polluting the neighborhood drinking water

10/2/2014 - A history of the Pimco Total Return Fund under Bill Gross, in one chart

10/2/2014 - Selfie fever is taking the Hajj by storm

10/2/2014 - These might be the only bankers who think executive bonuses are too high

10/2/2014 - Why the Modi government should scrap these 100 laws right away

10/2/2014 - Here is the biggest challenge to Modi’s digital India vision

10/2/2014 - Why protesters want Hong Kong’s chief executive to go to hell

10/2/2014 - Hong Kong protesters and police are spoiling for a showdown tonight

10/2/2014 - Why your Apple Watch will die faster than your iPhone

10/2/2014 - 10 things you should never say when you’re firing someone

10/2/2014 - Why ABC Family is a leader in LGBT inclusion on television

10/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—HK heats up, Netflix gets Adam Sandler, Rocket’s IPO fizzles, neighborhood drone defense

10/2/2014 - In Hong Kong’s protests, technology is a battlefield

10/2/2014 - Catalonia won’t be triumphant without a rebellion

10/2/2014 - Why most of India’s ATMs won’t run out of cash this long holiday weekend

10/2/2014 - Beijing needs to recognize that there are different types of Chinese people

10/2/2014 - The voluptuous fatigue of Paris Fashion Week was oh so Parisian

10/2/2014 - Narendra Modi’s going for his second clean sweep of the year

10/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Turkey’s ISIL problem, Rocket’s IPO, Zara needs Alibaba, Viagra blindness

10/2/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Turkey’s ISIL problem, Rocket’s IPO, Zara needs Alibaba, Viagra blindness

10/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Turkey’s ISIL problem, Rocket’s IPO, the ECB rescue, beer drinking street cleaners

10/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Asia edition—Turkey’s ISIL problem, Rocket’s IPO, the ECB rescue, beer drinking street cleaners

10/1/2014 - The speeches that defined Narendra Modi’s whirlwind US tour

10/1/2014 - Hong Kong’s protests don’t impress mainland Chinese visitors

10/1/2014 - The family trees of the six companies that make 50% of the world’s beer

10/1/2014 - The markets were clearly under the US dollar’s control last quarter

10/1/2014 - India took a picture of Mars—and found a picture of India

10/1/2014 - What it’s like to fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites class

10/1/2014 - Why the world needs to put a better price on the rainforest

10/1/2014 - Four highly unlikely things that are more likely than scoring an American “diversity visa”

10/1/2014 - France’s “unprecedented” public spending cut is actually just a lower increase

10/1/2014 - Here is the full text of the Chinese Communist Party’s message to Hong Kong

10/1/2014 - Now we know exactly how much wellness is worth: $3.4 trillion

10/1/2014 - How Ebola turned into an epidemic, explained in 90 seconds

10/1/2014 - There’s a good chance you’re reading this on a damaged mobile device

10/1/2014 - 35,000 walruses have mobbed the Alaskan coast—because there’s no sea ice left to rest on

10/1/2014 - Science proves that “Dutch courage” is a real thing

10/1/2014 - 43—yes, 43—charts that explain how the global economy wobbled forward last month

10/1/2014 - Forget Ebola. This is the viral epidemic that should really terrify Americans

10/1/2014 - These are the undergraduate schools that land you the best jobs

10/1/2014 - For a price, Manchester United is happy to fly out to play your kid’s soccer team

10/1/2014 - Londoners could buy a whole house somewhere else for just what they pay in property tax

10/1/2014 - The US is keeping nuclear weapons around for “planetary defense”

10/1/2014 - British supermarkets are having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

10/1/2014 - How the Food Network became less about food and more about winning

10/1/2014 - These are not the National Day celebrations that Beijing had in mind

10/1/2014 - Beijing just sent a chilling message to Hong Kong’s umbrella revolution

10/1/2014 - The illusion of “natural”

10/1/2014 - American feminists are focused on all the wrong things

10/1/2014 - Here’s what Vans and Adidas got wrong about my kids’ custom sneakers

10/1/2014 - The complete guide to packing lunches that are tastier than takeout

10/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong protests swell, Nigeria Ebola contained, hajj selfies denounced, Tetris: The Movie

10/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Hong Kong protests swell, Nigeria Ebola contained, hajj selfies denounced, Tetris: The Movie

10/1/2014 - Firechat was sparking interest in India, even before it became a mainstay of the Hong Kong protests

10/1/2014 - Hong Kong democracy activists are offering their umbrellas to rain-soaked police

10/1/2014 - Alcohol, sex, chocolate or the internet: what Indians would rather have

10/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Ebola reaches US, Hong Kong protests swell, UK bombs IS, Tetris: The Movie

10/1/2014 - Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Ebola reaches US, Hong Kong protests swell, UK bombs IS, Tetris: The Movie