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 S38Could AI Help With Your Team's Burnout?   In the next year, 41 percent of CEOs are planning to increase their investment in generative AI, according to a new survey of 100 U.S. CEOs from KPMG. Nearly seven in 10 see it filling talent gaps in a still-tight labor market. But 61 percent want their teams to use the technology to "automate mundane tasks to better manage their workload and relieve stress," according to the report.  In fact, on the list of ways that CEOs are aiming to reduce burnout and support employee well-being, AI ranks above team development, manager training, and the four-day workweek. With the help of AI, people could have "more time to focus on creative, strategic work," said Sandy Torchia, vice chair of talent and culture at KPMG, in an email. Â
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S414 Years Later, the Most Misunderstood Sci-Fi Show is Finally Getting Its Due  They say that solar eclipses bring new beginnings, and in 2006, that was the premise of the NBC sci-fi drama Heroes, which followed the story of a vast cast of characters who find they have gained superpowers after an eclipse. Now, only a few days after a real-life solar eclipse, Heroes is getting another shot at life with a reboot of the series from original creator Tim Kring. But after four seasons, a failed follow-up, and a long hiatus, is the world finally ready for a show like Heroes? According to Deadline, Kring has started to pitch the reboot, aptly titled Heroes: Eclipsed, to buyers. The series would pick up years later with a group of new evos — the term for “evolved humans,” the newfound superheroes — as they encounter enemies both familiar and new.
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S5Star Trek's Most Mysterious Movie Is Coming Sooner Than You Think  For 30 years — from 1979 to 2009 — the longest wait between new Star Trek feature films was seven years. And, for most of that period, from the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) to Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), there was almost always a new Star Trek movie in theaters every two to four years. But after the wildly successful J.J. Abrams-directed reboot film in 2009, the release clip for Trek movies went from maximum warp to impulse power, to glacially slow. And now, by the time the next Star Trek movie hits theaters, it will have been about 10 years since the previous one — Star Trek Beyond — beamed into cinemas in 2016.Since that time, for Trekkies, updates of a new Star Trek film have been very similar to the game football Lucy plays with Charlie Brown; just when a hypothetical movie sounds real, it gets snatched away. But now, there’s a glimmer of hope. Thanks to reports out of CinemaCon 2024, it looks like, the next Trek film is scheduled for release in either 2025 or 2026. But what’s it about? And will it really happen?
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S6The Most Exciting Metroidvania of 2024 Fixes the Genre's Biggest Flaw  When I think of my favorite Metroidvania games, they all share a few key features: great gameplay loops, smart design, memorable bosses. But the more I think about it, the more there’s one thing that’s often distinctly missing — narrative. Tales of Kenzera: Zau, developer Surgent Studios’ first project, feels like the game to change that. It has all the trappings of a classic Metroidvania: tight level design, smooth movement and platforming, and a compellingly unique visual identity. But tieing everything together is a poignant and personal narrative that shines at every turn. Just six hours in and I already feel like Tales of Kenzera will be one of my favorite games of the year.
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S73 Years Later, Marvel Is About to Waste Its Most Interesting Phase 4 Character  The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was all of three years ago, but the events of Sam and Bucky’s fight against the Flag-Smashers are finally starting to have big implications. Not only is Sam Wilson now well and truly Captain America, complete with his own headliner movie Captain America: Brave New World, but the upcoming movie Thunderbolts* will finally give John Walker the anti-heroic transformation he was promised by Val in the last moments of the show. But in a presentation at CinemaCon, exclusive footage from Brave New World was shown, and it revealed an entirely new take on an old character — for better or for worse.
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S8Sony Created the Best Wireless Headphones Idea in Years: A Big Bass Button  When Sony first briefed me on its new ULT lineup of wireless speakers and the ANC headphones last month, I was a little skeptical. I was all for the new ULT branding, which replaces the gobbledygook of letters and numbers like “SRS-X200E” (a real Sony wireless speaker!) and I hope it expands to other Sony products like the WF- and WH-1000XM wireless headphones series, but I wasn’t sure if the big “ULT” button on the side of the new audio devices, that when pressed, pumps up the bass in various ways. But after spending a few weeks trying out the ULT Wear mid-range headphones with active noise-cancellation, I think the bass boost button might be the best new idea I’ve seen on wireless headphones in years.
