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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S2Ranked: Which NBA Team Takes Home the Most Revenue?  These players were instrumental in driving the valuation of the franchise, which grew from $1.5 billion in 2015 to a remarkable $7.7 billion in 2023. At this valuation, the Golden State Warriors are the second-most valuable sports team in America, following after the $9 billion Dallas Cowboys NFL franchise. Since 2010, the Warriors’ revenue has increased by sevenfold. Not only did the team have the highest NBA TV ratings in seven of the last eight years as of last season, the Warriors have the largest social media following across U.S. sport franchises, including 32.4 million Instagram followers. By comparison, the Lakers have 24.6 million followers. Adding to this, the team’s jersey patch deal with Rakuten is worth approximately $45 million per season alone.
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S5Meet the Doomsday Fish that Strikes Fear in the Hearts of Sailors For hundreds of years, mariners and fishermen knew this sea creature as a herald of woe. Seeing one in the water or even washed up on shore was an omen, a warning of some impending disaster, typically a natural one, such as an earthquake or tsunami. In Japan, the creature was named “ryugu no tsukai,” a messenger from the palace of the sea god. Others dramatically dubbed it the Harbinger of Doom, or simply the Doomsday Fish. You may know it as the oarfish.Then again, this might be your first time hearing the name. That’s because oarfish are fairly rare creatures to spot in the wild, even though they can be found in pretty much every ocean on the planet, with the exception of the coldest seas at the poles. Nevertheless, the creature is indeed elusive, which has no doubt helped maintain its aura of mystery down through the years. Here’s what we know about the oarfish.
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S6Weighing 6 Tons, the Carcharodontosaurus Roamed Earth About 99 Million Years Ago As well as its characteristic serrated, blade-like teeth, a study published in 2022 suggests it had a weaker bite force than T. rex, pointing to a particular hunting style. It’s thought these teeth were used to slash through and tear flesh, rather than crunch down with a bone-breaking strike. “We have found many isolated carcharodontosaurid teeth in sauropods,” says Juan Ignacio Canale, an expert on the Carcharodontosaurus anda paleontologist with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. “We don’t know if they killed them or were scavenging them, but we know for sure that they were eating them.”
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S7Here's the real reason the U.S. doesn't use the metric system In fact, government policy since the 1970s has designated the metric system—also known as SI, or the International System of Units—the nation’s preferred system of measurement for trade and commerce. But since the U.S. has adopted a voluntary approach, nudging industries and individuals toward using SI instead of making its use a blanket policy, adoption is turning out to be a multi-century endeavor.The challenge is reflected in the measurement system’s often chaotic history—and its origins in the French Revolution. In the late 18th century, Enlightenment-era Frenchmen saw a tantalizing opportunity in the political upheaval that gripped their nation. Up until then, France had been home to a dizzying array of weights and measures, with up to 250,000 units of measurement in use in France alone, and other nations and even regions within nations had their own ways of quantifying the world around them. This was a measurable nightmare for scientists, who dreamed of an international standard based on some universal, unchanging constant.
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S8Astronomers have discovered the oldest and farthest supernova ever Observing a distant supernova is like looking back in time. The explosions offer astronomers a peek at what our universe was like billions of years in the past. Now astronomers have discovered 10 times more distant supernovae than anyone had seen before, including the oldest and farthest supernova ever observed.The discoveries came from data captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Announced at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, earlier this month, astronomers analyzed Webb images and found about 80 supernovae in just one tiny patch of the sky. Many of the supernovae are further out than those previously known, representing a time when the universe was a youthful two billion years old.
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S9What a War Between Israel and Hezbollah Might Look Like Fighting at the northern border has simmered for months as the Iranian-backed Hezbollah has launched thousands of rockets, anti-tank missiles, and drones into Israel, while the Israeli Air Force has responded with thousands of airstrikes. Some 140,000 people have been displaced from their homes on both sides of the border.On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while he believed that neither Israel nor Hezbollah sought a wider war, there was nonetheless “momentum potentially in that direction.” His Israeli counterpart, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, noted on Tuesday that his country was close to reaching a decision on whether to go to war, and cautioned that “in a total war, Hezbollah will be destroyed and Lebanon will be hit hard.”
