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2017 October
10/31/2017 - Four frightening facts Facebook disclosed at the Congressional hearing today
10/31/2017 - New York terror attack kills eight, bitcoin futures market, city mouse genetics
10/31/2017 - What we know about the deadly “act of terror” near the World Trade Center site in New York
10/31/2017 - Food waste, tech testimony, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/31/2017 - The world is globalizing whether Donald Trump likes it or not—and we must learn to navigate it
10/31/2017 - Bats
10/31/2017 - Eating spicy foods can make your low-salt food taste saltier
10/31/2017 - Anthony Bourdain says this Italian classic is today’s must-watch horror movie
10/31/2017 - On Halloween, the White House released a new look for Donald Trump
10/31/2017 - The iPhone X reviews are in and people seem happy despite the price tag
10/31/2017 - A nine-step plan for conquering social anxiety that won’t overwhelm you
10/31/2017 - The judge presiding over Paul Manafort’s case also ruled on Clinton’s role in Benghazi
10/31/2017 - The mobile internet is the internet
10/31/2017 - What Facebook and Twitter will say in Congress today and tomorrow
10/31/2017 - Samsung makes a clean sweep of its leadership
10/31/2017 - The EU-Turkey deal returned just 4% of migrants who undertook the dangerous journey to Greece
10/31/2017 - Trump’s chief of staff said a “lack of ability to compromise” caused the Civil War. That’s extremely incorrect
10/31/2017 - A philosopher ponders the death of the American dream
10/31/2017 - The worst Halloween candy can also put you in the hospital if you eat too much
10/31/2017 - Kenya’s opposition is advocating peaceful resistance but that isn’t easing fears or frustration
10/31/2017 - How to watch Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify in the Senate
10/31/2017 - Humans are psychologically hardwired to see ghosts
10/31/2017 - A simple math lesson for Donald Trump Jr.
10/31/2017 - Still without power, some Puerto Ricans are making DIY washing machines
10/31/2017 - Economics can help you maximize your trick-or-treat strategy
10/31/2017 - Under Armour is “incredibly disappointed” with its own sales performance
10/31/2017 - What to watch for when America’s tech giants testify on Russian hacking today
10/31/2017 - A “Spooky Sounds” playlist direct from outer space, compiled by NASA for Halloween
10/31/2017 - Student debt is so terrifying, it’s now the subject of a John Grisham thriller
10/31/2017 - A horror maestro says Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing to happen to the movie business
10/31/2017 - Women dress as “sluts” on Halloween because it’s the one night of shame escapism
10/31/2017 - Donald Trump’s big mouth keeps killing his own directives
10/31/2017 - This simple, five-minute exercise will help you build a better presentation
10/31/2017 - The key to managing millenials is to let them fail
10/31/2017 - Who is Jerome Powell, the likely next chairman of the Fed?
10/31/2017 - What does Paul Manafort’s indictment mean for US tax reform?
10/31/2017 - A top business school takes students to the zoo to teach them what it means to be human
10/31/2017 - A business trip to a haunted hotel showed me the power of the paranormal
10/31/2017 - A researcher found a bug that let him access Google’s database of bugs
10/31/2017 - The mistake of seeing only some jobs as creative
10/31/2017 - Getty Images and Instagram gave these photographers $10,000 each for documenting underrepresented communities
10/31/2017 - The Dutch government funds three YouTubers to get high and record their drug trips
10/31/2017 - A judge called out Trump’s tweets in an order blocking his transgender soldier ban
10/31/2017 - Kenya’s largest supermarket has gone bankrupt and rivals are set to snap up its empty stores
10/31/2017 - The first known visitor from outside our solar system has been spotted
10/31/2017 - The Fed meets, Russia’s Facebook reach, AI horror stories
10/31/2017 - These Chinese grannies have become viral sensations for their real talk on how to be modern women
10/31/2017 - No creature who encounters pizza remains unchanged—including mice
10/31/2017 - The uncomfortable parallels between ICOs and the “penny stock” underworld
10/31/2017 - African countries are having a risky affair with eurobond debt and it could end very badly
10/31/2017 - An idiom uttered by Xi Jinping perfectly describes Mark Zuckerberg’s frustrating China courtship
10/31/2017 - The anti-corruption fight of Nigeria’s president Buhari has hit close to home
10/31/2017 - Four charts and a table: more proof of India’s job crisis
10/31/2017 - Seven reasons why Chinese-made Hindu gods rule Indian markets
10/31/2017 - Euro-zone GDP, Samsung soars, AI horror stories
10/31/2017 - Euro-zone GDP, Samsung soars, AI horror stories
10/31/2017 - For a Chinese company building Central Africa’s first auto plant it’s been a bumpy road
10/31/2017 - India’s $150 billion IT industry is looking for its lost mojo in startups
10/31/2017 - The pioneers of Indian angel investing are now getting into the venture capital game
10/31/2017 - Amid China’s growing clout, Indian and US interests in the Asia Pacific are out of sync
10/30/2017 - The head of AIG sent employees a memo urging them to oppose the Congressional 401(k) cap
10/30/2017 - The mysterious professor who tried to connect Trump to the Kremlin is probably Joseph Mifsud
10/30/2017 - Trump advisors charged, tech giants testify, AI horror stories
10/30/2017 - Mueller investigation, newest gilded age, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/30/2017 - Your iPhone’s AI is tracking all your pictures that it thinks are bras
10/30/2017 - Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spiked in 2016, setting a new, 800,000-year record
10/30/2017 - Vending machines
10/30/2017 - The era of easily faked, AI-generated photos is quickly emerging
10/30/2017 - Japan’s overwork culture is famous, but the US version may be just as bad
10/30/2017 - Interactive quiz: How well do you know the South Bay?
10/30/2017 - Interactive quiz: How well do you really know Fresno county?
10/30/2017 - Mental health and wellness aren’t the same
10/30/2017 - Paul Manafort’s day, in one photo
10/30/2017 - Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit for trying to avoid paying its workers overtime
10/30/2017 - Elon Musk’s first photo of the tunnel he’s building to banish Los Angeles’ “soul-destroying” traffic
10/30/2017 - Paul Manafort was renting his New York apartment (probably illegally) on Airbnb
10/30/2017 - 2017: the year that horror saved Hollywood
10/30/2017 - If you want a review of the iPhone X right now, be prepared to watch a lot of random videos
10/30/2017 - MIT researchers trained AI to write horror stories based on 140,000 Reddit posts
10/30/2017 - The indictment against Paul Manafort lists all of the properties he may have to give up
10/30/2017 - Art fairs may be nearing peak globally but in Africa they’re just getting started
10/30/2017 - A Trump campaign aide who thought he was meeting Putin’s niece admits lying to the FBI
10/30/2017 - The name “Trump” never appears in the FBI’s indictment of Manafort and Gates
10/30/2017 - Apple reportedly fired an engineer because his daughter posted an iPhone X video from its secretive campus
10/30/2017 - Would the world be more peaceful if there were more women leaders?
10/30/2017 - Watch SpaceX launch a satellite and outfly the world’s rocket-makers
10/30/2017 - Vinyl is the new Netflix (but the old DVDs-on-demand Netflix)
10/30/2017 - Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein made the same mistake in their public “apologies”
10/30/2017 - This film is made entirely with surveillance footage
10/30/2017 - The alt-right is creating its own dialect. Here’s the dictionary
10/30/2017 - The 12 charges against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates
10/30/2017 - A new study shows how managers can double employee satisfaction and trust
10/30/2017 - Read the federal indictment against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates
10/30/2017 - Just five tech companies account for a quarter of the US stock market’s blockbuster year
10/30/2017 - Samsung’s leadership drama hasn’t stopped it from having a dream earnings run this year
10/30/2017 - Without net neutrality in Portugal, mobile internet is bundled like a cable package
10/30/2017 - Kevin Spacey: Your apology for an alleged sexual assault is not the time to come out
10/30/2017 - Who are Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, the Trump associates charged in the FBI’s Russia investigation?
10/30/2017 - Kenya’s president has been re-elected with more than 98% of the vote—but a political stand-off persists
10/30/2017 - The networking faux pas almost everyone makes
10/30/2017 - The case for prescribing Adderall to kids who don’t have ADD
10/30/2017 - All relationship problems stem from one persistent myth about romance
10/30/2017 - Our crowded, lengthy commutes are making us more lonely than ever
10/30/2017 - Chinese universities are falling over themselves to teach “Xi Jinping Thought”
10/30/2017 - China’s air pollution is hindering its ability to produce solar power
10/30/2017 - FBI Russia probe charges, Kevin Spacey apologizes, interstellar comet
10/30/2017 - A London home that “rivals Buckingham Palace” is on sale for $131 million
10/30/2017 - Brexit help wanted: Europe’s biggest exchanges seek new CEOs
10/30/2017 - China’s planning a 1,000km tunnel to divert water away from one of India’s largest rivers
10/30/2017 - China is blocking the world’s hottest video game because it lacks “core socialist values”
10/30/2017 - India’s ambitious IT literacy plan is stumbling over poor infrastructure and faulty processes
10/30/2017 - TPP talks resume, US election-probe arrests, interstellar comet
10/30/2017 - TPP talks resume, US election-probe arrests, interstellar comet
10/30/2017 - Murder of a president: How India and the UN mucked up completely in Afghanistan
10/30/2017 - With less flab and more cheese, Domino’s gets back to shape in India
10/30/2017 - Memo to Infosys: Stop squabbling with Murthy and get back to work ASAP
10/29/2017 - Halloween is a $1 billion celebration of cuteness and grossness in Japan
10/29/2017 - Watch: Trump’s top intelligence officials confirm Russia meddled in the US election
10/29/2017 - TPP talks resume, FBI Russian arrests, Iceland’s leftists
10/29/2017 - The 79-year history of Silicon Valley’s first tech startup was destroyed in the Santa Rosa fires
10/29/2017 - The Gambia is now free and democratic so Europe is pushing its migrants to go home
10/29/2017 - What it feels like to battle a sex addiction
10/29/2017 - Martin Luther’s defining act that sparked the Protestant Reformation probably never happened
10/29/2017 - US GDP grew faster in 2013 and 2014 than it is now
10/29/2017 - In pictures: Asia’s biggest LGBT pride parade
10/29/2017 - The best diamonds in the world are buried at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
10/29/2017 - The data on how many new mothers die in the US are in shambles
10/29/2017 - What’s killing America’s new mothers?
10/29/2017 - “Daylight Savings” is grammatically incorrect
10/29/2017 - If scheduling causes you conflict, maybe you’re on “event time”
10/29/2017 - Kenya should look to its election crisis as a moment of political growth
10/29/2017 - Zimbabwe’s bitcoin, South Africa’s black graduates, Ethiopia’s boom
10/28/2017 - Daylight saving time is incredibly disruptive—here’s how to reset
10/28/2017 - Barack Obama’s got jury duty
10/28/2017 - What makes Catalonia so different from Spain? A lot.
10/28/2017 - Nearly half of all internet traffic in Zimbabwe goes to WhatsApp
10/28/2017 - Why did Best Buy add $100 to the price of the iPhone X?
10/28/2017 - Documenting life after a Category-5 hurricane flattens your island
10/28/2017 - The invitation for today’s white supremacist gatherings in Tennessee is anti-Trump
10/28/2017 - Retailers are missing opportunities to win against Amazon
10/28/2017 - Puerto Ricans, washing in contaminated water, face the spread of disease
10/28/2017 - Ugandan lawmakers are being “bribed” to extend president Museveni’s rule
10/28/2017 - There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn’t end well.
10/28/2017 - The American civic duty of facing weaponized social media
10/28/2017 - With more superstorms predicted, there’s a dream project to keep New York above water
10/28/2017 - Cut your phone dependence with an app that plants trees as a reward
10/28/2017 - A small town in Iceland created a “levitating” crosswalk to slow traffic
10/28/2017 - One historic meeting determined the size and shape of every passport in the world today
10/28/2017 - The grown-ups steal the show in the new season of “Stranger Things”
10/28/2017 - A 1980 letter—shorter than this post—helped fuel the US opioid crisis
10/28/2017 - Weekend edition—Princess Moana, free-range humans, nuclear weapons
10/28/2017 - The US cities with the highest concentrations of working artists
10/28/2017 - Halloween costume ideas for the new global economy, 2017
10/28/2017 - Weekend edition—Princess Moana, free-range humans, nuclear weapons
10/28/2017 - The Double Ninth festival is a great reminder of the importance of disaster preparedness
10/28/2017 - Weekend edition—Princess Moana, free-range humans, nuclear weapons
10/27/2017 - What’s being said about Robert Mueller’s indictments in the Trump-Russia probe
10/27/2017 - Weekend edition—Princess Moana, free-range humans, nuclear weapons
10/27/2017 - Uber is done playing fast-and-loose with the law
10/27/2017 - Catalonia’s independence, Putin’s revenge, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/27/2017 - The unpopular case for capping the 401(k) contribution
10/27/2017 - Ford built a robot butt to test the seats in its cars
10/27/2017 - America’s biggest tech companies grew the size of two Goldmans in four hours
10/27/2017 - White supremacists are rallying in Tennessee this weekend. Here’s what to expect
10/27/2017 - The JFK files
10/27/2017 - France has sentenced the playboy son of Africa’s longest serving president to three years in jail
10/27/2017 - Tolerance is for cowards
10/27/2017 - The modern workplace doesn’t work for introverts, and that’s an expensive problem
10/27/2017 - Nerds rejoice: Google just released its internal tool to collaborate on AI
10/27/2017 - Ex-Yankees manager Joe Girardi and the case for giving all leaders term limits
10/27/2017 - If you type 1+2+3 into your iPhone’s calculator on iOS 11, you probably won’t get 6
10/27/2017 - Amazon just explained how Whole Foods fits into its plan for world domination
10/27/2017 - Washington Post editor Marty Baron on life with Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos
10/27/2017 - Other things I could have spent that $1,000 on while waiting to order an iPhone X at 3am
10/27/2017 - All the reasons Puerto Rico’s $300-million contract with Whitefish Energy is under investigation
10/27/2017 - Can humans ever feel truly intimate with robots?
