Who died and left the US $7 billion?
“It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man.” ~ learn more
“It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man.” ~ learn more
“It's exciting stuff. The reason the team has been pursuing this very specific kind of decay channel so relentlessly for more than a decade is because it's what is known as a "golden" channel, meaning not only is it incredibly rare, but also well predicted by the complex mathematics making up the Standard Model of physics.” ~ learn more
This is an interesting turn. “McDonald’s has sued JBS, Tyson Foods and other leading meat processing and packing companies for allegedly conspiring for years to limit beef supplies, boosting their profits while causing the fast food giant to pay artificially higher prices.” ~ learn more
“A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body.” ~ learn more
Eaze was an early mover in the market, facilitating deliveries from licensed dispensaries. It was always odd to me how they were able to do all this with credit cards. Once upon a time I looked into it to discover a web of Cypress-based “fresh cut flower” delivery apps that implied a cat and mouse game with the credit card industry. ~ learn more
This might be the most interesting interview I’ve listened to of a communications professional. My sample size is not large. Yet, I really enjoyed that she was far from conventional. ~ learn more
The story of a business dinner gone wrong and a lesson learned. ~ learn more
One that I found particularly interesting was scam detection for individuals and businesses. ““At 2048 Ventures, we are obsessed with imagining the future and predicting how the world will change in 5-10 years, enabled by nascent infrastructure and data-based technologies.” ~ learn more
The test was a computerized business strategy game that researchers invented. It outperformed by taking on risk. “Both GPT-4o and executives succumbed to the same flaw — overconfidence in a system that rewards flexibility and long-term thinking as much as aggressive ambition.” ~ learn more
“It’s easy to forget how long it takes for new tech to gain widespread adoption. Consider the personal computer. The first PCs hit the market in the mid-1970s, but they didn’t become household staples until the late 1990s. In 1984, a mere 8% of U.S. households had a computer. By 2000, that number had grown to 51%. Today? It’s 95%.” ~ learn more