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S10Putin Heads to the Hermit Kingdom Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to North Korea on Tuesday to deepen bilateral trade and security ties with Pyongyang as well as bolster joint efforts to counter the United States. This is Putin’s second face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the past nine months, and his first trip to the Hermit Kingdom since 2000, when Putin began his first presidential term and Kim Jong Un’s father was still in charge.Experts expect Russia to ask for ammunition, construction workers, and volunteer soldiers from North Korea for Moscow’s front lines. Last week, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik told Bloomberg that North Korea has sent at least 10,000 shipping containers to Russia in recent months, possibly holding around 4.8 million artillery shells.
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S11On the road to eliminate rabies deaths, Gavi announces plan to improve human vaccination Rabies has been in global health’s crosshairs for years. Around the world, the viral infection kills about 70,000 people a year — and since as early as 2015, groups including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have had plans to shore up vaccine efforts to reduce the number. At one point, Gavi planned to include human rabies vaccines in its 2021 investment strategy — but then the Covid-19 pandemic got in the way.Now, it’s finally taking action. On Thursday, Gavi announced a plan to expand global access to human rabies vaccines, reaching over 50 countries. Most of Gavi’s efforts focus on vaccinating as many people as possible against common viral threats. But for rabies, it’s confronting a different kind of challenge: providing vaccines for post-exposure prophylaxis to the right people, at the right time.
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S12S13S14S15S16S17The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump In a new book, “When the Clock Broke,” the writer John Ganz examines how the politics of the Trump years were seeded in the early nineteen-nineties. This strange period included a brief but powerful recession, civil unrest in Los Angeles following the acquittal of police officers who brutally beat Rodney King, and the rise of unlikely political figures such as the neo-Nazi David Duke and the paleoconservative nationalist Pat Buchanan. A sense of despair and dissatisfaction with the government and with the direction the country was headed culminated in the 1992 Presidential election, in which Buchanan challenged George H. W. Bush for the Republican nomination, and a third-party candidate, Ross Perot, received almost twenty per cent of the vote—the most in more than three quarters of a century. Through figures such as Buchanan and Duke, Ganz attempts to understand why and how right-wing extremism flourished in these years. “It was an era where America felt itself to be losing out,” he writes: “losing its dominant place in the world, losing the basis of its security and wealth, and losing its sense of itself, as if a storm cloud rapidly gathered over the country and the national mood suddenly turned dour, gloomy, fearful, and angry. Americans were fed up.”I recently spoke by phone with Ganz, who also publishes the Substack “Unpopular Front.” During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed the strangeness of that 1992 election, what David Duke meant to the far right, and why the debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist continues to be important.
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S18The Rise of a New, Dangerous Cynicism For weeks leading up to January 6, 2021, I and others on the Biden campaign had been working through Donald Trump’s challenges to the 2020 presidential election. We did so in the courts, and then later on, we had regular calls with Capitol Hill senior staff about preparations for the upcoming electoral-vote count. We considered a whole range of possibilities, including one that fortunately did not materialize: Mike Pence buckling under pressure from Donald Trump, and either declaring him the winner, or disrupting the proceedings by insisting that the count should be suspended and the battleground states invited to reconsider the results in favor of Joe Biden that they had already certified.Then came the attack on the Capitol, and I was back and forth on calls with my primary source of contact with the Senate leadership, Mark Patterson, who was the general counsel to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. I’ve known Patterson for years, having worked with him when he was a senior aide to one of Schumer’s predecessors, former Democratic Leader Tom Daschle. Patterson is calm, sensible, possessed of excellent judgment. On January 6, I reached him at a secure space to which he had been escorted to protect him from violence as the mob coursed through the corridors, police officers were beaten, guns were drawn, and one was fired. I checked regularly on his safety, and we shared our disbelief at this turn of events. We also remained in touch about the congressional leadership’s plans to resume the proceedings and complete the vote after the invaders had been ousted and order restored. This was the key: not allowing the attack to serve the purposes of Trump and his allies to stop the final count and buy time for more groundless challenges to the certified outcome. We convened regular calls to brief Biden.
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S19ISIS Created Fake CNN and Al Jazeera Broadcasts Launched in early March, the campaign was orchestrated by War and Media, a pro–Islamic State media outlet that typically creates long-form videos pushing the group’s ideology and history. The Islamic State, or ISIS, is a UN-designated terror group that perpetrated a genocide of the Yezidi population in Iraq and conducted multiple terrorist attacks, including the 2015 attacks in Paris that left 131 people dead; it has also promoted videos of its members beheading journalists and soldiers.Central to the campaign were two YouTube channels. One was falsely branded as CNN and pushed English-language videos, and the other was branded with the Al Jazeera logo and pushed Arabic-language videos. The videos featured the logos of the real news outlets, and in the case of CNN, the videos also featured a real-time ticker along the bottom of the screen which changed to match the content being shown. The campaign also deployed a network of social media accounts branded to look like they were affiliated with news outlets, in what appears to be an effort to push ideology to new audiences.