10/27/2017 - Ditching daylight savings, the most powerful passport, London’s “toxicity charge”
10/27/2017 - As Amazon considers getting into drugs, CVS looks for cover in health insurance
10/27/2017 - A paralyzed man can stand again after an experimental epidural treatment
10/27/2017 - Quartzy: the strange things edition
10/27/2017 - Quartzy: the strange things edition
10/27/2017 - Catalonia formally declared independence from Spain and immediately lost all autonomy
10/27/2017 - Rotten Tomatoes, the bane of Hollywood, is coming to Facebook
10/27/2017 - Nivea’s fair skin products are only capitalizing on an age-old African insecurity
10/27/2017 - Cuba says cicadas are behind the “sonic attacks” that injured US diplomats in Havana
10/27/2017 - Black Brits are more than seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people
10/27/2017 - Wall Street’s research jobs are the most likely to be upended by artificial intelligence
10/27/2017 - Germany’s automotive giants top the charts for autonomous-driving patents
10/27/2017 - Norway’s $1-trillion sovereign wealth fund is on an 11-month winning streak
10/27/2017 - The first JFK files ignited conspiracy theories around the world in 1964
10/27/2017 - Watch: The opening scene of “Stranger Things” owes everything to “E.T.”
10/27/2017 - An Oxford philosopher explains what it feels like to take a “true” smart drug
10/27/2017 - After a mass shooting, Las Vegas can find resilience in its shady past
10/27/2017 - Russia’s latest attempt to arrest Bill Browder shows how autocracies abuse Interpol
10/27/2017 - The physics of time travel isn’t just the stuff of science fiction
10/27/2017 - I’m part of the Trump Resistance… unless it interferes with my tennis game.
10/27/2017 - Boys aren’t learning how to handle rejection, with dangerous consequences
10/27/2017 - A culturally insensitive nursing textbook illustrates the pickle medicine is in
10/27/2017 - Only a third of Kenyans voted in the repeat presidential election
10/27/2017 - To see more women in science, deal with test-taking anxiety in girls
10/27/2017 - What to expect when Twitter, Facebook, and Google testify in Congress on Nov. 1
10/27/2017 - iPhone X pre-orders, Australia’s shakeup, genius daydreamers
10/27/2017 - The JFK files reveal the US government considered paying Cubans two cents to assassinate Castro
10/27/2017 - RBS is making money again. It won’t last.
10/27/2017 - Photos: Marawi City in the Philippines is basically destroyed after months of fighting
10/27/2017 - Time is on the side of these three Chinese Communist Party leaders who could succeed Xi
10/27/2017 - A new type of leader is emerging in Silicon Valley
10/27/2017 - Australia’s wild dual-citizenship scandal is on the verge of bringing down its government
10/27/2017 - A teenager in Japan is suing her school for forcing her to dye her natural brown hair black
10/27/2017 - India’s conservative culture is making it tough to raise awareness about breast cancer
10/27/2017 - Half-a-rupee to wash a shirt: How over 37 million Indian home-based workers survive
10/27/2017 - This earnings season is testimony that Indian IT is all battered and bruised
10/27/2017 - Catalan crisis, Australian shakeup, robotic aquabees
10/27/2017 - Catalan crisis, Australian shakeup, robotic aquabees
10/27/2017 - An Indian theatre company is out to prove that plus-sized actors aren’t a joke or a problem
10/27/2017 - A celebration of Indian design, from the humble lota to the iconic Ambassador
10/26/2017 - Congress wants an investigation of an $8,000 party for a White House nominee
10/26/2017 - China has a ‘silent killer’ on its hands and no plans to stop it
10/26/2017 - Managed by Q’s “good jobs strategy” is paying off for workers—and the company
10/26/2017 - This is what happens when Amazon beats earnings
10/26/2017 - CVS-Aetna buyout talks, Alphabet & Amazon earnings, robotic aquabees
10/26/2017 - Mark Halperin will be tried in public because his accusers can’t take him to court
10/26/2017 - Yet again Alphabet proved being a one-trick pony can be a very lucrative business
10/26/2017 - Another superstorm could hit New York on the five-year anniversary of Sandy
10/26/2017 - Satya Nadella just hit one of Microsoft’s most ambitious goals a year early
10/26/2017 - The secret superpowers of jellyfish
10/26/2017 - Twitter says it’s banning Russian ads that Russia says it solicited
10/26/2017 - Quantum computing
10/26/2017 - Opiate announcement, secret Botox formula, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/26/2017 - Facebook’s Workplace is gaining ground as it prepares to pounce on Slack
10/26/2017 - You can be fired for using marijuana even when it’s legal
10/26/2017 - Do these five things to become a better mentee
10/26/2017 - Please don’t tell your kids they can’t dress as Moana this Halloween
10/26/2017 - All you need to know about the new restrictions on traveling to the US
10/26/2017 - Scientists made robotic bees to one day study the ocean
10/26/2017 - Harvey Weinstein’s only 2018 Oscar contender is scrubbing his name from its existence
10/26/2017 - Nike’s plan to shave a month off its shoe delivery times
10/26/2017 - The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is donating money to the towns that Facebook helped gentrify
10/26/2017 - The grand new tradition of football players who are also Homecoming Queens
10/26/2017 - Daydreaming may, in fact, be a sign of greater intelligence
10/26/2017 - Kenya has postponed elections in parts of the country after clashes and mass boycott
10/26/2017 - The latest ransomware presents itself as an Adobe Flash Player download
10/26/2017 - Renewable energy is creating US jobs twice as fast as any other industry
10/26/2017 - There’s a lot to not hate about the Google Pixelbook—except its price
10/26/2017 - Students will pay an astronomical amount for university in the US in 2018
10/26/2017 - Twitter may finally have a profitable quarter, and its stock is soaring
10/26/2017 - A rare look at how China elects its most powerful men confirms voting is just a formality
10/26/2017 - Trump has done 18 of his 23 mainstream TV interviews with Fox News
10/26/2017 - Japan’s main chat app shows how to turn a flat user base into soaring revenues
10/26/2017 - Here’s a glimpse, from 2010, of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son’s vision of the future in 300 years
10/26/2017 - Why remote meetings are still so painful
10/26/2017 - Big tech firms like Amazon are eager to eat the banking industry’s lunch
10/26/2017 - The case for giving grunt work to your organization’s biggest stars
10/26/2017 - Non-GMO food labels are incredibly misleading—and could be harming you and the environment
10/26/2017 - There are now more billionaires in Asia than the US, but Americans own more billions
10/26/2017 - Microsoft and Harman Kardon built a smart speaker that’s more speaker than smart
10/26/2017 - The US government is willing to defend hate speech—but not boycotts of Israel
10/26/2017 - Trump says he wants to end the opioid crisis but everything’s he’s done undermines the cause
10/26/2017 - Lessons from a poor multi-ethnic school can heal a divided nation
10/26/2017 - It took a record 225 days for the Dutch to get a government
10/26/2017 - Front-facing cameras were never intended for selfies
10/26/2017 - Clinical trials are under fire, but as doctor with a rare cancer, I’m glad they exist
10/26/2017 - The reason why every cool guy wants to be a butcher or a bartender now
10/26/2017 - Your creativity may be helped by self-doubt, but it depends on what kind of doubt
10/26/2017 - Tighter US flight security, Thai king cremation, connected cows
10/26/2017 - Boycotts, weariness, and fear mark the start of Kenya’s repeat presidential election
10/26/2017 - Abandoned land in Japan will be the size of Austria by 2040
10/26/2017 - The story of Ethiopia’s incredible economic rise
10/26/2017 - Today’s front pages in China are all the same
10/26/2017 - 70 years after the crisis broke out, why is Kashmir still simmering?
10/26/2017 - The CEO of Lloyd’s of London says coming out made her a better boss and helped the industry
10/26/2017 - In a restive corner of Pakistan, a Kenyan startup will teach thousands of young people to code
10/26/2017 - Thai king cremation, New Zealand’s new era, noodle harassment
10/26/2017 - Thai king cremation, New Zealand’s new era, noodle harassment
10/26/2017 - As sugary soft drinks lose their fizz in India, PepsiCo is uncorking the healthy stuff
10/26/2017 - Behold, Thailand’s elaborate and historic royal funeral has begun
10/26/2017 - A German photographer’s heroic effort to give voice to the angst of sad office plants
10/26/2017 - An Indian designer is turning humble handwoven textiles into museum-worthy works of art
10/25/2017 - An HSBC manager tweaked titles and voice systems—transforming LGBT+ lives globally
10/25/2017 - Gigi Chao sparked a gay rights revolution in Chinese culture after her billionaire father’s marriage bounty
10/25/2017 - The island Bangladesh is thinking of putting refugees on is hardly an island at all
10/25/2017 - Where is Thengar Char?
10/25/2017 - Is cryptocurrency really the future of money?
10/25/2017 - Amazon Key, surging water rates, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/25/2017 - Kenyan election, Kaspersky code, Fats Domino
10/25/2017 - The frustrating incidents that led the NAACP to declare American Airlines unsafe for black travelers
10/25/2017 - Gravedigging
10/25/2017 - IBM is now giving new moms 20 weeks off (but is still rolling back telecommuting)
10/25/2017 - The US Senate is preventing companies like Equifax being held accountable for major screw-ups
10/25/2017 - This simple diagram will help you avoid giving terrible presentations
10/25/2017 - You only need to do three things to make a great presentation
10/25/2017 - Facebook thinks so little of us
10/25/2017 - Gucci has a “shadow committee” of millennial advisors
10/25/2017 - Amazon can now deliver straight into your living room
10/25/2017 - This map shows how depressingly far from recovery Puerto Rico still is
10/25/2017 - The mp3s for Trump’s weekly addresses say artist=Barack Obama
10/25/2017 - The awful truth of donating a dead body to “science”
10/25/2017 - Kit Harington’s nauseatingly gory “Gunpowder” series makes “Game of Thrones” look tame
10/25/2017 - Even Wall Street’s “dean of valuations” can’t value bitcoin
10/25/2017 - A new American revolution is starting in New England—against Daylight Saving Time
10/25/2017 - A hit Netflix show, like “Stranger Things,” might be as big as “Game of Thrones”
10/25/2017 - How the Republican budget plan paves the way for US tax reform
10/25/2017 - This new gene-editing tool allows geneticists to make incredibly precise changes to our DNA
10/25/2017 - Despite tests, Facebook is adamant it won’t charge publishers to stay in News Feed
10/25/2017 - For black South African students, the odds of graduating were better during apartheid
10/25/2017 - The best way to clean your apples, according to science
10/25/2017 - The invention that turned our phones into cameras was originally developed by NASA for space travel
10/25/2017 - All the buzzwords Xi Jinping added to the Chinese Communist Party’s constitution
10/25/2017 - DeepMind wants to find the next miracle material—experts just don’t know how they’ll pull it off
10/25/2017 - Spotify is not just streaming. It’s becoming the entire music industry.
10/25/2017 - The world’s most powerful passport is no longer European
10/25/2017 - Americans still love ordering from Grubhub
10/25/2017 - Namibia wants to regulate hotel disruptor Airbnb
10/25/2017 - Every future we think of follows one of four narratives
10/25/2017 - This new Twitter account hunts for bots that push political opinions
10/25/2017 - How boxing made me a better doctor
10/25/2017 - Japanese master craftsmen are making mini modernist furniture for cats
10/25/2017 - A drone video of a lonely mailman reveals California’s post-wildfire dystopia
10/25/2017 - Seven US states were too small to even apply for Amazon’s HQ2. (Two others tried anyway.)
10/25/2017 - Triclosan sticks to toothbrushes, exposing users even after they switch toothpaste
10/25/2017 - Stop kidding yourselves. The only thing that matters about Alphabet is Google’s ad business
10/25/2017 - A high-profile ICO is touting its latest invention: a dividend
10/25/2017 - How much emotion is too much emotion at work?
10/25/2017 - Kenya’s redo presidential election is mired in confusion and voter weariness
10/25/2017 - The true cost of the iPhone X, based on what you actually earn
10/25/2017 - Astronomers are using AI to find light bent by black holes in space
10/25/2017 - The UK has the world’s fourth-largest contingent of returning ISIL fighters
10/25/2017 - Millennials love classic brands because they’re desperate for security
10/25/2017 - Corporate America’s insistence on four-year degrees is a costly mistake
10/25/2017 - North Korea isn’t going to like the new stealth fighters about to be deployed in Japan
10/25/2017 - After firing workers in the US, Tesla is recruiting in China
10/25/2017 - German businesses have never been more confident than they are now
10/25/2017 - This British-Jamaican-Nigerian poet’s verses capture all the painful mundanity surrounding sexual assault
10/25/2017 - “Of course it’s a bubble”: Ethereum cofounder Joe Lubin isn’t worried about a crash
10/25/2017 - Equifax reports, Senate axes financial protections, Einstein’s happiness theory
10/25/2017 - Japanese ramen-maker Nissin wants to end “noodle harassment” with a slurp-canceling fork
10/25/2017 - A Nairobi photographer captures the “beauty in the mayhem” of Kenya’s rainy season
10/25/2017 - What you need to know to catch up on Catalonia’s convoluted bid for independence
10/25/2017 - And then there was one: A lone female sits among the top of China’s Communist Party
10/25/2017 - The upstart alcohol brand that wants to become India’s Jack Daniel’s
10/25/2017 - India’s big push for 5G is great on paper but too ambitious in practice
10/25/2017 - The Modi government wants to build over 83,000 km of roads—enough to go around the Earth twice
10/25/2017 - Putin’s favorite German, no Xi successor, Sony robot pup
10/25/2017 - Putin’s favorite German, no Xi successor, Sony robot pup
10/25/2017 - China’s Communist Party is all in on the power of technology
10/25/2017 - The 19th party congress leadership: A guide to China’s new Men in Black
10/25/2017 - India’s $32 billion bank rescue plan looks great—but the fine print is missing
10/25/2017 - What will it take to satisfy Infosys’s Narayana Murthy?
