A Cultural Revolution 2.0 is sweeping through Hong Kong’s offices and schools

Doctors, civil servants, and teachers describe an unprecedented wave of political repression as words and actions are monitored for anti-government sentiment. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

South Africa struggles with Covid-19 as it shows inequalities

Unlike other sub-Saharan African countries and like several Latin American countries, South Africa is both “First World” and “Third World”. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Neuroscience shows that our gut instincts about only children are right (2017)

Kids with no siblings get all their parents' attention, but are their brains different? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Hong Kong’s protest movement keeps getting stymied by Apple

Hong Kong's internet future hinges not only on how foreign governments react to Beijing's moves, but perhaps far more on the policy decisions of major tech giants. | Continue reading


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The Paycheck Protection Program came with few strings attached. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

How to Shop Without Amazon

How hard is it to shop ethically and effectively without relying on Amazon's convenience? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Milton Glaser’s brilliant last year

His design studio was a paradise, away from the bland hell of hospitals, waiting rooms, and dialysis centers. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

The world’s top performers prove talent has nothing to do with success (2016)

With the right sort of practice, pretty much anyone can develop incredible abilities. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

The US military is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined

If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

We’re trying a petition-based approach to get people back to the office ASAP

Cloudflare's head of people shares what the company has learned so far. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Andela shuts offices, expands across Africa by going remote

The remote, pan-African model essentially sees Andela morph into an online marketplace for African developers. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

As in mainland China, Hong Kongers now use code to evade political censorship

They're coming up with creative ways to get around bans on protest slogans that have been deemed secessionist in nature under the new national security law. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

China’s national security law for Hong Kong covers everyone on Earth

Anyone deemed to endanger China's national security—whether or not their actions are committed on Chinese soil—risk getting swept up under Hong Kong's new law. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Chinese tech co's are getting a taste of the struggle US tech co's have in China

The sudden ban of the apps of a rival nation on the grounds of defending India's national sovereignty is a tactic that has been wielded by Beijing for decades. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

San Francisco is using “tactical urbanism” to dethrone cars

“Tactical urbanism” is part of the greatest wave of experiments in urban design in half a century.    | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Google’s true origin partly lies in gov grants for mass surveillance (2017)

The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry … | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Indians can beat lockdown blues with a long-distance pet

How does this work? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Undersea internet cable is the latest snag in US-China tensions over Hong Kong

The US government says Facebook and Google's trans-Pacific cable should skip Hong Kong over national security concerns. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

For just $40 a month, Indians can beat lockdown blues with a long-distance pet

How does this work? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

For just $40 a month, Indians can beat lockdown blues with a long-distance pet

How does this work? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Zoom promised to be better at censoring global calls at Beijing’s request

Zoom said it would develop the technology to censor at China's behest, after it temporarily suspended the accounts of US- and Hong Kong-based human rights activists. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Why it’s so hard to read in times of distress

Reading can boost your mental health. Here's how to foster a reading habit, even if watching TV seems more tempting. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Taiwan is using humor as a tool against coronavirus hoaxes

The government has employed professional comedians as "engagement officers" to help in the cause. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

For privacy-conscious protesters in the US, Signal's encrypted messaging app can help preserve anonymity. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

CEOs are finally talking about racism. Will it change anything?

What happens when the protests subside, and the world isn't watching as closely? | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Personal income in the US shot up a record 10.5% in April

Covid-19 slowed down spending by $1.9 trillion in April as Americans shopped and traveled less. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

The spacesuit being designed in a small workshop in Brooklyn

The secret history of space underwear. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Why US teens on TikTok are making “I love China” videos

The trends is a reminder it's not so easy for the app to distance itself from its Chinese roots. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Pulse oximeters for coronavirus unnecessary, but selling out

“Pulse oximeter coronavirus” is a hot search term. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Fixing common pain points of working from home

Even small changes can make remote work go much more smoothly. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Facebook didn’t mark ads as ads for blind people for almost 2 years

For anyone using a screen reader to navigate the web, Facebook ads were labeled as "Spspsononssososredredsss" instead of "Sponsored." That could cause the social network some legal problems. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Covid-19 is changing how we date

In China, finding love and avoiding fatal disease have become unlikely bedfellows under common state management. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

How anti-China sentiment is spreading on social media – Quartz

The dog-whistles and hate speech are spreading with the virus. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

One programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code(2016)

A man in Oakland, California, disrupted web development around the world last week by deleting 11 lines of code. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

A Japanese aquarium under lockdown wants people to video call its lonely eels

It says its spotted garden eels are becoming too used to not having humans around, making the work of its staff difficult. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

The White House included Amazon on a list of “notorious” piracy sites

Amazon called it a politically motivated attack by the Trump administration. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Chinese GitHub Users Arrested for Posting Coronavirus Memories

Some people had been using GitHub, which remains accessible in China, to preserve articles and accounts of the pandemic before they get scrubbed by censors. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Why does India have so few Covid-19 cases and deaths?

India may have certain characteristics that protect it from the deadliest impact, but they do not suggest that it will escape the pandemic unscathed. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Why does India have so few Covid-19 cases and deaths?

India may have certain characteristics that protect it from the deadliest impact, but they do not suggest that it will escape the pandemic unscathed. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days

The answer boils down to three T’s: technology, taste, and terrible pay. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Three signs of a poor hiring process–and four ways to fix it

There are different ways to climb the ladder, and good hiring processes recognize this. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Google can still use Bluetooth to track your phone when Bluetooth is turned off

Google is disregarding the privacy settings of millions of Android phones. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Africans in China being targeted and evicted from apartments

China has tried to downplay the reports but the videos of discrimination on social media mean it's evolving into a full-fledged race row | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

This physicist's ideas of time will blow your mind

Time is just a story we tell ourselves. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

You’re never going to be Steve Jobs–but you could be Steve Ballmer (2015)

Big man, big ambitions, big expressions. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers

Of course, they're likely to be well over 60 years old. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Lottery jackpots being reduced as coronavirus hits ticket sales

Powerball and Mega Millions will use ticket sales and interest rates to determine future jackpots. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago

Covid-19 is about to reach US farms

An informal farmworker union poll suggests not all farmers are taking the threat of Covid-19 seriously. | Continue reading


@qz.com | 3 years ago