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S20STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus More than 1,100 self-identified STEM students and young workers from more than 120 universities have signed a pledge to not take jobs or internships at Google or Amazon until the companies end their involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services and infrastructure to the Israeli government.The pledgers included undergraduate and graduate students from Stanford, UC Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. Some students from those schools also participated in an anti–Project Nimbus rally on Wednesday outside Google’s San Francisco office with tech workers and activists.
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S21S22The Most Strategic Leaders Excel in 4 Disciplines Strategic fitness is a leader’s ability to learn from and adapt to their environment to set direction and create a competitive advantage. A study of 77 C-suite executives over four years found that strategically fit leaders excel in four disciplines : 1) Strategic fitness, or setting clear direction and calibrating when necessary; 2) Leadership fitness, or refining their style to meet the moment; 3) Organizational fitness, or investing in thinking about the future state of the business; and 4) Communication fitness, or effectively collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. This article offers a series of questions that can help any leader evaluate and exercise their own strategic fitness.
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S23Research: Customer Referrals Are Contagious New research reveals the surprising power of “referral contagion,” where referred customers not only buy more but also refer 30-57% more new customers than others. This phenomenon, observed across industries, is driven by social factors like the perception of referring as appropriate and the tendency to befriend similar people. A simple experiment, reminding referred customers of their referral origin, increased successful referrals by 21%, highlighting the potential for leveraging referral psychology to boost program effectiveness. These findings call for businesses to re-evaluate their investment in referral programs, considering the amplified potential of referred customers. While some risks exist, such as the spread of negative perceptions, they can be mitigated with a balanced marketing approach.
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S247 Questions to Unlock Your Emotional Intelligence and Make You a Happy, More Effective, and Better Person Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize your own emotions and to understand how they affect you--and the people around you. Research shows that those who possess a high level of emotional intelligence are more effective at adjusting their own behaviors, and as a result have better interpersonal relations than people who lack emotional intelligence.As obvious as this question might sound, in the busyness of everyday life we often don't notice our feelings, instead getting caught up in the flood of events we're immersed in. Pause what you're doing and identify the emotions you are feeling--right now. Are you angry, scared, or excited? Identifying the emotion you are feeling will help you understand its source, providing you with the information you need to respond appropriately.
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S25You.com Startup Targets AI-Assistant Market With $50 Million Fundraising Round You.com's 11 million visitors in May reflected a year-to-date rise in web traffic, but the number was still below its 20 million peak in February 2023, according to Similarweb data. Its app downloads have decreased an estimated 69 percent so far in 2024, versus the same period last year, said Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm. Other AI startups have faced similar headwinds.The person familiar with You.com's fundraising said its sales are on the rise. Since January, the company's annual recurring revenue has grown five times, the person said, without specifying the figure in dollar terms. You.com has both consumer and business-to-business subscription revenue, the person said.
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S26France's soaring debt could lead to calls to leave the EU, a top bank warns French President Emmanuel Macron’s call earlier this month for snap parliamentary elections thrust the EU’s second-largest economy into a state of political precarity. Depending on the outcome of that election, the uncertainty could even extend to France’s very membership in the European Union, according to a research note from financial services giant Macquarie. Macron, a member of the moderate Renaissance party, faces challenges from both the far right in Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party, and the far left with a coalition of leftist parties calling themselves the Popular Front. The economic agendas of both groups have been accused of being fiscally irresponsible, and could risk violating EU guidelines governing member states’ spending.
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S27Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun admits 'something went wrong' after a worker who flagged a safety issue got 40 manager calls in a two days Democrat and Republican lawmakers alike grilled Calhoun at a hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations over a series of in-flight mishaps that have dogged the company this year—the latest safety blunders since a pair of crashes in 2018 and 2019 killed nearly 350 people.The genesis of the hearing was an incident that occurred on an Alaska Airlines flight in January, when a part of the fuselage from a Boeing 737 Max 9 was torn from the body of the plane mid-flight. Calhoun told lawmakers that in the immediate aftermath of the Alaska Airlines flight, Boeing conducted companywide feedback sessions with employees on ways to improve safety, and that the aircraft manufacturer had made significant changes to its incentives structure in the past year.