10/24/2017 - Facebook’s new Explore feed is a cesspool of the worst content on the internet
10/24/2017 - Xi’s successor? GM’s massive loss, Sony robot pup
10/24/2017 - Body brokers, presidential non-truths, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/24/2017 - The California power utility suspected in North Bay fires opposed safety measures over expense
10/24/2017 - Cassini
10/24/2017 - The democrats shouldn’t make Niger their Benghazi
10/24/2017 - How I’ve managed to grow my career without managing people
10/24/2017 - The Apple-Amazon standoff that makes it so annoying to buy ebooks on your iPhone
10/24/2017 - Small acts of self-expression can help you bring your whole self to work
10/24/2017 - The cruel “economic exile” that men like Harvey Weinstein can banish actresses to
10/24/2017 - Old dolphins with signs of Alzheimer’s show the danger of living beyond our reproductive years
10/24/2017 - Netflix and Amazon are spending billions on originals, but people prefer the old stuff
10/24/2017 - Saudi Arabia’s vision for future cities includes women jogging in sports bras and working side-by-side with men
10/24/2017 - Why Lord & Taylor is turning stores into WeWork spaces, according to its CEO
10/24/2017 - PayPal is now worth more than American Express
10/24/2017 - The mysterious case of the Afghan government Photoshopping pictures of Rex Tillerson’s visit
10/24/2017 - South Africa’s notoriously high crime rate is down, but it doesn’t feel that way
10/24/2017 - Sony thinks the path to success is robot dogs
10/24/2017 - North Korea could be secretly mining cryptocurrency on your computer
10/24/2017 - The cold war between the music world and YouTube is getting hotter
10/24/2017 - The best horror movies on streaming, according to Rotten Tomatoes
10/24/2017 - Read Albert Einstein’s handwritten advice from 1922 on living a happy life
10/24/2017 - The Niger ambush highlights the precarious nature of US military engagement in Africa
10/24/2017 - Two years later, the last of the vanished Hong Kong booksellers has been “freed” in China
10/24/2017 - A Chinese exhibit comparing Africans to animals shows the problematic racial attitudes in China
10/24/2017 - Sheryl Sandberg has inspired more humane policies for grieving workers at Facebook and beyond
10/24/2017 - Stop making charts when a table is better
10/24/2017 - The cure to hundreds of neurological diseases could be crawling outside your home
10/24/2017 - A pregnant, undocumented teen symbolizes the Trump administration’s attacks on human rights
10/24/2017 - The natural habitat for self-driving cars is the city. Here are all the ones piloting them.
10/24/2017 - How Hollywood manipulates you by using your childhood memories
10/24/2017 - Nearly a third of US white-collar workers have a disability, a new study finds
10/24/2017 - A humble blue ballet flat is challenging the reign of the 👠 emoji
10/24/2017 - The German finance ministry bid farewell to its boss with a big, black zero
10/24/2017 - There’s a third, newly-identified type of diabetes
10/24/2017 - The easiest ways to get the iPhone X on launch day
10/24/2017 - Airbnb is betting big on China, but its leadership there is in flux
10/24/2017 - US refugee rules, Xi’s Mao moment, worst queso scenario
10/24/2017 - The common bonus structures that can lead to corporate corruption scandals
10/24/2017 - Eastern Europe’s major economies are having an underappreciated “Goldilocks moment”
10/24/2017 - India’s biggest tax reform is choking the country’s big fat wedding industry
10/24/2017 - Cape Town’s drought and water shortage has officially escalated to disaster levels
10/24/2017 - China’s Xi Jinping just put himself on par with Mao
10/24/2017 - US refugee rules, Hong Kong activists, sweating blood
10/24/2017 - US refugee rules, Hong Kong activists, sweating blood
10/24/2017 - The Modi government’s “good and simple tax” has become a confusing mess
10/24/2017 - Singapore’s new car cap will keep over 1,500 cars from hitting its roads in a year
10/24/2017 - How India’s surrogacy ban is fuelling the baby trade in other countries
10/24/2017 - On Twitter, Indian entrepreneurs are basically online complaint boxes
10/23/2017 - Dr. Martens, the counterculture boot, is finding a new following in Asia
10/23/2017 - Nicaragua just signed the Paris climate accord, leaving only the US and Syria on the outside
10/23/2017 - Historians and JFK conspiracy theorists agree: Secret files will not tell all
10/23/2017 - Chinese scientists stuck a mouse gene into pigs to make 12 low-fat piglets
10/23/2017 - Tillerson’s secret trip, Snapchat’s hardware fail, Balenciaga sock-shoes
10/23/2017 - The EPA blocked its own scientists from presenting their climate research
10/23/2017 - Empire of painkillers, nuclear-armed bombers, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/23/2017 - An e-sports gambling site raised $31 million through an ICO and everything about it is remarkable
10/23/2017 - The dangerous way the Trump administration talks about black women
10/23/2017 - Israel arrested a Palestinian after Facebook translated “Good morning” as “Attack them”
10/23/2017 - Voting machines
10/23/2017 - Raccoons prove they understand cause-and-effect by passing the Aesop’s Fable test
10/23/2017 - Britain’s Channel 4 tried to prove racism exists in the most racist way possible
10/23/2017 - Trump rated his Puerto Rico hurricane response a 10. These photos tell a different story.
10/23/2017 - MBAs learn this simple framework for winning negotiations
10/23/2017 - Want to fix US corporations? Put regular workers on company boards
10/23/2017 - If the US government can’t explain AI’s decisions it shouldn’t use it
10/23/2017 - Megyn Kelly’s email to top brass at Fox News shows how women who speak up are often treated
10/23/2017 - Megyn Kelly found a new focus for her NBC morning show: calling out Fox News
10/23/2017 - Bitcoin is breaking all kinds of price records in cash-strapped Zimbabwe
10/23/2017 - Germany has set up a website to debunk the lies traffickers tell refugees
10/23/2017 - The Google Pixel 2 XL is a great phone if you have nothing else to rely on
10/23/2017 - Anyone can track you with $1,000 of online ads
10/23/2017 - Harvey Weinstein allegedly used “Project Runway” to meet models
10/23/2017 - You can now take a virtual walk on Mars in your browser, thanks to Google
10/23/2017 - The massive food-safety recall that hit Walmart and Trader Joe’s is actually good news
10/23/2017 - An actual email auto-reply from a vacationing venture capitalist
10/23/2017 - It seems Snap wildly overestimated how popular Spectacles were
10/23/2017 - For £36 a night, book-lovers can run a seaside bookshop in Scotland
10/23/2017 - Apple’s retail chief has rallied the troops: Do not upsell the iPhone X
10/23/2017 - One of Africa’s least connected countries is giving foreign travelers free Wi-Fi
10/23/2017 - The sneaky YouTube hack that made “rockstar” a number-one hit song
10/23/2017 - Donald Trump’s tax cuts benefit foreign investors more than the US middle class
10/23/2017 - What’s “demogorgon” in French? How Netflix translated “Stranger Things”
10/23/2017 - How a $700 sock with a sole became the hottest sneaker in fashion
10/23/2017 - Trump’s bureaucracy is nearly as white, male, and unequal as his cabinet
10/23/2017 - The psychology behind the way Netflix raises prices
10/23/2017 - The three stocks to watch for a cryptocurrency earnings boost this quarter
10/23/2017 - You don’t have to be a captain of industry to get a call from the CEO of Goldman Sachs
10/23/2017 - Why it feels good to be a jerk
10/23/2017 - Rock ‘n roll in the library? When music gods go old and grey
10/23/2017 - Three Star Trek technologies about to become reality will help us leapfrog our biggest limitations
10/23/2017 - Where the iPhone X is cheapest and most expensive—in dollars, pounds, and yuan
10/23/2017 - Twitter has a serious bot problem, and Wikipedia might have the solution
10/23/2017 - London’s toxicity charge, Tesla’s first China plant, fembot fashion
10/23/2017 - Tesla might soon have “made-in-China” cars, but they’ll still get taxed there like imports
10/23/2017 - “We are no different”: An awareness campaign in Zimbabwe sheds light on life with albinism
10/23/2017 - A Sunday in the life of a 90-year-old Indian auction house
10/23/2017 - From Goa to Greece, Airbnb wants the travel-mad Indian millennial to ditch the hotel room
10/23/2017 - Toxicity charge for London, China deal for Tesla, fembot fashion
10/23/2017 - Toxicity charge for London, China deal for Tesla, fembot fashion
10/23/2017 - Typhoon Lan lashed Tokyo on the weekend, but didn’t put a dent in election turnout
10/23/2017 - After analysing 4,000 films, researchers confirm that Bollywood movies are still crazy sexist
10/22/2017 - From roadside jugaad to unicorn-run chains, mobile repair is now serious business in India
10/22/2017 - Researchers have found an unexpected axis of North Korea’s cyber activity: India
10/22/2017 - Thai architects are eager to see the most important design of their lives go up in flames
10/22/2017 - Typhoon Lan’s landfall, Bergdahl gets sentenced, the panda boyfriend cure
10/22/2017 - In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, a 14-year-old catchphrase is quietly halted
10/22/2017 - Read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story on Instagram about Melania Trump
10/22/2017 - Pablo Neruda officially died of cancer, but a panel of forensic scientists disagrees
10/22/2017 - To get more out of aid and investment, developing countries need to focus on data collection
10/22/2017 - Shinzo Abe just moved closer to becoming Japan’s longest-serving leader
10/22/2017 - Robot women in Asia now have human stylists
10/22/2017 - Jimmy Carter would like Donald Trump to delegate the North Korea problem—to him
10/22/2017 - Shinzo Abe just got one step closer to realizing his mandate for Japan. Here’s what it looks like
10/22/2017 - North Korea wants the UN to protect it from “the boss of the international gangsters”
10/22/2017 - Canada is responding to women’s oppression by oppressing them differently
10/22/2017 - A MacArthur “genius” unearthed the secret images that AI uses to make sense of us
10/22/2017 - The entire global financial system depends on GPS, and it’s shockingly vulnerable to attack
10/22/2017 - There’s a fine line between what people want robots to do and not do for them
10/22/2017 - Nostalgia’s unexpected etymology explains why it can feel so painful
10/22/2017 - Ladies and gentlemen, the winners and losers of the electric car race (so far)
10/22/2017 - Your memories are idealized versions of a past that never existed
10/22/2017 - Google is teaching its AI how humans hug, cook, and fight
10/22/2017 - I wish I was the person my Pocket reading list says I am
10/22/2017 - Tanzania’s squeeze on mining firms seems to be working as it gets $300 million in back taxes
10/22/2017 - It’s not so surprising WHO’s new director tried to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador
10/22/2017 - Kenya’s election redo, Mozambique’s East Germans, Africa’s western literature
10/21/2017 - The maker of Tasers ignored US government demands because of a spam filter
10/21/2017 - Super Typhoon Lan is headed for Japan
10/21/2017 - Trump isn’t going to block the release of the final JFK files and wants everyone to know
10/21/2017 - South Africa’s media is still held back by a lack of diversity and undue political influence
10/21/2017 - North Korea wrote an open letter to the West, and it’s a doozy
10/21/2017 - Costco has officially raised the alarm on US tariffs
10/21/2017 - Why more bosses aren’t talking about sexual harassment
10/21/2017 - Amazon’s Whole Foods deal isn’t disrupting grocery prices
10/21/2017 - The negotiating advice Sheryl Sandberg hates giving women—but needs to
10/21/2017 - The “mean man” advantage
10/21/2017 - Yes, Puerto Rico pays federal taxes. Here’s how much
10/21/2017 - Male silence after #MeToo is teaching algorithms what being a man means
10/21/2017 - The Middle-Eastern American writer behind Marvel’s Iceman, the most visible gay superhero yet
10/21/2017 - Forget the “tech backlash”—Americans still like Facebook, Google, and Amazon
10/21/2017 - Weekend edition—Cloaking devices, Twitter’s apathy, going to the mattresses
10/21/2017 - The quirky San Quentin crossword puzzle features prison slang and Solange
10/21/2017 - Behavioral science is influencing policymaking—and helping parents teach their kids to read
10/21/2017 - An emotional photo makes a timely point about leadership in the face of disaster
10/21/2017 - Inspired by #MeToo, I talked to a sexist I actually love
10/21/2017 - Weekend edition—Cloaking devices, Twitter’s apathy, going to the mattresses
10/21/2017 - Finally, Japan’s push for female empowerment is being lead by a woman
10/21/2017 - Weekend edition—Cloaking devices, Twitter’s apathy, going to the mattresses
10/20/2017 - Weekend edition—Cloaking devices, Twitter’s apathy, going to the mattresses
10/20/2017 - Pollution’s price tag, police body cams, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/20/2017 - Pigs of New York
10/20/2017 - Jean-Claude Van Damme is bringing absurdity back to the action genre
10/20/2017 - Facebook is teaming up with governments to protect elections from fake news
10/20/2017 - Puerto Rico is becoming a textbook example of how waterborne disease outbreaks spread
10/20/2017 - A few choice words from United’s CEO has investors calling for his resignation
10/20/2017 - Managers could learn a lot from Larry David—seriously
10/20/2017 - Bitcoin’s latest record high makes Satoshi Nakamoto the 247th richest person in the world
10/20/2017 - Top figures in Trump’s White House are making war with North Korea sound inevitable
10/20/2017 - Stitch Fix is going public, anticipating a future too busy for shopping
10/20/2017 - This video shows how valuable your personal data really are
10/20/2017 - The White House held a fancy party for its new DHS nominee, then sent the agency the bill
10/20/2017 - The plague has already killed nearly 100 people in Madagascar
10/20/2017 - While Elon Musk is firing his US workers, he’s giving the Germans a huge pay rise
10/20/2017 - LaCroix’s CEO went on a rant in a bizarre, ALL-CAPS press release
10/20/2017 - Amber Tamblyn’s support of Charlyne Yi over husband David Cross is a lesson in sisterhood
10/20/2017 - Silicon Valley’s march to reshape American culture just got clearer with a near-invisible store in Chicago
10/20/2017 - Quartzy: the new look edition
10/20/2017 - Quartzy: the new look edition
10/20/2017 - Everything you need to know about Kenya’s 2017 election crisis to date
10/20/2017 - Facebook buys TBH, Da Vinci’s last masterpiece, the demise of gasoline
10/20/2017 - Jeff Bezos built a huge rocket engine and now Elon Musk has real competition
10/20/2017 - Fragments of Halley’s Comet will fly across the sky this weekend as shooting stars
10/20/2017 - Ads can ruin your kids’ expectations about sex and relationships earlier than you think
10/20/2017 - Adam Grant’s simple matrix to get employees (or kids) more engaged and creative
10/20/2017 - “Burnout” is not only a personal problem, it’s a workplace problem
10/20/2017 - David Fincher, the first filmmaker to defect to Netflix, perfectly sums up modern cinema
10/20/2017 - The psychological case for forcing yourself to watch scary movies
10/20/2017 - The world is abandoning coal-fired electricity at an astonishing pace
10/20/2017 - Want to learn how to get what you want? Read one man’s letter to SNL
10/20/2017 - Big tech companies won’t change until they are regulated like banks
10/20/2017 - Driving for Uber can feel a lot like playing the slot machines
10/20/2017 - The fake-news hack that nearly started a war this summer was designed for one man: Donald Trump
10/20/2017 - Having a baby sharpened my business skills
10/20/2017 - Twitter doesn’t need more policies, it needs diverse moderators
10/20/2017 - Facebook treats its ethical failures like software bugs, and that’s why they keep happening
10/20/2017 - A top Clinton advisor is helping tech companies push against regulations on political ads
10/20/2017 - We’re running out of big ideas
10/20/2017 - A judge is poised to decide whether graffiti can be protected by law
10/20/2017 - The “Czech Trump,” Japan votes, hedge fund hazelnuts
10/20/2017 - The search for MH370 is on again thanks to a “no find, no fee” offer
10/20/2017 - The Diwali tradition of playing cards is turning into a high-stakes affair online
10/20/2017 - Millions of South Africans have had their most private information exposed
10/20/2017 - A day after Diwali, Indian cities woke up to some insane pollution levels
10/20/2017 - Pollution kills more people in India than anywhere else in the world
10/20/2017 - Czech election, PayPal soars, cave on the moon
10/20/2017 - Czech election, PayPal soars, cave on the moon
10/20/2017 - Duty and danger: For Delhi’s firefighters, Diwali has a dark side
10/19/2017 - China’s skewed sex ratio makes president Xi’s job a lot harder
10/19/2017 - Everything you should know about Japan’s oddly drama-filled elections
10/19/2017 - Czech election, Lyft’s new investor, and a moon cave
10/19/2017 - Construction is as far from a Silicon Valley darling as you can get—and that’s why it’s ready for automation
10/19/2017 - Insects in danger, Puerto Rico’s decline, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/19/2017 - A 1-minute clip from a Dustin Hoffman interview sums up the life’s work of a Nobel-winning economist
10/19/2017 - Finding life in the deep sea is helping science understand our planet
10/19/2017 - Maple syrup
10/19/2017 - Looks like Facebook’s latest feature may only make your “filter bubble” worse
10/19/2017 - Flying empty jets across the country is only the latest way GE wastes money on executives
10/19/2017 - British bird feeders may have changed the way birds’ beaks are shaped
10/19/2017 - Scientists found a moon cave that’s big enough to be an astronaut base
10/19/2017 - The US government keeps spectacularly underestimating solar energy installation
10/19/2017 - China’s Baidu is the one to beat in the race to driverless cars
10/19/2017 - Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s first 20 tweets: the wisdom, the dad jokes, the sick burns
10/19/2017 - The twelve world leaders in their thirties—charted
10/19/2017 - A cryptocurrency raised $400 million to avoid bitcoin’s “civil war” and now has its own
10/19/2017 - Here’s the poem Elon Musk says inspired his second Boring machine
10/19/2017 - After submarines and baby strollers, Aston Martin is branching out into luxury condos
10/19/2017 - Nivea wants Africans to “visibly lighten” their skin in another of its racially controversial ads
10/19/2017 - Statistics are a terrible way of grasping the true magnitude of the world’s sex-crime problem
10/19/2017 - A new global solution to money laundering will mainly just help rich countries
10/19/2017 - Five methods for turning invisible, ranked by the inventor of a real-life invisibility cloak
10/19/2017 - To manage effectively, think of delegation as a goal, not a means
10/19/2017 - Men paralyzed by #MeToo: Here’s why you need to speak up—and how
10/19/2017 - Uber drivers thought leasing cars would boost their credit scores. Wrong.
