Marvel’s latest tent-pole wonder Ant-man and the Wasp enters its first full box office weekend. With a strong box-office opening estimated at $87 million, the…
The scramble to reunite immigrant kids with their families is a case study in poor project management
The Trump administration is behind deadline. A court has ordered that all immigrant children who were separated from their parents be reunited within the month:…
Scientists discovered the big toe that let toddlers climb trees like apes 3 million years ago
More than three million years ago, an ancestor of our Homo Spaiens species, called Australopithecus afarensis, was already walking around on two legs. But the…
Want to love your job? Read this article
The new dream job is none at all. A contingent of ambitious upper-middle-class types are devoting themselves single-mindedly to achieving early retirement, with the goal…
The secret to crypto investing is there is no secret
Wouldn’t it be great to know which crypto tokens will make you rich? Bahahahahah! OK seriously. There’s no way to know which protocol, company, or…
The cost of child care is driving Americans away from parenthood
American adults are having fewer kids—or foregoing parenthood entirely. A new survey conducted by Morning Consult for The New York Times sheds light on the…
Google’s Duplex AI could kill the call center
The robots on the other side of the customer support line could soon start to sound a lot more human. Google is reportedly shopping its…
Northrop Grumman’s latest bad news: There’s a white nationalist on its engineering team
It’s been a tough 2018 for aerospace contractor Northrop Grumman, culminating in today’s news that a member of its engineering team with a security clearance…
Are gasoline prices in the US really too high?
Another day, another economic threat from Donald Trump. The OPEC Monopoly must remember that gas prices are up & they are doing little to help.…
China’s next box office hit? A dark comedy about smuggling in cancer drugs from India
“Over the years since I became ill, the drugs have cost me my home and bled my family dry. Sir, can you tell me which…
Why one of India’s top offline retailers is investing in online fashion
Indian retail’s big daddy Kishore Biyani has clearly gone from being an e-commerce skeptic to loving it. On July 04, Biyani’s Future Lifestyle Fashions (FLF)…
Streaming TV’s skinny bundles are getting pricier
US customers will have to dig a little deeper into their pockets for their streaming TV bundles. AT&T’s DirecTV Now, Dish Network’s SlingTV, and Sony’s…
India wants WhatsApp to get a grip on fake news
WhatsApp has been pulled up by the Indian government over a spate of killings across the country sparked by rumours spread on the world’s largest…
What Belgium’s World Cup team says about the spread of English across Europe
Linguistically, Belgium is complicated. The country is wedged between France, The Netherlands, and Germany. And so Belgians speak versions of French, Dutch, and German, depending…
American businesses have a long tradition of expelling unwanted political visitors
Whatever you think of the expulsion of US president Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, from Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia on June…
The unseen hand of China in Africa’s largest economy
Sometimes a throwaway sentence is more illuminating than it ought to be. A line in an article in Roads & Kingdoms in January about the…
The problem with simply growing more tech hubs in Africa
Paris More than 130 new hubs have opened in Africa over the last two years, and there are still not enough. Many hubs get financial…
Some of Startup India’s poster children say they never even signed up
India is home to over 20,000 startups, but few are even aware of the benefits of the government’s ambitious Startup India programme. On Jan. 16,…
