Meet the Chinese artist who finds creativity in fire.
Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese artist based in New York. One of his mediums is gunpowder, one of his native country’s most spectacular and ancient inventions. And this is his latest sculpture, the 500-meter Sky Ladder, which lived its brief two-and-a-half-minute life at Huiyu Island Harbour, Quanzhou, Fujian, last month.
Tesla charging stations are making their way to eligible Airbnb homes.
Calling all Airbnb hosts in California: If you list your entire home, have rented out your place more than five times, and boast an overall rating of at least four stars, Tesla has a proposition for you.
The team will be separate from the life extension-focused Calico Labs.
Google cofounder and now-Alphabet president Sergey Brin announced in a blog post last night that Alphabet would be spinning off the life sciences work inside Google X into its own company.
“They took my floaty!”
The dog days of summer have arrived—actually, make that the bear days of summer.
Credit-card issuers are racing to get new cards with embedded chips into customers’ hands. But merchants aren’t ready for the shift.
If you live in the U.S. and have a credit card, you’ve almost certainly received a replacement card out of the blue in the last three months, often paired with an elaborate explanatory booklet. Your new card, the booklet explains, features a special chip that will protect your transactions more effectively, reduce fraud, and make your life better. The first two parts of that statement, at least, are true.
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Titillating Fact: I spent time in Kampala, Uganda interviewing members of gay and lesbian groups for a research project shortly before legislation was proposed to make homosexuality an act punishable by life in prison. Even then, we were careful during interviews to speak softly in public, so as to not endanger anyone. Fortunately, that legislation was recently ruled unconstitutional by the Ugandan Supreme Court.
After the backlash over its privacy policy, Spotify has apologized. Could it have avoided this headache with a clearer message?
Spotify apologized to users this afternoon after a recent change in its privacy policy sparked a strong backlash. CEO Daniel Ek’s wordy explanation was apparently enough to assuage some high-profile users, many of whom were threatening to quit the service. But was this fiasco really a case of a misstep in policy, or just bad messaging?
The ride-sharing giant, valued at more than $50 billion, has not talked about its plans to go public.
Uber could go public within the next two years, according to a report obtained by Reuters.
Metropia helps cities reduce car traffic by giving people incentives to tweak their driving habits.
There are two competing approaches—both very expensive—to solving traffic problems: Build more roads, or build more public transit. Yi-Chang Chiu, a professor of transportation engineering at the University of Arizona, has another idea: Hand out gift cards.
You can’t achieve success early in life without also getting over failure fast. Here’s what everyone can learn from the ambitions of youth.
Wisdom often comes with maturity, but a growing number of young entrepreneurs are proving that age doesn’t matter when it comes to achieving success. In the new book 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World, coauthors Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert share the stories of 75 ambitious entrepreneurs who started with an idea and turned it into reality.
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