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S9GTA+ Price Increase Raises an Important Question About 'GTA 6'  Rockstar fans still likely have more than a year to wait for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, and that wait just got a little more difficult for some players using GTA Online to pass the time. GTA+, the subscription service that offers various benefits in GTA Online, is raising its monthly price by one third, and players are, unsurprisingly, not happy with the change.On both PlayStation and Xbox, the price of a GTA+ subscription has risen from $5.99 to $7.99 per month, as first spotted by Reddit user mercadess550owner and reported by Rockstar Intel. This marks the first time that Rockstar has increased the GTA+ subscription price since the service launched in March 2022. New subscribers will have to pay the higher price starting now to begin a subscription, but existing members won’t have to pay the higher rate until renewing in June.
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S1036 Years Later, a Sci-Fi Cult Classic is Getting a Remake From a Perfect Director  Stephen King is an iconic horror writer, but one of his most impressive works wasn’t even written under his name. In 1982, King published The Running Man under the name Richard Bachman. King, an incredibly prolific writer, used the pseudonym to circumvent his usual rule of one book a year. But The Running Man is more than just a novel he relegated to the overflow pile — it’s one of the most oddly prescient novels ever, and after a cult classic 1987 film adaptation, a new cinematic take on the story will finally be able to comment on this.
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S11The Most Successful Sci-Fi Franchise of 2024 Is About to Get Even Bigger  While Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire continues to clean up at the box office, the time-jumping adventures in the MonsterVerse are continuing on the small screen. After a stunning Season 1 finale — in which Godzilla was established as a kind of time traveler — Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is coming back for more.Apple recently confirmed that Monarch Season 2 has officially been greenlit. But even more interesting, spin-offs to Monarch are coming, too. What does all of this have to do with the blockbuster movies that might follow A New Empire? Well, for now, those things may not be as connected as one might think. Here’s what we know about the state of the Monsterverse on TV and how it may — or may not — directly connect to the new movies.
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S122024's Biggest Movie Controversy is "Missing the Point," Director Says  “People keep saying the film is not political. I think they're just missing the point.”Before Alex Garland’s explosive apocalypse movie Civil War could even hit theaters, it was already one of the most divisive films of the year. Its depiction of a near-future United States torn apart by a civil war garnered criticisms over its apparent ignorance — or maybe blatant avoidance — of the country’s real-world political landscape. But the biggest, and most baffling, criticism against Civil War is that it is “apolitical.” That’s the criticism that Garland bristles against the most.
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S13Hands Down, the 60 Weirdest, Most Clever Things With Near-Perfect Amazon Reviews  Often, when you come across something clever and weird on Amazon, there’s a glaring problem with it that has reviewers clamoring to tell you “stop!” — but not so with the gems below. Each product has hundreds or even thousands of five-star reviews attesting to its quality and usefulness. There are kitchen tools that will make you smile every time you use them, car accessories so that your ride is as well-equipped as your home, and more. Plus, nothing’s more than $40.Since the top of this food storage container is compatible with dry-erase markers, you’ll be able to jot down the expiration date without worrying about causing any damage. That in combination with the silicone seal will ensure that you’re only ever eating fresh cheese and deli meats. It even has a grooved bottom to keep excess juices separate. It comes in three sizes in the listing, including one with two compartments.
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S14The Truth About Apple Cider Vinegar And Weight Loss  The wellness influencers might be convinced of apple cider vinegar’s benefits, but where’s the evidence?Each morning at breakfast, my partner gives me orange juice that tastes more sour than expected. One day, she explained that she adds apple cider vinegar to improve my health.
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S15The Best Apocalypse Movie of the Decade Refuses to Explain Itself -- And That's a Good Thing  Civil War is already shaping up to be one of the most divisive films of the year. That's due, in no small part, to the movie's widely reported, largely apolitical approach to its story, which revolves around a near-future war in which California and Texas have banded together to overthrow the United States government and secede from the nation. The Alex Garland-directed thriller was clearly written and conceived with America's current, increasingly divided state in mind, and yet it doesn't concern itself too much with the specifics of its heightened political landscape.As a matter of fact, it's never made clear in the film what caused California and Texas to rebel against the rest of the U.S. and its blustery president (Nick Offerman) in the first place. The issues at the center of Civil War's military conflict are never revealed, and one memorable scene involving a standoff with a sniper and a pair of soldiers argues very pointedly that they don't matter. In response, some have argued that Civil War's vague politics have rendered the movie toothless and prevented it from saying anything of actual worth about America.
