We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can. Thank you for your patience Donald Trump is alone. That’s different from the United States being alone. Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of ...
Buzz kill: US breweries shutter as fanfare over craft beers appears to fadeBuzz kill: US breweries shutter as fanfare over craft beers appears to fade
Covid-related downturns and reductions in alcohol consumption have taken a toll on a once booming industry In the early 2000s, Chris Bell, then a student at University of Colorado Boulder, followed a common path among people interested in brewing beer. He started doing so at home, then spent years working ...
Inside China’s robotics revolutionInside China’s robotics revolution
How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out Chen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company headquartered in Shanghai, is a tall, heavy-set man in his mid-40s with square-rimmed glasses. His everyday manner ...
‘Our lead actor doesn’t know he’s in a television show!’ The return of an unbelievable TV hoax‘Our lead actor doesn’t know he’s in a television show!’ The return of an unbelievable TV hoax
Jury Duty’s first season convinced a member of the public he was taking part in a documentary about how courts work – but it was really a reality show where everyone else was actors. Its company retreat-based sequel ups the stakes brilliantly If ever there was a TV show that ...
RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody WantedRIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what ...
Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera RollTinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll
Tinder plans to let machine vision algorithms loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos—everything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive documents and dick pics—to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. ...
Mapping Google’s Unmappable CityMapping Google’s Unmappable City
North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View. YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to change that earlier this year. For a brief few days, he literally put North Oaks ...
Are US and Israel aligned on Iran war? Deciphering Trump’s post after gas field attacksAre US and Israel aligned on Iran war? Deciphering Trump’s post after gas field attacks
What does Trump’s Truth Social post after gas field attacks tell us about US-Israeli alignment? ...
The world’s biggest economy is in uncharted territoryThe world’s biggest economy is in uncharted territory
The News Jerome Powell came in hot yesterday, as central bankers go: Flatlining job growth is “what the economy needs” given “nonexistent growth in the labor force, which we’ve never had in our history,” he said yesterday. “That is balance [but] not a really comfortable balance.” It was a remarkable ...
In the Iran war, the Gulf’s shock absorber is still oilIn the Iran war, the Gulf’s shock absorber is still oil
Alaa’s view Gulf states have spent the past decade trying to reduce their reliance on oil and gas. But when they begin counting the costs of the Iran war, it is still hydrocarbons – and the vast wealth built on them — that will cushion the economic shock. The war ...