Bill Gates’ youngest daughter Phoebe is shaping up to be a mogul in her own right. The 22-year-old Stanford grad launched a new podcast on Tuesday, on which she teased the launch of her forthcoming “sustainable” shopping website, Phia. The podcast, titled The Burnouts, is hosted by Phoebe and her business partner, Sophia Kianni. During…
Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where algorithmic-driven content is prioritized and podcasts are kept behind paywalls. Podcasts were built on open technology — the open, decentralized standard RSS, which…
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images It’s no secret that Kara Swisher has been trying to figure out how to take the Washington Post off Jeff Bezos’s hands, even though it’s not for sale and the billionaire seems unlikely to part with it any time soon. In the latest episode of On With Kara Swisher, she…
International relations professor Anne-Marie Brady. Photo: RNZ / Jane Patterson An international relations professor is warning China’s activity in the Tasman Sea shows it wants to establish a permanent military presence in the Pacific, and New Zealand must prepare for that. Canterbury University’s Anne-Marie Brady said it served as a serious threat, and New Zealand…
Lauren Goode: I also think if there is a bright spot, it’s probably going to be some of the apps that are very specific for people that help people winnow down what they’re looking for and find someone who is aligned with what they want, whether that’s someone who shares super niche interests or cultural…
Support.Google.com, Apple.com Location sharing helps you worry less. Whether your friend’s late for dinner, your kid’s almost home or your partner’s on the way from the airport, it sure beats sending a bunch of texts back and forth. The bad news is more and more location-sharing apps have been caught selling your data to third…
When drugmakers pulled the weight-loss drug fen-phen off the market in 1997, my mom was devastated. Not because the FDA warned that the drug could severely damage her heart or even possibly kill her, but because she’d been trying to lose weight since she was aware of having a body, and the only thing that…
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The Mediterranean diet advocates eating fresh vegetables, olive oil, nuts and seeds and fish, and frequently comes up top in healthy diet recommendations. Photo: Unsplash/ Yoav Aziz The award-winning Mediterranean diet has done it again, capturing 2025’s “best of the best” award from US News & World Report, which puts out…
Speaking to Francesca Rudkin and Louise Ayrey on their NZ Herald podcast, The Little Things, naturopath Erin O’Hara said that this is a good time of year to think about your healthy habits and gear yourself up for summer, but knowing where to start and how to get back into these habits can be difficult….
Steve Bannon got out of prison exactly a week before Election Day. He was released before dawn and immediately headed to a remote studio to tape War Room, his podcast and streaming show, so as to waste no time getting back to his audience, the MAGA faithful. He had been in prison for almost four…