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S1660 Years Ago, a Famous Physicist Made a Prediction that Changed Our Understanding Of the Universe  Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, passed away at the age of 94. He was always a modest man, especially when considering that he was one of the greats of particle physics — the area of science concerned with the building blocks of matter.In 1964, a few years after arriving from London to take up a position at the University of Edinburgh, Higgs read a paper by the American theoretical physicist Philip Anderson. At the time, physicists did not have a theory for how subatomic particles got their mass. (Mass can be described as the total amount of matter in an object, while weight is the force of gravity acting on an object.)
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S173 Myths About Common Supplements To Know Before You Swallow  Americans seem to have quite a positive view of dietary supplements. According to a 2023 survey, 74 percent of U.S. adults take vitamins, prebiotics and the like.The business of supplements is booming, and with all the hype around them, it’s easy to forget what they actually are: substances that can powerfully affect the body and your health, yet aren’t regulated like drugs are. They’re regulated more like food.
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S1840 Years Ago, the Most Underrated '80s Thriller Perfected a Rising Genre  In the public imagination, major aspects of the Friday the 13th franchise tend to appear kind of nebulous. In the first movie, Jason Voorhees doesn’t actually kill anyone — it’s the work of his vengeful mother. Jason will forever be linked to his iconic hockey mask, but that doesn’t actually show up until Part III. And while everyone thinks of him as virtually unkillable, he doesn’t become an indestructible zombie until Part VI. So when it comes to finding a Friday the 13th movie that embodies not only everything fun about the series but also all the trademarks that people associate with it, it’s a little difficult. That said, the fourth entry, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, is the closest (and best) that you’re gonna get.By 1984, Jason Vorhees had handily stolen the crown of the ultimate slasher bad guy from Michael Myers, who was left as a pile of ashes at the end of Halloween II and wouldn’t be back for a while. Freddy Krueger and the first Nightmare on Elm Street wouldn’t show up until later in the year, poor Leatherface wouldn’t get a comeback tour for two more years, and Chucky and Pinhead only debuted in the final gasp of the ‘80s. As such, Friday the 13th was left to reign supreme and accumulated sequel after sequel (nearly one a year) since 1980.
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S19Xbox Game Pass Just Quietly Released the Most Overlooked Tomb Raider Game of the Last Decade  Lara Croft has been one of gaming’s most enduring representatives. Even 28 years after her debut on the PlayStation, she’s still one of the medium's most recognizable heroes. But, as the recent release of Tomb Raider I-III Remastered has reminded many of us, time has not been kind to Croft’s humble beginnings. Clunky platforming and combat controls, obtuse level design, and far too much backtracking bog down an otherwise charming romp through the halls of gaming history.Thankfully, the recent addition of 2018’s Shadow Of The Tomb Raider to Xbox Game Pass means players who didn’t have the patience to trudge through her 90’s exploits can instead play Lara’s definitive and often-overlooked adventure from the last decade.
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S20The power of POV: five films that put you in the shoes of otherwise unrelatable characters  The point-of-view (POV) shot is a filming angle that is usually used to put the viewer into the rigid perspective of how a character sees the world, either for a few scenes, or in some cases, the whole film. Used well, it can be extremely effective, presenting an entirely new way of looking at a character or their motivations. This can be very useful for filmmakers depicting difficult characters, like murderers, machines or monsters.
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S21Psychedelics could make mental health worse in people with a personality disorder  The interest in psychedelics is growing both in scientific circles and among the public. These are powerful substances capable of altering perception, mood and various mental processes. They also show promise for treating a wide range of mental health disorders. However, for their use to be safe and effective, it’s important to understand how they interact with different mental health conditions. This is especially true for personality disorders.
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S22S23The great tits in this Oxford wood are adapting their breeding times as climate changes - here's how  During early spring, usually in March, great tits (Parus major) abandon their winter flocks and start preparing for the breeding season. First they find a mate and build a nest. Then they raise naked and blind chicks, each weighing a bit more than one gram, into fully feathered fledglings. Phenological events are not fixed in time as they depend on environmental factors such as weather conditions. Thus, they vary from year to year. For instance, the earliest recorded start date for great tit breeding in Wytham is March 27. The latest has been April 24, almost a full month later.
