Weeknight meals in half an hour can be done, with the help of her trusty new cookbook.
While most people know Gwyneth Paltrow through her acting career, it’s her lifestyle brand Goop that has been taking up most of her time lately—she recently told Fast Company that she considers Goop her main business, and is undertaking a major effort to scale up.
A new report indicates that major acts are racking up Instagram followers at a rate six times as fast as they were a year ago.
According to a new report, the number of followers musicians have on Instagram is growing at a staggering rate. Pandora-owned Next Big Sound released a new paper on Tuesday that says musicians accumulated 283 million new followers in May this year, up from 51 million last June.
If we give PeaceTech a chance, can it work?
In 2013, a 26-year-old Syrian called Dishad Othman built a system to warn his countrymen when a Scud missile launched by the regime was headed their way. The system, called Aymta, received reports from local activists of missile launches, calculated the trajectory and likely arrival time, and sent mobile alerts to registered civilians inside the strike zone. Most Scud casualties were caused by collapsing buildings, and the alerts gave people a little more than 10 minutes warning, enough time get out on the street or to a bomb shelter.
Nebia bets you’ll pay $400 for a new showering experience. And Tim Cook agrees.
Showers are wasteful—warm, comforting, refreshing waste. Nebia, a new shower head launching on Kickstarter today, aims to wash away a little of the guilt that comes with daily showering with a design that it claims is not only less wasteful, but a better showering experience than traditional sprayers.
The Chinese firewall blocked the site less than 24 hours after Alphabet was unveiled.
Well, that was fast: Less than a day after Google revealed its newly created parent company, Alphabet, its website has been barred in China.
The government is circulating low-fee paperless currency in hopes of reducing the costs and failings of the cash economy.
The runaway success of mobile money products like M-Pesa, which first took off in Kenya, has inspired dozens of copycats around the world. Many countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America now have services allowing people to store and transfer money using their cellphones. But there’s something different about Ecuador’s new Sistema de Dinero Electrónico. It’s being operated not by a private phone carrier or financial company, but Ecuador’s left-leaning government.
M-Pesa-like products have been hailed for bringing millions of people into the formal financial system, enabling commerce between people in different locations, and cutting theft and tax avoidance. But Diego Martinez, an economist in Ecuador’s central bank, says the government wanted its own service, because it thinks it can reduce the transaction costs that come with private offerings.
Warning: this video is extremely cathartic.
Synergy. Circle back. Value add. We created a bracket of some of the worst and most offensive business jargon phrases of all time. And the winner of the worst business jargon of all time is: “opening the kimono.” So we took this phrase and put it on a piñata. And gave a few disgruntled employees a bat. Watch what happens and enjoy. Just remember: whatever you do out there, please never open that kimono again.
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