This new Mercedes might look like a frog, but it drives like a sports car
BY NICK JAYNES From Mashable For those who want the performance and handling characteristics of a mid-size coupe with the body of a crossover (mostly), Mercedes has a sporty new vehicle for you: the 2017 GLC43 Coupe. Think of it…
How to name a hurricane—first tip: Use ‘short, distinctive’ names
By Nicholas Wells | Mark Fahey From CNBC Hurricane Hermine was downgraded to a tropical storm Friday morning after making landfall in Florida. Yet if another should form, next on the list would be Hurricane Ian and in the…
Here’s what it’ll be like to eat at restaurants of the future
By Chris Weller From Business Insider It must have seemed like a revolutionary idea to diners of the 1920s — people on roller skates delivering food straight to their driver’s side window. Suddenly, the food that families were used to…
Pros and cons of Caribbean medical schools
By Edward Chang From Prospective Doctor It is difficult to gain admissions to a U.S. medical school. In 2012, only 19,517 out of 45,266 applicants were accepted to a single medical school. That means 57% of applicants were not accepted…
Bitcoin has a lot of positives and negatives
By Jim Rickards, The Daily Reckoning From Business Insider At various times in history, feathers have been money, shells have been money, dollars and euros are money. Gold and silver are certainly money. Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies can also be money….
Employees at the world’s biggest hedge fund spend a couple hours every week studying each other’s meetings
By Richard Feloni From Business Insider Every week, employees at the world’s largest hedge fund spend at least an hour with “management principles training” lessons (MPTs), where they analyze recordings of meetings and answer questions about what they observed. Bridgewater Associates…
Dropbox didn’t tell anyone about a giant hack for four years
By Chris Smith From BGR We get it, companies get hacked all the time. And they’re not too eager to share details about data breaches, but they ultimately have to release details about it so that affected users can protect…
A spacecraft got smacked by a bit of space debris, but it’s fine
BY MIRIAM KRAMER From Mashable An Earth-gazing satellite keeping an eye on our planet from above appears to have been whacked by a little piece of natural or human-made space debris. Engineers working with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus…
BM’s Watson sorted through over 100 film clips to create an algorithmically perfect movie trailer
By Clinton Nguyen Movie trailers are often a bit formulaic. In fact, since many of them are edited so predictably, it seems even a computer can put one together. For the film “Morgan,” which is due out in theaters on September…
SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral ahead of launch
From BBC A rocket operated by the aerospace company SpaceX has exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral where it was being test-fired ahead of a launch. The force of the blast shook buildings several miles away and sent…