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S24The idea that US interest rates will stay higher for longer is probably wrong  The 0.4% rise in US consumer prices in March didn’t look like headline news. It was the same as the February increase, and the year-on-year rise of 3.5% is still sharply down from 5% a year ago. All the same, this modest uptick in annual inflation from 3.2% in February has cast doubt on whether the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, can afford to cut headline interest rates as fast as it has been signalling. To further complicate matters, a gap has opened up between the US inflation rate and that of other regions, notably the EU.
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S25Gaza war: Israel using AI to identify human targets raising fears that innocents are being caught in the net  A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems have played a key role in identifying – and potentially misidentifying – tens of thousands of targets in Gaza. This suggests that autonomous warfare is no longer a future scenario. It is already here and the consequences are horrifying.There are two technologies in question. The first, “Lavender”, is an AI recommendation system designed to use algorithms to identify Hamas operatives as targets. The second, the grotesquely named “Where’s Daddy?”, is a system which tracks targets geographically so that they can be followed into their family residences before being attacked. Together, these two systems constitute an automation of the find-fix-track-target components of what is known by the modern military as the “kill chain”.
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S26The consequences of traveling in a straight line forever  The Universe is a vast, wondrous, and strange place. From our perspective within it, we can see out for some 46 billion light-years in all directions. Everywhere we look, we see a Universe filled with stars and galaxies, but are they all unique? Is it possible, perhaps, that if you look far enough in one direction and see a galaxy, that you’d also see that same galaxy, from a different perspective, in the opposite direction? Could the Universe actually loop back on itself? And if you traveled far enough in a straight line, would you eventually return to your starting point, just as if you traveled in any one direction for long enough on the surface of the Earth? Or would something stop you?It’s a fascinating question to consider, and one that Bill Powers wants us to investigate, asking:
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S27How Quine's rabbit can teach you to be a better communicator  Imagine two anthropologists, Willard and Orman, who stumble over some never-before-seen tribe. There is the usual first-contact kind of behavior: pointing, laughing, and frustrated misunderstandings. It becomes apparent that the anthropologists need to decipher this tribe’s language. But, without Google Translate or pocket dictionaries, it turns out that working out a language from scratch is hard work. One day, a hunting party and the anthropologists are out in a woodland clearing when a rabbit bolts past. A tribesman points excitedly and shouts, “Gavagai!”“Aha!” Orman shouts, “We now know that gavagai is their word for rabbit.” And he goes to take out his nascent dictionary. His friend raises a hand to stop him.
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S28The case for stopping efforts to contact aliens  The new Netflix series 3 Body Problem, based on Cixin Liu’s epic science-fiction trilogy, reignites an old debate among researchers concerned with the possibility of extraterrestrial communication. In the fictional account (spoiler ahead!), the trouble starts when one of the characters beams a powerful radio signal out into space. Is that realistic? And is it likely aliens could receive and decode the messages we send?The answer to the first question is a clear yes. In fact, more than 25 relatively weak signals have already been sent, with the first being a three-word morse code message in 1962. Nearly all of these radio messages targeted specific stars between 17 and 69 light-years away, in the hope that inhabited planets might be orbiting them. One exception is the Arecibo message that was beamed in 1974 toward M13, a globular star cluster approximately 24,000 light-years away. The Morimoto-Hirabayashi Message sent in 1983 should have reached the star Altair in 1999, and there’s been plenty of time for us to receive an answer. So far…nothing.
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S29Can chatbots hold meaningful conversations?  Arseny Moskvichev dreams of the day he can have a meaningful conversation with artificial intelligence. “By meaningful, I mean a conversation that has the power to change you,” says the cognitive and computer scientist. “The problem,” says Moskvichev, “is that LLMs are complete amnesiacs. They only have so much context they can attend to. If you’re out of this context, they forget everything you spoke about with them.”Even the most advanced chatbots can only process about 16,000 words of text within a prompt when in conversation with a human user. This is called a “context window.” And they can’t connect the information they receive during different “conversations” with a human, or build a storyline.
