People in one study demanded about a hundred dollars to give up Facebook for a…
A month away from Facebook revealed what users had been missing: not the platform, but their own time and peace of mind.
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In 1939, a self-taught excavator named Basil Brown was digging a mound on Edith…
In the summer of 1939, self-taught excavator Basil Brown uncovered a 27-metre Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo — a vessel whose timber had rotted into acidic Suffolk soil, leaving only iron rivets to trace its ghost outline in the sand.
In a 2016 UCLA fMRI study, teenagers were more likely to like an Instagram photo…
The brain responds to social validation the same way it responds to rewards, making the actual content almost irrelevant.
A federal judge ruled one Pentagon action against Anthropic unlawful, while a…
The Trump administration's effort to punish an AI company for refusing to work with the Pentagon may hinge on whether the First Amendment protects corporate speech.
A 2026 study revealed how sperm whales stay suspended during their eerie vertical…
Sperm whales sleep vertically in silent clusters near the ocean surface, tails dangling toward the deep, in ten-to-fifteen-minute bursts — one of the shortest sleep cycles of any mammal, and the reason is simple biology: sleep any longer and they forget to breathe.
Research suggests that planning on paper and planning through a phone can engage…
The tools we use to organize our days may be quietly reshaping how we think about time itself.
Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make…
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.
Nadella pitches swappable AI models as Microsoft scales MAI models and Maia chips
Microsoft is building an AI layer it controls, betting enterprises will pay more for flexibility than for any single model's superiority.
Four US tech giants spent roughly $410 billion on capital expenditure last year…
The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.
Ambition doesn’t fade in your 40s — a Gallup analysis suggests it quietly…
The drive to prove yourself doesn't disappear in midlife—it just stops caring who's watching.
The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role…
When Boonrawd Brewery cut ties with Sunit Scott, it did in public what family conglomerates in the region almost always handle in private. The speed and visibility of that decision is its own story.
Singapore’s millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data…
Singapore now has the highest millionaire density in Asia, with roughly one in six households holding at least US$1 million in investable assets. The country's mental health and burnout data suggests the wealth is buying something real — but not what the skyline advertises.