10/19/2017 - Hollywood won’t solve its sexual abuse problem until it has more women bosses
10/19/2017 - The miracle of compound interest can also apply to your career
10/19/2017 - The story behind a devastating photo of human greed
10/19/2017 - Leonardo DiCaprio is getting into the vegan meat business
10/19/2017 - Why every electric carmaker is scrambling for access to this element
10/19/2017 - I just coded my first AI algorithm, and oh boy, it felt good
10/19/2017 - Psychedelics may make people less likely to commit violent crimes
10/19/2017 - The next generation of Wall Street titans thinks learning Python is more important than Mandarin
10/19/2017 - Silicon Valley employers can’t ask your salary history, thanks to a new state law
10/19/2017 - The crazy economics of childcare costs in America
10/19/2017 - The best thing to do when giving bad news is to get straight to the point
10/19/2017 - Millennials’ search for experiences over luxury is driving Airbnb’s growth in Africa
10/19/2017 - Catalonia’s D-Day, New Zealand’s new prime minister, Air Berlin goes Top Gun
10/19/2017 - Spain is set to impose direct rule over Catalonia, risking violent clashes and market turmoil
10/19/2017 - How Somalia’s deadliest attack ever tore open the heart of a nation
10/19/2017 - A new French law will fine men on-the-spot for harassing women in public
10/19/2017 - What China’s “new era” looks like, in Xi Jinping’s own words
10/19/2017 - China’s “rogue aid” to Africa isn’t as much or as controversial as we thought
10/19/2017 - The “Black Monday” market crash 30 years ago today was so bad hospital admissions spiked
10/19/2017 - In bashing Asia Argento after her accusation against Weinstein, Italy is showing its deep misogynistic nature
10/19/2017 - American kids’ daily mobile screen time is almost 10 times higher than it was in 2011
10/19/2017 - Chariots, statues, dancers: A preview of Thailand’s lavish $90 million royal funeral next week
10/19/2017 - Catalonia’s deadline, EU talks Turkey, wasteful eye drops
10/19/2017 - Catalonia’s deadline, EU talks Turkey, wasteful eye drops
10/19/2017 - Stop replaying your worst family dynamics at work
10/18/2017 - How the fall of Causeway Bay Books helped resurrect a long-lost Chinese erotic literature classic
10/18/2017 - The FDA just approved a revolutionary gene-modification treatment
10/18/2017 - Sea World, fallen on hard times since “Blackfish,” will lay off 350 employees
10/18/2017 - Catalonia’s deadline, Diwali, and a lap of honor
10/18/2017 - Congress finally has a bill to regulate Facebook. Here’s what it says.
10/18/2017 - Newest internet nightmare, surveillance states, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/18/2017 - People aren’t using smart speakers to do anything particularly smart
10/18/2017 - Giant robots fought and it was an incredible waste of time and effort
10/18/2017 - Pyrex
10/18/2017 - The #MeToo movement was actually launched over 10 years ago, by a black activist
10/18/2017 - The tired old conference panel is getting a makeover with the “fishbowl” format
10/18/2017 - Data analytics have made the NBA unrecognizable
10/18/2017 - DeepMind has a bigger plan for its newest Go-playing AI
10/18/2017 - Trump’s tweets have sunk his own travel ban—again
10/18/2017 - Tech meant to keep kids safe is actually making them more vulnerable
10/18/2017 - Black US students borrow a lot more to go to college—and almost half default on their loans
10/18/2017 - It happened to mayo and burgers, now sushi is getting the Whole Foods vegan treatment
10/18/2017 - “Solo: A Star Wars Story” isn’t a movie. It’s a branding exercise
10/18/2017 - Lego is finally celebrating the women of NASA with their very own set
10/18/2017 - What happened when I made my college students lock up their phones in class
10/18/2017 - A fraudster posing as Britain’s defense minister tried to con Richard Branson out of $5 million
10/18/2017 - This country has more Netflix ultra binge-watchers than anywhere else in the world
10/18/2017 - Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney shared her own #MeToo assault story
10/18/2017 - A new iPhone app finds and protects all the sexy photos on your device
10/18/2017 - Iraq has seized Kurdistan’s oil, but Kurdistan controls Iraq’s internet
10/18/2017 - The US should treat its citizens like Amazon treats its customers
10/18/2017 - LeBron James’s torn jersey was a terrible look for Nike
10/18/2017 - Trump didn’t remember the name of slain US soldier in call to widow, congresswoman says
10/18/2017 - Successful startup founders share one essential leadership style
10/18/2017 - A visual tour of the price Raqqa paid for its freedom from ISIL
10/18/2017 - Is it better to live on the moon or on Mars? A scientific investigation
10/18/2017 - Rare photos of life inside an ancient kingdom capture Nigeria’s transition to independence
10/18/2017 - Nearly 80% of same-sex divorces in England and Wales were between women
10/18/2017 - Your five-minute summary of Xi Jinping’s three-hour Communist Party congress speech
10/18/2017 - 2 million Americans are drinking high levels of arsenic in their well water
10/18/2017 - Now that ISIL is being defeated, never forget how horrific its rule actually was
10/18/2017 - When potential matters more than past experience
10/18/2017 - A “drama researcher” explains how to avoid drama at work
10/18/2017 - The best and worst cities for reproductive care in the US
10/18/2017 - Ending fake news means changing how Wall Street values Facebook and Twitter
10/18/2017 - Before you ask for a raise, take time to hone this skill
10/18/2017 - Can Rent the Runway ever become the Spotify of fashion?
10/18/2017 - The bottom line of US tax reform, in two charts
10/18/2017 - The simple formula Jeff Bezos used to turn Amazon into a $480 billion company
10/18/2017 - What happens to your email after you die?
10/18/2017 - Tillerson’s India vision, Xi’s marathon speech, $55 coffees
10/18/2017 - Mozambique’s forgotten “East Germans” are still fighting for their communist payday
10/18/2017 - Germany heads for “Jamaica” as three-way coalition talks begin
10/18/2017 - Xi Jinping just showed his power by making China’s elite sit through a tortuously long speech
10/18/2017 - Photos: In China, there’s nothing like a dry three-hour Xi Jinping speech to get the party going
10/18/2017 - A senior member of Kenya’s electoral commission has resigned and fled to the US
10/18/2017 - Xi Jinping to China: “Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us”
10/18/2017 - India’s putting economic growth above all else—and thousands of women are dying as a result
10/18/2017 - Does Diwali even feel like Diwali this year?
10/18/2017 - China’s congress, Tillerson’s take on India, hidden Rodin
10/18/2017 - China’s congress, Tillerson’s take on India, hidden Rodin
10/18/2017 - The job crisis in Zimbabwe means dozens of people are keen to take a long-vacant hangman job
10/18/2017 - After a series of economic crackers, Indians are in no mood to splurge this Diwali
10/18/2017 - A remote $43 million island facility could be a game changer for India’s solar sector
10/18/2017 - A big employer is finally addressing a major pain point for job applicants
10/17/2017 - Fighting corruption, maintaining harmony, and Davos: A resume for China’s president Xi Jinping
10/17/2017 - China’s congress, Trump ban blocked, hidden Rodin
10/17/2017 - A novel about Abraham Lincoln’s dead son has won the UK’s most prestigious literary prize
10/17/2017 - Donald Trump has a longstanding love-hate relationship with Forbes’ rich lists
10/17/2017 - The North American Free Trade Agreement is at an impasse because the US is tired of free trade
10/17/2017 - #MeToo, killer smartphones, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/17/2017 - The unexpected, paradigm-shifting power of #MeToo
10/17/2017 - Facebook’s best female communicator besides Sheryl Sandberg is leaving the company
10/17/2017 - If you’re willing to trade ease-of-use for security, Google has a new feature for you
10/17/2017 - A hepatitis A outbreak is killing California’s homeless population
10/17/2017 - Spreadsheets
10/17/2017 - Amazon is now literally building its way into people’s lives
10/17/2017 - Netflix will release more movies in 2018 than most major film studios combined
10/17/2017 - Eating too much sugar may increase your risk of cancer
10/17/2017 - The problem with judging books from other cultures, according to a Man Booker juror
10/17/2017 - Spurs coach Gregg Popovich demonstrates the difference between leading and managing
10/17/2017 - What it looks like when a tropical storm hits Ireland, Wales and Scotland
10/17/2017 - Austria’s march to the right got a boost from fake Facebook content
10/17/2017 - Dear White House: No one wants to burn more coal. Even us. Thanks, Texas
10/17/2017 - No, Lyft and Uber probably won’t solve urban road congestion
10/17/2017 - South Africans and Nigerians are baffled by a giant bronze statue of Jacob Zuma in Nigeria
10/17/2017 - Hackers stole information on Windows vulnerabilities from Microsoft in 2013
10/17/2017 - Elite UK girls’ schools banned a standardized test for wrecking kids’ mental health
10/17/2017 - Selena was a “beacon of hope” for bicultural people—including the Googler behind her doodle homage
10/17/2017 - A study shows how ancient Egypt struggled with drastic changes in the climate
10/17/2017 - The world has its first millennial leader. And, of course, he is an anti-immigrant conservative.
10/17/2017 - Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is the source of our self-obsession
10/17/2017 - In the battle between Netflix and everyone else, investors are betting heavily on Netflix
10/17/2017 - Jewish Americans are shunning the term “Judeo-Christian” thanks to Donald Trump
10/17/2017 - Russia’s troll factory also paid for 100 activists in the US
10/17/2017 - Cheaper visas are more important than lower tariffs for boosting Nigeria-China trade
10/17/2017 - Anthony Bourdain wants you to waste less food
10/17/2017 - You are what you read
10/17/2017 - Google Pixel 2 Review: A half-inch away from greatness
10/17/2017 - One US city is calling BS on Amazon’s new headquarters search
10/17/2017 - How to stay positive with negative people
10/17/2017 - Colonial borders still influence how academics write about Africa
10/17/2017 - Harvard economist Iris Bohnet on how to design a hiring process that’s fair for everyone
10/17/2017 - I planned a stress-free bachelorette party using a key principle of web design
10/17/2017 - AI is the future of hiring, but it’s far from immune to bias
10/17/2017 - The growing list of countries vowing to ban the sale of gas-powered cars
10/17/2017 - Everybody wants to make better decisions, but nobody is asking the right questions
10/17/2017 - The University of Florida is allowing Richard Spencer to speak because it has to
10/17/2017 - In the future, drones will charge your electric car while you’re driving
10/17/2017 - Tracking down a kilonova: The story of how thousands of scientists decoded the year’s biggest discovery
10/17/2017 - Tsipras meets Trump, Airbus takes sides, palladium outshines gold
10/17/2017 - Peer pressure forced whales and dolphins to evolve big brains, like humans
10/17/2017 - Uber’s culture problems stem from “worship at the altar of hyper growth”
10/17/2017 - The Communist App Store: China’s endless apps for tracking, organizing, and motivating party members
10/17/2017 - Photos: The secret Swiss mountain bunker where millionaires stash their bitcoins
10/17/2017 - Apple’s first big break came because of the spreadsheet
10/17/2017 - In the world’s largest democracy, 55% of people feel autocracy is good for governance
10/17/2017 - Abused for years, India’s nearly 5 million domestic workers may finally get legal protection
10/17/2017 - Facebook’s latest acquisition, Netflix’s strong showing, robot duels
10/17/2017 - Facebook’s latest acquisition, Netflix’s strong showing, robot duels
10/17/2017 - China’s “Orwellian” version of Slack is tracking workers as they arrive at and leave the office
10/17/2017 - India spends a measly 4.4% of its GDP on health and education but believes it is splurging
10/16/2017 - Google is hoping a Chinese-American rapper can help it break back into China
10/16/2017 - A pioneer that introduced digital payments to the world now wants to ride India’s boom
10/16/2017 - Big Tobacco went up against the US and lost. Now it’s India’s turn to fight back
10/16/2017 - Facebook bought tbh, an anonymous polling app US teens are obsessed with
10/16/2017 - The real horror in Netflix’s “Mindhunter” is how bureaucracy can murder innovation
10/16/2017 - Netflix’s numbers, Hurricane Ophelia, robot duels
10/16/2017 - Drug dealer doctors, North Korean cyberpower, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/16/2017 - Oral sex has helped HPV spread to 1 in 9 American men
10/16/2017 - Ophelia was the 10th hurricane to form in the Atlantic in the last 10 weeks
10/16/2017 - For the first time, “listen” to the sound of two stars colliding in space
10/16/2017 - Kilonova
10/16/2017 - Could a power company be responsible for the California wine country fires?
