The mountain is calling, and you must go — fresh powder awaits. If you’re a backcountry enthusiast, that means hiking through pristine snowfields, soaking up stunning mountaintop views, and soaring your way through heavenly sprays of powder. If you’re into resort riding, it means taking deep tree turns, fast park laps, and smooth, freshly groomed
Month: February 2020
Everybody’s talking about revenues after WeWork, but maybe you still don’t need to have all the right numbers in place to achieve a strong IPO? That’s the initial takeaway Alex Wilhelm has after One Medical’s successful debut this week. One might think it looks like a tech-enabled unicorn, that doesn’t generate the recurring revenue and
Greg Epstein Contributor Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of The New York Times bestselling book “Good Without God.” Described as a “godfather to the [humanist] movement” by The New York Times Magazine in recognition of his efforts to build inclusive, inspiring and ethical communities for the
Yaani King Mondschein, Elle Lorraine, and Lena Waithe, from Bad Hair. Image: Sundance Instititute One of the titles with a lot of energy coming out of Sundance this past week is Bad Hair, a new horror film from Dear White People creator Justin Simien. The satirical shocker, about an ambitious career woman in 1989 who
Back in 2016, Nutanix decided to take the big step of going public. Part of that process was creating a pitch deck and presenting it during its roadshow, a coming-out party when a company goes on tour prior to its IPO and pitches itself to investors of all stripes. It’s a huge moment in the
The internet is a lot like Tommy Carcetti. Remember him? He was the idealistic and ambitious politician in The Wire, who gets exactly what he wanted but loses his soul in the process. Sure, he ends the show (spoilers) on a high. However, he’s wrung out every drop of his youthful idealism in the process
Eric Baradat/Getty Images In the postindustrial world, human populations are more dispersed than ever, but one of the effects of migration is that the great rifts of time and geography can leave people feeling disconnected from their ancestors. It’s no surprise then that so many people have submitted samples of their genetics to services like
On July 23, 1995, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp both had telescopes trained on the sky. Both noticed a fuzzy object that turned out to be a comet. Hale has a PhD in astronomy, but Bopp was borrowing a friend’s instrument. Because they’d spotted the object at about the same time, Hale and Bopp both
On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history when it released this image of the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Last April, a coalition of hundreds of scientists from around the world came together to achieve something that had previously been considered impossible: Producing the first-ever
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Ring has begun pushing out an update to its phone app with the aim of consolidating all of its security settings, a likely response to general privacy concerns, as well as more specific ones about “hackers” who’ve hijacked in-home camera feeds in recent months. The changes, teased at CES 2020, include
Vacuuming may not be anyone’s favorite activity but if just the thought of it stresses you out, you might want to consider getting yourself a robot vacuum. At least this way, you wouldn’t have to think about it as much. It would definitely make things more convenient as most models nowadays can be controlled via
Chromebooks might have taken their time to become part of the public lexicon, but after several years of demanding respect, they’ve finally gotten it. Chromebooks have carved out their own niche in the laptop market with their mix of snappy performance and relatively low price tags compared to their Windows counterparts. So, what is a