Mayor appears with JPMorgan Chase CEO as bank unveils $125M urban revival program patterned on Detroit initiative
Read More Allergan, Pfizer call off proposed $160B merger
Allergan and Pfizer are calling off a record $160 billion merger after the Treasury issued new rules
Read More 9.7″ iPad Pro Review: It’s Two Tablets In One
If you want a meaningfully improved 9.7″ iPad or a smaller, lighter version of last year’s great big iPad Pro, this tablet has your number.
For months, the Apple rumor mill predicted that the company was going to unveil the iPad Air 3, a 9.7″ tablet with a variety of hardware improvements and support for the Pencil stylus and Smart Keyboard.
Xiaomi Mi 5 Review: A Nifty Cheap Phone, Yes, But Also Something Bigger
The Xiaomi Mi 5 is a darned good smartphone for the price, but it’s the ecosystem that makes it intriguing.
It takes a strange sort of smartphone enthusiast to go looking for reviews of the Xiaomi Mi 5, at least if you live in the United States or Europe.
Cruz Bets On Data To Find Enough Voters To Match Trump’s Loyal Base
Trump’s recent missteps haven’t shaken his base one bit, but the Cruz camp says it’s created some opportunities among other voter groups.
He could give the Nazi salute on national TV. He could dangle a baby from a window. He could polish his yacht with the American flag. Seemingly nothing can weaken the devotion of Donald Trump’s voter base—to the endless frustration of chief rival, Ted Cruz, whose data operation has been intensely focused on amassing enough voters to match the army of Trumpites.
Google’s Tilt Brush Is The First Great VR App
Here’s how a painting app is used to introduce users to virtual reality.
When the HTC Vive headset goes on sale today, the virtual reality community has a challenge: A whole load of non-gamers who are eager to check out virtual reality, but haven’t necessarily logged in hundreds of PlayStation and Xbox hours. For those non-gamers—and everyone else—one of the most intuitive virtual reality apps created is there to help them explore their world: a painting app, of all things.
Why We Trust People Who Are Clearly Untrustworthy
Simply put, trusting others is a psychological default setting that’s tough to change.
This presidential election season has highlighted quite a number of fascinating human behaviors, but one stands out. The PolitiFact team has consistently analyzed candidates’ statements and found many of them to be largely or completely false. And while that may not be unusual in politicians, it is remarkable how little of a liability it’s proving in one candidate in particular: PolitiFact has labeled Donald Trump’s statements “mostly false” over 65% of the time, yet he’s still leading the Republican pack.
The Secret To Creativity: Become An Intellectual Middleman
The most creative people combine old ideas in new ways. Here’s how to get better at mixing things up.
In Charles Duhigg’s new book on productivity, Smarter Faster Better, he devotes a chapter to how innovation happens. The answer? Generally not as lightning out of the blue.
Lessons From The Epic Fails Of Well-Funded Startups
Funding doesn’t always guarantee success. These five startups failed after raising close to $100 million and more each from investors.
In the startup world, failure is a given. Fail fast is the founder’s mantra. Make a mistake, learn from it, move on, say the experts. When startups are well funded—and have a growing number of staff members and stakeholders, it’s not quite so simple.
Karyn Kusama On Finding The Perfect Team To Make ‘The Invitation’ Creepy As Hell
From the financier to the cast to the distributor, you need a lot of people on the same page to make a film this mysterious work.
The Invitation is one of the creepier slow-burn thrillers you’re liable to see this year, and probably any other. It’s full of the sort of Hitchcockian buildup of tension that few contemporary thrillers have the patience for, taking a creepy scenario—an invitation from the protagonist’s ex-wife to a dinner party at the house they lived in together before the death of their child—and wringing every ounce of drama out of the discomfort that would come up in that situation. The entire film is about letting the viewer know that something is wrong, but delaying the reveal of exactly what that is for as long as possible—and getting into a position to tell that story in that way is something it took director Karyn Kusama a long time to do.