10/16/2017 - A Japanese food startup is giving high school kids meat-growing machines
10/16/2017 - The trade-ravaged areas that voted for Trump have the most to lose from Trump’s anti-trade agenda
10/16/2017 - What you need to know about the newly-discovered wifi bug that lets hackers snoop on your devices
10/16/2017 - A rare hurricane near Europe turned the sun red
10/16/2017 - Donald Trump’s tax plan isn’t going to be a $4,000 windfall for American households
10/16/2017 - Curbing car emissions has made palladium the most precious of metals
10/16/2017 - Microsoft offers a look inside the new tree house work spaces at its headquarters
10/16/2017 - Horrifying photos of the blast that killed more than 300 in Mogadishu
10/16/2017 - The most-watched horror movies on Amazon in 2017
10/16/2017 - Thanks to the biggest discovery of the year we finally know where all the elements of the periodic table get made
10/16/2017 - Before changing jobs to avoid a toxic coworker, try changing desks
10/16/2017 - Google celebrates the life of former slave turned abolitionist Olaudah Equiano
10/16/2017 - Want to be happier and more fulfilled in life? Learn to be open to change
10/16/2017 - The benefits that top employers now offer to working moms
10/16/2017 - The Japanese stock market’s 20-year high is still only half of its 1980s peak
10/16/2017 - Barclays’ former CEO is long bitcoin and says big banks need to start over
10/16/2017 - Americans appreciate what technology has done for them more than equality and civil rights
10/16/2017 - What research says about how your boss impacts your personal life
10/16/2017 - My company and twins are both less than a year old—here’s what I’ve learned
10/16/2017 - A new sulfur-based battery takes on the problem of energy storage “at the terawatt scale”
10/16/2017 - Why the Russia fake news scandal hasn’t touched Snapchat
10/16/2017 - One of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists has just been killed in the Philippines
10/16/2017 - Walmart—yes, Walmart—is making changes that could help solve America’s wealth inequality problem
10/16/2017 - Netflix reports earnings, Austria’s right turn, Amazon-proof retailers
10/16/2017 - Catalonia is trying a classic negotiation tactic to keep Spain from killing its independence bid
10/16/2017 - The typical political party only lasts 43 years
10/16/2017 - How technology helped save lives right after Somalia’s deadliest attack ever
10/16/2017 - #MeToo: Women are sharing their experiences of sexual assault, showing how common sex crimes are
10/16/2017 - There’s more to homegrown African literature than what Western publishers favor
10/16/2017 - India’s Silicon Valley is drowning under the worst rains of the century
10/16/2017 - The forgotten 18th century observatory that marked the rise of modern astronomy in India
10/16/2017 - Spain’s deadline, Austria’s right turn, Amazon-proof retailers
10/16/2017 - Working parents in Bengaluru can thank this startup for delivering nutritious meals to their kids
10/16/2017 - Spain’s deadline, Austria’s right turn, Amazon-proof retailers
10/16/2017 - “The elixir of life”: Hollywood has discovered the Indian gooseberry and celebs can’t get enough
10/15/2017 - Your simple guide to the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th congress
10/15/2017 - Deadline in Spain, dying languages, 141 hours of cable news
10/15/2017 - Apple’s VP of diversity and inclusion is backtracking on her controversial comments about white men
10/15/2017 - A legendary female German spy was actually a victim of French propaganda
10/15/2017 - Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz is about to become Europe’s youngest leader
10/15/2017 - Larry Flynt is offering $10 million in cash to help impeach Donald Trump
10/15/2017 - These are the businesses still immune to Amazon
10/15/2017 - Tropical forests caused the biggest atmospheric CO2 increase in 2,000 years
10/15/2017 - Even Africa’s poorest countries are too expensive to be the world’s next manufacturing hub
10/15/2017 - It’s been 30 years since Africa’s last great revolutionary leader was killed
10/15/2017 - The myth of the “good” man
10/15/2017 - Ten things to know about how everyone plans to buy their iPhone X
10/15/2017 - Africa’s reverse missionaries, Bitcoin’s ponzi-driven rise, agribusiness not agriculture
10/15/2017 - The secret to making better decisions in the future is tracking the ones you make today
10/15/2017 - Americans can “take a knee” during the national anthem thanks to the Jehovah’s Witnesses
10/15/2017 - Nearly every country on earth is named after one of four things
10/15/2017 - It’s high time that India bans landmines
10/15/2017 - What is sleep, even?
10/15/2017 - An Oxford philosopher’s moral crisis can help us learn to question our instincts
10/14/2017 - Harvey Weinstein is ousted from the Motion Picture Academy after only three hours of deliberation
10/14/2017 - Looking to escape the madness? You can now travel to one of the world’s most remote islands
10/14/2017 - Scientists find that tripping on mushrooms is a promising way to treat depression
10/14/2017 - Obama picks genius hip-hop portraitist Kehinde Wiley to paint his official presidential portrait
10/14/2017 - The fall of Harvey Weinstein is a blueprint for how to address sexual-misconduct charges in 2017
10/14/2017 - Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and how abuse allegations echo across decades
10/14/2017 - California wildfires destroy the family home of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz
10/14/2017 - Analysis of 141 hours of cable news reveals how mass killers are really portrayed
10/14/2017 - Gas cars are like horses—one day we’ll just own them for fun (like Elon Musk)
10/14/2017 - We can’t let boards turn a blind eye to brutish behavior
10/14/2017 - It’s time to stop worshipping powerful men
10/14/2017 - Seven places in the world where global trade could be stopped cold
10/14/2017 - The Trump administration isn’t just curtailing women’s rights; it’s systematically eroding trust in women
10/14/2017 - The unlikely role of true crime podcasts in criminal justice reform
10/14/2017 - Puerto Rico is still a disaster zone, three weeks after Hurricane Maria
10/14/2017 - Weekend edition—The Rock Clock, reverse missionaries, weaponized Russian TV shows
10/14/2017 - Legal weed is an amazing business opportunity for women
10/14/2017 - Zimbabwe has a new “minister of WhatsApp” whose first job seems to be to stop WhatsApp
10/14/2017 - Weekend edition—The Rock Clock, reverse missionaries, weaponized Russian TV shows
10/14/2017 - Weekend edition—The Rock Clock, reverse missionaries, weaponized Russian TV shows
10/13/2017 - “Hundreds” are fired from a Tesla factory as the company races to launch its Model 3
10/13/2017 - Weekend edition—The Rock Clock, reverse missionaries, weaponized Russian TV shows
10/13/2017 - Facebook’s democracy, chicken resistance, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/13/2017 - Kaleidoscopes
10/13/2017 - The US is approving more generic drugs than ever
10/13/2017 - A new survey reveals that most men don’t think sexism in tech is a big deal
10/13/2017 - US government agencies are buying ads on Facebook—in Russian
10/13/2017 - A new scientific study challenges the use of skin color as a classifier for race
10/13/2017 - The decline of US diplomacy could threaten the dollar’s global-reserve status
10/13/2017 - Facebook is swallowing up America’s food delivery businesses
10/13/2017 - IBM is using Bollywood movies to identify and neutralize gender bias
10/13/2017 - The timing is right for Yellowstone supervolcano hysteria—don’t be duped
10/13/2017 - Scientists designed a robotic skin that can camouflage itself like an octopus
10/13/2017 - If Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos still wants philanthropy ideas, Roy Price just handed him one
10/13/2017 - Forget the World Cup. There’s a more exciting international team sport than soccer to watch next summer
10/13/2017 - The Netflix algorithm’s perfect movie is an arthouse comedy starring Adam Sandler
10/13/2017 - The devastating force of Vietnam’s floodwaters, in photos
10/13/2017 - Quartzy: the crushing it edition
10/13/2017 - Quartzy: the crushing it edition
10/13/2017 - Which countries do people most trust with their data? “None of the above.”
10/13/2017 - How powerful was Harvey Weinstein? Almost no one has been thanked at the Oscars more
10/13/2017 - Smartphone addiction, the space junk orbiting Earth, Germany’s robot revolution
10/13/2017 - Psychologists say there are three kinds of burnout. Here’s how to beat it
10/13/2017 - A museum in China put on an exhibit called “This is Africa” that compares Africans to animals
10/13/2017 - Parents around the world all speak “motherese” to their babies
10/13/2017 - The management secrets of classic rock bands
10/13/2017 - Bitcoin’s rise in African markets is driven by an old Russian ponzi scheme
10/13/2017 - Donald Trump’s attack on Obamacare is inspiring quick and fierce criticism
10/13/2017 - Syrian refugee women are finding shelter—and a salary—in IKEA’s supply chain
10/13/2017 - Now Samsung actually does have a leadership vacuum
10/13/2017 - Norway is planning to pull the plug on its wildly successful electric-car incentives
10/13/2017 - Watch Sheryl Sandberg’s technique for shielding Facebook from hard questions
10/13/2017 - Timeless management advice from a book left in a coffee shop
10/13/2017 - Trump needs a reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
10/13/2017 - A Nobel prize winner says tech companies are misusing creativity in their quest to change the world
10/13/2017 - Let’s call millennial side hustles what they are—part time jobs we need to survive
10/13/2017 - There’s only one thing you need to have a sane relationship with your phone
10/13/2017 - Teslas and organic avocados followed the same classic route to the mainstream
10/13/2017 - Behavioral economics has a plan to fight poverty—and it’s all about redesigning the “cockpit”
10/13/2017 - Facebook says it will add an African-American member to its board of directors. Who is on it now?
10/13/2017 - There are 11 times as many obese children in the world as there were in 1975
10/13/2017 - Bitcoin keeps hitting record highs, and Jamie Dimon doesn’t want to talk about it
10/13/2017 - Your next head of lettuce, grown by a robot
10/13/2017 - Trump’s Iran rebuke, bitcoin goes bananas, “death cleaning”
10/13/2017 - Alibaba’s $15 billion global R&D push is named after a legendary Indian monk from centuries ago
10/13/2017 - This summer, hundreds of China’s young gay people took their parents on a sea voyage of reconciliation
10/13/2017 - A former soccer star is leading the first round of voting in Africa’s oldest republic
10/13/2017 - China’s surging imports, Hurricane Ophelia, “death cleaning”
10/13/2017 - China’s surging imports, Hurricane Ophelia, “death cleaning”
10/13/2017 - The Indian government is not doing enough to tackle sale of unapproved antibiotics
10/13/2017 - The best and most bizarre advice for British women heading to colonial India
10/13/2017 - Bollywood fans from Brazil are turning their love for Hindi films into a card game
10/13/2017 - India, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, is hungrier than even North Korea
10/13/2017 - Nykaa: A former investment banker’s online startup is giving a premium shade to Indian beauty care
10/12/2017 - Facebook is hiring more people to moderate content than Twitter has at its entire company
10/12/2017 - Palestinian reconciliation, UNESCO withdrawals, and “death cleaning”
10/12/2017 - Richard Branson is serious about making the hyperloop a reality
10/12/2017 - Hollywood’s problem, Trump’s one-man effort, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/12/2017 - Puerto Ricans desperate for water are drinking from Superfund sites
10/12/2017 - A better understanding of dolphins could help humans communicate with thousands of species
10/12/2017 - Want to engage your employees? Stop sending emails
10/12/2017 - In the relationship era of business, networked structure rules
10/12/2017 - Supreme
10/12/2017 - Here’s what a Chinese takeout menu would look like if the meat was grown in labs
10/12/2017 - Tim Cook doesn’t seem to understand that good programmers have to learn English
10/12/2017 - If Mark Zuckerberg is Facebook’s CEO, why is Sheryl Sandberg the executive meeting with Congress?
