Shared scooters don’t last long

Scooter lifespan is a key factor in scooter economics (scooternomics, if you will). | Continue reading


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A new party wants to break Bosnia’s political deadlock using computer science

Computer modeling and data analytics are being increasingly experimented with by decision-makers—including politicians—around the world. | Continue reading


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We should start working less to prepare for automation

What will happen when a work-obsessed culture stops working? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Nashville’s mayor wants to ban electric scooters after a man died riding one

26-year-old Brady Gaulke died last month while riding a Bird scooter after being struck by a Nissan Pathfinder. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Earthquakes are making Japan think twice about banning smartphones in schools

Smartphones can be lifesavers in earthquakes, and Japan has plenty of both. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Floating wind farms just became a serious business

Danish energy-trading firm Danske Commodities said it will buy all of Hywind Scotland's power over 20 years. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Scientists Discover Sea of Freshwater Under the Ocean

An undersea aquifer off the US Atlantic coast has vast stores of low-salinity groundwater. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

To keep more girls in school, stop focusing on just girls

A study shows programs targeting girls are not always the best way to help them | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Chinese bike sharing startup, once valued at $2B, now unable to pay debts

Ofo, which rolled out bike-sharing in more than a dozen countries, is officially unable to repay a company that supplied it with bicycles. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Amazon received a US patent to provide “surveillance as a service.”

Drone-based surveillance is a logical next step for Amazon, which has invested heavily in both parts of that equation. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

China is creating an alternate reality about the Hong Kong protests in real time

How China is shutting down the conversation on one the biggest news event's in recent history. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Cantonese is Hong Kong protesters’ power tool of satire and identity

Clever puns, catchy rhymes, and vivid imagery have helped create powerful symbols and slogans of resistance. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

After Slack, the IPO market might never be the same

Silicon Valley wants Wall Street insiders out of the IPO. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

China is creating an alternate reality about the HK protests, in real time

How China is shutting down the conversation on one the biggest news event's in recent history. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Jack Dorsey's “EMF-shielding tent” is bogus

You don't need this. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

We hired three Fiverr workers to write about Fiverr’s IPO

On Fiverr, you definitely get what you pay for. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Robotic Boyfriend Using Raspberry Pi

Gabriel2052’s library of motor movements will know what I’m turned on by, his fingertips ghosting across the back of my neck with the right force-per-unit area. His motorized parts will know how to spread goosebumps across my skin, and his sensors will detect when my breath quick … | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Jack Dorsey on Bitcoin, Facebook's crypto, and the end of cash

Quartz spoke with the Twitter and Square founder about bitcoin, the end of cash, and more. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

An artificially intelligent, open-source bionic leg

"You're intimately involved, your thoughts are the same," said one user. "It has the potential to make my life much easier and better." | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Richard Baldwin on the “inhumanely fast” next phase of globalization

Richard Baldwin's new book explains how the next phase of globalization and automation "is coming inhumanely fast, and it will seem unbelievably unfair." | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Google is giving some presidential candidate ads different treatment than others

Google has been treating some Beto campaign ads as if they weren’t political, raising questions over whether it's capable of keeping its promise of ad transparency. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Hong Kong’s protesters were afraid to use their metro cards

Do you want to check the efficiency of the new, state of the art, GraalVM JIT Compiler in comparison to the old but mostly used JIT C2? Let’s have a side by ... | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Why foreign governments are so worried about Hong Kong’s extradition law

The world speaks. Will the Hong Kong government listen? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

No one is talking about the biggest problem with Slack

When it comes to online harassment protection, Slack is slacking off. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Telegram says it faced China-linked cyberattacks during Hong Kong protests

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov also said, in a tweet, "this case was not an exception." | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Uber is pivoting to fintech, something Asian startups have been doing for years

Asian mobility startups like Ola, Grab, and Go-Jek have been rolling out financial services since at least 2015. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

HK to one million protesters: We can’t hear you

The authorities are refusing to budge on the controversial extradition law. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

How the former employees of Theranos explain themselves on LinkedIn

What happens when the company you work for implodes? | Continue reading


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Why's am Indian billionaire splurging on an Australian mine sure to lose money

The future of coal-fired plants is uncertain. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Sneakers Became So Valuable

A brief history of hype | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

A writer in exile chronicles the lives of the survivors of Tiananmen Square

Liao Yiwu's stories in "Bullets and Opium" focus on the ordinary, working-class citizens who bore the brunt of the army's attacks in 1989. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

PlantNet is the world’s best social network

The only that will make you feel better every time you use it. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Google and Apple Are Upending Japan's Salary Traditions

The international competition for tech employees is so fierce that it's forcing a new approach to longstanding pay practices. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Custom and Border Protection buying 2.2M pairs of diapers for tent city

As well as 20,000 baby bottles, 3,000 boxes of baby wipes, and 36,000 pairs of extra-small shower shoes. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

No One Is Innocent in Anew York City’s Taxi Market

After a New York Times investigation of the taxi medallion bubble, Uber is no longer the leading villain. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Facebook removed a page “tied to Iran.” The Indians who ran it are bewildered

"Coordinated inauthentic behaviour." | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Silicon Valley fintech looking to supercharge access to UK financial data

Plaid says there's been a "sea change" in its relationship with big banks, which started out rocky in the US. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Scientists are closer to pinning down why the world’s best marathoner is so good

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has won 11 of the 12 marathons he has competed in. His only loss was to another Kenyan. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Bill Nye: techno-optimism is just another way of living in denial (2015)

Today's graduates are tomorrow's world-saving inventors, the Science Guy says. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Investors are betting the Netflix of education can give kids what schools can’t

San Francisco-based Outschool just raised $8.5 million in funding for its marketplace of quirky online classes aimed at middle- and high-school students. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Dating Preferences Among Men and Women Are Looking Increasingly Similar

Increasing gender equality is throwing everything we thought we knew about sexual attraction out of the window. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves

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@qz.com | 5 years ago

The Race to Zero Emissions

The Race to Zero Emissions: A fresh new start | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds

"This is a milestone that has been a long time coming." | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

Learning Morse code is a valuable skill–even in the 21st century

175 years on, there are still plenty of reasons to learn Morse code. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

US military allegedly duped into buying $20M in Chinese counterfeits

Unsuspecting customers get duped by fakes every day. The US military has allegedly become one of them. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago

The programmer who created Python isn’t interested in mentoring white guys

The open-source community needs to address its unconscious bias, according to influential coder Guido van Rossum. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 5 years ago