Play buttonChina What you need to know about China’s falling space lab Tiangong-2Quartz - Echo HuangChina’s space lab Tiangong-2, is coming back to Earth on July 19, if all goes as planned (link in Chinese). Unlike Tiangong-1, which China lost contact with before it burned up somewhere over the South
Netflix Netflix lost US subscribers for the first time everQuartz - Nicolas RiveroNetflix lost 126,000 US subscribers in the second quarter (which ended June 30), the company announced in its earnings report today (July 17). Its stock promptly tanked 12% in after-hours trading, dropping
Queens, NY Scherie Murray, a Jamaican immigrant from Queens, is running against AOCQuartz - Annalisa MerelliRising progressive star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an official challenger. Scherie Murray, a Republican businesswoman originally from Jamaica, announced her candidacy for New York’s 14th congressional
West Texas Why more Texas Republicans have found the strength to criticize Trump’s tweetsQuartz - Ana CampoyMost Republicans in the US have steered clear of commenting on the “go back to your country” ugliness perpetrated by Donald Trump. In Texas, that may not be the savviest political calculation. In a state
Fyre Festival Netflix’s Fyre Festival doc made Jerry Media an Emmy nomineeQuartz - Sangeeta Singh-KurtzJerry Media, aka @fuckjerry, aka the creator of Fyre Festival’s notorious promotional materials, was nominated for four Emmys yesterday (July 16) thanks to its role in producing Netflix’s Fyre Festival
Bernard Arnault Bernard Arnault unseated Bill Gates as second richest personQuartz - Marc BainThere are three people on the planet with fortunes greater than $100 billion. One is the world’s current richest tycoon, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. Another is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft,
Central Africa WHO declares DR Congo's Ebola crisis a public health emergencyQuartz - Haleluya HaderoThe World Health Organization has officially declared the current outbreak of Ebola a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC) days after the disease spread to Goma, a heavily populated
Nigeria US embassy forced to deny Trump visa fake news in NigeriaQuartz - Yomi KazeemFew things unite Nigeria’s middle classes like anxiety over international visa application processes—and none more so than for the United States. Depending on social class and income, the visa can mean
Apollo Missions How much Apollo 11 Moon landing memorabilia costsQuartz - Georgia Frances KingThis week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Earth is going galactic pretending they’re astronauts for the day. But as only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon’s surface,
Unicode Consortium The Unicode Consortium makes emojis easierQuartz - Anne QuitoIn time for World Emoji Day (July 17), the Unicode Consortium, which decides on new emojis, is eager to shed its reputation as a community only for computer geeks. The Silicon Valley-based nonprofit has
Dominican Republic Did fake alcohol kill American tourists in the Dominican Republic?Quartz - Monica H. Swahn • Don’t drink homemade or counterfeit “booze.” • Don’t overdo it. • Don’t compete with locals and their brew. • Don’t let your drink out of sight.
Foot Locker Foot Locker's Greenhouse to launch sneaker and streetwear collabsQuartz - Marc BainWhen Foot Locker unveiled a new mission statement in March, it reflected a big shift in the sneaker retailer’s business. No longer was the company’s goal “to be the leading global retailer of athletically
Amazon Why Big Tech keeps outsmarting antitrust regulatorsQuartz - Tim O'ReillyIt’s a nerve-wracking time to be a Big Tech company. Yesterday, a US subcommittee on antitrust grilled representatives from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple in Congress, and presidential candidates
House Judiciary Committee How a vote on Trump's racist remarks sparked a wild House battleQuartz - Heather TimmonsThe US House of Representatives voted decisively July 16 to condemn US president Donald Trump’s racist insults toward four freshman Congresswomen. But it almost didn’t happen at all. Before the House a
Slavery The global business supply chain relies on 16 million slavesQuartz - Annalisa MerelliSlavery has been illegal worldwide for just about four decades, since Mauritania finally abolished it in 1981. But slavery didn’t end there. According to the latest report by the Walk Free Initiative,
Censorship China's censorship is sinking its own movie marketQuartz - Echo HuangChina’s box-office take for the first half of the year declined for the first time in a decade—and China’s own censorship could be one of the culprits. As of June, China’s box office has taken in around
Matteo Salvini Italy's Matteo Salvini shows the danger of Trump's racist tweetsQuartz - Annalisa MerelliRussian operatives seeking to influence the world’s elections appear to have a new beneficiary: Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister. A damning recording released by Buzzfeed suggests Salvini
Finance French finance minister says Facebook's Libra cannot become sovereign currencyQuartz - John DetrixheSince the dawn of the internet, multinational tech companies have grown in power, size, and influence. But issuing their own currencies—as Facebook and its partners are proposing with their Libra coin—could
Play buttonNeil Armstrong We may have misheard Neil Armstrong's famous moon landing quoteQuartz - Melissa Michaud Baese-BerkOn July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon. As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written
British Museum UK institutions are under fire for accepting BP’s “dirty money”Quartz - Natasha FrostIf you visited a major British arts institution in the last 30 years, your trip was almost certainly subsidized by the corporation responsible for the third-largest contribution to climate change of any
