Plus: Round one with Mark Zuckerberg, the appointment of Lina Khan, and a new type of weather nightmare. Read More
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Back to news homeThe FAA Brings Jeff Bezos Back Down to Earth
Plus: New Shepard’s dildo design, my seat on a private space flight, and the hearing that broke Fauci. Read More
The Rocket Billionaire Who Hated Space Tourism
Plus: a lifelong love of the cosmos, future dispatches from West Texas, and routinely unprecedented weather events. Read More
Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?
The presence of more Airbnbs in a neighborhood may be linked to more crime—but not in the way you might think.Researchers from Northeastern University reviewed data in Boston from 2011 […]
5 Years After Pokémon Go, It’s Time for the Metaverse
Plus: The biggest idea of 2016, the ethics of synthetic data, and a blaze on the Gulf of Mexico. Read More
Help! Should I Tell My Colleagues I’m on the Spectrum?
Dear OOO,Is it worth trying to explain to colleagues that my bluntness stems from being on the spectrum? Or just acknowledge that my approach isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and […]
NFTs Are a Collective Hallucination—So What?
Plus: The man behind digital money, how to disseminate facts, and a union in the most unlikely of places. Read More
Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories
Siroker won’t be drilling into skulls to rewire brains. Instead, the plan is to methodically capture and store all sorts of data—audio, video, and eventually biometric—that can be easily searched […]
A Fight Over GameStop’s Soaring Stock Turns Ugly
Then came war. On Tuesday, Citron Research founder Andrew Left, an activist investor and short seller, tweeted that he’d share five reasons why GameStop’s stock would plummet to $20 fast […]
A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard
Facebook might have run out the clock on Donald Trump’s posts—I predict a permanent ban at some point—but the episode is only one data point in a wider crisis of […]