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S28Trump-Milwaukee Feud: Trump Denies Heâs Staying In Chicago For RNCâAfter Allegedly Calling Milwaukee âHorribleâ Former President Donald Trump's campaign pushed back on multiple media reports Tuesday that he initially planned on staying in Chicago and commuting to Milwaukee next month for the Republican National Conventionâdenying plans to snub Milwaukee, after a week-long flap over reports Trump called the biggest city in crucial swing state Wisconsin "horrible."The New York Times and Chicago TV affiliate ABC7 reported on Tuesday Trump would be staying at Trump Tower in Chicago and commuting about 90 miles north to host city Milwaukee for the July convention, raising eyebrows after Trump reportedly called Milwaukee a "horrible city" in a closed-door meeting with lawmakers last week.
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S29Prestigious College Grads Have Better Health Later In Life, New Study FindsâHereâs Why Attending a private U.K. high school or a university with higher status is tied to better cognitive function, heart health and BMI decades after graduation, according to a new study published Tuesday, and researchers believe more disposable income and physical activity advantages may play a role.Around 7% of the study’s participants (all of whom were in the U.K.) attended a private high school, less than 4% attended a grammar school—what the researchers consider “selective without fees”—and 89% of participants went to a state funded school, while 7% attended a higher status university, which are highly regarded Russell Group schools like the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.
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S30The one reason that physicists won't give up on supersymmetry One of the greatest ideas in all of physics, regardless of whether it turns out to be a true idea that reflects reality or not, is that of supersymmetry, or SUSY for short. The Standard Model of elementary particles was cobbled together over the course of the 20th century, growing from initial ideas and observations about the quantum nature of light and matter. The experimental and observational discovery of subatomic particles — not just protons, neutrons, and electrons but also quarks, neutrinos, muons, plus their antimatter counterparts and more — came alongside developments in quantum field theory, profoundly revolutionizing our conception of existence.Although it’s now almost 100 years in the past, the positron, or the antimatter counterpart of the electron, wasn’t first discovered experimentally, but was rather predicted as a theoretical necessity to prevent a theoretical pathology from giving the electron an infinite amount of self-energy. The positron’s discovery was a vindication of that theoretical idea, and launched the era of quantum field theory in particle physics. In order to avoid a similar pathology with the masses of the Standard Model particles, a new type of symmetry can “protect” them from blowing up to unrealistically large values, and that symmetry is precisely what SUSY, or supersymmetry, is. Here’s why, despite the lack of evidence for its existence, physicists are having a hard time leaving this theoretical idea behind.
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S31Unpack the "10 AI Archetypes" to transform your mindset The success of AI projects depends on the team you assemble. As with all new innovations, it brings change and for organizations and individuals, change is difficult — especially in the fast-evolving world of AI. Some will adopt it, some won’t understand it, and others will reject it. That’s why AI projects reveal both heroes and villains in your workforce. It’s important to identify and maximize the number of heroes to increase the chances of success.As with any technology deployment, the process of change management required to transition individuals, teams, and your organization from their current state to the desired state is often the most time-consuming and potentially frustrating aspect when not done right. This is especially true with AI deployments because if you don’t have the right people with the right mindset in the right roles, the project will end before it starts. As such, the team you assemble or inherit plays the most crucial role in determining the success of your AI projects.
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S32How to Efficiently Deal with Unfinished Projects in Your Business Project development is an ongoing responsibility of any entrepreneur. From client proposals to personal passion projects, there always seems to be a never-ending stream of project ideas and plans. And not every project is seen through to completion. Those unfinished project ideas, diagrams, brainstorms, and the like may not seem like much on the surface. After all, they're just unfinished pieces of work, right? And yet these partial projects take up precious space.Â
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S33A $300 Million Cargo Airport Is Coming to South Florida. Is the Local Workforce Ready? Local leaders see the project as a generational opportunity, one that could bring more than 1,400 new, high-skilled jobs to their largely agricultural community at the edge of the Everglades. But to make good on its promise, the region's educators will have to overcome some harsh realities.A third of Hendry County's working-age adults lack a high-school diploma, while almost half speak a language other than English at home, among the highest in Florida. Before local leaders can prepare residents for jobs in engineering and manufacturing, educators must first help them earn their GEDs and learn English.
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S34Biofuel Groups Envision Ethanol-Powered Jets, Despite Many Obstacles It's a vision the U.S. airline industry embraces and agricultural groups see as a key to ensuring strong future sales of ethanol, a fuel that consumes more than one-third of the nation's corn crop and offers a cleaner-burning alternative for the nation's airlines.But making that dream a reality hasn't been easy, in part because even as farmers would benefit from a huge new market for corn, the plan relies on federal tax credits triggered by capturing carbon dioxide at refineries and then moving the gas hundreds of miles through pipelines that would snake across the Midwest, including beneath farmers' fields.
