Exactly what constitutes a beach read has inspired much debate—but perhaps the answer is no more complicated than whether a book is easy to get lost in. Under that definition, the best new books coming in July are ideal for the beach (or the couch, the airplane, or the hammock). Isabel Kaplan’s novel NSFW, for example, is an intoxicating exploration of male-dominated workplac…
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One of the best meals Top Chef alum Padma Lakshmi has ever eaten is Kabuli pulao—an aromatic rice dish, cooked with lamb, carrots and raisins—alongside members of the Afghan American community in Washington, D.C. She spoke with them about helping evacuees arriving after the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Kabul, as well as how to get the recipe right, for her award-winning Hulu series…
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Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. plans to lay off around 10,000 employees and close about 5,000 additional open roles in its second major round of job cuts in the past six months as it seeks to winnow expenses and improve efficiency.
The company is aiming to make its organization flatter by removing multiple layers of management, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in a stateme…
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What began last week as sporadic power outages and rationing has now spiraled into China’s worst energy crisis in a decade, with factories shuttered, traffic lights and 3G communications networks cut, and shopkeepers forced to illuminate their premises by candlelight.
As many as 20 of China’s 31 mainland provinces have been impacted by a combination of soaring fuel prices, hig…
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Shortly after Microsoft released its new AI-powered search tool, Bing, to a select group of users in early February, a 23 year-old student from Germany decided to test its limits.
It didn’t take long for Marvin von Hagen, a former intern at Tesla, to get Bing to reveal a strange alter ego—Sydney—and return what appeared to be a list of rules that the chatbot had been giv…
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Shopping for a home these days is a miserable slog. The buyers who walk away with a set of keys succeed against long odds, prevailing despite skyrocketing prices and relentless competition. Even as the U.S. housing market shows signs of cooling, buyers are still feeling enormous pressure to move quickly before interest rates rise further, pushing more homes out of reach. At the center of this o…
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Talent from some of the biggest TV series and movies of last year took home prizes from the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24. The ceremony honored the craft of acting, with winners chosen by the votes of guild members.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which had tied Greta Gerwig’s Barbie for the most nominations among m…
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We followed the science on COVID-19. Now, as the end of the pandemic draws closer, it’s time to follow the science on working from home.
The verdict is clear: For many jobs—particularly collaborative, high skill level, high-value roles—working from home simply doesn’t work, and we shouldn’t confuse a temporary abnormal with a new normal.
The pandemic wi…
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Worry about the concentration of wealth and power achieved by monopolistic—or potentially monopolistic—entities have always been wrapped up in each respective era’s technological innovations. It is not surprising then that the focal point of today’s debate around antitrust reform is the size and scope of internet giants like Google, Facebook (Meta Platforms, Inc.), Amazo…
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We’ve become so conditioned by years of watching men fight men onscreen—jabbing with spears, blamming with guns, high-kicking the daylights out of each other with a mighty oof—that, the Amazons of the Wonder Woman movies notwithstanding, it’s a novelty to see women going at it. That’s just one of the pleasures of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s hist…
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