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Buhari’s latest gaffe is criticizing millions of jobless Nigerians during a UK business summit
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Quartz - When presidents attend global business forums, they typically focus on saying the kinds of things to attract investor interest and dollars.
4 hours ago
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Qualcomm is getting hit from both sides in the US-China spat
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Quartz - The US and China’s tit-for-tat jabs in trade and tariffs are moving in tandem with each country’s anxieties over dominance in the global tech industry.…
5 hours ago
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African cities are battling escalating noise pollution'but religion stands in the way
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Quartz - The pollution problem in many African cities goes beyond just the air quality.
5 hours ago
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A lyrical French novel shows that the pain of exile is akin to bereavement
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Quartz - In a scene from the 1962 film James Bond film Dr. No, Sean Connery sits and pretends to drive an unmoving car.
6 hours ago
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Two Indian Pulitzer-winners reveal what it’s like to photograph the Rohingya crisis
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Quartz - A sun-burnt woman sinks to her knees on the shore, fatigued and forlorn.
6 hours ago
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The harsh reality of life for India’s 5 million sanitation workers
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Quartz - The last decade has seen a massive push for improved sanitation in urban and rural India, and progress has been substantial with several hundred million…
6 hours ago
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Scientists have figured out how to listen to the earth and unlock Africa’s hidden riches
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Quartz - Africa was once at the centre of the world - literally.
7 hours ago
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India 's supreme court won't allow an investigation into a judge 's mysterious death
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Quartz - India’s supreme court today (April 19) decided there will be no further probe into the death of Brijgopal Harkishen Loya. A judge presiding over a…
7 hours ago
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Indian IT industry must risk more to stay relevant, says Nasscom’s Rishad Premji
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Quartz - At a time when India’s $150 billion IT sector is in the throes of a massive transformation, the sector’s industry body Nasscom has brought in…
7 hours ago
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This AI expert found it'both exciting and scary' that Xi Jinping reads his book
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Quartz - Xi Jinping's bookshelf includes not only classics on communism but also works on artificial intelligence, as TV viewers spotted during his new year's speech this…
8 hours ago
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If you want privacy, you’re going to have to fight for it
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Quartz - This is episode two of the series 'The ID Question,' from How We Get To Next. Read episode one, on India’s Aadhaar, the world's largest,…
8 hours ago
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India’s central bank refuses to go easy as bad loans keep piling
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Quartz - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has had enough.
8 hours ago
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One of the world’s most successful actors believes in crying long and hard over his failures
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Quartz - To many, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is the face of success.
8 hours ago
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Startup and innovation hub leaders are going to shape digital policy for the African Union
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Quartz - Leaders in several African tech ecosystems are living by the words of Charles-Guillaume tienne, the 19th century French playwright: “If you want something done right,…
9 hours ago
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Traffic jams in just four Indian metros cost $22 billion a year
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Quartz - India’s biggest cities may be losing up to $22 billion annually to traffic congestion, and its commuters are bearing the burden.
9 hours ago
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Traffic jams in just four Indian cities cost $22 billion a year
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Quartz - India’s biggest cities may be losing up to $22 billion annually to traffic congestion, and its commuters are bearing the burden.
9 hours ago
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What senators want to know before Tammy Duckworth can bring her baby to work
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Quartz - The US Senate is expected to pass a new rule this week allowing lawmakers to bring babies onto the Senate floor for the first time.…
14 hours ago
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More people have Amazon Prime than live in Germany
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Quartz - Amazon Prime now has more than 100 million members, CEO Jeff Bezos said April 18 in his annual letter to shareholders.
15 hours ago
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The US military will award $10 million to the company that can launch satellites on short notice
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Quartz - US military leaders are bullish about small satellites as tools to spy on adversaries and provide secure communications, but there’s just one problem: There isn’t…
16 hours ago
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Russia internet ban blocks Telegram and millions of websites
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Quartz - In an attempt to restrict political opposition, Russia’s ban against messaging app Telegram cut off 9.5 million of the app’s users and millions of websites.
16 hours ago
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What will Cuba 's revolution look like without a Castro in charge?
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Quartz - Cuba is about to get a new president.
16 hours ago
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We knew what Fox News was long before this Sean Hannity debacle
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Quartz - After Fox News personality Sean Hannity was named as a client of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer'whom he had strenuously defended on air without disclosing the…
18 hours ago
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Global debt reached dangerous highs at $164 trillion
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Quartz - The International Monetary Fund warns that global debt'recently hitting a whopping $164 trillion'has reached its highest (and most worrying) level since the 2008 financial crisis.
18 hours ago
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Tesla plans to produce 6,000 Model 3s per week in June
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Quartz - Tesla Motors plans to produce 6,000 Model 3s per week once its factories finish automation upgrades. But CEO Elon Musk also wants some human adjustments.
18 hours ago
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Watch this:'Aggretsuko' the cute red panda rages against the drudgery of office life
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Quartz - Watch This is a Quartzy recommendation series that spotlights unusual or surprising television shows and films to check out. You'll find all the entries here.…
20 hours ago
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Ten years after the financial crisis, these big banks are doing much better than before
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Quartz - No big bank will remember 2008 fondly.
20 hours ago
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Going to the gym will be even more important once we colonize Mars
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Quartz - One day, long after the Earth has fried and the last remaining super-rich humans are floating in low-gravity spaceships or living on Mars, an astronaut…
20 hours ago
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“I don’t get confused”: How Nikki Haley’s feminist clapback could cost her a job
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Quartz - Nikki Haley was just doing her job.
20 hours ago
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A new startup is disrupting the piggy bank with a cryptocurrency wallet for kids
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Quartz - One of my children currently gets 1.50 a week in pocket money; the other, 2.50 (about $2.00 and $3.50).
21 hours ago
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Elon Musk 's advice for when you're dragged into useless meetings
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Quartz - Elon Musk 's advice for when you're dragged into useless meetings
21 hours ago
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Artificial intelligence can scour code to find accidentally public passwords
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Quartz - Sometimes sensitive data, like passwords or keys that unlock encrypted communications, are accidentally left open for anybody to see.
21 hours ago
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Marissa Mayer is renting the original Google office where she started her career in 1999
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Quartz - Marissa Mayer is starting the next phase of her career exactly where she began nearly 20 years ago.
22 hours ago
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The EU is forcing Facebook to change, but users everywhere will be affected
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Quartz - On May 25, a set of regulations will go into effect across the European Union that will change how businesses handle the online data of…
22 hours ago
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Foreign leaders meeting Donald Trump: Beware the Mar-a-Lago surprise
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Quartz - Donald Trump’s very first meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last year at the US president’s private Florida club was a highly anticipated event'Trump had…
22 hours ago
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The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
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Quartz - Last year, a company that was interested in hiring me as a software developer asked me to build a food delivery application for a fictional…
22 hours ago
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KPMG 's strategy to regain South Africa 's trust failed before it even got started
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Quartz - KPMG's expanded campus overlooking one of Johannesburg's main highways used to be a sign of the firms confidence in the South African economy.
23 hours ago
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A tragic episode in James Comey’s book shows the ingrained sexism of maternity care
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Quartz - There aren’t many women in James Comey’s book'and there are only two he explicitly describes as leadership models.
23 hours ago
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China wants to wean itself off foreign technology. Now it will see how hard that will be
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Quartz - Even before Donald Trump got into the White House and raised the prospect of a trade war with China, Beijing was aiming to reduce its…
23 hours ago
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