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S35Tesla Kicks Off Legal Fight to Reinstate Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package Tesla began its fight for legal recognition of a shareholder vote favoring Elon Musk's record compensation, telling a Delaware judge that it "significantly impacts" her ruling voiding the pay, according to a letter made public on Monday.Tesla wrote to Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick that the parties in the pay package case should now lay out their legal interpretations of Thursday's ratification of Musk's pay, rather than moving ahead with the case on the prior schedule.
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S36Need to Hire Faster This Summer? As small businesses rush to fill jobs in retail, food service, and other hot industries this summer, the hiring process is faster than ever before and can mean the difference between triumph or turnover.Debbie Roxarzade is the founder and CEO of Rachel's Kitchen, a chain of fast casual restaurants in Las Vegas. In the past, when demand has surged, Roxarzade says she's cut a few corners during the interview process -- and she's gotten what she's screened for.
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S37AI Can Help Global Shipping Industry Slash Emissions, New Report Says The global commercial shipping industry could cut down its carbon emissions by 52 million tons per year by deploying artificial intelligence for sea navigation, a study by autonomous shipping startup Orca AI showed on Tuesday.The use of the technology could reduce the need for maneuvers and route deviation from close encounters with high-risk marine targets such as vessels, buoys and sea mammals by alerting the crew in real time, according to the report.
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S38A Small-Business-Friendly Bankruptcy Provision Is Spiraling Toward a Friday Expiration The debt limit to file for Subchapter V bankruptcy is expected to revert to $2.7 million this Friday, down from the $7.5 million threshold that was established in 2020 amid the financial duress caused by the pandemic. The eligibility threshold was then renewed two years later.Subchapter V bankruptcy gets its name from a section within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and offers an easier avenue for business owners to file. Not only is it more affordable--we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars cheaper here--compared with filing for Chapter 11, but it's also less time-intensive.Â
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S39IMF Report on AI Raises 'Profound Concerns About Massive Labor Disruption' A report published this week by the International Monetary Fund warning that generative AI "raises profound concerns about massive labor disruptions and rising inequality" is the latest instance of a world power turning a critical eye toward the increasingly-prevalent automation technology."Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) hold immense potential to transform production processes and significantly accelerate productivity growth," begins the new report, which is titled "Broadening the Gains from Generative AI: The Role of Fiscal Policies."
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S40Amazon Live Launched a New Shoppable Content Partnership The retail giant and media investment company GroupM announced a partnership on Monday to create original, shoppable content for Amazon's new free ad-supported streaming platform, FAST Channel, which launched in April. This channel is available across Amazon's streaming services, including Prime Video and Amazon Freevee. The partnership will allow brands to advertise their products in streaming videos to customers who can then shop them on their mobile devices. Brands such as the personal and household care line Method and cruise line Virgin Voyages have already advertised on Amazon's FAST channel since its launch in the spring, but this new partnership aims to make it even easier for brands to roll out product placements in streaming content.
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S41How These Founders Approached the White House's Juneteenth Celebration Amid DEI Backlash John and Michael Burns--brothers and co-founders of an array of businesses organized under the umbrella of their eponymous, Washington, D.C.-based company, The Burns Brothers--hosted the White House's second annual Juneteenth concert last week through their luxury event production agency, Styled. The brothers also produced the White House's 2023 concert honoring Juneteenth, which was established as a federal holiday in 2021. But this year's event had a different backdrop: DEI initiatives across sectors have increasingly come under fire since the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling last year."Mike and I are in the community business," says John Burns, who adds that he and his brother always aim to create "a space of joy, of camaraderie, of fellowship--of all those critical things that we oftentimes don't really have as people of color."
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S42When Your New Boss Is a Micromanager Building a relationship with a new boss can feel daunting, and it can be especially difficult if you feel like you’re being micromanaged. In this article, the writer talks with two experts about what to do in this demotivating situation. The first step is to figure out what’s behind your boss’s micromanaging tendencies. Maybe they’re genuinely trying to help, but their methods and cadence don’t match your work style or expectations. Once you’ve got a better grip on your boss’s motivations and gotten feedback on your own performance, focus on establishing credibility. If despite your best efforts nothing seems to be changing — especially if you believe your boss is intentionally sabotaging your work — experts say that unfortunately, there’s not much else you can do. It might be best to start searching for a new job, either within your organization or elsewhere.
