From MrBeast to Logan Paul: Why Wall Street Is Infatuated With InfluencersVenture firms are luring digital megastars with $100 million deals to expand their brands outside YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
What’s Driving International Gains For Indian Airlines? – India ReportThere has been a surge in international travel among Indians, powered by increase in spending power. Indian airlines, to serve this growth in demand, are expanding their operations.
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.For nearly a decade, Holly Alpine (née Beale) loved working at Microsoft. Shortly after finishing college, in July 2014, she landed a job there as a technical account manager.
Women no longer have to make the first move on Bumble. Will it make the app better?For women who date men, making the first move on a dating app can be empowering, but having to do it can be a burden. Now, they don't have to — at least on Bumble, the dating app that built its brand on letting women message first.
Why China Is So Bad at DisinformationThe headlines sounded dire. “China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns” one read. “China Is Using AI to Sow Disinformation and Stoke Discord Across Asia and the US,” another claimed.
Confessions of a Hollywood Screenwriter: Brit Marling’s Secrets of SuccessThe 'Murder at the End of the World' creator and WGA Awards honoree bemoans the lack of performance metrics in Hollywood but shares that it is freeing as well.
Big Tech's urban heroOn one side of the gravel road, a prairie's worth of grass stretches toward distant wind turbines. On the other side, scattered eucalyptus trees dot the otherwise empty fields. All this nothing lies an hour north of San Francisco, far from the nearest subdivisions and schools and strip malls.
Boomers are defying age norms and you are losing outA new market opportunity is taking center stage in the American economy: seniors. They’re not just an expanding proportion of the U.S. population; they’re redefining “retirement.” Rather than winding down post-65, they are a growing share of the U.S.
Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys but our passwordless future remains elusiveGoogle is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys. Their passwordless approach relies on device-based authentication instead, making logging in faster and more secure.
For Xi Jinping, Religion Is PowerAs Tibetan Buddhism spreads through China, Xi sees an opportunity to consolidate his rule. Shangri-la is best-known as a fictional place—an idyllic valley first imagined by a British novelist in the 1930s—but look at a map and you’ll find it.
Trump Trial Reveals the Real Fake NewsProjection has long been Donald Trump’s superpower. Since the start of his presidential run in 2015, the former president has relentlessly attacked the mainstream media, often calling it the “Lamestream Media” or quite simply “Fake News.
We’re Not So Different, You and IDeath Skull let out a hysterical cackle, which echoed piercingly from the stone walls of his lair. “We are both strangers to this world,” Death Skull intoned. “Maligned, misunderstood. We make our own paths, live by our own rules, refuse to compromise for anyone.
Tucker Carlson went after Israel — and his fellow conservatives are furiousCarlson mainstreamed antisemitism for a long time, and conservatives seemed not to care. Then he set his sights on Israel. The New York Times once described Tucker Carlson’s Fox News hour as “the most racist show in the history of cable news.
How Do You Make a Genuinely Weird Mainstream Movie?Jane Schoenbrun, the director of the unsettling new film I Saw the TV Glow, has some ideas. Seconds into talking about their new movie, Jane Schoenbrun cannot help but bring up Freddy Got Fingered.