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S30Sex in 3 places: Your brain, your bedroom, and in society  Let our sponsor BetterHelp connect you to a therapist who can support you – all from the comfort of your own home. Visit https://betterhelp.com/bigthink and enjoy a special discount on your first month.Is polyamory a sustainable model for societies? Do partners really need to maintain the “spark” to have a healthy sex life? And should sex, romantic love, and attachment be viewed as phases of a relationship or as systems in the brain?
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S31Do you really need to use toothpaste?  Billions of people around the world dutifully brush their teeth with toothpaste every day, but some are starting to question this status quo. These contrarians see sense in brushing but aren’t sure whether the paste is really necessary. And it’s not just laypersons wondering out loud about this apparent blasphemy — critiques are coming from dentists themselves.“While toothpaste manufacturers claim that you need toothpaste to brush your teeth, it’s not true. Toothpaste is not necessary to make your teeth clean or healthy,” writes Dr. Todd Bertman of New York’s Advanced Dental Arts.
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S32Here's What Business Owners Need to Know About Their Gen Z Employees  Members of Gen Z, people born between 1995 to 2010--give or take a few years--are entering the workforce in big numbers. They're arriving with a fair bit of unflattering reputational baggage bestowed by older age cohorts that call them lazy, willful, and allergic to criticism. Those labels are may arise from clashing generational perspectives, experts say--differences company owners and managers need to address quickly for the sake of their businesses.The urgency for companies to improve their views of and relations with Gen Z employees is driven by their bulging numbers in the workforce. After decades of decreasing percentages of younger people at work, Gen Z began charging en masse into the job market before and during the pandemic. Among U.S. 16- to 19-year-olds, 37 percent are working, and according to a Washington Post story their age cohort will represent more than a third of everyone employed by 2032.
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S33Amazon Names AI Maven Andrew Ng to Board  The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, a managing director at the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will replace a seat vacated by Judy McGrath, a former CEO of MTV who told Amazon she won't run for reelection.Ng's AI Fund, which he founded in 2017, invests in entrepreneurs building artificial intelligence companies. Previously, he led AI teams at the Chinese tech company Baidu and Google, where the team he oversaw taught a computer system to recognize cats in YouTube videos without ever being taught what a cat was.
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S34Eva Longoria Just Joined Siete Foods as It Seeks to Grow Sales From $500 Million to $1 Billion  On Thursday, the Austin-based packaged food company announced that Longoria was investing an undisclosed sum in the company and will serve as a strategic adviser. Siete, an Inc. 2023 Best Workplaces honoree, expects to hit $500 million in annual sales in 2024 and sells its products at 37,000 stores, including Target, Walmart, and many grocery stores. With this partnership, the goal is to double that revenue to a billion dollars per year, Forbes reported."I'm a long-standing fan of Siete's products, but more important, I feel deeply aligned with their mission," Longoria said when the partnership was announced. "As a fellow Texan who is dedicated to elevating Latinos in business, I'm very excited to partner with Siete and contribute to their next chapter."
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S35Immigrant Labor Is the Secret Sauce to Bubbling U.S. Economy  Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She earns enough to pay rent, buy groceries, gas up her car--and send money home to her parents.Reaching the United States was a harrowing ordeal. Silva, 25, her husband and their then-7-year-old daughter braved the treacherous jungles of Panama's Darien Gap, traveled the length of Mexico, crossed the Rio Grande and then turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol in Brownsville, Texas. Seeking asylum, they received a work permit last year and found jobs in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
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S364 Ways to Prepare Your Business for a Private Equity Investment  Imagine yourself embarking on a climbing expedition. You wouldn't just throw on a pair of sneakers and head out, right? You'd research the route, train your body for the rigorous conditions, and gather the necessary gear. The same could be said about approaching a private equity partner. It requires thoughtful preparation to secure the capital and expertise needed to scale your ambitions.Every company eventually encounters a plateau in its organic growth trajectory. Even with an inspired vision, a proven product or service, and a dedicated customer base, reaching the next peak often requires an infusion of capital and strategic expertise. That's where PE firms come in. Their resources and expertise can be invaluable for everything from operational investments and scaling to strategic marketing and identifying mergers and acquisitions opportunities.
