Self-driving Vehicles

I started reading Janet Malcolm the year I came to the United States. Encountering her work felt like emerging from ignorance—revelatory and more than a bit humbling. At 23, I was embarrassed not to have heard of her before. If the most quoted parts of The Journalist and the Murderer…

FROM CUISINE to carmaking, the Japanese way is meticulous. Yet with just over a month to go, the Tokyo Olympics remain anything but. Thanks to covid-19, and Japan’s sluggish vaccinations, it is unclear whether the games, originally due to be held last summer, will let spectators in—if, that is, the…

When Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the office of president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln in mid-April 1865, he initially incurred favor with Republican legislators in Congress, including those identified as “Radical Republicans,” by appointing the “Christian soldier” and Union Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard to head up the…

On January 6, as insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol building, pro-Trump rioters outside set up a noose. In one photo, taken by a reporter from USA Today, a woman draped in a Trump flag stands on the wooden gallows, clutching the unambiguous symbol of white supremacist terror. She is smiling.…

26 April 2011 marked the disappearance of Bitcoin’s fabled Satoshi Nakamoto. Centralized financial systems provoked Nakamoto to develop an alternative “self-sustaining” financial landscape. However, if Nakamoto had continued to exist in the crypto-ecosystem, would Bitcoin be as decentralized as it is today? Or would have “dictator” Satoshi taken complete charge…

The Oxford Dictionary named “selfie” the word of the year way back in 2013, yet many phones still suck at taking a selfie eight years later. If a terrible front-facing camera has been the bane of your social network existence, you may be interested in what we just received in…

Fox News host Sean Hannity threw some more dirt on Liz Cheney’s grave on Wednesday night following her ouster from House Republican leadership, insisting that she wasn’t “canceled” but instead “fired” from her post because she was “selfish.” After drawing the renewed ire of twice-impeached former President Donald Trump and…

A growing chorus is now seeing India’s second wave of Covid-19 as a governance failure more than anything else. A May 8 editorial in The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, placed the responsibility of this current Covid-19 disaster in India with prime minister Narendra Modi. In a scathing piece…

Source: Adobe/Alex South Korean media outlets have suggested the nation’s crypto exchanges are beginning to “self-regulate” as pressure mounts from the government – with the Upbit trading platform capping crypto deposits to a daily maximum of just under USD 450,000. Per Donga Ilbo, one of the country’s biggest newspapers, the…

Leeds United CEO Angus Kinnear has heavily criticised the “self-proclaimed big six” in the Premier League for their involvement in a breakaway European competition, branding the “deeply cynical” plan a betrayal of every true football supporter. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham were all part of a…