On Sunday, November 3, 2019, through Tuesday, November 5, 2019, Instacart Shoppers will be walking-off for the fourth consecutive year. These three days of action serve as a reminder that our work is absolutely indispensable to you and your company, and central to the continuing daily operations of…

Through the window of a small plane, I look out over the vastness of the Yukon Territory—an area bigger than California with only 33,000 residents. It’s an austere landscape of glaciated mountain ranges, frozen lakes, ice fields and spruce forests. Then the mountains are behind us, and there are low…

Tom Hart emailed me the other day, asking if I remembered a Kurt Vonnegut passage where he talks about how “we all are all dispirited because we feel like have to compete with the world’s best, not just fulfill a role (say artist, writer, storyteller) in our tribe or extended family.” I did, believe…

Gif: Warner Bros. Hey, do you have a creeping sense that some people are actually ruthless, homicidal androids merely posing as humans? I have some bad news. According to the documentary film Blade Runner , which takes place in November 2019, replicants have already arrived on Earth. “But Tom, Blade…

Ali Mese Oct 28 · 6 min read visual credit It isn’t every day that I hop on a Skype call with a startup founder who is so blunt. “We don’t sell online forms. We make organizations more productive,” he subtly corrects me. “It’s a deceptively small difference. After all, who cares about boring…

Continue reading the main story It’s the End of California as We Know It The fires and the blackouts are connected to a larger problem in this state: a failure to live sustainably. Opinion Columnist Battling a grass fire in Knightsen, Calif., on Sunday. Credit... Jose Carlos Fajardo/San Jose Mercury…

In 1860, a young botanist raised in New York and schooled in Connecticut found himself on the payroll of the newly formed California Division of Mines and Geology. His job: Roam the vast, new state, taking samples and observations of plants and animals. Over four years journeying across California,…

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“Software is eating the world,” Marc Andreessen famously wrote (paywall) eight years ago. It’s intriguing to consider how many more ways software has changed our lives since. Why go grocery shopping when you can order delivery from your favorite market with Instacart or Shipt? And while you’re…

A photo of President Donald Trump and national security officials watching the raid that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi caused an immediate stir online. The image , which shows Trump flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, Secretary of Defense…

Continue reading the main story Trump, Zuckerberg & Pals Are Breaking America They think there’s no limit to the abuse and stress it can withstand. Opinion Columnist At the Capitol last week, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t have much of an answer to a question about addressing lies in political ads on…

Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities. The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite…

Alexander Muse Oct 28 · 3 min read S ince Edison and Westinghouse began bringing electricity to cities across the United States there have been associated electrical fires — especially those caused by weather events like high winds. Interestingly, the electrical fire risk has been the same for more…

Richard Stengel, a former editor of Time, is the author of “ Information Wars ” and was the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2013 to 2016. When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s assertion that the Constitution and the First…

Public schools A new ethnic studies curriculum will teach students that "ancient mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture." | 10.22.2019 9:45 AM Media Contact & Reprint Requests (Gregory Johnston | Dreamstime.com) Math is a deeply frustrating subject for many elementary and…

WASHINGTON – While smoking, Dave Chappelle began his acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center. Sunday night was a celebration of the comic, which presumably will keep the censors busy when it airs on Jan. 7 air on PBS (9 p.m. EST). Several stars were on…

HEALDSBURG, Calif. – Ryan Schmaltz raced in his Ford F-150 down Highway 101 two weeks ago during the first set of rolling blackouts here to pick up the only industrial generator available within 60 miles. Without it, the winemaker risked losing 160 tons of fruit, much of it zinfandel. He couldn’t…

Laila Salonga watched the news closely, waiting for word on whether her neighborhood in Santa Rosa would be evacuated. When her phone finally rang with an automated alert early Sunday morning, she didn’t second-guess it. She walked through her home, which doubles as a small residential care…

Mike Sturm Oct 31, 2017 · 8 min read Until I was in my late twenties, I hated running. I played sports (off and on), I did some exercise, but I stayed far away from running anything longer than a distance of a few city blocks. Running got me exhausted way too quickly. I can’t breathe well through my…

Everyone wants to be happy. Actually, it’s more accurate to say that no one wants to be unhappy . Happiness is subjective and difficult to define. Unhappiness is straightforward and simple. This is why it’s easier for me to tell you why you’re so unhappy and what you can do to fix it. If you already…

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Two men who slept on downtown Los Angeles sidewalks were beaten to death with a bat last month. In Santa Monica, four other men were attacked while sleeping outside, allegedly by the same assailant, two fatally. In Mission Hills, in the north San Fernando Valley, two unhoused people were burned in…

By Patrick Tucker Technology Editor 5:16 PM ET Topics Russia Cyber C4ISR Infowar Print Demonstrators shout during the Free Internet rally in response to a bill making its way through parliament calling for all internet traffic to be routed through servers in Russia — making VPNs ineffective, March…

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IWin Well obviously there will be a Harvard Business School case study about WeWork, but what will it say? What is the lesson? It’s a good lesson, right? A lot of kids starting at Harvard Business School next fall will be hanging up posters of Adam Neumann in their dorm rooms. Neumann, the founder…

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, right, sits next to Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., listens to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross during a committee hearing on tariffs, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn,…

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s opening prayer at Monday’s Cabinet meeting has left liberal lobbyists screaming mad — and conservatives cheering. Atheist groups complained the words in Carson’s prayer infringed on the separation of church and state. Prayers during Trump’s…

With so many data breaches in the news, many people wonder why cybersecurity seemingly can't keep up with the influx of threats. It seems that most people have simply given up any hope of privacy or protection online. Let's look at the root of the problem. Among the earliest cybersecurity efforts…

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Cold calling is one of the most important skills you can develop as a sales rep. So today, I’m going to share a surprisingly simple cold-calling technique that will help you ramp up faster or just get to the meat of the sales conversation faster. How does it do that? By focusing on the bare elements…

“Still here for now, Los Angeles,” Tool’s Maynard James Keenan said to greet his audience Sunday night at Staples Center, and what a Tool-ish welcome that was: Going on to refer obliquely to California’s “shaky” geological state, the doom-obsessed frontman was beginning a sold-out comeback concert…

According to conventional wisdom, there’s no way Tool should be as incredibly popular as they are. Not that they don’t deserve every bit of success that comes their way — they absolutely do. But it really makes no sense. We’re told that the music industry has changed so much that there’s no room for…

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A wealthy, well-connected parent is accused of creating awards and credits for her spoiled teenage daughter, who otherwise lacked the grades to get into her preferred college. Not only is the daughter accepted — she gets multiple scholarships, money that could have, should have, gone to a needy…