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“The Atlantic Ocean was known as Ethiopian Ocean until the 19th century,” reads text on a graphic posted on Instagram last month.It includes...

Hi Quartz Africa readers,Covid-19 is a global disease. That means, as the Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen recently wrote, that India’s cris...

Covid-19 is a global disease. That means, as the Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen recently pointed out, that India’s crisis is the world’s c...

India’s Covid-19 situation is so dire that the rich are fleeing the country. And among them is vaccine czar Adar Poonawalla.Ponawalla, the C...

With markers and a sheet of paper in hand, I call my special-needs son on the iPad and settle in for an hour of chatting and drawing. Framed...

The workplace and modes of working have come into the spotlight amid Covid-19 lockdowns that have enforced remote working as the new norm fo...

Good morning Quartz readers!Just as we thought we might see the end of Covid-19, the virus has reared its ugliest head in India.The carnage...

Amazon wants everybody to know that its streaming service is absolutely crushing it.For the first time, Amazon provided some hard data on ho...

Internet users have been racking up privacy wins thanks to seismic changes in the digital ad industry. This week, Apple rolled out an update...

On his first day as US president, Joe Biden hit the ground running. He issued more executive actions than his three immediate predecessors—T...

In an upbeat earnings report today (April 30), Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca reported $275 million in revenue from its Covid-19 vaccin...

The enormity of the Covid-19 crisis in India may be impossible to fully comprehend from afar, but images of mass cremations and grief-strick...

Derrick Rossi doesn’t quite see it this way, but he kind of saved the world.In 2008, he began researching messenger RNA (mRNA), building o...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowAmazon added to blockbuster earnings at tech giants. The company said quarterly net...

In some eyes, many NFT transactions can be classified as absurdist propositions. Trading cryptocurrency for a catalog of weird digital asset...

During his four years in office, former US president Donald Trump cut off almost all international financing for global climate efforts. On...

The official Covid-19 treatment protocol in India continues to encourage the use of treatments that many scientists across the world have wr...

$957 billion. That has just been confirmed by the UN as the average amount that low- and lower-middle-income countries invest annually in ag...

If trends in other countries are anything to go by, India’s Covid-19 nightmare might continue for more than a month.The second wave of coron...

As India’s Covid-19 crisis becomes insurmountable, the Narendra Modi government has been widely criticised for trying to filter what the wor...

On Thursday, US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said gig workers should be classified as employees, not independent contractors, a move that...

Netflix is aiming for a 20-fold increase in subscribers in India, but it’s journey in the nation has been bumpy. And now it’s getting a lot...

Amazon hasn’t historically had the same success overseas that it’s enjoyed in the US. But now growth in the e-commerce company’s internation...

The disposable income of Americans rose by 67%, compounded annually, during the first quarter of 2021—the largest such jump ever recorded. B...

By now, the world has noticed the disaster in India. More than 300,000 new daily infections (that we know of); a lack of hospital beds, vacc...