The organization building a 10,000-year clock funded by Jeff Bezos The Long Now Foundation is on a mission to change the way we think about time — in part, by building a giant clock inside of a mountain. We sat down with the organization’s exec director to learn a bit more.
Lie detectors are BS — and eye-scanning technology won’t make them any better A new device is trying to improve the accuracy of lie detection. But does it actually work?
How Thanksgiving became the most popular day of the year to run a 5k The history and economics of America's favorite footrace: The turkey trot
Series-Bee: Meet the startups trying to save America’s ailing bee population A number of startups are working around the clock to find tech-rooted solutions to the bee-pocalypse.
The company Airbnb is using to help nomadic tribes host guests Airbnb’s wants to help rural communities — often neglected by Big Tech — use the platform as a form of “economic empowerment and community development.”
The dystopian business of bottled air A growing number of entrepreneurs are capitalizing on China’s air pollution crisis by selling bottled air. But who is it actually helping?
How one man built The Sharper Image into the world’s wackiest gadget store It took a marketing genius to build the kingdom of flashy gadgets — and a $229 air purifier to take it all down.
The most lucrative side-hustles Who are the so-called “side-hustlers?” What do they do? And how much do they make? We ran a survey to find out.
What happens when you automate your own job? Today’s workplace places a premium on efficiency and speed — but when workers automate their own jobs, should they reap the rewards?
Amid pressure, Amazon hikes minimum wage to $15 an hour Yesterday, Amazon announced it will raise its minimum wage to $15 for all of its 250k US workers, as well as some 100k seasonal workers, effective November 1, 2018.
Unprofitable companies are IPO’ing like there’s no tomorrow New research shows that a whopping 83% of IPOs in 2018 have been filed by unprofitable companies.
