Layoffs often conjure up visions of workers marching out of the office carrying a cardboard box stuffed with trinkets. But in a remote work world, it might just mean rolling out of bed to find an email that you never…
Fans of vinyl records, beware. Audiophiles willing to pay top-dollar prices for their prized LPs have triggered a nostalgic resurgence in the classic recording format that has not escaped the attention of criminals looking to score easy money from unwitting…
When CEOs join their employees in the trenches it can translate to considerable gains in productivity for their companies. But Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi took the idea to a whole new level when he literally took the wheel and became…
Last week, employees at Google parent Alphabet Inc. called for better treatment of staff during the layoff process in an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, after the company announced it was cutting a further 12,000 jobs. The kinds of…
There’s a common saying on Wall Street that’s often repeated during periods of high inflation and rising interest rates. It goes something like this: The Federal Reserve will raise rates—until something breaks. Last month, that something was Silicon Valley Bank…
In his early days in the business, aviation expert John Nance used to make “Tornado Alley runs,” as he and other pilots with Braniff Airlines called them. They involved multiple takeoffs and landings in places like Kansas City and Wichita…
“If you’re a guy in your 20s and you don’t have a Lamborghini, you should actually sit down and have a serious discussion with yourself”—a clip of these words from 24-year-old Sebastian Ghiorgiu went viral in January, sparking an enormous…
Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone that has been widely available for more than 20 years. For now,…
The two winners – academic prize and industrial prize – of the 2023 edition of The Cosmetic Victories were announced during a ceremony moderated by French journalist Laurence Dorlhac, in Paris on April 4. The jury selected the winners from…