Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead and his body is in U.S. possession, according to administration officials. The White House has announced that President Barack Obama will address the American people on a national security issue in the next few minutes, presumably to announce bin Laden’s death, which has been all overTwitterandFacebook. Update: The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda....
It’s official. Hot on the heels of its$100 million funding round,Spotify,Europe’s most popular music service,has just announcedit’s coming to the U.S. As we suspected, the new money will likely be used for Spotify’s much anticipated U.S. launch. At the time of its funding, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek was in the midst of U.S. licensing deals with three of the four big music labels, and is in advanced talks with holdoutWarner Music Group....
If there’s been one thing that has held many of us back from being perfectly happy to live in the cloud it is the fact that sometimes you just don’t have an Internet connection so your cloud becomes all but useless. Google is no stranger to this fact and has apparently been hard at work to make the transition a bit easier. Today, Google is announcing anew Chrome Web appthat will allow you to use Gmail offline....
Yesterday, Nintendo announced a new Switch,the OLED model. There’s a problem though: this isn’t the Pro version of the console thatmany people were after. This puts lots of us in the strange situation of being unsure whether to be excited or not. Is the OLED model worth it? Just how different is it to the original Nintendo Switch? Luckily for you, we’re here to solve those questions… with math. And graphs....
Today atThe Inspire Conferencein London,Rory Sutherland, the Executive Creative Director and Vice-Chairman of OgilvyOne London and Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy Group UK took the stage to discuss “The Overdue Science,” which he describes as the long-overdue ascendancy and utmost importance of behavioral economics. “How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn’t behavioral, what the hell is… -Charlie Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway In a cranberry suit and khakis this afternoon in June, the self-described “classicist” took the stage to declare that behavioral economics must replace market research and pure logic when it comes to understanding and predicting human decision making....