10/12/2017 - A mysterious hole larger than the Netherlands has opened in the middle of Antarctic ice
10/12/2017 - Watch the asteroid that flew very, very close to the Earth today
10/12/2017 - Our obsession with mindfulness is based on limited scientific evidence
10/12/2017 - Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is less of a filter bubble than traditional news outlets
10/12/2017 - Bank branches, not mobile phones, are the reason JPMorgan Chase dominates in deposits
10/12/2017 - The US withdrew from UNESCO because it’s “anti-Israel.” Now Israel is leaving, too
10/12/2017 - A psychologist’s theory of “rational compassion” can help fight burnout from nonstop bad news
10/12/2017 - Gloria Steinem explains why she’s (cautiously) optimistic about Trump’s America
10/12/2017 - The rot in US soccer goes much deeper than its failure to qualify for the World Cup
10/12/2017 - The world’s first “negative emissions” plant has begun operation—turning carbon dioxide into stone
10/12/2017 - TV’s new longest-running fantasy show unites Democrats and Republicans—and Russians
10/12/2017 - This is why Nazi speakers should be allowed to come to college campuses
10/12/2017 - A terrorist group in Pakistan released a family held captive for five years
10/12/2017 - Lufthansa tightens its grip on German skies after buying the bulk of its rival Air Berlin
10/12/2017 - When your cluelessness about African geography becomes a viral marketing campaign
10/12/2017 - Taking control of risk: the path to investing success
10/12/2017 - Trump’s threats to tear up Nafta are starting to look less like a bluff to others at the negotiation table
10/12/2017 - Finding the sweet spot on the investment seesaw
10/12/2017 - Africa’s political elites have built the same wealth plundering structures as the colonialists
10/12/2017 - If iOS 11 is killing your iPhone’s battery, try this
10/12/2017 - Even teachers now say that academics are not the key to kids’ success
10/12/2017 - Uber’s new CEO is ready to clean up the company’s messes—if Travis Kalanick will let him
10/12/2017 - There’s a right way to dwell on failure
10/12/2017 - The to-do list is a tyrant that will keep your life and your goals small
10/12/2017 - Office Halloween parties are a minefield. These costume ideas will help you survive
10/12/2017 - The awful math that makes fighting wildfires more expensive every year
10/12/2017 - African startup founders can finally start looking for big-ticket funding nearer home
10/12/2017 - Violence in the US isn’t just tragic—it’s a public health crisis
10/12/2017 - When it comes to making good decisions, bad options can help
10/12/2017 - Fitbit’s hope for the future might not lie on your wrist
10/12/2017 - Artificial intelligence can say yes to the dress
10/12/2017 - “There are more Harvey Weinsteins in this world than you think, and they’re getting away with it”
10/12/2017 - The biggest problem with US economic statistics
10/12/2017 - Americans distrust driverless cars, and Silicon Valley is on a mission to win them over
10/12/2017 - I’m a CEO: Here’s how I taught my daughter, from a young age, to thrive as a professional
10/12/2017 - Justin Trudeau’s half-female cabinet is now confronting a need for a maternity leave policy
10/12/2017 - Learn the seven signature moves of TED Talk hands
10/12/2017 - Stella McCartney is pioneering synthetic spider silk in high fashion
10/12/2017 - To avoid inbreeding, our ancestors may have had their own ancient dating networks
10/12/2017 - One bitcoin is now worth more than $5,100, a record high
10/12/2017 - Facebook’s damage control, big bank earnings, sewer gold
10/12/2017 - It won’t be long before coffee becomes a luxury. Make the most of it.
10/12/2017 - Smart cities are making the places we live more vulnerable to attacks
10/12/2017 - Tokyo is the safest city to live in the world
10/12/2017 - A natural history of the wedding dress
10/12/2017 - The UK’s Conservative government has put Britain’s racial inequality on display
10/12/2017 - The Modi government is dreaming of a recovery, but India Inc won’t spend big for two more years
10/12/2017 - Facebook faces lawmakers, big bank earnings, sewage gold
10/12/2017 - Facebook faces lawmakers, big bank earnings, sewage gold
10/12/2017 - Like solar, wind power is now cheaper than coal-based electricity in India
10/12/2017 - On Myanmar, the World Bank should follow its own policies on keeping hatred out of projects it funds
10/12/2017 - The Tatas’ best aviation bet would be a buyback of the airline they founded: Air India
10/12/2017 - Cheer up! The economic turnaround is coming, says one of India’s top consumer goods firms
10/11/2017 - If Uttar Pradesh were a country
10/11/2017 - Singapore will be the first stop in Jack Ma’s $15 billion global tech research expansion
10/11/2017 - A small Pacific island will now let you pay for citizenship with bitcoin
10/11/2017 - The woman keeping order in Trump’s White House has been nominated to keep the US safe
10/11/2017 - Spain warns Catalonia, big bank earnings, and Facebook’s $199 VR
10/11/2017 - Teenage anxiety, Russian hacking software, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/11/2017 - There’s now an Oculus VR headset that doesn’t need to be tethered to an expensive computer
10/11/2017 - The gory research that helped an academic anthropologist get a “genius” grant
10/11/2017 - LaCroix
10/11/2017 - No, China is not about to become the world’s largest aid donor
10/11/2017 - Weinstein’s downfall came when it did because his power was already fading
10/11/2017 - Three blue-chip US companies are on the verge of breaking apart, prodded by short-term investors
10/11/2017 - The incredible story of how the last known work of Leonardo da Vinci was almost lost forever
10/11/2017 - The decline of the large US family, in charts
10/11/2017 - Harvey Weinstein and the Trump children show why the US shouldn’t have elected prosecutors
10/11/2017 - Drones let scientists get inside humpback whale blowholes
10/11/2017 - When AI learns to sumo wrestle, it starts to act like a human
10/11/2017 - California wants to let companies test driverless cars without a human behind the wheel
10/11/2017 - As Netflix raises prices, Hulu drops them—and acquires all its old favorites
10/11/2017 - Tim Cook says it’s better to learn to code than learn English as a second language
10/11/2017 - Actually, Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s massacre was highly predictable
10/11/2017 - Engineers have a better chance than ever of making partner at Goldman Sachs
10/11/2017 - “I’d choose friends by the flavor of their names”: The rare trait that lets people taste sounds
10/11/2017 - Kenya has passed a controversial election bill which is deepening its political uncertainty
10/11/2017 - A psychologist’s guide to speaking up against your industry’s Harvey Weinstein
10/11/2017 - Gen X was as entitled and unmanageable as millennials are, based on commentary of the ’90s
10/11/2017 - Radio survived the tape, CD, and iPod. In the age of Spotify, it’s more popular than ever.
10/11/2017 - The creators of Netflix and Amazon’s TV shows get very different kinds of feedback
10/11/2017 - We say we want data privacy—then researchers put free pizza in front of us
10/11/2017 - Radioactive wild boars in Sweden are eating nuclear mushrooms
10/11/2017 - The humble fingerprint—which revolutionized crime-fighting—is getting a molecular upgrade
10/11/2017 - To fix income inequality, we need more than UBI—we need Universal Basic Assets
10/11/2017 - These simple design tricks can help diminish hate speech online
10/11/2017 - Trump meets Trudeau, Alibaba’s expansion, rogue Indian McDonald’s
10/11/2017 - Africa’s “reverse missionaries” are bringing Christianity back to the United Kingdom
10/11/2017 - It’s highly unlikely that Catalonia will become fully independent in the near future
10/11/2017 - Africa’s richest man has a built-in advantage with Nigeria’s government
10/11/2017 - India’s supreme court has finally ruled that having sex with an underage wife counts as rape
10/11/2017 - Alibaba is plowing $15 billion into R&D with seven new research labs worldwide
10/11/2017 - For refugees in India, the safety net is shrinking and government help is nowhere in sight
10/11/2017 - There’s a strong chance a third of all people on earth will be African by 2100
10/11/2017 - All the moves Amazon has made in the last month to crush the competition in India
10/11/2017 - It’s official: Ola has bagged $1 billion in funding and is eyeing yet another billion
10/11/2017 - Catalonia pauses secession, US sends bombers over Korea, rogue Indian McDonald’s
10/11/2017 - Catalonia pauses secession, US sends bombers over Korea, rogue Indian McDonald’s
10/11/2017 - The theories of Nobel prize-winning economist Richard Thaler could help stop the next Harvey Weinstein
10/11/2017 - Signs your office is hurting your productivity and mental well-being
10/11/2017 - You need four types of apps to achieve Inbox Zero
10/11/2017 - In four minutes, Eminem freestyled everything that he hates about Donald Trump
10/11/2017 - The cult of productivity has a counterproductive flaw
10/11/2017 - LOTO (Let’s Order Take Out) and PUMP (Pick Up Milk Please): Texting acronyms for grown-ups
10/11/2017 - Introducing Manage It: A new community for managers in any field
10/11/2017 - Should I go back to work? How to decide whether to pause a career to raise a family
10/11/2017 - Nearly half of men think it’s sufficient when 1 in 10 senior leaders at their company is a woman
10/11/2017 - Planning ahead is good, but planning backward is better
10/11/2017 - How one of America’s original mission-driven businesses rediscovered its purpose
10/11/2017 - 22 Twitter accounts to follow to become a better manager
10/11/2017 - I borrowed a sailing tradition to organize my thoughts as a CEO, and it shaped my company’s culture
10/11/2017 - What those catchy new airline safety videos can teach you about getting people’s attention
10/11/2017 - The Stanford professor who popularized the “no asshole rule” has tips for handling office bullies
10/11/2017 - Out of corporate America’s diversity failures, a new industry is emerging
10/11/2017 - Managers are missing out on the most important part of personality tests
10/11/2017 - Your news about China depends on intrepid journalists whose names you’ll probably never know
10/11/2017 - I let Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson run my life for a week
10/11/2017 - Time is a strong but rarely recognized power construct in the workplace
10/11/2017 - Robots are here to take up mundane banking jobs in India, so shape up or ship out
10/11/2017 - How to structure your day better
10/11/2017 - How to manage email
10/11/2017 - How to keep bias out of the hiring process
10/11/2017 - To find a job you love, ask yourself these questions
10/11/2017 - How to manage remote employees
10/11/2017 - We used to kowtow to corporations. Now they’re starting to kneel down to us
10/11/2017 - A guide for people who work from home
10/11/2017 - To give better feedback, you must fully understand the agony of receiving it
10/11/2017 - How to read more effectively
10/11/2017 - Welcome to Quartz at Work, a new edition from Quartz
10/10/2017 - The “patriot” hockey players Trump welcomed to the White House are mostly foreigners
10/10/2017 - Only 5% of young workers in Britain are in jobs that are safe from robot replacement
10/10/2017 - Snapchat is getting closer and closer to being a truly useful app
10/10/2017 - Catalonia pauses secession, Walmart’s big day, rogue Indian McDonalds
10/10/2017 - Destructive wildfires, Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/10/2017 - The real victims of the California wildfires are not the customers of the Napa wine industry
10/10/2017 - Democratic candidates won’t build digital campaigns. Silicon Valley is just going to do it for them.
10/10/2017 - What it’s like to watch a raging wildfire descend on your neighborhood
10/10/2017 - The last person we heard talking like Harvey Weinstein is now the US president
10/10/2017 - How Uber gamified work
10/10/2017 - Popular culture in 2017 is starting to look a lot like it did in the early 2000s
10/10/2017 - Graph paper
10/10/2017 - The Equifax breach happened because today’s executives know they’ve got nothing to fear
10/10/2017 - The US’s environmental regulator just repealed a climate law that would have saved up to $34 billion in health costs every year
10/10/2017 - A French artist is trolling Trump with installations that straddle the US-Mexico border
10/10/2017 - More than one-third of Equifax’s UK records may have been exposed
10/10/2017 - Catalonia puts independence on hold but highlights Spain’s “radical” refusal to negotiate
10/10/2017 - Creeping wildfire smoke is a threat to California wines that people can actually taste
10/10/2017 - New audio reveals Harvey Weinstein propositioning a model as she desperately tries to leave
10/10/2017 - President Trump’s long, lonely, Columbus Day weekend
10/10/2017 - The future of AI surveillance is hidden in a virtual airport fish tank
10/10/2017 - Scientists found bee-killing neonicotinoids in 75% of honey sampled from around the world
10/10/2017 - Interactive: The making of a microchip
10/10/2017 - How microchips come to live in our phones
10/10/2017 - Connected devices could bring 15% more bananas to store shelves
10/10/2017 - Borderline personality disorder fails as a diagnostic term—let’s retire it
10/10/2017 - Today’s Google doodle celebrates the free movement of refugees around the world
10/10/2017 - In the relationship era of business, networked structure rules
10/10/2017 - The future of farming in Africa is not agriculture but agribusiness
10/10/2017 - Mark Zuckerberg toured a disaster-stricken Puerto Rico as a virtual reality cartoon
10/10/2017 - US cigarette warning labels do a poor job of explaining risk—and fewer smokers are quitting as a result
10/10/2017 - Want to engage your employees? Stop sending emails
10/10/2017 - Donna Karan betrayed working women with her defense of Harvey Weinstein
10/10/2017 - Silicon Valley’s fasting craze is proof that self-denial is the new indulgence for elites
10/10/2017 - There’s a simple way to predict who wins a MacArthur “genius” award
10/10/2017 - Kenya’s opposition candidate has withdrawn from the election rerun
10/10/2017 - California wildfires are ripping through Napa Valley—home to a $50-billion wine industry
10/10/2017 - The UK and US aren’t keeping pace with the global economic upswing
10/10/2017 - Wind farms in the middle of the sea could provide us with “civilization-scale” power
10/10/2017 - The black model in the “racist Dove ad” is defending the campaign
10/10/2017 - Q&A: Douglas Hofstadter on why AI is far from intelligent
10/10/2017 - The US government is finally acknowledging the flame retardants in your furniture and baby products are not just ineffective, but also dangerous
10/10/2017 - Hacking is inevitable, so it’s time to assume our data will be stolen
10/10/2017 - Why does durian smell? A new genetics theory explains why
10/10/2017 - Big EPA day, Tujia hunts Airbnb, Martian lakes
10/10/2017 - A guide to the key players in Catalonia’s independence dispute with Spain
10/10/2017 - Germany has way more industrial robots than the US, but they haven’t caused job losses
10/10/2017 - A key debate from a millennia-old Indian epic: When is violence necessary?
