Discussing Uber’s 2019 financial results with analysts last week, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi used the word “focus” six times and the word “discipline” three times in his opening remarks alone. And he dropped “profitability” four times, most notably predicting that Uber would move into the black at the end of this year—at least when measured as…
Zuck’s notebooks are open and marsupials aren’t copin’, but first: a cartoon about smart cars. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here!Today’s NewsInside Mark Zuckerberg’s lost notebookIn the early days of Facebook, founder Mark Zuckerberg was always…
The brand circus of the games industry is looking more like a petting zoo. The Entertainment Software Association’s E3 trade show has lost one of its biggest ringmasters: Geoff Keighley, who has hosted one of E3’s marquee events for years, announced today that he won’t attend this summer.Keighley, 40, is one of the biggest names…
When Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22 billion in 2014, many observers scratched their heads. The smaller messaging platform had annual revenues in the low tens of millions. How could it be worth so much?Soon enough, however, Facebook’s logic became clear. While little noticed in the US, WhatsApp was already a juggernaut overseas, with hundreds of…
Nearly 10 months after Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, the space agency has estimated how much its Artemis Program will cost. NASA says it will need an additional $35 billion over the next four years—on top of its existing budget—to develop a Human Landing System to…
Ever have a knot in your stomach when starting something new? Whether it’s learning how to play the piano or diving into 3D printing, the beginning can feel very daunting. That applies even for a hobby like scrapbooking—a quick search on Google nets more than 1.5 trillion results, and it’s easy to get lost in…
Plenty of online ads are terrible. Websites are often filled with intrusive ads that make getting to the actual content twice as hard. Amongst the worst offenders: autoplay video ads that start blaring out their message the second a page begins to load.Now something is finally being done about it, with Google announcing a major…
Ah, racks. If canister warmers are the hare, rack warmers are the turtle. They take forever to heat up, and when done the towels were pockmarked with cold spots and weren’t that hot. At the 7- and 9-minute marks, when the canister warmers had grilled their towels well-done, the towels on the racks were still…
A 17-year-old state-ranked soccer player walked into the psychiatrist’s office wearing a bulky grey sweater in the middle of June and 2 rubber bands around her small wrists. With a half smile, she said that in the past year she had lost 21 pounds as well as her menstrual periods in the past year, after…
In 2016, Michael Letko moved from New York City to Hamilton, Montana—a town of 4,800 nestled between Blodgett Canyon and Highway 93 at the southern end of the Bitterroot Valley.During the state’s earliest days, a strange, deadly disease emerged from these dark lodgepole pine forests, striking down settlers with a black rash and raging infection.…