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S43Why Managers Play Favorites - and How They Can Change While most good bosses try to be fair and balanced with their direct reports, it’s only human to prefer the company and work styles of some team members over others, and employees are keenly aware of those preferences. They see favorites and non-favorites, ingroups and outgroups — and when those divisions fester, they can destroy team culture and performance. Ginka Toegel, professor at IMD Business School, explains why even well-intentioned managers succumb to favoritism, how workers on both sides are affected, and what we can do to both avoid and rectify the problem. Toegel is the coauthor of the HBR article “Stop Playing Favorites.”
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S44The Most Strategic Leaders Excel in 4 Disciplines Strategic fitness is a leader’s ability to learn from and adapt to their environment to set direction and create a competitive advantage. A study of 77 C-suite executives over four years found that strategically fit leaders excel in four disciplines : 1) Strategic fitness, or setting clear direction and calibrating when necessary; 2) Leadership fitness, or refining their style to meet the moment; 3) Organizational fitness, or investing in thinking about the future state of the business; and 4) Communication fitness, or effectively collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. This article offers a series of questions that can help any leader evaluate and exercise their own strategic fitness.
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S45S46Research: Customer Referrals Are Contagious New research reveals the surprising power of “referral contagion,” where referred customers not only buy more but also refer 30-57% more new customers than others. This phenomenon, observed across industries, is driven by social factors like the perception of referring as appropriate and the tendency to befriend similar people. A simple experiment, reminding referred customers of their referral origin, increased successful referrals by 21%, highlighting the potential for leveraging referral psychology to boost program effectiveness. These findings call for businesses to re-evaluate their investment in referral programs, considering the amplified potential of referred customers. While some risks exist, such as the spread of negative perceptions, they can be mitigated with a balanced marketing approach.
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S47Using AI to build the "definitive" Spanish writing tool Abraham López is the co-founder and CEO of Correcto, a Grammarly-like writing tool for Spanish speakers. Since it launched in 2021, the tool’s Chrome extension has been downloaded over 180,000 times, and it has amassed about 70,000 monthly users. López is interested in expanding the Madrid-headquartered company across Latin America, home to 407 million Spanish speakers.Latin America has the great advantage of adopting tech products at a very high speed. But Spanish, as a language, has too many versions. If we want to become the ultimate writing tool in Spanish — one that understands all the regionalisms and dialects — we need to have a large presence in Latin America. We want to position ourselves as the definitive writing tool there.
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S48Airbnb's Olympics Push Could Help It Win Over Paris Search for Airbnbs in Paris in late July and youâÂÂll be offered options ranging from a tiny studio with glimpses of the Eiffel Tower for $167 a night up to a stunning luxury apartment steps from the Champs-ÃÂlysées for nearly $3,500 a night. The company is also offering two lucky fans the opportunity to sleep in the iconic clock facade of the Musée dâÂÂOrsay on the night of the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.Some 3 million visitors are expected to attend the Olympics in Paris, and just like the 10,500 athletes competing, Airbnb has been preparing for years. In 2019 the company inked a nine-year partnership with the International Olympic Committee that runs through the 2028 Summer Games. Airbnb said at the time that it expected the deal to lead to hundreds of thousands of new hosts in cities around the globe as the games rolled through.
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S49My Favorite Affordable Sheets Are Discounted Right Now Sheets aren't cheap. Well, the good ones aren't. Having spent the past year testing bed sheets at prices ranging from $100 to $500 for our guide to the Best Bed Sheets, I can confirm that if you want sheets that will hold up over time and are made with better materials than rayon and microfiber, you're going to have to shell out anywhere between $150 and $300. Crazy, right? But like anything else, once you invest in the good stuff, you realize spending a little more is worth it. Especially since you spend at least six hours a day on your sheets (when my doctor asks, I say eight hours).Quince makes several of our favorite high-quality sheets and pillowcases that don't break the bank. Their European linen is a better price than you'll find almost anywhere, and softer than cheaper linens, too. I also love Quince's silk pillowcase, which has a better weight and price than you'll find elsewhere.
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S50Factor Review: Satisfying but Slimy 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 WIRED"You have to eat to live, not live to eat." That's something a family member used to say to me when I was younger and insisted I didn't care about nutrition. I wanted to eat purely for the flavor of things. What did she mean I couldn't just eat potato chips and black olives all day for the rest of my life?
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