Tag: stories
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Our phones are making us unhappy, and companies like Google are wrestling with how to keep expanding a product like Android without destroying the soul of humanity in the process.… more ›
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Water is often said to be the source of life, and it is increasingly becoming the source of conflict in various parts of the world. The building of the largest… more ›
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Pocketbook items have become the catalysts for popular fury across the globe in recent weeks. LONDON — In Chile, the spark was an increase in subway fares. In Lebanon, it… more ›
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The multimillion pound spending habits of corrupt members of the global super-rich – including 421 luxury homes, three superyachts, seven private jets as well as elite private school fees and… more ›
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Essentially, it’s the name given to a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west.… more ›
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Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”.… more ›
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What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us. Where in the pantheon of American commercial titans does… more ›
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In 2017, a few months after Forbes named Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the world’s richest man, a rumor spread among the company’s executives: Bill Gates, the former wealthiest… more ›
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On Monday, May 13, Jean-Georges Vongerichten got into a car outside his apartment in the West Village and asked to be taken to the airport. It would have been an… more ›
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Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending. BEIJING — When Facebook announced plans this year… more ›