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First there was Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Then there was Johnny Carson. Then came Larry King, David Letterman, and Oprah. Now, joining the...

Twitch is the undisputed king of the video game streaming world. Some of the biggest names in big tech—Microsoft, Google, Facebook—have come...

In some ways, a video game live streamer seems like the easiest kind of celebrity to become. What could be more fun, and less taxing, than g...

Freeloaders everywhere were put on high alert last week after reports that Netflix had begun testing a way to prevent password sharing. Whil...

When the Ever Given, a 400-foot container ship, ran aground in the Suez Canal on Mar. 23, it choked off a busy shipping lane for the global...

Hi Quartz Africa readers!The African health tech sector is booming, thanks in part to the pandemic.The number of health tech startups funded...

In the Oscar-shortlisted Night of the Kings, a young man (Koné Bakary) is sent to La MACA, an Ivorian prison in the middle of a forest that’...

It’s been two weeks since Christie’s historic $69.3 million auction for crypto art ignited light bulbs around the world. Digital content cre...

From 2005 to 2020, Lionel Barber served as editor in chief of the Financial Times, the London-based broadsheet read by investors, executives...

For nearly a century, McKinsey has been the gold standard in management consulting, the nebulous and occasionally controversial billion-doll...

Good morning Quartz readers!The pandemic that locked the US up for a year—causing 550,000 deaths, and the near-complete interruption of life...

Right now, the Ever Given—a container ship about 1,300 feet long, which is longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall—is lodged sideways in Egypt...

Even if bitcoin loses favor with the celebrity backers helping to boost its value, there are legions of lesser-known diehards standing by it...

President Joe Biden’s promise to make college free is well-reasoned. A strong welfare system that includes free tuition can alleviate income...

The images are already iconic; an excavator and bulldozer claw at the muddy bank of the Suez Canal, dwarfed by the gigantic hull of a contai...

Sometimes it feels like Facebook is caught in a loop. The social media giant is again under fire for acquiring a competitor, except this tim...

If you live in the northwest US, you might have seen quite a show in the night sky on March 26.https://twitter.com/vincelavecchia/status/137...

China has imposed retaliatory sanctions on a handful of UK politicians and researchers, as well as think tanks, advocacy groups, and a law f...

Recently released filings in Nigeria and Kenya show assets under management for banks, insurers, and pension funds have grown 17% in the pas...

In February, a gif of a cat with a Pop-Tart body sold for $600,000. On March 1, musical artist Grimes sold several videos for $6 million. An...

When Jesse Collins applied to work as a quality assurance tester at JPMorgan Chase in 2018, he felt a lot of the same things many of us feel...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe Suez canal could take weeks to clear. The Ever Given container ship is still bl...

It’s easy to spot the growing wealth of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and other entrepreneurs who made their fortunes with publicly traded companie...

A year after it set up operations in India, San Francisco-based open-source coding behemoth GitHub is all set to take its relationship with...

Every year, the sun sends radiation toward Earth equivalent to more than 7,000 times humans’ annual energy consumption. Much of it is reflec...