“Ghost in the Shell” Is a Poem to Hong Kong

The lead character's quest mirrors the city's identity crisis after its return to China. | Continue reading


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The books every new graduate should read (2017)

From "The Boys in the Boat" to "1984." | Continue reading


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Linguists found the world’s “weirdest” languages – and English is one of them

This explains why some aspects of English can be so hard to learn for speakers of other languages. | Continue reading


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The language you speak changes how informative you can be

Researchers studied 17 languages with a huge range of tones, syllables, and sounds. | Continue reading


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How to Prepare for the Future of Work

At Prudential Financial, frank conversations about reskilling have already started. | Continue reading


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California is about to rewrite the rules of the gig economy

The state is expected to vote next week on a bill that would force companies like Uber to reclassify workers as employees. | Continue reading


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What happens to tech workers when their skills become obsolete?

Workers who specialized in Adobe Flash point the way to a more resilient future. | Continue reading


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The problem with the popular 'evolution of monkey-to-man chart'

There is a much more accurate way to portray the process of evolution—so why don’t we use it? | Continue reading


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Can you be body-positive and want to lose weight?

It’s not a moral crime to want to lose weight—but it's hard to figure out how to love your body while wanting to change it, too. | Continue reading


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WeWork is already the wildest IPO of the year

The We Company (WE), formerly called WeWork, is going public—and we’ve got lots of questions. | Continue reading


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Teach yourself a new habit the same way Google and FB teach you

"Automaticity" is key. | Continue reading


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China’s Hong Kong narrative is confusing its own people

Weibo "puts what it wants you to see... and closes your eyes to what it doesn’t want you to see." | Continue reading


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SpaceX missed a satellite collision warning due to a software bug

Hey, it was a holiday weekend. | Continue reading


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Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police

Volunteer-created and crowdsourced, these help protesters and bystanders alike navigate fast-changing and often chaotic situations. | Continue reading


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Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends

Those who even mildly deviate from the state-approved line on the Hong Kong protests could see their information—and that of their family members—shared online. | Continue reading


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GE and Whatever Happened to Six Sigma?

As GE began its long, slow decline, so did the popularity of the once dominant management system. | Continue reading


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Hong Kong’s fast-learning, dexterous protesters are stumped by Twitter

Protesters want to use Twitter to get their message out to the global community—including US politicians—but are experiencing teething problems. | Continue reading


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As Democrats drop out and Republicans join the fray, the race is starting to take shape. | Continue reading


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Ready to destroy a longstanding argument against raising the minimum wage?

Economists had long missed an important feature of the US labor market. | Continue reading


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Why Some Indian Restaurants Are Fighting Zomato, Swiggy, UberEats – Quartz India

Since Aug. 15, over 2,000 restaurants across India are protesting deep discounting. | Continue reading


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The world’s richest countries came up with just $22M to fight the Amazon fires

The Amazon rainforest is burning at an increasing rate, yet the world's seven largest advanced economies managed to come up with just $22 million for reforestation. | Continue reading


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Bill Gates' Fund Expands Portfolio of Startups Fighting Climate Change

The world needs to deploy and scale technologies that cut emissions fast. | Continue reading


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Why is “courage” suddenly such a popular job requirement?

More and more companies are listing the quality as a requirement for entry-level, minimum-wage jobs. | Continue reading


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How to build – and manage – a self-improving team

Servant leadership is not the answer. | Continue reading


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How to smear your enemies and silence critics, Chinese Communist Party style

A five point program that's guaranteed to succeed. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Amazon Fire tablet upstages Amazon rainforest fires on Google

The Amazon rainforest is burning—but Google News just wants to tell you about Amazon.com’s tablet. | Continue reading


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The marketing practices that worsened America's opioid epidemic are making their way overseas

How does Big Pharma market addictive painkillers? Become a Quartz Member for exclusive access to the new investigative documentary. | Continue reading


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Why the Placebo Effect Is Getting Stronger

Who needs drugs anyway? | Continue reading


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Pre-fab homes are coming to a city backyard near you

This may be the only way many young American adults will be able to live in cities. | Continue reading


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Cloudflare uses lava lamps to generate randomness

Humans and computers are horrible at making random numbers, so Cloudflare turns to natural processes. | Continue reading


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How to get hired when you're pregnant

Let's start investing our talents and energy into businesses that support pregnant employees. | Continue reading


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How the sound of your name defines how people think about you

New research shows people will use the sounds in a name to infer someone’s physical and personality traits. | Continue reading


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Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate

Don't be taken in by the fancy packaging and the Amish beards. | Continue reading


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150 years of data proves it: Strongmen are bad for the economy

The study dispels the myth of the "benevolent autocrat." | Continue reading


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Shariq Hashme Arrested for Embezzling Money from Scale AI

With just about every aspect of modern life networked together in one way or another, it's hard to carry out a cybercrime without leaving clues. | Continue reading


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Plant-based eggs are starting to compete with the real thing

The humble mung bean is starting to give chickens a run for their money. | Continue reading


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Emoji

😀 Emoji: A visual language evolving before our eyes | Continue reading


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China’s fan-girl culture is mobilizing against the Hong Kong protests

Chinese fan girls are standing up for "little brother," aka China. | Continue reading


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A Horror Story for Programmers

Programmers discovered that Kite had quietly injected promotional content and data-tracking functionality into open-source apps. Not cool. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Shopping sites trick you for money and info

Shopping websites have ways of getting you to do what they want. | Continue reading


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You can now pay Climeworks to turn your carbon emissions to stone

The world has delayed climate action for too long. That means we now don't just need to cut emissions, but also draw carbon dioxide from the air. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

What’s next for the popular programming language R?

Star programmer Hadley Wickham hopes R will become more diverse and play better with other languages. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

What an economist learned by driving for Uber (2018)

Over the past few years, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Paul Oyer has explored the growing gig economy from many perspectives—including from behind the wheel. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

White House is reportedly moving to regulate “anti-conservative” social media

A proposed executive order could make it harder for tech companies to take down or suppress content deemed inappropriate. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving

Leather has typically been a key ingredient in Doc Martens, but in recent years the maker of the classic boot has found a growing customer base for animal-free versions. | Continue reading


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Apple locked me out of its walled garden. It was a nightmare

A first-hand account of what it's like a when tech giant decides to cut off access to everything you've ever bought from them. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Apple locked me out of its walled garden. It was a nightmare

A first-hand account of what it's like a when tech giant decides to cut off access to everything you've ever bought from them. | Continue reading


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A man behind the most important tool in data science

Wes McKinney hated the idea of researchers wasting their time, so he created the wildly popular data science tool called "Pandas" for the Python programming language. | Continue reading


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