Posts by Grazia British
Think you can trust Google reviews in Germany? Think again
On a recent vacation in Berlin, Emma Watkins, a marketing assistant working in the U.K., wrote a three-star review of a bar she visited. “It was fine, but not amazing, and not what I expected from the high ranking review—it was four-point-something,” she recalls. Upon returning home, she noticed her middling review of the establishment…
Read MoreThe three Cs of good decisions
The quality of our decisions defines our legacy as leaders. We make around 35,000 decisions a day and close to 800,000,000 in a lifetime. Not all decisions are equal. Many are default, some are reversible, but the consequential ones leave us with no U-turn. Decision-making is inescapable. So, let’s delve deeper into the anatomy of…
Read MoreHelen, Help Me: How Do I Get Beyond Tripadvisor?
Our food critic advises a reader on where to find out-of-town restaurant recommendations, and answers another about a salad-dressing shortcut. Source link
Read MoreIkea just made a mini bed for your phone
It’s a well-known fact that phone time before bed makes it harder to sleep. Studies show that a nighttime scroll keeps your brain active, delays REM sleep, and may even disrupt your circadian rhythm. Now, Ikea has created an unusual solution to this damaging habit: designing a dedicated bed for your phone. The Ikea Phone…
Read MoreRemote work is shaped by geopolitics, not technology
Once upon a time, the big idea was simple—work from anywhere! Thanks to technological advances, you didn’t need to be tethered to your office desk to collaborate with coworkers (or swap memes with them). As long as you had your laptop and good Wi-Fi you could be by the pool on a tropical island, drink…
Read MoreMay the First Amendment be with you: Protester sues after ‘Imperial March’ performance sparks arrest
Protests against President Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into American cities have no shortage of whimsy, but the empire struck back against one demonstrator. A lawsuit filed on October 23 accuses police officers and a National Guard member of violating a protester’s constitutional right to play the “Imperial March” theme from Star Wars. …
Read MoreThis week in business: Markets, machines, and mosquitoes
This week, tech companies were either melting down in real time or promising a future where computers are smarter than we are. Investors panicked, calmed down, panicked again, and then bought T-shirts for sea otters. We saw a giant internet outage that reminded everyone just how dependent the modern world is on one company. We…
Read MoreWhat Hollywood Is Missing About A.I.
In 2025, A.I. seems to pop up on TV nearly as often as it does in real life. On the hospital-mockumentary sitcom “St. Denis Medical,” a curmudgeonly physician resents the unerring faith that a patient has in his A.I. diagnostic tool. In the high-school-set comedy “English Teacher,” an idealistic educator campaigns for “smart” trash cans,…
Read MoreThe number of major housing markets with falling home prices drops from 110 to 105 metros
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. National home prices rose 0.01% year over year from September 2024 to September 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index reading published on October 16—decelerated from the 2.4% year-over-year rate from September 2023 to September 2024. This…
Read MorePhotographing How Texas Shapes Its Youth
Eli Durst’s images of activities that instruct and influence children—R.O.T.C., school plays, cheer practice—resist conformity. Source link
Read MoreIt’s getting harder to take OpenAI seriously
Like many ambitious tech companies before it, OpenAI introduced itself to the culture at large with big claims about how its technology would improve the world—from boosting productivity to enabling scientific discovery. Even the caveats and warnings were de facto advertisements for the existential potential of artificial intelligence: We had to be careful with this…
Read MoreThis money-saving emporium is like Facebook Marketplace for gift cards
You don’t have to be an avid reader of restaurant industry trade publications—though I can attest that they are oddly fascinating—to realize that everything’s getting more expensive. The good news is that there’s an easy way to counteract those rising menu prices. By purchasing discounted gift cards, you can defray the cost of fast-food, fast-casual,…
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