Quartz
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/21
The Covid-19 pandemic has finally taught India’s over $200 billion information technology (IT) industry a lesson it should have learned many...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/20
Streaming has given consumers more choice about what to watch than ever before. It’s also led to a lot of confusion about how and where the...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/20
2020 was a mess for movie theaters. The pandemic led to a massive decline in global ticket sales due to government-mandated theater closur...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/20
India’s calendar of film premieres is usually packed. The country is one of the most prolific movie producers in the world, releasing nearly...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/20
On Christmas Day, the biggest Hollywood movie of the year will debut online. In the US, Wonder Woman 1984—the sequel to the 2017 superhero b...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/20
Jason Czapla is walking across a former lake bed in the middle of southern California. The ground simmers at our feet as little mud volcanoe...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/19
About 25 miles south of Miami, there’s a nuclear power plant perched on a low-lying ridge tucked between the swamp and the sea. Its two reac...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/19
You trust science. You trust scientists. You believe that Covid-19 vaccine candidates, like other vaccines, have been properly tested, and t...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/19
Uber announced this week that it is committing 10 million free or discounted rides to help “vulnerable communities” around the world get acc...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
A coalition of groups calling for an end to the repression of Uyghurs in China is demanding a number of prominent companies come clean about...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
Singapore is signaling to the world that it’s ready to get back to business, even if it means having to get creative with safe pandemic work...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
Gloria Torres-Herbeck gets the flu vaccine every year, but the 53-year-old teacher in Rochester, Minnesota, isn’t yet convinced she wants to...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
I recently chose to step down as CEO of the technology company I co-founded seven years ago. It wasn’t an easy decision; ongoing struggles w...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
Reflecting on Wikipedia’s most-read pages is like holding up an encyclopedic mirror to 2020. English speakers read about those that died, ab...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
Being pregnant during a global pandemic is complex enough. Doctor’s visits, shopping for baby stuff, birthing plans—it’s all made more compl...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
The Indian government has banned 267 Chinese apps, including the wildly popular TikTok and PUBG, fearing a threat to national security. But...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
During the police brutality protests in Nigeria in October, bitcoin saved the day when the government shut out protesters from using local p...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
Despite a historic economic recession, a host of companies made dazzling debuts on the Indian stock exchanges this year.In 2020 so far, comp...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
India’s coronavirus lockdowns have only fortified the glass ceiling for the country’s female workforce.Female labour participation rate in I...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
As the first Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is rolled out across the US and Europe, excitement has been somewhat dampened by a small numbe...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/18
A little shop in San Francisco is now offering what it says is the highest-resolution space radar imagery on the market.Capella Space releas...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/17
A couple of years ago, Tim De Chant wanted a deep freezer, so he could more easily manage grocery shopping and meal prep for a growing fam...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/17
On this day, 10 years ago, a fruit and vegetable vendor in Tunisia stood in front of a municipal building shortly after local authorities co...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/17
It’s not an ideal period for many watchmakers, given the ubiquity of digital devices such as smartphones, smart watches, and fitness tracker...
- Quartz ( Middle East ) 2020/12/17
To stem the economic fallout from Covid-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented $9 trillion into their economies.The Internat...