The US fast-charging network quietly stopped being terrible, and the data shows…
The EV industry solved its most glaring problem just as consumers decided they don't want electric cars anyway.
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Antonio Damasio’s ‘somatic marker’ theory argued that bodily signals help guide…
Antonio Damasio's patients had intact IQs, intact memories, and no ability to make a decision. Their brain injuries revealed a truth neuroscience is still catching up with: emotion is not the opposite of reason — it is the mechanism that makes reason work.
Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a…
Apple has allegedly filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI that could complicate the artificial intelligence company's path to a public listing.
Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6…
The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as much as they do.
The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while…
The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got more time.
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term ’emotional labor’ in 1983 to describe…
Arlie Hochschild's 1983 concept described the paid smile in an airline cabin. Four decades later, the same unpaid work runs through friendships, families and Slack channels — and the people carrying it are the last to notice they're working.
Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero bid would take its global platform to 99 markets
Uber has agreed to acquire Berlin-based Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion deal that would extend the combined platform to 99 markets and consolidate the world's largest food delivery business outside China.
The EU says Instagram and Facebook’s addictive design likely breaks its rules…
Brussels’ preliminary finding could eventually cost Meta up to 6% of its global revenue. But Meta gets to argue back first, and nothing has been decided yet.
Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60…
A cybersecurity firm built by former employees of the Dutch intelligence services raised €60 million to sell “sovereign” European security — but part of the money behind it is American, a useful reminder of what the label does and does not mean.
A 2019 study of 40 men linked gut-microbial diversity with some sleep measures
A small observational study found associations between microbial diversity and some sleep measures; it could not establish that the microbiome causes better sleep.
In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones ran a five-day…
In five days in April 1967, a 25-year-old history teacher in Palo Alto turned a classroom question about Nazi Germany into a movement of 200 students — using nothing more than posture rules, a salute, and the pleasure of being told what to do.
Venezuela’s earthquake response was not built by the state or the UN — it was…
The prevailing story about AI in a disaster zone is that it belongs to governments and large NGOs: satellite imagery pipelines at FEMA, damage models at the World Bank, logistics dashboards at the UN. When twin earthquakes reportedly ripped through northern Venezuela last month, that story broke.