Soft living is the wellness world’s pushback against the militaristic morning routine, the five o’clock start, the cold plunge, the twenty-step optimisation ritual performed before dawn. In its place it offers something gentler: an unhurried, kind, low-pressure start to...
The Justice Department sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy, and illegally collecting their information. The defendants were accused of violating a law requiring online services aimed at children to obtain parental consent...
There is a kind of composure that comes from understanding a feeling, and another that comes from making sure nobody can see it. From the outside, the two can look identical. Inside the person, they are different psychological events.
A...
The Alps are not large by continental standards. The Alpine Convention covers roughly 200,000 square kilometres, while the conventional geographical area assigned to Europe is about 10.2 million square kilometres. Using those boundaries, the mountain region occupies just under...
Concrete is a difficult material to turn into a software product. Every foundation has to carry real loads, comply with building standards and survive for decades, while conventional construction still depends on formwork, crews, deliveries and weather. Hyperion Robotics...
Retirement removes more than work. It also removes the people a working day places within reach without anyone having to make a plan: the colleague at the next desk, the familiar face in the kitchen, the person who always...
This year, Australia’s biggest startup survey is on track to get its best response ever ahead of next week’s closing, says Startup Muster MD, Murray Hurps.
“Our key theme we are repeating everywhere this year is ‘Make sure you’re seen.’”
“We’re...
The funding was led by ANZ VC Blackbird, with GD1 and Rypples joining the cap table alongside existing investors K1W1, Icehouse Ventures, Shasta Ventures, NZVC and existing angel investors.
The funding is to ramp up production of Vessev’s VS-9...
Every workplace has its own acceptable volume of certainty. In one team, saying “I think this is right” sounds appropriately careful. In another, the same sentence is heard as weakness, while the person who speaks without qualification becomes the...
Some people come back from two days in the hills looking like a different animal. Not tanned, not simply well-slept. Reset, as though a technician went in overnight and defragmented the hard drive.
The people around them usually find this...
