“You can make better life decisions. Big Data can help you.” So begins Don’t Trust Your Gut, a new book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Seth, a former Google data scientist, has mined massive data sets in order to answer some of life’s most vexing questions: “What predicts a happy marriage?” and “How do you get rich?” and “What really makes us happy?” The answers may surprise you.
Listen to Seth’s a
The James Webb Space Telescope’s magnificent first photos, which scientists will dissect for years to come, have been feted this week in a parade of debuts from NASA.
After a flurry of deep space images were unveiled Tuesday—showing technicolor clouds of cosmic nebulae, and a sky speckled with galaxy clusters over 13 billion light-years aw
On June 12, crypto lending platform Celsius announced it was pausing the ability of customers to withdraw their funds due to “extreme market conditions.” Those market conditions, presumably, were the death spiral that cryptocurrencies have been experiencing for much of 2022.
The news sent a shockwave through crypto investors—particu
The influencer economy is on the brink of a seismic shift. Catalyzed by the popularity of TikTok and its algorithm, which prioritizes content types over creators, brand marketers and digital agencies are increasingly allocating
Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie are both researchers at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology but are currently on leave to serve the United States government. Buchanan is acting as assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Biden-Harris Administration, meanwhile, Imbrie is serving the State Department.
Below, Ben and Andrew share five key insights from their new book, The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the
For me, there’s a certain irony in creating content for a living, but absolutely dreading the look of a blank word processing document.
As a writer, the less time I spend inside a word processor, the better. So I’ll take any opportunity I can to minimize typing and formatting. These three Google Docs features speed up my process exponentially. Best of all, they’re really easy to use.
Voice typing
If you can talk, you can type—and much fa
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of
After Palmer Luckey sold his Oculus virtual reality company to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, he could have easily used the proceeds to start a new AI company that sold chatbots or made movie recommendations. Instead he did something harder: He founded Anduril, which sells AI-powered drone defense systems to the U.S. and its allies.
He says part of his reason for starting Anduril is because the Pentagon
Nintendo’s history in the film world is a spotty one, but the company is gearing up for another run at broadening its franchises—and it’s staffing up as it prepares to do so.
The game giant has purchased Dynamo Pictures
I just reset my email. Took my unread count down to zero. Archived or deleted everything that was sitting in my inbox. And everything feels different now.
More than any other possible binary the world presents us, I believe there are precisely two types of people in this world: those whose unread email count sits at or well above 1,000, and those who have their life somewhat in order.
I remember when we all first started to get iPhones, and we all were kind of looking over each