Hong Kong Hong Kong and Taiwan find solidarity against ChinaQuartz - Mary HuiIt all started with a murder, ensnaring Taiwan and Hong Kong in a case of bizarre legal acrobatics as the Hong Kong government sought to leverage the crime as the impetus for an extradition bill that allow
Japan A new trade war is brewing among US allies Japan and South KoreaQuartz - Jane LiJapan and South Korea, two of the US’s closest allies in Asia, are locked in a trade dispute that threatens both crown jewel Samsung Electronics and the global smartphone supply chain. On July 1, citing
Government Bonds Weak Indian rupee can jeopardise Modi's sovereign bond plans.Quartz - Rohan VenkataramakrishnanIndian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s first budget, presented earlier this month, was mostly forgettable. It did not seem to acknowledge the deep hole in which the Indian economy finds itself and
Quora The struggles of LGBTQ+ community in IndiaQuartz - Apoorva MalhotraThis post was originally published on Quora as an answer to the question “What is it like to be a lesbian in India?” When I tell people that I am gay, they often ask me, “You mean lesbian?” I refrain using
Transgender Ex-Amazon techie is leading a diversity drive for LGBTQ at SwiggyQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarIn 2013, Samyuktha Vijayan, then a software engineer in Bengaluru, moved to Europe as she decided to transition from being a man to a woman. “I always knew I won’t be able to go through it if I was in
Delhi Zomato and Swiggy have much to thank India's small towns forQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaOnline food delivery in India is pretty much a duopoly. Zomato and Swiggy together fulfil over three-quarters of all orders. Between the two, Zomato has a slight edge. Its app is installed on 12% of all
China Families of fallen Chinese oligarchs are taking to TwitterQuartz - Jane LiPetitioning is an ancient practice in China where ordinary citizens who believe they cannot get justice through the legal system travel to the capital in the hopes of appealing directly to the emperor
Protest Hong Kong protesters crowdfund legal and medical feesQuartz - Mary HuiAs Hong Kong enters its seventh week of protests, all signs are pointing to a long summer of demonstrations ahead. They’ll be sustained not only by the protesters’ unflagging energy, but also by the large
Beyoncé Beyonce's Lion King Album is filled with Afrobeats, Wizkid, TiwaQuartz - Haleluya HaderoBeyonce just might be the necessary ingredient to rocket Afrobeats into the mainstream US music scene. This week, Disney is set to release The Lion King soundtrack, produced by Beyonce and packed with
Play buttonChina What you need to know about China’s falling space lab Tiangong-2Quartz - Echo HuangChina’s space lab Tiangong-2, is coming back to Earth on July 19, if all goes as planned (link in Chinese). Unlike Tiangong-1, which China lost contact with before it burned up somewhere over the South
Netflix Netflix lost US subscribers for the first time everQuartz - Nicolas RiveroNetflix lost 126,000 US subscribers in the second quarter (which ended June 30), the company announced in its earnings report today (July 17). Its stock promptly tanked 12% in after-hours trading, dropping
Queens, NY Scherie Murray, a Jamaican immigrant from Queens, is running against AOCQuartz - Annalisa MerelliRising progressive star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an official challenger. Scherie Murray, a Republican businesswoman originally from Jamaica, announced her candidacy for New York’s 14th congressional
West Texas Why more Texas Republicans have found the strength to criticize Trump’s tweetsQuartz - Ana CampoyMost Republicans in the US have steered clear of commenting on the “go back to your country” ugliness perpetrated by Donald Trump. In Texas, that may not be the savviest political calculation. In a state
Fyre Festival Netflix’s Fyre Festival doc made Jerry Media an Emmy nomineeQuartz - Sangeeta Singh-KurtzJerry Media, aka @fuckjerry, aka the creator of Fyre Festival’s notorious promotional materials, was nominated for four Emmys yesterday (July 16) thanks to its role in producing Netflix’s Fyre Festival
Bernard Arnault Bernard Arnault unseated Bill Gates as second richest personQuartz - Marc BainThere are three people on the planet with fortunes greater than $100 billion. One is the world’s current richest tycoon, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. Another is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft,
Central Africa WHO declares DR Congo's Ebola crisis a public health emergencyQuartz - Haleluya HaderoThe World Health Organization has officially declared the current outbreak of Ebola a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC) days after the disease spread to Goma, a heavily populated
Nigeria US embassy forced to deny Trump visa fake news in NigeriaQuartz - Yomi KazeemFew things unite Nigeria’s middle classes like anxiety over international visa application processes—and none more so than for the United States. Depending on social class and income, the visa can mean
Apollo Missions How much Apollo 11 Moon landing memorabilia costsQuartz - Georgia Frances KingThis week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Earth is going galactic pretending they’re astronauts for the day. But as only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon’s surface,
Unicode Consortium The Unicode Consortium makes emojis easierQuartz - Anne QuitoIn time for World Emoji Day (July 17), the Unicode Consortium, which decides on new emojis, is eager to shed its reputation as a community only for computer geeks. The Silicon Valley-based nonprofit has
Dominican Republic Did fake alcohol kill American tourists in the Dominican Republic?Quartz - Monica H. Swahn • Don’t drink homemade or counterfeit “booze.” • Don’t overdo it. • Don’t compete with locals and their brew. • Don’t let your drink out of sight.