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S37Here's How One Startup Is Cutting Emissions From Cement Making  It's a major contributor to climate change--the way buildings and roads are made with concrete. It's also a problem that's growing as more of the world develops. So the race has been on to find solutions for a material that's responsible for roughly 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.Now one California startup has developed a technology that reduces carbon dioxide in the making of cement and could have the potential to operate at large scale. Fortera intercepts carbon dioxide exhaust from the kilns where cement is made and routes it back in to make additional cement. In its first effort at commercial scale, the technology is being added to a CalPortland facility in Redding, California, one of the largest cement plants in the western U.S. It opens Friday.
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S39Mug Root Beer Celebrates UConn's NCAA Victory With Free Drinks: Why It's a Winning Marketing Play  March Madness is over, and for the second year in a row, the University of Connecticut Huskies have secured the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. It's a win that Mug Root Beer is celebrating by offering free root beer to fans nationwide.The Pepsi-owned brand announced this offer at the beginning of the tournament on social media, stating that it would provide the freebie if any of the 17 teams with a dog as a mascot won March Madness. And on Monday, after UConn took home the trophy, the company followed through with posts on both Instagram and TikTok, offering instructions for redeeming the offer.
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S40How Elon Musk Leaned on Starlink to Achieve Profitability at SpaceX  Elon Musk has grown SpaceX revenue by upwards of 500 percent in five years, largely thanks to the success of its satellite internet service Starlink. But new reports question the profitability of the business.Musk's aerospace company SpaceX grew from operating with a net loss on revenue of $1.45 billion in 2019 to an operating profit of about $3 billion on $9 billion in revenue in 2023, according to the Information and documents viewed by TechCrunch. In the five years since, Starlink has become a major part of the aerospace company's business model. A separate report from Bloomberg, however, suggests the costs associated with the satellite program may undermine some of its profitability claims.
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S41Model Taylor Hill Is Getting Into the Pet Care Category With Her New Business, Tate & Taylor  Instead of ending the project, Hill channeled her grief into an opportunity to help other pet lovers. Launched today, Tate & Taylor is an online community platform for pet parents that features a Shopify-powered marketplace of Hill's favorite pet products; so far, the site features 23 SKUs, including a "F*ck Cancer" merchandise line, which donates a portion of profits to the Buddy Fund at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center to help fund pet medical costs and rescue organizations like Animal Aid USA. Starting a business wasn't a walk in the park for Hill. Without a business school education, she says she accumulated knowledge through speaking with friends, family, and her extended network. She sent surveys to pet owners to identify gaps in the market and spent two years developing her brand. "You can't build a business alone," Hill says.Â
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S42Research: How to Close the Gender Gap in Startup Financing  A global analysis of previous research over the last three decades shows that women entrepreneurs face a higher rate of business loan denials and increased interest rates in loan decisions made by commercial bankers. Interestingly, the data also reveals that the formal and informal standing of women in a particular society can provide clues to some of the true hurdles to positive change. This article reviews these hurdles, and offers three recommendations for change.
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S43What to Do When Your Team Blames You  When you’re a manager, at some point, regardless of how the circumstances arise, your team will blame you for something that’s making them unhappy, whether you have control over it or not. Being accused by your team of failing them in some way induces a threat state in your brain, impairing your ability to think clearly and triggering a variety of cognitive distortions and defensive behaviors. The authors offer several strategies to help you work through the experience while keeping important relationships intact.
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S44This delivery app takes away health insurance when workers don't meet quotas  Delivery worker Rakesh was dropping off food orders in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in late January when he received a distressing call from his wife — she was in severe pain. Over the next three weeks, Rakesh had to drop everything to go to hospitals seeking a diagnosis for her.Until then, Rakesh had been a “gold” level gig worker for Swiggy, India’s second-largest food delivery app. He delivered at least 100 orders a week, over 14-hour shifts. The prestigious ranking made him and his family eligible for company-sponsored health insurance, among other benefits. But by the time a gynecologist recommended an urgent procedure — which cost 1,20,000 rupees ($1,440) — for Rakesh’s wife, she was no longer covered by Swiggy’s insurance. He had missed days of work while attending to her health, which caused his app ranking to drop to silver, making his family ineligible for company benefits.