10/10/2017 - As long as it’s just a bunch of men building toilets, India’s sanitation mission will fail
10/10/2017 - Catalonia’s independence, California wildfires, Martian lake
10/10/2017 - Catalonia’s independence, California wildfires, Martian lake
10/10/2017 - Ola is stocking up its war chest in India while Uber struggles with its worst nightmare
10/10/2017 - Delhi’s rising pollution is caused by a dirty fuel that most countries have banned
10/10/2017 - Technology will continue to kill IT jobs—but there’s still hope for Indian engineers
10/10/2017 - South Korea’s Busan film festival is emerging from under a dark political cloud
10/9/2017 - If you’re a Star Wars fan, don’t watch the new “Last Jedi” trailer
10/9/2017 - Japan’s leader is telling voters his bromance with Trump can help protect them from North Korea
10/9/2017 - The California wildfires aren’t just bad news for wine—weed is in danger, too
10/9/2017 - The weather phenomenon behind the destructive wildfires in California’s wine country
10/9/2017 - Northern California firestorm, DACA demands, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/9/2017 - Catalonia’s independence, wine country wildfires, Martian lake
10/9/2017 - Photos: The real rituals of Native Americans make a beautiful protest of a phony US holiday
10/9/2017 - Jellyfish
10/9/2017 - Donald Trump won because people like Ivanka, her mother says in a new book
10/9/2017 - Wildfires in Napa and Sonoma threaten California’s renowned wine country
10/9/2017 - John Oliver shows late-night how to make fun of someone as unfunny as Harvey Weinstein
10/9/2017 - The flaws a Nobel Prize-winning economist wants you to know about yourself
10/9/2017 - After Dove pulled a tone-deaf ad, people are still baffled and calling for a boycott
10/9/2017 - Angela Merkel’s cap on refugees pleases her party but could hurt coalition talks
10/9/2017 - Meryl Streep says she’s “appalled” by news of Harvey Weinstein’s predatory behavior
10/9/2017 - Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis isn’t about language, but economic deprivation
10/9/2017 - High school students are missing out on $2 billion in free financial aid
10/9/2017 - Before winning the Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler cameoed in an Oscar-winning film—with Selena Gomez
10/9/2017 - Happy Columbus Day, America! Let’s call it 84 years and give it a rest
10/9/2017 - Sudan has no museum for its genocide victims, but is building one centered around US sanctions
10/9/2017 - The Nobel Prize committee explains why women win so few prizes
10/9/2017 - Donald Trump’s passion for cruelty is symbolic of a greater American illness
10/9/2017 - Facebook thinks the most useful digital assistant is the one that can read minds
10/9/2017 - The largest US pharmacy chain is using design to help patients manage multiple prescriptions
10/9/2017 - The Nobel Prize in economics goes to Richard Thaler for highlighting humanity’s flaws
10/9/2017 - Economics Nobel, Weinstein gets fired, sauce revolt
10/9/2017 - I fixed my poor credit score by being a more loyal Alibaba consumer
10/9/2017 - Theresa May’s expected cabinet reshuffle is another way of saying she may demote Boris Johnson
10/9/2017 - Brexit uncertainty is making Britain’s job nightmare come true
10/9/2017 - Apple’s first ever VP of diversity and inclusion says she focuses on everyone, not just minorities
10/9/2017 - This year’s Oscar contenders from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are the perfect lens into the places they’re from
10/9/2017 - Weekly Indian shopping list: Husband likes ladyfingers, wife baby corn. Both choose bitter gourd
10/9/2017 - The New York Times’s sexual harassment exposé just got Harvey Weinstein booted from his own company
10/9/2017 - Jobs, tax, and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
10/9/2017 - Nobel for economics, Catalonia independence, sauce rebellion
10/9/2017 - Nobel for economics, Catalonia independence, sauce rebellion
10/9/2017 - The bad news: India’s cities are likely to worsen. The good news: There is none
10/9/2017 - Facing a financial crisis at home, Toys”R”Us is joining hands with Lulu to woo Indian kids
10/9/2017 - IIT grads? No, it’s the school dropouts who are hot property in Indian IT now
10/8/2017 - Nobel for economics, Columbus’ linguistic legacy, smarter Octopuses
10/8/2017 - Pete Davidson’s brave SNL skit shows mental illness and success aren’t mutually exclusive
10/8/2017 - All the countries named for or by Christopher Columbus
10/8/2017 - How five great leaders dealt with crisis, and what we can learn from them
10/8/2017 - It’s official: Data science proves Mondays are the worst
10/8/2017 - Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian explains his essential “don’ts” for starting a company
10/8/2017 - Researchers discovered which careers have the smiliest workers
10/8/2017 - Humans had to evolve to acknowledge octopus consciousness
10/8/2017 - The simple step parents can take to teach their kids persistence and grit
10/8/2017 - “Blade Runner 2049” is the rare sequel that justifies its right to exist
10/8/2017 - Apple’s iPhone SE has reached the same, exalted evolutionary pinnacle as the cockroach
10/8/2017 - The fashion in 1982’s “Blade Runner” still looks futuristic in 2017. Its sequel looks cliché
10/8/2017 - A deadly fireball explosion in Ghana has started a debate over regulation of gas stations
10/8/2017 - Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson was only surprised by one thing when he was sued by police officers—their anonymity
10/8/2017 - As satellites get smaller and cheaper, space programs in developing countries are getting bigger
10/8/2017 - How South Africans now learn French as an “African” language
10/8/2017 - Liberia decides, Nairobi’s shiny empty offices, Africa’s fast food problem
10/7/2017 - An obscure Dr. Seuss book offers a playful rebuke to gender stereotypes
10/7/2017 - How New Orleans is preparing for Hurricane Nate
10/7/2017 - The five steps a society needs to take to banish sexual harassment for good
10/7/2017 - How hip hop became the force behind Gabon’s political activism
10/7/2017 - Donald Trump is bringing Sudan in from the cold
10/7/2017 - Introverts make great leaders—but lack confidence in their capabilities
10/7/2017 - A Norway massacre survivor explains how we need to pay more attention to the radicalization of white men
10/7/2017 - See the year’s best microscopic video in awe-inspiring detail
10/7/2017 - Tweeting about politics doesn’t just feel good—it can actually make you smarter
10/7/2017 - Facebook’s latest solution to its fake news problem—sign on a right-wing fact-checker
10/7/2017 - The sociological explanation for why men in America turn to gun violence
10/7/2017 - In defense of the Nobel Prize
10/7/2017 - Can you be masculine and beautiful at the same time?
10/7/2017 - Weekend edition—In the Nobel’s defense, disaster seen through Snapchat, replicant outerwear
10/7/2017 - A definitive list of the musicians who influenced our lives most
10/7/2017 - Nobel prizes are great, but college football is why American universities dominate the globe
10/7/2017 - How realistic is the incredible futuristic technology in “Blade Runner 2049”?
10/7/2017 - Weekend edition—In the Nobel’s defense, disaster seen through Snapchat, replicant outerwear
10/7/2017 - Weekend edition—In the Nobel’s defense, disaster seen through Snapchat, replicant outerwear
10/6/2017 - Weekend edition—In the Nobel’s defense, disaster seen through Snapchat, replicant outerwear
10/6/2017 - White nationalism, Trump administration’s new rule, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/6/2017 - A complete guide to keeping it “legit” or “groovy” or whatever in the multi-generational workplace
10/6/2017 - A complete guide to handshakes, memeing, and how to bridge the generation gap at work
10/6/2017 - The fate of the economy could rest in Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials getting along
10/6/2017 - The clash of the generations is a crippling mythology
10/6/2017 - Octopi and cuttlefish are the ocean’s most talented masters of disguise
10/6/2017 - The peace symbol
10/6/2017 - The US government can’t repeal Obamacare, so it is taking away women’s right to birth control instead
10/6/2017 - The busiest Atlantic hurricane month on record, visualized in one stunning GIF
10/6/2017 - What it looks like when a Category 5 hurricane flattens your island overnight
10/6/2017 - Elon Musk and Puerto Rico’s governor want to rebuild the island’s grid the Tesla way
10/6/2017 - You can soon buy and store bitcoin directly with this British “neobank”
10/6/2017 - Quartzy: the worn edition
10/6/2017 - Quartzy: the worn edition
10/6/2017 - Billy Elliot’s director explains the true meaning behind the film’s most memorable scene
10/6/2017 - AOL Instant Messenger is dead
10/6/2017 - The rollout of the first genetically modified food animal is being bungled
10/6/2017 - Three percent of the population own half of the civilian guns in the US
10/6/2017 - US employment just fell for the first time in seven years after a brutal set of hurricanes
10/6/2017 - Ryan Gosling’s amazing shearling coat in “Blade Runner 2049” is a replicant, too
10/6/2017 - Tesla production hits snags, Ghana’s fast food boom, North Korean art market
10/6/2017 - In a world where lying has become normalized, what is the future of honesty?
10/6/2017 - How Uber secretly lobbied for women to drive in Saudi Arabia
10/6/2017 - Millions of Americans are using Duolingo to learn…English
10/6/2017 - Making a dent in Africa’s pay TV market is an uphill battle against the continent’s biggest company
10/6/2017 - The next financial crisis is probably around the corner—we just don’t know from where
10/6/2017 - The UK’s productivity problem is almost twice as bad as the rest of the G7
10/6/2017 - The congressional committees that write US laws, ranked in order of white-maleness
10/6/2017 - Every hurricane and tropical storm that has hit the Atlantic this year, from A to O
10/6/2017 - Most Americans think self-driving cars are inevitable but fewer than half would ride in one
10/6/2017 - The future of robots could be tiny origami bots that fold into different shapes
10/6/2017 - The Trump administration is systematically dismantling the rights of 10 million LGBT Americans
10/6/2017 - Boys need us to help free them from the tyranny of gender norms, too
10/6/2017 - The city likely to win Amazon’s HQ2 is already a winner—and that’s a problem for America
10/6/2017 - The Chinese dream, the British dream, and the American dream, compared
10/6/2017 - US jobs report, ICAN’s Peace Prize, edible robots
10/6/2017 - The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
10/6/2017 - Goldman Sachs is one step closer to making Frankfurt its new European home post-Brexit
10/6/2017 - Mongolia has a macho new prime minister who’s apparently an admirer of Putin
10/6/2017 - Shinzo Abe’s electoral rival Yuriko Koike is vowing to take down one of Japan’s greatest evils—hay fever
10/6/2017 - Nigeria already has so many children but fixing infertility is a fast-growing business
10/6/2017 - The mantra to fix India’s jobs crisis: collaborate, collaborate, collaborate
10/6/2017 - As India revs up its grand electric vehicles plan, Tata and Mahindra are in the driver’s seat
10/6/2017 - The desire for pregnant Japanese women to stay thin has far-reaching effects on their babies’ kidneys
10/6/2017 - Oil is well, and non-resident Indians are back to sending home lots of $$$
10/6/2017 - Catalonia crisis, “Yurinomics,” Saudi entourage
10/6/2017 - Catalonia crisis, “Yurinomics,” Saudi entourage
10/6/2017 - India’s biggest tax reform is weaving a disaster for the famed Banarasi sari industry
10/5/2017 - The firm behind Wall Street’s “Fearless Girl” will pay a $5 million settlement for salary discrimination against women
10/5/2017 - Tropical storm Nate, Iran nuclear deal, soldier selfies
10/5/2017 - This is how much Google is spending on cutting edge AI research
10/5/2017 - Going after the opioid industry, the political divide, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/5/2017 - MIT scientists are changing the future of furniture with self-inflating objects
10/5/2017 - The secret to Kazuo Ishiguro’s success? Ditching housework, thanks to his wife
10/5/2017 - Even the NRA is calling on the US government to reconsider controversial “bump stocks”
10/5/2017 - Cobalt
10/5/2017 - NRA signals support for regulations on devices that make guns more deadly
10/5/2017 - The Soviets taught the Americans how to use science for propaganda
10/5/2017 - The surprising ways to cash in on the electric-car boom
10/5/2017 - You can soon automatically use your spare change to buy bitcoin
10/5/2017 - Why Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel prize for literature
10/5/2017 - Tropical Storm Nate could hit New Orleans as a hurricane this weekend
10/5/2017 - There’s now a robot you can eat
10/5/2017 - A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money and was fed up with academia
10/5/2017 - Harvard’s admissions practices are under US government investigation
10/5/2017 - It’s about to get cheaper for over 500 million Africans to roam on their phone networks
10/5/2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize is a victory for literary weirdness
10/5/2017 - Giant pandas in China are fleeing their habitats because of horses and cows
10/5/2017 - “Stranger Things” taps even deeper into 80s nostalgia with the release of a retro mobile game
10/5/2017 - Hugh Hefner’s vision with Playboy not only degraded women, it also dehumanized men
10/5/2017 - Our addiction to links is making good journalism harder to read
10/5/2017 - North Korea is losing its friends in Africa
10/5/2017 - The classic crisis de-escalation techniques Tillerson, Puerto Rico, and Mexico are using with Trump
10/5/2017 - The absurd dark comedies helping us survive 2017
10/5/2017 - LEGO’s new museum is a giant fantasy LEGO building, of course
10/5/2017 - McKinsey used machine learning to discover the best way to teach science
10/5/2017 - A big money manager just changed its mind on the future of robot advice
10/5/2017 - The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro
10/5/2017 - Big asset managers think global politics are making things worse for investing
10/5/2017 - US tax reformers should get rid of the charitable deduction
10/5/2017 - The best underdog story in sport is happening now as Syria tries it make to the World Cup
10/5/2017 - A definition of “love” from the US Food and Drug Administration
10/5/2017 - Should the next Fed chairperson have street smarts or book smarts?
10/5/2017 - We are one step closer to having fully unmanned trains
10/5/2017 - Literature’s Super Thursday, Nate gathers force, Santa’s tomb
10/5/2017 - Hippos are being pushed towards extinction by an insatiable demand for their teeth
10/5/2017 - Global banks could trigger Brexit contingency plans the day after Christmas
10/5/2017 - How ‘Germany’s Hugh Hefner’ created an entirely different sort of sex empire
10/5/2017 - A leopard has temporarily halted production at one of India’s largest car factories
10/5/2017 - Bob Geldof is “sick” of the world—blame Donald Trump, Aung San Suu Kyi, and “old culture”
10/5/2017 - The new chief of India’s largest bank spent 37 years rising to the top
10/5/2017 - Saudi king’s Russia visit, Google’s gadget armada, Santa’s tomb
10/5/2017 - Saudi king’s Russia visit, Google’s gadget armada, Santa’s tomb
10/5/2017 - It’s time the BRICS nations realised that they’re running a “limited purpose partnership”
10/5/2017 - Venture capital has hit an all-time high in India—and a quarter of it came from one investor
10/5/2017 - RBI is demolishing the walls that divide India’s e-wallet companies
10/4/2017 - North Korea is testing not just bombs but the entire global nuclear monitoring system
10/4/2017 - As bleak as life is for most North Koreans, it’s often far worse for those who flee
10/4/2017 - Saudi king’s Russia visit, Google’s gadget armada, Santa’s tomb
10/4/2017 - Massive cyberhacks, name-calling Trump, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/4/2017 - California just got sued for letting its humpback whales die off
10/4/2017 - The IRS is paying Equifax millions for a login system that has been hacked—twice
10/4/2017 - Under US law, convicted domestic abusers cannot buy guns
10/4/2017 - The story behind the “Monopoly man” who photobombed Equifax’s Senate testimony
10/4/2017 - There’s no way to report many of the fastest-spreading Las Vegas conspiracy theories on Facebook
10/4/2017 - Tote bags
10/4/2017 - Google has built earbuds that translate 40 languages in real time
10/4/2017 - US Senate bill tells humans to take a back seat: Self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels
10/4/2017 - Google just put AI everywhere with an armada of new gadgets
10/4/2017 - Another hurricane could be heading for Florida
10/4/2017 - Hollywood special effects are helping surgeons practice brain surgery
10/4/2017 - Stephen Paddock shared a trait with other mass killers: He abused women
10/4/2017 - Each frame of the visually astonishing “Blade Runner 2049” belongs in an art gallery
10/4/2017 - Bad news, cats. Your jobs have been automated
10/4/2017 - What you should do about your Yahoo account
10/4/2017 - What is a bump stock, the device Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had in his arsenal?
