For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run on it. A guest walks in cold, slightly on guard, half-convinced they’ve overdressed, and you’ve got about ninety seconds...
Corgi, a business-insurance startup that sells coverage to other startups, announced on May 28 a $106 million Series B1 round that values it at $2.6 billion. The raise landed just three weeks after the company disclosed a $160 million...
Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written...
The Pixel 10a shipped with a last gen processor. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found...
Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday....
The GoPro Max2 can use your earbuds as a microphone over Bluetooth.
A 360-degree camera is a great way to ensure you capture every bit of the action, but prices tend to be on the high end for models worth...
Carter, there’s a couch RIGHT THERE. | Image:
Carter Sherman has been covering sex, gender, and the complex personal and national politics that accompany them for years. She was a senior reporter for Vice and has written for Elle, Ms....
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that...
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and asked them to record what they were doing, where they were, and what they were thinking every hour they were awake. When she and her colleagues tallied...
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and were deciding whether to tell me. Not a “nice jacket.” The kind that names something true about who a...