Foot Locker Foot Locker's Greenhouse to launch sneaker and streetwear collabsQuartz - Marc BainWhen Foot Locker unveiled a new mission statement in March, it reflected a big shift in the sneaker retailer’s business. No longer was the company’s goal “to be the leading global retailer of athletically
Amazon Why Big Tech keeps outsmarting antitrust regulatorsQuartz - Tim O'ReillyIt’s a nerve-wracking time to be a Big Tech company. Yesterday, a US subcommittee on antitrust grilled representatives from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple in Congress, and presidential candidates
House Judiciary Committee How a vote on Trump's racist remarks sparked a wild House battleQuartz - Heather TimmonsThe US House of Representatives voted decisively July 16 to condemn US president Donald Trump’s racist insults toward four freshman Congresswomen. But it almost didn’t happen at all. Before the House a
Slavery The global business supply chain relies on 16 million slavesQuartz - Annalisa MerelliSlavery has been illegal worldwide for just about four decades, since Mauritania finally abolished it in 1981. But slavery didn’t end there. According to the latest report by the Walk Free Initiative,
Censorship China's censorship is sinking its own movie marketQuartz - Echo HuangChina’s box-office take for the first half of the year declined for the first time in a decade—and China’s own censorship could be one of the culprits. As of June, China’s box office has taken in around
Matteo Salvini Italy's Matteo Salvini shows the danger of Trump's racist tweetsQuartz - Annalisa MerelliRussian operatives seeking to influence the world’s elections appear to have a new beneficiary: Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister. A damning recording released by Buzzfeed suggests Salvini
Finance French finance minister says Facebook's Libra cannot become sovereign currencyQuartz - John DetrixheSince the dawn of the internet, multinational tech companies have grown in power, size, and influence. But issuing their own currencies—as Facebook and its partners are proposing with their Libra coin—could
Play buttonNeil Armstrong We may have misheard Neil Armstrong's famous moon landing quoteQuartz - Melissa Michaud Baese-BerkOn July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon. As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written
British Museum UK institutions are under fire for accepting BP’s “dirty money”Quartz - Natasha FrostIf you visited a major British arts institution in the last 30 years, your trip was almost certainly subsidized by the corporation responsible for the third-largest contribution to climate change of any
Hong Kong Hong Kong and Taiwan find solidarity against ChinaQuartz - Mary HuiIt all started with a murder, ensnaring Taiwan and Hong Kong in a case of bizarre legal acrobatics as the Hong Kong government sought to leverage the crime as the impetus for an extradition bill that allow
Japan A new trade war is brewing among US allies Japan and South KoreaQuartz - Jane LiJapan and South Korea, two of the US’s closest allies in Asia, are locked in a trade dispute that threatens both crown jewel Samsung Electronics and the global smartphone supply chain. On July 1, citing
Government Bonds Weak Indian rupee can jeopardise Modi's sovereign bond plans.Quartz - Rohan VenkataramakrishnanIndian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s first budget, presented earlier this month, was mostly forgettable. It did not seem to acknowledge the deep hole in which the Indian economy finds itself and
Quora The struggles of LGBTQ+ community in IndiaQuartz - Apoorva MalhotraThis post was originally published on Quora as an answer to the question “What is it like to be a lesbian in India?” When I tell people that I am gay, they often ask me, “You mean lesbian?” I refrain using
Transgender Ex-Amazon techie is leading a diversity drive for LGBTQ at SwiggyQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarIn 2013, Samyuktha Vijayan, then a software engineer in Bengaluru, moved to Europe as she decided to transition from being a man to a woman. “I always knew I won’t be able to go through it if I was in
Delhi Zomato and Swiggy have much to thank India's small towns forQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaOnline food delivery in India is pretty much a duopoly. Zomato and Swiggy together fulfil over three-quarters of all orders. Between the two, Zomato has a slight edge. Its app is installed on 12% of all
China Families of fallen Chinese oligarchs are taking to TwitterQuartz - Jane LiPetitioning is an ancient practice in China where ordinary citizens who believe they cannot get justice through the legal system travel to the capital in the hopes of appealing directly to the emperor
Protest Hong Kong protesters crowdfund legal and medical feesQuartz - Mary HuiAs Hong Kong enters its seventh week of protests, all signs are pointing to a long summer of demonstrations ahead. They’ll be sustained not only by the protesters’ unflagging energy, but also by the large
Beyoncé Beyonce's Lion King Album is filled with Afrobeats, Wizkid, TiwaQuartz - Haleluya HaderoBeyonce just might be the necessary ingredient to rocket Afrobeats into the mainstream US music scene. This week, Disney is set to release The Lion King soundtrack, produced by Beyonce and packed with