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S45S46S47S48'Civil War' Review: Alex Garland Plays Both Sides When director Alex Garland sat down in 2020 to write his new movie, Civil War, he was clearly worried about the polarization of American society. The Covid-19 pandemic was just beginning to take hold, and former US president Donald Trump was still in the White House. It was a much different country from the one in which Garland is releasing his biggest film to date.The divisions Garland worried about have only increased, driven by rampant conspiratorial thinking around Covid and vaccines, Trump's baseless stolen-election conspiracies, a growing right-wing media empire spewing disinformation, and, of course, the attack on the US Capitol.
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S49The More People Say 'Megalopolis' Is Unsellable, the More We Need to See It Of all the utterly depressing things printed in the Hollywood trades on any given day, this has got to be among the worst: "It's so not good, and it was so sad watching it ⦠This is not how Coppola should end his directing career."This was in response to an early screening of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, a $120 million sci-fi epic that the legendary Godfather director has been trying to make for roughly four decades. The quote, from an unnamed "studio head," was published in a piece in The Hollywood Reporter positioning the film as the kind of movie no one in the business wants to funnel money into because it (allegedly) doesn't have box office potential. While that quote was, in journalism parlance, the kicker, the real zinger came in the addendum at the end: "This story has been updated to include that Megalopolis will premiere in Cannes."
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S50Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is 'Slow Down' The other night I attended a press dinner hosted by an enterprise company called Box. Other guests included the leaders of two data-oriented companies, Datadog and MongoDB. Usually the executives at these soirees are on their best behavior, especially when the discussion is on the record, like this one. So I was startled by an exchange with Box CEO Aaron Levie, who told us he had a hard stop at dessert because he was flying that night to Washington, DC. He was headed to a special-interest-thon called TechNet Day, where Silicon Valley gets to speed-date with dozens of Congress critters to shape what the (uninvited) public will have to live with. And what did he want from that legislation? âÂÂAs little as possible,â Levie replied. âÂÂI will be single-handedly responsible for stopping the government.âÂÂHe was joking about that. Sort of. He went on to say that while regulating clear abuses of AI like deepfakes makes sense, itâÂÂs way too early to consider restraints like forcing companies to submit large language models to government-approved AI cops, or scanning chatbots for things like bias or the ability to hack real-life infrastructure. He pointed to Europe, which has already adopted restraints on AI as an example of what not to do. âÂÂWhat Europe is doing is quite risky,â he said. âÂÂThere's this view in the EU that if you regulate first, you kind of create an atmosphere of innovation,â Levie said. âÂÂThat empirically has been proven wrong.âÂÂ
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S51Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 Review: Big but Still Beautiful If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDHow much is great sound worth to you? Sennheiser's top wireless earbuds ask that question in more ways than one. The previous version, the True Wireless 3, was praised by reviewers, but some users raised issues like battery drain and connection glitches. The Momentum True Wireless 4 set out to address these complaints with an all-new battery system among "over a dozen major upgrades," according to Sennheiser.
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S52Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies? Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself. Take, for example, a human running on top of a moving train. For starters, you can't be sure it's real. In early Westerns, they used moving backdrops to make fake trains look like they were in motion. Now there's CGI. Or they might speed the film up to make a real train look faster than it really is.So here's a question for you: Is it possible to run on a train roof and leap from one car to the next? Or will the train zoom ahead of you while you're in the air, so that you land behind where you took off? Or worse, would you end up falling between the cars because the gap is moving forward, lengthening the distance you have to traverse? This, my friend, is why stunt actors study physics.
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S53Change Healthcare Faces Another Ransomware Threat--and It Looks Credible For months, Change Healthcare has faced an immensely messy ransomware debacle that has left hundreds of pharmacies and medical practices across the United States unable to process claims. Now, thanks to an apparent dispute within the ransomware criminal ecosystem, it may have just become far messier still.In March, the ransomware group AlphV, which had claimed credit for encrypting Change HealthcareâÂÂs network and threatened to leak reams of the companyâÂÂs sensitive health care data, received a $22 million paymentâÂÂevidence, publicly captured on BitcoinâÂÂs blockchain, that Change Healthcare had very likely caved to its tormentorsâ ransom demand, though the company has yet to confirm that it paid. But in a new definition of a worst-case ransomware, a different ransomware group claims to be holding Change HealthcareâÂÂs stolen data and is demanding a payment of their own.
