Western Massachusetts Are You a Takeoffs or Landings Person?The New York Times - By MARK VANHOENACKEROne morning this spring, I drove past the quiet municipal airport in Pittsfield, Mass. I couldn’t stop myself from slowing down and smiling as I looked out on the place where, nearly 30 years ago, I first
Life Insurance Human v algorithm: insurers try to cut out the middleman | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Oliver RalphThere is an old saying in the industry that “life insurance is sold not bought”. No one wakes up in the morning with a burning desire to scrutinise the fine print of an insurance policy, so an agent or
Health Care US healthcare is literally killing people | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Tim HarfordIt is astonishing how far the debate on healthcare has moved in the US, at least for the Democrats. Not long ago offering universal, government-funded healthcare was viewed as tantamount to communism;
Trello The Families Who Use Slack, Asana, Trello, and JiraThe Atlantic - Taylor LorenzStretched for time, some households are starting to operate more like businesses. When Tonya Parker, a mom in Illinois, wanted to better organize her family life a little over a year ago, the first thing
Technology The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeatMIT Technology Review - David Hambling The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes. Everyone’s heart is different. Like the …
Brexit Brexit means goodbye to Britain as we know it | Financial TimesFinancial TimesWhat sort of Britain will emerge from the Brexit earthquake? Will it still be united? What sort of role might it play in Europe and the wider world? Nobody knows the answers. But one can at least make
Congo, child labour and your electric car | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Henry SandersonKongolo Mashimango Reagen used to spend his days carrying 25kg sacks of cobalt from small mines in a southern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is so rich in minerals that large deposits
Electricity Waste-to-energy: panacea for Asia’s pollution problem or a load of rubbish? | Financial TimesFinancial TimesLiu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
AirPods AirPods Are a Tragedy - VICEVICE - Caroline HaskinsApple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. Future Relics is a column about the objects that our society currently
Hong Kong Britain must honour its obligations to the people of Hong Kong | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Chris PattenIn 2015, Tony Abbott, then Australian prime minister, told German chancellor Angela Merkel that his government’s policy on China was based on a mixture of fear and greed. The view of many other western
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson is poised to become prime minister. Is he up to the job? | Financial TimesFinancial Times - George ParkerTie askew, hair mussed into a state of tonsorial turmoil, one sock inside out, Boris Johnson is facing his first major audition for the job he has craved all his life. He knows what is coming. “Why were
Mac App Store Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devsArs Technica - Samuel Axon The people already using Catalyst tell Ars what Mac users and devs should expect. SAN JOSE, Calif.—When Apple revealed macOS Catalina at WWDC this …
Apple Park Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long AgoThe Wall Street Journal. - Tripp MickleDesign chief helped create some of the world’s best-known products, but grew distant as the company shifted focus under CEO Tim Cook As the deadline loomed for the 10th anniversary iPhone, Apple Inc.’s
London, UK Meet the Barbican’s original residents | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Tom MorrisThe Barbican was famous before it was built. The 16ha site in the City of London, barely a mile north of St Paul’s Cathedral, was flattened during the Blitz, then in the late 1940s and 50s gave way to
What is a salad – and why are the British so precious about it? | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Tim HaywardI’m reviewing a restaurant. The food is good but I’m alone, so I’m indulging in the other great pleasure of eating out: eavesdropping. There’s a man at the next table, dining with his much thinner partner,
United Kingdom Eight reasons Tory MPs keep getting it wrong | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Simon KuperAnyone watching the contest to become British prime minister has to wonder about the cognitive skills of many Conservative candidates. Put simply: are these people stupid? They include several Brexiters
From Russian oil to rock’n’roll: the rise of Len Blavatnik | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Henry FoyStriding the halls of an English stately home, dressed in full costume as Victorian prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, Len Blavatnik was celebrating his 60th birthday. Grammy-winner Bruno Mars sang. Guests
Why bankers can’t stop running | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Laura Noonan“You must love running,” people often comment when they hear I’ve signed up for another marathon or see me leaving the office for a jog along New York’s Hudson River path. There are certainly many who
The killer queues of Ukrainebbc.co.ukUkraine’s simmering war with Russian-backed fighters has an inevitable civilian cost - people are caught in crossfire or step on mines. But a surprising number die in a more unexpected way - collapsing
Made in the USA: inside one company’s all-American supply chain | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Rana ForooharBayard Winthrop is angry. “Washington DC is just completely full of shit,” he tells me, recalling a meeting he had last year in the US capital with a group of senior politicians who wanted to understand
Inside GCHQ: the art of spying in the digital age | Financial TimesFinancial Times - David BondFive years ago, Rob, a 38-year-old father of two, was fitting kitchens and bathrooms for a living. Now he is a digital spy. As one of GCHQ’s army of cyber analysts, he monitors global counter-intelligence
Secret spectacles - BBC Newsbbc.co.ukIt was close to midnight when the young man crawled into the desert. All around him was darkness. A hundred metres away, a handful of Tuareg rebels and people smugglers, who worked together ferrying migrants
Poverty in the UK is 'systematic' and 'tragic', says UN special rapporteurbbc.co.uk The UK's social safety net has been "deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos", a report commissioned by the UN has said.
Walking off the weekday worriesbbc.co.ukAlmost every other weekend, he escapes the city by driving out to Wales, the Lake District or Scotland, to embark on a solo expedition in the mountains. He takes a one-man tent and enough supplies to for
Post Office past ‘tipping point’ as reinvention fails to deliver | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Michael PoolerSince the last bank branch closed in Chatteris a little over a week ago, the high street post office has become a lifeline for many people in the Cambridgeshire town. The same is true in countless other
How Greek energy sources have untapped potential | Financial TimesFinancial Times - James WilsonAgios Georgios is described by its owner Terna Energy as Greece’s first onshore wind farm with “offshore characteristics” — and the 10-minute helicopter ride to reach it makes it clear why. The narrow,
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Until the Tories see sense on a people’s vote, I will give mine to the Lib Demsthetimes.co.uk - Michael Heseltine
Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreadingMIT Technology Review - Martin Giles The rogue code can disable safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. It was discovered in the Middle East, but the …
What went wrong inside Boeing's cockpit?bbc.co.ukAs alarms sounded in their cockpit, the captain and first officer struggled to regain control of their stricken aircraft. They were far too close to the ground, and needed to gain altitude. Yet when Capt
