Call it the Beatles’ third law: For every song that’s become an indelible part of the Western pop canon, there’s an equal and opposite “What if?” What if they’d mended the band’s fractured foundation in the ’60s? What if more of them had made it to old age? How many more songs could there have been?
We now have a tantalizing hint at an answer in the form of “Now and Then,” a new single being billed as the final Be
After John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., told Bloomberg in October that GLP-1s, a class of medications prescribed for weight loss—which include Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy—are changing how shoppers behave, resulting in their buying slightly less food, shares for Mondelez (maker of Oreo), PepsiCo, and Hershey’s tumbled.
Also last month, Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said in an earnings briefing that the company was already preparing for the increa
Kashmir Hill is a technology and privacy reporter at the New York Times. Hill has worked and written for a number of publications, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Gizmodo, Popular Science, Forbes, and others.
Below, Hill shares five key insights from her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It. Listen to the audio version—read by Hill herself—in the Next Bi
If you work in the fields of manufacturing, logistics, aviation, or city planning, you’ve probably heard the term “digital twin.” And if you work in healthcare, climate change forecasting, or any of a number of other industries, you’re about to hear it pop up more and more as the decade progresses. In fact, the digital twin market, which was valued at just $11.6 billion in 2022, is expected to be a half-a-trillion-dollar industry by 2032. Companies such as Amazon W
In May, Sweetgreen opened a long-awaited location in Naperville, Illinois, about 30 miles outside of Chicago. Like many of Sweetgreen’s 220 locations, it’s bright, with neon signage and smiling employees. Unlike any of them, however, it’s staffed by a salad-making robot, which Sweetgreen calls its Infinite Kitchen.
The robot dispenses salad ingredients by shooting perfect portions from tubes into bowls. The company spent years developing the tech. It took two ye
This week, President Joe Biden issued a historic executive order on artificial intelligence in pursuit of what his administration calls “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI. The milestone seems imperative given the technology’s rapid evolution and adoption across industries, and a regulatory gauntlet that will ultimately impact millions of Americans. That includes repercussions for the health and biotech industries leveraging AI to innovate as part of a health system that m
As long as we have to fall back this weekend anyway, let’s use that extra hour to ponder the impossible-to-overstate importance of getting a good night’s sleep. You could easily spend weeks scouring research on the link between poor sleep and poor health outcomes and still not get true appreciation for the vital role that uninterrupted shut-eye plays in our physical and mental well-being. Hell, spend one second looking at these anatomic scans of a sleep-deprived brain, and that
If you’re a fan of financial fiascos, you’ve probably been having a great time reading stories marking the recent one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s troubled Twitter takeover.
By my math, which is based on the value that Fidelity places on the X shares owned by its mutual funds, the massive mess Musk has made of Twitter has cost him $17 billion, a number that hasn’t gotten anything like the attention it deserves.
But rather than going over the
Online giving platform Daffy.org is letting anyone start a fundraiser for their favorite charity.
Daffy announced a new feature Friday called Daffy Campaigns, which lets users designate a nonprofit or a set of nonprofits and call upon others to contribute to them. The feature also lets people set up matching donations, where contributions up to a certain amount will be matched by funds from the campaign organizer, as well as particular “giving milestones” similar to wh
Most of us are familiar with magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. The MRI is a noninvasive medical imaging test that produces detailed images of internal structures in the human body, including the brain, the heart, abdominal organs, muscles, blood vessels, ligaments, and bones. MRI scanners create these images using somewhat surprising tools: radio waves and a strong magnet.
Historically, MRI has principally been used for the diagnosis and characterization of disease once other sign