When did we start wearing mountain gear to the grocery store? That’s one of the driving questions in “Gear,” a new seven-part miniseries from the podcast Articles of Interest that gets to the origins of gorpcore by tracing the long-held relationship between the US military and the outdoor apparel industry. Articles host Avery Trufelman, who’s…
Big week for OpenAI! The company is running basically every tech industry playbook, all at the same time, and it actually seems to be working. The company is adding apps to ChatGPT, in an effort to turn the chatbot into something more like an operating system. It’s offering developers new tools to add ChatGPT into…
Lauren Goode: What’s an example of that? Louise Matsakis: So, for example, there were some Chinese influencers who were spreading these conspiracy theories that Indians were plotting to use the visa to immigrate to China en masse. Lauren Goode: Interesting. You’ve both covered China’s businesses and workforce for years. Was this backlash surprising to you?…
Ari Emanuel … podcast host? After years of representing the best and brightest from the worlds of entertainment, sports, music and culture, the WME Group executive chairman and TKO Group CEO is becoming talent himself, launching a new video podcast called Rushmore. The show, which debuts Tuesday Sep. 30, will see Emanuel and co-host Ben…
Tune Into The Zest to Hear More Flavia Lanini is an internationally renowned beautician with 20 years of experience who honed her craft in Brazil. She is the creator of the EFFECT Massage—a specialized lymphatic drainage technique that’s earned her a devoted celebrity clientele, including Selena Gomez, Kris and Kendall Jenner, Sabrina Carpenter, Hailey Bieber,…
By Meissa Gueye and Daniel Silva, AFP Photo: AFP / Jaap Arriens The United States and China have announced a “framework” deal to resolve their dispute over TikTok that calls for the Chinese-owned app to pass to US-controlled ownership. In a social media post, US President Donald Trump said — without directly naming the social…
Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe has broken up with her boyfriend of two years, Arthur Donald, and is already moving on with a new man. The Phia founder raved about her new flame, saying he’s not on social media on Thursday’s episode of her and Sophia Kianni’s “The Burnouts” podcast. “It’s amazing. It’s the best thing…
America has a hard time building stuff. Roads. Trains. Light rail. Bridges. Housing. Everything takes seemingly forever, if it even happens at all. Meanwhile, there’s China. A country that builds much faster — high-speed trains, solar panels, electric cars, bridges, ports, drones — all churned out at breakneck speed. Why can China do this, and…
The billionaire owners of Space X and Blue Origin have competing visions of a space-based future. Elon Musk wants a self-sustaining settlement on Mars as a backup for humanity in case the Earth gets destroyed. Jeff Bezos wants us to move heavy industry and all polluting industries to space to save Earth’s climate, and envisions…
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday made a rare visit to Tibet, stressing Beijing’s determination to strengthen its control over the region as it marked 60 years of being declared a Chinese autonomous region. Xi Jinping highlights political importance of his visit. While addressing a gathering of 20,000 people in Lhasa, Xi Jinping underlined the…