Nov 18th 2017 BEIJING AND HONG KONG WHEN rumours swirled in August that Baidu, a Chinese online-search giant, was buying Toutiao, the scrappy news-aggregation platform reportedly quipped in response t
In 1968, the police department in Menlo Park , California hired a new police chief. His name was Victor Cizanckas and his main goal was to reform the department, which had a strained relationship with
Who are you, and what do you do? Heyyy there, I'm Matthew Rayfield and I'm an intern at Matthew Rayfield World. My job entails whatever it takes to get a project out the door. Mostly this is web devel
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When I started this blog, I committed to not shy away from the difficult conversations and this one has been brewing for a while. Last week Fortune published an article highlighting 11 CEOs that told
Aug 22nd 2019 O N AUGUST 14TH , just after 9pm Universal Time, a ripple of gravitational waves reached Earth. Until a few years ago no one would have noticed such an event. But 2015 saw the reopening,
Aug 22nd 2019 T HE YOUNG MAN Steve Sawyer briefly met on July 10th 1985 on the deck of the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior , as it sat in dock at Auckland in New Zealand, had nothing remarkable about
This past weekend was a solid road trip adventure as I worked my way from Paris to Eurobike in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Except instead of just taking the highway there directly and being done with it
Aug 22nd 2019 Girl. By Edna O’Brien. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 240 pages; $26. Faber & Faber; £16.99. E DNA O’BRIEN launched her illustrious career in 1960 with “The Country Girls”, an incendiary, tr
Jun 29th 2019 I T MIGHT HAPPEN at any time of day. David Esterly would be at his workbench, gouge in hand, when he felt the breath on his shoulder. The voice would say: “I wouldn’t do it like that,” o
Credit... Lernert and Sander for The New York Times The $60 Gadget That’s Changing Electronic Music The Swedish company Teenage Engineering has won over kids — and professionals — with a revolutionary