Each episode — which usually runs for around 25 minutes — focuses on a specific company that made an unconventional decision that could make or break the business. This could be Google Docs deciding to opt out of a “save” button (listen, runtime:
The days of sports professionals pushing their limits and hoping for the best — and risking injury or exhaustion in the process — could be behind us. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning programs are increasingly relied upon to predict sports injuries and enhance player perf...
In just eight episodes, tech columnist Kevin Roose delves into how YouTube is shaping the views and actions of many people by actively working to keep users watching video after video for as long as possible, which Roose calls YouTube’s “rabbit hole effect.” How many of us have bee...
It’s no secret that the VC funding gravy train is slowing down globally with the tech sector’s poor performance limiting VCs ability to raise funds, and the fallout dramatically affecting startups.
After a pandemic-driven frenzy in companies going public through special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), interest in the once-buzzy financial instrument is sharply declining. More stringent regulations around new SPAC transactions, poor performances in recent SPAC debuts, and a challenging ma...
Earlier this year, The Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) recently proposed amendments to the Capital Markets Act that would allow service providers, both public and private, to raise capital by selling securitized bonds to investors afte
A recent breakthrough (pdf) by a team of researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) could pave the way to a new form of energy generation that uses heat emitted from the Earth’s surface. Using a similar process to how s