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Businessweek Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them…
Businessweek Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them…
In Friedrich Schiller’s The Death of Wallenstein , the downfall of a mercenary has a dark, tragic majesty. It was the first play I ever saw in a German theater,…
Businessweek For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s…
In the U.K. there’s old money, really old money and then there’s C. Hoare & Co. The London firm was started in 1672 by Richard Hoare and has tended to the…
Some of the most consequential changes come upon us silently, almost without notice. The world is in the midst of one right now: Our doctrines of nuclear…
Whatever its flaws, the NBA is one of the more functional institutions in American society. Two years ago, as Covid was advancing, the league was quick to shut…
Technology & Ideas The woke movement could be the next great U.S. cultural export — and it is going to do many other countries some real good. By 19 September…
Technology & Ideas Developments in the next few decades could change humanity for the next few millennia. By August 1, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT Weirder, the future is,…
LISTEN: Instagram Influencer Hushpuppi’s Rise Was Allegedly Fueled by Cyber Scams 00:00 0:00 ✕ The Heist Issue The Heist Issue The Heist Issue The Heist Issue…
Marily So, a woman in her early fifties with graying hair, runs a sari-sari store out of her one-room home in a concrete building beside a railway track in…
Your AI bartender will serve you now. Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe This year is likely to be…
When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed. In meetings, the Amazon.com Inc. chief expressed…
She wasn’t the only woman who had a great decade. Photographer: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America Photographer: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North…
Bowling’s cool again. Just ask Kim. Photographer: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Photographer: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images In the late 1970s, just over 9 million…
I’ve just endured the world’s newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometer (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19 and a…
What if you built a terrifying 21st century surveillance-and-control system and no one cared? That’s what appears to be happening with China’s social-credit…
This one is not flying and has been identified. Photographer: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images For the…
Most nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok , the smartphone app of the moment. The platinum blond teenager films herself singing show…
Does she know Arnold Kling? Photographer: Al Drago/Getty Images North America Photographer: Al Drago/Getty Images North America One of the worst tendencies in…
Goodbye to good relations. Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images We are in the midst of a new Cold War ,…