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S54House Votes to Extend--and Expand--a Major US Spy Program A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized.After months of delays, false starts, and interventions by lawmakers working to preserve and expand the US intelligence communityâÂÂs spy powers, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years.
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S55How to Get the Most Out of a One-on-One with Your Boss  Regular one-on-one meetings with your boss may seem like just a routine way for them to check in on your work, but especially if you’re just starting out, these conversations can fundamentally influence your workplace experience, your relationship with your manager, and your future growth and success. The author has studied these meetings and found that they are most successful when centered around the employee’s needs. Here are five critical behaviors for you to use in your first one-on-one with your boss.
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S56Tides Move Heaven and Earth More Than You Know  The ocean’s twice-daily rise and fall is only the most obvious effect of tides—they slow Earth’s spin and shape stars and galaxies, tooThe Tadpole Galaxy, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy’s long “tail” is a stream of stars, gas and dust shaped by tidal forces from an intergalactic close encounter.
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S57Black Scientists Are Building Their Own Vital Communities  A person-centric scientific conference demonstrates that gathering can counter the isolation of underrepresentation“Started from the Bottom” by Drake blared over the speakers, as more than 200 scientists turned toward the back of the room. The double doors burst open, and marine ecologist Tiara Moore danced down the aisle in a bright pink bra and blazer. She strutted to the podium and grabbed the mic, opened with a note on body positivity, and reveled in the Black community she has built.
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S58A Random Influx of DNA from a Virus Helped Vertebrates Become So Stunningly Successful  Insertion of genetic material from a virus into the genome of a vertebrate ancestor enabled the lightning-quick electrical impulses that give animals with backbones their smartsCharles Darwin proposed that evolution is driven by gradual variations in organisms that have a survival advantage in a changing environment. But University of Maryland evolutionary biologist Karen Carleton says that scientists have long grappled with the quandary that “evolution can happen abruptly, as described by Steven Jay Gould in [the theory of] punctuated equilibrium.” The question has always been: How does this happen?
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S59Did Space Junk Strike a Home in Florida?  Three years ago astronauts threw out the largest piece of trash ever tossed from the International Space Station. Now some of it seems to have punched a hole through a house in Naples, Fla.A heavy pallet filled with tons of spent nickel-hydrogen batteries drifts above the Earth in March 2021, shortly after being discarded from the International Space Station. A nearly two-pound metallic cylinder that recently struck a house in Florida may be debris from the pallet’s uncontrolled atmospheric reentry.
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S60What Is Pollution Doing to Our Brains? 'Exposomics' Reveals Links to Many Diseases  The new science of "exposomics" shows how air pollution contributes to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, bipolar disorder and other brain diseasesBy 1992, burgeoning population, choking traffic, and explosive industrial growth in Mexico City had caused the United Nations to label it the most polluted urban area in the world. The problem was intensified because the high-altitude metropolis sat in a valley trapping that atmospheric filth in a perpetual toxic haze. Over the next few years, the impact could be seen not just in the blanket of smog overhead but in the city’s dogs, who had become so disoriented that some of them could no longer recognize their human families. In a series of elegant studies, the neuropathologist Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas compared the brains of canines and children from “Makesicko City,” as the capital had been dubbed, to those from less polluted areas. What she found was terrifying: Exposure to air pollution in childhood decreases brain volume and heightens risk of several dreaded brain diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, as an adult.
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S61Massive Cosmic Map Suggests Dark Energy Is Even Weirder Than We Thought  In just one year of observations, a program that is creating the largest 3D map of the universe to date has sniffed out hints that dark energy may be stranger than scientists supposedDESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe.
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S62S63S64S65"Ban Chinese electric vehicles now," demands US senator  Influential US Senator Sherrod Brown (D–Ohio) has called on US President Joe Biden to ban electric vehicles from Chinese brands. Brown calls Chinese EVs "an existential threat" to the US automotive industry and says that allowing imports of cheap EVs from Chinese brands "is inconsistent with a pro-worker industrial policy."
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S66Google kills "One" VPN service, says "people simply weren't using it"  Another day, another dead Google product. The Google One VPN service we complained about last week is headed to the chopping block. Google's support documents haven't been updated yet, but Android Authority reported on an email going out to Google One users informing them of the shutdown. 9to5Google also got confirmation of the shutdown from Google.
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