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Emirates is bringing one of business travelers’ favorite features to its premium economy cabins
For years, privacy on planes was reserved for the wealthiest travelers. Now that’s changing. Emirates unveiled a new premium-economy seat on Thursday, with a unique privacy screen. As well as being more private, the new seat is easier to recline and raise the legrest with electric controls. Plus…
I was Blank Street’s first employee. I almost said no to the drink that changed the company.
Jai Lott, 41, began working in the coffee industry as a teenager in Australia before moving to the US and joining the coffee chain Bluestone Lane. He later became Blank Street’s first employee. After recently leaving Blank Street to move back to Australia, Lott reflected on some of the things he…
I’m a senior principal engineer. I use AI at work, but some tasks you should do from scratch — here’s how I decide.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brandon Pedersen, a 41-year-old senior principal engineer at GoTo, based in the Salt Lake City area. The following has been edited for length and clarity. As a senior principal engineer at GoTo, where I started working in 2013, I’m the technical…
I own a baklava bakery in San Francisco. Life as a small business owner in a city flush with AI money has been hard.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tolgay Karabulut, the 43-year-old founder of BaklavaStory, a baklava bakery in San Francisco. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’ve been running a baklava bakery, the thing I’m most passionate about, for the last five years. But the…
The Taiwan Test
Caught between two superpowers, Taiwan stands to be the world’s most dangerous flash point. The island democracy of 23.2 million people knows its precarious position. For the last four decades, the global semiconductor hub has conducted annual military drills focused on staving off a cross-strait…
Paul Graham says launching a startup is the ‘least efficient’ way to look cool
There are easier ways to impress people than spending years trying to keep a company alive, says Paul Graham. “If you want to seem cool, like starting a startup is just about the least efficient way to do it,” Graham, the cofounder of Y Combinator, said in an interview with the accelerator that was…
Tesla launches steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi in Austin
Tesla added its two-door, steering-wheel-free Cybercab to its robotaxi network on Thursday, offering its first rides to the public in Austin as the company races to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service. At an invite-only event in downtown Austin, Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s VP of AI, announced…
17 ‘Harry Potter’ stars, ranked from least to most successful
Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, has become quite the actor since leaving Hogwarts. He’s shied away from big-budget films, instead focusing on bonkers films such as “Guns Akimbo,” “Swiss Army Man,” and the interactive finale of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” He also appeared in the magical…
Xbox is putting monthly time limits on cloud gaming
Don’t forget to watch the clock while you play! Beginning in November, Microsoft’s Xbox will put monthly cloud-gaming limits on its Game Pass plans, the company announced in a blog post. Right now, eligible subscribers can stream games without a monthly hour limit. “We recognize that introducing…
Burning Man showed Sam Altman what the future could be. Here are the famous CEOs and billionaires who have attended.
Sam Altman hasn’t always been a fan of Burning Man. There was a time when the OpenAI CEO wanted nothing to do with whatever went down in Black Rock City. “That is a ridiculous, escapism, crazy party,” Altman said about his previous views on Burning Man on the “Life in Seven Songs” podcast in 2024.