Ever traveled on a cruise ship? Pre-COVID, most journeys started with a shipwide safety drill where passengers assembled, donned life vests and learned what to do in an emergency. The ocean has an average depth of 2.3 miles, yet these rehearsals were always a calm affair. You’re starting a vacation; what could possibly go wrong?…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
My phone buzzes as I get a text from a friend who’s a partner at a VC firm. It’s a screenshot of a Venmo notification that just came in. “My 2 cents on why you should invest in my company,” reads the message she received, along with a $0.02 transfer. I tracked down and emailed…
Yesterday’s tech stock rout was not evenly distributed; some companies and technology sectors fared better than others. The same can be said about tech sectors in 2022 more generally. For example, the basket of cloud stocks that we track was off 45% year-to-date before the open today, while cybersecurity index funds ($IHAK, $CIBR, etc.) are…
As the new school year starts, a fresh cohort of students will soon be hard at work finding ways to avoid writing papers and watching lectures they slept through, and just generally finding ways to waste the hours as effectively as possible. Fortunately the Switch is currently an absolute treasure trove of time sinks of…
A red-headed woman stands on the moon, her face obscured. Her naked body looks like it belongs on a poster you’d find on a hormonal teenager’s bedroom wall – that is, until you reach her torso, where three arms spit out of her shoulders. AI-powered systems like Stable Diffusion, which translate text prompts into pictures,…
SAVE $400: The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro (M1 Pro chip, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is on sale for $1,599 at Best Buy as of Sept. 2 — that’s 20% in savings and the lowest price we’ve seen. Good things come to those who wait to buy new MacBooks. If you held off on upgrading your laptop…
More than half of the US population now uses a smartphone running iOS rather than Android – the first time Apple has overtaken Google since the iPhone was first launched in 2007. Apple has always been strong in its home market and commands a healthy share of the premium smartphone segment globally, but Android’s greater…
Former President Donald Trump’s South Florida residence, Mar-A-Lago, was searched by the FBI on August 8, 2020. Brandon Bell/Getty Images In the chaos after the 2020 election, White House aides were secretly packing Trump’s boxes. Classified materials may have made their way to Mar-A-Lago amidst the kerfuffle. Ex-Trump officials told the New York Times they…
Wendy’s sign. Dan Tian/Xinhua/Getty Images Wendy’s has been hit with an E. coli outbreak, with some people falling ill after eating sandwiches with romaine lettuce. The CDC says 97 people have been sickened in 6 states. More than 40 people have been hospitalized. Here are the states affected and how many cases have been detected…
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