2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS
The International Space StationMSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her novel Orbital, has created a new genre: nature writing about space.…
Joshua Kushner: Why I bet $1.3 billion on OpenAI
Joshua Kushner was just 26 years old when he founded Thrive Capital in 2011. Since then, his firm has backed some of the most notable startups of the past decade,…
AARP’s new CEO vows to protect Social Security and Medicare, and ensure older adults age ‘on their own terms’
It’s a salient time for the AARP, the non-profit that has been advocating for the over 110 million American adults aged 50 and over, and championing policies and resources to…
Tom Brady’s key to success: ‘To me, failure is amazing’
Despite being the winningest player in NFL history, Tom Brady is no stranger to failure. Closing out the Fortune Global Forum in New York Tuesday, Tom Brady spoke opposite Fortune…
‘A masterclass in climate destruction’: UN chief urges action at COP29 – National
The head of the United Nations is urging faster action by world leaders after 2024 saw what he called a “masterclass in climate destruction,” adding limiting global warming was still…
RTO mandates aren’t for everyone. Here’s what we did instead—and it’s working: Synchrony CEO
In 2021, while the business world was largely working from home, I told my company’s employees that we were never going back to the old way of working. Everyone would…
Nothing OS 3.0 second beta arrives for Nothing Phone (2) and (2a)
It looks like Nothing is sticking to its plan and is now seeding the second beta of Nothing OS 3.0 based on Android 15 to the Nothing Phone (2) and…
Is Warren Buffett stockpiling cash out of fear—or just patience?
One of the famous pieces of investment advice is “be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.” It’s fitting this advice comes from the world’s…
Real estate CEO steps down weeks after short report
Sun Communities chief executive and chairman of the board Gary Shiffman is stepping down after helping to establish the predecessor to the publicly traded real estate investment trust in 1975…
Water-spraying tower is a mobile forest-fire-fighting sprinkler system
When a raging forest fire is approaching a community, a good rainfall greatly reduces the chances of the flames actually reaching the buildings. But if rain isn't in the forecast…