10/4/2017 - How Europe is going after big tech when no one else is
10/4/2017 - In honor of National Taco Day, a history of the humble Mexican street food (with a bonus recipe)
10/4/2017 - DeepMind now has two ethics groups, but one of them is still secret
10/4/2017 - Impeachment was designed to protect the US from presidents like Trump. What went wrong?
10/4/2017 - Amazon Echo has a huge lead on Google Home—and it’s growing
10/4/2017 - Adidas can now make specialized shoes for runners in different cities, thanks to robots
10/4/2017 - In a blistering move, the EU tells Monsanto it isn’t above democracy
10/4/2017 - Snapchat has become the perfect tool for understanding tragedy
10/4/2017 - Why is there no Nobel Prize in technology?
10/4/2017 - How to watch today’s Google event
10/4/2017 - Concepts in psychology that even the experts get wrong
10/4/2017 - Fast food is fueling an obesity epidemic in Africa
10/4/2017 - In 60 years since Sputnik, we’ve created 10 baby elephants worth of space trash with every launch
10/4/2017 - Americans want big government help when robots and artificial intelligence take their jobs
10/4/2017 - Scientists have built a new soft robot that can heal itself
10/4/2017 - How to keep track of the billions in penalties the EU is slapping on global companies
10/4/2017 - The philosophical case for staying hopeful in dark times
10/4/2017 - The work that won the Nobel Prize in chemistry—in terms everyone can understand
10/4/2017 - A vote on a US law that would make guns quieter keeps getting delayed by mass shootings
10/4/2017 - The armor female superheroes wear would get them killed in real life
10/4/2017 - In a world without TV sets, what do we call TV?
10/4/2017 - Here are just a few of the things the US regulates more than guns
10/4/2017 - Puerto Rico won’t recover from Maria unless the US stops treating it like a colony
10/4/2017 - Capitalism in America has been on a suicide mission for 40 years
10/4/2017 - China’s putting the brakes on coal for heating millions of homes this winter
10/4/2017 - One of the Nobel Prize winners for chemistry lists “no longer scared of the dark” on his amusing résumé
10/4/2017 - Trump goes to Vegas, Uber-SoftBank deal, kawaii cocktails
10/4/2017 - To close the gender gap in jobs, women need new laws and men need new attitudes
10/4/2017 - Mothers of young children, take heart: This chart shows things will get better
10/4/2017 - Survey: Facebook is the big tech company that people trust least
10/4/2017 - Catalonia has “deepened the cracks” of the disunity created by the existence of the euro
10/4/2017 - Norway wants to literally bury other countries’ carbon emissions—in its own backyard
10/4/2017 - The bitter truth is that a sugar tax alone won’t stop Asia’s obesity epidemic
10/4/2017 - Your Mid-Autumn Festival guide to eating mooncakes
10/4/2017 - Uber is one step closer to a massive investment from SoftBank, and that’s bad for Travis Kalanick
10/4/2017 - Once a month, I am my barber’s muse and also his work of art
10/4/2017 - A Japanese airline wants to make crying babies on planes a thing of the past
10/4/2017 - An exhibition in London explores the rich history of India’s contributions to science
10/4/2017 - As Asia drives ahead on innovation highway, India sputters
10/4/2017 - Trump goes to Vegas, Uber-SoftBank deal, kawaii cocktails
10/4/2017 - Trump goes to Vegas, Uber-SoftBank deal, kawaii cocktails
10/4/2017 - A decade later, most Indian internet companies are as far from an IPO as when they started off
10/3/2017 - What is gerrymandering? A guide to understanding the case before the Supreme Court
10/3/2017 - Pictures of Donald Trump throwing paper towel rolls at Puerto Ricans
10/3/2017 - What’s at stake in the most important Supreme Court case of the year
10/3/2017 - Trump blames Puerto Rico, Google’s new phone, Warren Buffett truck stops
10/3/2017 - Yahoo and Equifax just proved that you can never trust the first number announced in a data breach
10/3/2017 - Samsung is diving into mixed reality with its new Odyssey headset
10/3/2017 - testing parallax
10/3/2017 - Snapchat is partnering with artists to place augmented reality sculptures around the world
10/3/2017 - A Brown professor explains how Americans’ faith in civilized debate is fueling white supremacy
10/3/2017 - Warren Buffett is betting against a future of self-driving cars and trucks
10/3/2017 - Politicizing politics, Trump in Puerto Rico, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/3/2017 - Ketchup
10/3/2017 - Trump in Puerto Rico tells hurricane victims: You’ve thrown our budget “out of whack”
10/3/2017 - In the future, owning a car could cost twice as much as taking driverless taxis everywhere
10/3/2017 - The cost of US gun violence has finally been calculated—at $2.8 billion a year
10/3/2017 - Arm your employees with wearables to keep them safe at work
10/3/2017 - Tailor made to reduce risk: wearable technology in the workplace
10/3/2017 - Parents can help children avoid developing peanut allergies from the moment they start breastfeeding
10/3/2017 - For a long, successful career, LinkedIn says nothing beats a liberal arts major
10/3/2017 - Walmart is taking its battle with Amazon to the streets of New York
10/3/2017 - Asia’s found a way to reset the immigration debate: let migrants pay into social security
10/3/2017 - The Equifax hack means it’s time to stop pretending Social Security numbers are secure IDs
10/3/2017 - Asia’s immigration story: Big challenges, bigger opportunities
10/3/2017 - There are cognitive benefits to being a bilingual kid that pay off in adulthood
10/3/2017 - Oscar Pistorius’ family is suing a US cable TV channel over its “Blade Runner Killer” film
10/3/2017 - This year’s Nobel Prize winners are changing everything we know about medicine and biology
10/3/2017 - What to expect from Google’s Oct. 4 Pixel event
10/3/2017 - It doesn’t look like Goldman Sachs will be trading bitcoin any time soon
10/3/2017 - Turkey has opened a military base in Somalia as it steps up its Africa engagement
10/3/2017 - The photographer of the Las Vegas shooting thought it was a false alarm until he saw his pictures
10/3/2017 - The work that won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics—in terms everyone can understand
10/3/2017 - Tesla Model 3 production falls short of expectations after hitting production snags
10/3/2017 - Silicon Valley isn’t just disrupting democracy—it’s replacing it
10/3/2017 - Watch Ryan Gosling act out every graphic designer’s real angst about Papyrus font
10/3/2017 - Adults’ obsession with weird, squishy stuffed animals reveals a heartbreaking need in our psyche
10/3/2017 - An investor wants Starbucks to explain why baristas get less parental leave than office staff
10/3/2017 - Nigeria’s central bank is printing money to keep the government afloat and alarms are ringing
10/3/2017 - An agoraphobic photographer traveled the world using only Google Street View
10/3/2017 - Washington failed to regulate Big Tech—and now it’s about to discover that it can’t
10/3/2017 - The stock market has remembered that big banks have allies in Washington
10/3/2017 - This week, half of China’s population is on the move
10/3/2017 - Catalonia on strike, RIP Tom Petty, Merlot is back
10/3/2017 - The bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks is based on fake science
10/3/2017 - Catalonia is calling the EU for help after its “traumatic” independence referendum
10/3/2017 - Denmark’s biggest energy company is completely abandoning fossil fuels
10/3/2017 - Indian companies are very worried about dated IT infrastructure holding them back
10/3/2017 - The nation wants to know: How an anchor is winning Indian TV news without yelling
10/3/2017 - Las Vegas shooting victims: a recent high school grad, an off-duty police officer, a nurse
10/3/2017 - Barça on strike, RIP Tom Petty, more Merlot
10/3/2017 - Barça on strike, RIP Tom Petty, more Merlot
10/3/2017 - In photos: Impressions of India from the dawn of photography to the 21st century
10/3/2017 - Tom Petty was one of the few guys Trump fans, Bernie bros, and Hillary supporters all loved
10/3/2017 - How a US arms lobby group played both India and Pakistan on the F-16 aircraft
10/3/2017 - “Tom Petty changed my life”: The social-media tributes to a rock icon
10/3/2017 - With an assembly line approach, an Indian hospital chain performs 250,000 eye surgeries a year
10/2/2017 - How a young Sikh became head of a major political party in Canada
10/2/2017 - In the Las Vegas concert shooting, survivors were also the first responders
10/2/2017 - A brief history of the word “Rohingya” at the heart of a humanitarian crisis
10/2/2017 - One in three unicorns is now being born in China
10/2/2017 - Despite the hype, nobody is beating Nvidia in AI
10/2/2017 - America’s deadliest mass shooting, new tweetstorm, and eight other stories you might have missed
10/2/2017 - Did Iraq’s Kurds lose their big bet on independence?
10/2/2017 - “Lone wolf” vs “terrorist”: the vocabulary of mass shootings
10/2/2017 - Here’s what we know about Stephen Paddock’s arsenal
10/2/2017 - Into the great wide open: Tom Petty’s greatest songs
10/2/2017 - Ads with Photoshopped models are being treated as a public health problem in France
10/2/2017 - Do we have a moral duty to watch the painful videos from a mass shooting?
10/2/2017 - Sleep deprivation
10/2/2017 - Ford is taking on Tesla with a new group called Edison
10/2/2017 - The Nobel prize was created to make people forget its inventor’s past
10/2/2017 - This is the 338th mass shooting in 2017. More are on the way
10/2/2017 - Where to find opportunities in an aging bull market
10/2/2017 - Strategies for navigating through today’s market conditions
10/2/2017 - The SEC is cracking down on small-time “initial coin offerings,” but the mega ICOs are here to stay
10/2/2017 - The scariest part of Facebook’s safety check in a mass shooting
10/2/2017 - In Nevada, more people die from gun violence than car accidents
10/2/2017 - For the next Fed chair, Trump seems keen on anybody but Yellen
10/2/2017 - Trump’s remarks on the deadliest mass shooting in US history don’t mention gun control
10/2/2017 - A new book teaches kids of the internet age all the “lost words” from nature and outdoor play
10/2/2017 - The history of US mass shootings begins with a gunman in a tower in Texas in 1966
10/2/2017 - Posting videos of a breaking crime online can have dangerous consequences
10/2/2017 - An on-demand sex health startup is anonymously helping Nigerians have more safe sex
10/2/2017 - In the event of a mass shooting or attack, you should run and hide. But should you fight?
10/2/2017 - Beyond thoughts and prayers: People line up at blood banks to help the victims of the Las Vegas shooting
10/2/2017 - High-resolution, MRI-like imagery without the metal coffin and the crushing claustrophobia
10/2/2017 - Gunmakers’ share prices are soaring after the Las Vegas shooting
10/2/2017 - Cameroon’s “Anglophone” crisis has reached a boiling point as security forces kill 17 protesters
10/2/2017 - Nevada has some of the laxest laws on guns and ammunition in the United States
10/2/2017 - What we know so far about the Las Vegas shooter
10/2/2017 - Photos: The Las Vegas shooting from the perspective of survivors and first responders
10/2/2017 - Zuckerberg’s apology for “dividing people” won’t stop the regulators from moving in
10/2/2017 - If you want to make smarter life decisions, avoid these five mental biases
10/2/2017 - Ahead of a ban, China’s illegal ivory market has moved to Laos
10/2/2017 - Technology is destroying the most important asset in your life
10/2/2017 - Trump sends his “warmest condolences” to victims after America’s deadliest mass shooting
10/2/2017 - Nairobi built shiny new business districts but not enough tenants have shown up
10/2/2017 - IKEA’s new high-end design collaboration makes flatpack furniture feel collectible
10/2/2017 - The simple reason we’re getting all these long-delayed movie sequels now
10/2/2017 - The inventor of microfinance has an idea for fixing capitalism
10/2/2017 - The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to three Americans who deconstruct biological clocks
10/2/2017 - A budget British airline has gone bust and stranded over 100,000 passengers
10/2/2017 - Nobel news, Las Vegas shooting, LA’s palm problem
10/2/2017 - Timeline of how the Las Vegas shooting unfolded: Gunman Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured more than 515
10/2/2017 - The 2017 Nobel Prize winners in medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, and literature
10/2/2017 - US citizens lose half a decade in lifespan versus people born in rich European and Asian countries
10/2/2017 - Nobel news, Catalonia clashes, eagles vs. drones
10/2/2017 - Nobel news, Catalonia clashes, eagles vs. drones
10/1/2017 - We eat mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival because of a folk tale about undying love and betrayal
10/1/2017 - Britain risks creating a $22.7-billion trade hole with its flawed “hard Brexit” plan
10/1/2017 - Nobel news, Clashes in Catalonia, Eagles hate drones
10/1/2017 - Chinese money dominates bitcoin, now its companies are gunning for blockchain tech
10/1/2017 - Another week, another autocratic leader visiting Trump’s Washington
10/1/2017 - Catalonia’s referendum shows why Spanish politicians are among the least trusted in wealthy democracies
10/1/2017 - The most famous symbol of Catalonia is betraying its ethos
10/1/2017 - Cameroon is disrupting the internet in its English-speaking regions to stifle protests again
10/1/2017 - The violent images of the Catalonian independence vote are a disaster for the Spanish government
10/1/2017 - How to win the hearts and minds of colleagues in distant time zones
10/1/2017 - What if most creative breakthroughs come from ordinary people—not geniuses?
10/1/2017 - A simple exercise for getting your priorities straight: Forget about work and relationships
10/1/2017 - 111 iconic objects that defined the last century of fashion, according to New York’s MoMA
10/1/2017 - On the death of a parent, an anchor, a friend
10/1/2017 - Binge watching Netflix can be damaging to your health—but you shouldn’t necessarily stop
10/1/2017 - Africa’s demographic dividend will turn to a liability if we don’t prepare for it
10/1/2017 - Spain’s government is scrambling to kill Catalonia’s independence referendum by any means possible
10/1/2017 - Austria just slapped a burqa ban on the 150 women who dare to wear one
10/1/2017 - The legacy of Africa’s first woman president is as a pioneer—but not of female empowerment
10/1/2017 - Germany’s social media law may force Facebook to be judge, jury, and executioner of free speech
10/1/2017 - Nigeria’s e-farmers, Uganda’s doctors, Africa’s global cuisine