An average NFT sold in April is 70% cheaper than in late February. | Continue reading
Trump-era tax cuts and CARES Act both helped large corporations achieve negative effective tax rates. | Continue reading
Major companies such as Hilton and Unilever have used AI interview software, and an estimated 83 percent of US companies use some form of AI in their HR processes. | Continue reading
Chrystia Freeland honors the memory of her grandfather, editor in chief of a Nazi newspaper that described Poland as ‘infected by the Jews’ | Continue reading
When it comes to both life and startups, the cards stacked against poor people. The window of opportunity is perpetually closed. | Continue reading
If there’s one thing I hate more than Alex Trebek acting like he knows the answers to the questions on Jeopardy, it’s Quora, the place where narcissistic technology hangers-on go to dress up dumb i… | Continue reading
Poor Little Rich Girls: The Ballad of Sara and Clare Bronfman | Continue reading
The Tesla CEO has gotten nearly $80 billion richer in 2020. | Continue reading
When asked which directors he liked best, Orson Welles famously said, “I like the old masters … by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.” The comment continued: “With F… | Continue reading
Elon Musk first proposed using rockets for Earthbound transportation in 2017. | Continue reading
Sixty years ago, the first version of facial recognition technology was developed by Woody Bledsoe, with research funded by the CIA. | Continue reading
I wanted to interview Tim to get him to explain how exactly the hell this all happened. | Continue reading
Elon Musk is only $10 billion away from Bill Gates. | Continue reading
There are thousands of dead and active satellites floating in Earth’s orbit. | Continue reading
Google formed a $10 billion India fund on Monday and struck the first deal two days later. | Continue reading
Lives have been ruined by those who have been wrongfully accused of misdeeds on social media. | Continue reading
Two astronauts walked outside the ISS main lab for six hours. | Continue reading
JCPenney furloughed majority of store workers and skipped two recent debt payments. | Continue reading
Data collected by Whole Foods suggests that stores with low racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to unionize. | Continue reading
“In the absence of this kind of stimulus, you will see unthinkable things happening.” | Continue reading
Bill Ackman is a vocal advocate for imposing a 30-day nationwide shutdown to combat COVID-19. | Continue reading
You have no idea what you’re doing. Not when it comes to sex and dating and women, anyway. Don’t beat yourself up about it though, because it’s not your fault. Your culture has fa… | Continue reading
Called ‘The Book of Two Ways,’ it provides detailed instructions and ancient cheat codes for navigating the afterlife. | Continue reading
Experts (in cow anxiety) noted a reduced anxiety and improved emotional mood in the herd that was adorned in VR goggles. | Continue reading
The big problem with this wealth-fueled Elon Musk mythos is that Elon Musk is also susceptible to its spell. | Continue reading
Google still needs to work on design. | Continue reading
Yesterday, Redditors on r/Futurism discussed the possibility of an AI computer being so intelligent and self-aware that it realizes its own intelligence is the biggest risk to its existence. | Continue reading
“Recently, I’ve been telling founders to ‘know your limit,'” Son said. | Continue reading
Bezos has distanced him from editorial decisions, but he has been diligently involved on the tech side of the Washington Post. | Continue reading
By ending all weapons advertising—lethal and non-lethal alike—tech platforms are cutting off the chance to reshape a hidebound industry. | Continue reading
Researchers estimate that the project will cost a few billion dollars, which is “within the whim of one particularly motivated billionaire.” | Continue reading
And the shopping platform has plans to take on Amazon next. | Continue reading
At some point in the retail industry, someone must make a big move that will severely disrupt other retailers. | Continue reading
Planetary scientists estimate that the car will eventually crash into Earth, Venus or the sun. | Continue reading
“We will be a coffee that is around for the next 100 years,” Atomo co-founder Jarret Stopforth told Observer. | Continue reading
The sooner the industry confronts and corrects biases, the sooner it’ll realize the possibilities to come. | Continue reading
Regardless of how invincible a company or how entrenched an industry, there is always a weakness that can be exploited. | Continue reading
“We spent too much time debating, too focused on the fight and not enough on progress.” | Continue reading
Bye now, America! | Continue reading
Is booze for programmers like spinach for Popeye? The Ballmer Peak, a reference to Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, holds that imbibing alcohol improves cognitive ability, up to a point–a variatio… | Continue reading
“I thought, why is Craig’s List still a thing?” | Continue reading
Amazon’s CEO has opened the door to an espionage scandal that threatens to rock the nation’s capital and beyond. | Continue reading
Experts weigh in on the 20 hottest health companies in between the coasts. | Continue reading
The artist recalls one of history’s most famous performances: that time he stole a painting from a Berlin museum. | Continue reading
It is a truth universally acknowledged that flying by commercial airline is a much safer form of travel than driving. So how to explain that queasiness in your gut every time the plane gets in line… | Continue reading
In a world where we do everything online, independent bookstores are on the rise, while ebook sales are on the decline. Does this mean that the verdict is finally in on ebooks? Have we chosen the p… | Continue reading
On the wild frontier of art authentication, there’s a new sheriff in town: blockchain. | Continue reading
A 20-something man played bridge with three old ladies this past Columbus Day. They played at the Honors Bridge Club on East 58th Street, where the median player age is well north of 70 and the air… | Continue reading