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Z oom CEO Eric Yuan cut an unlikely figure as he addressed the cheering throng in the moments before ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq , his bashful grin giving way to a look of focus as he said, “A new game starts today.” Sure, his startup wasn’t as well-known as Lyft and Pinterest, two consumer…

Over the course of Uber’s remarkable rise — very significant stumbles along the way notwithstanding — it has been more prudent to defend the company’s valuation than to question it. Look no further than the first Stratechery article about the ride-sharing “personal mobility” company, written in…

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A yard sign in Wellington, Kan., where some parents and students have rebelled against a web-based education program from Summit Learning. Credit Christopher Smith for The New York Times WELLINGTON, Kan. — The seed of rebellion was planted in classrooms. It grew in kitchens and living rooms, in…

The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with greater mechanical complexity and smarter operating software than the last. But what if, instead of painstakingly designing and engineering a…

PARIS (AP) — French yellow vest protesters set fires Saturday along a march through Paris to drive home their message to a government they believe is ignoring the poor: that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem France needs to solve. Like the high-visibility vests…

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Phys Ed Regular exercise changes the look and workings of the human heart. And researchers are discovering that different sports affect the heart differently. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Leer en español Do world-class swimmers’ hearts function differently than the hearts of elite runners? A…

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Journos are already taking a quote from the just-released Mueller report out of context, and it’s a big one. Yes, according to the report, President Trump did say when alerted to the appointment of a Special Counsel, “This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f***ed.”: But, SURPRISE! That’s not the…

Where, oh where, are the valiant crusaders standing up for the anti-vaxxers ? Am I the only one who sees their persecution as a danger to the health of a free society? Ostracized for their refusal to follow basic common sense, it’s shocking that these model examples of parenting would be shunned…

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Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr…

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N ow middle-aged, the enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has turned to nonfiction to mock the "childlike fascism" and "demented narcissism" of American liberals that helped put President Trump in the White House and left them facing "mental and emotional collapse." For good measure, Ellis,…

Tech We’re Using To protect himself and his sources from prying eyes in China, Paul Mozur, a technology reporter in Shanghai, leaves just an “innocent trace” of digital exhaust. Paul Mozur in Shanghai. China has an estimated 200 million surveillance cameras — four times as many as the United States.…

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A veteran zoologist says Netflix’s “Our Planet” is lying about its viral scene of walruses falling off a cliff. “Our Planet” blames climate change for walruses falling to their deaths, but it may have actually been caused by polar bears. Experts were skeptical about other claims made in the Netflix…

Date created : Schneyder Mendoza, AFP | A Venezuelan woman and her baby are vaccinated against measles in Cucuta, Colombia, at the international brigde Simon Bolivar on the border with Venezuela, on March 21, 2018. Text by: Measles cases rose 300 percent worldwide through the first three months of…

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“ If you want to be a fucking smart-ass, then why don't you call me back? I wouldn't have even called you or texted you because you're a pussy who hasn't done shit… So fuck you!” Tom Arnold is inside the Regency Bar and Grill in Manhattan, yelling into the phone of a freelance sound mixer he…

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared on This Week Sunday , and said some head-scratching things. Clapper back in March told Meet the Press that when he issued a January 6th multiagency intelligence community assessment about Russian interference in the election, the report…

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Humans have released carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in sufficient quantity to change the composition of the atmosphere (Figure 1). The result is an accumulation of heat in Earth’s system, commonly referred to as global warming. Earth’s climate has responded to this influx of heat through…

When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gather education. We played in mixed-age neighbourhood groups almost every day after school, often until dark. We played all weekend and…

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Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images There are times when it feels as if two huge tectonic plates are colliding beneath the surface of Western politics, and, right now, neither seems to be giving ground. The first plate is the force of demography. In most Western countries, the pace of immigration from…

Duke Rohlen Duke Rohlen Over the past year, I have been honored to interview for the DealMakers Podcast many of the most successful entrepreneurs around the world. Some of these entrepreneurs I interviewed have created multiple businesses. Yet, my recent conversation with Duke Rohlen uncovered a…

Felicity Huffman leaves a federal courthouse on April 3. Gretchen Ertl / Reuters Updated at 5:23 p.m. ET on April 9, 2018. Sweet Christ, vindication! How long has it been? Years? No, decades. If hope is the thing with feathers, I was a plucked bird. Long ago, I surrendered myself to the fact that…