Sat, Oct 31 2020

A decade ago, two scientists at Honeywell International Inc. pitched their bosses a most improbable idea: The century-old industrial company should build a quantum computer. The idea was met with some skepticism. For one thing, International…

Virtual influencers were already gaining, well, influence long before Covid-19 struck. Seraphine's flowing pink hair and cat-themed Instagram posts had attracted thousands of fans when the news that she was created by Riot Games Inc. — the…

The numbers don't lie: We are living in the Billionaire Age. Four years ago, America elected its first billionaire president. Since then, the nation's 200-or-so wealthiest people -- a cohort representing 0.00006% of the population -- have increased…

Against all odds, the box of pills is cute. On one side of its winsome cardboard shell, a custom typeface spells out the brand name, Hims, in all lowercase, giving off a vibe somewhere between an e.e. cummings poem and a retro zine. A pamphlet that…

Fifteen years ago, when I returned home after fighting in Iraq, a friend asked me to describe the bravest thing I saw anyone do. I had led a Marine platoon in the Second Battle of Fallujah, in 2004, and had seen plenty of heroism—Marines…