The Brutalist Report

Quartz

• 6 reasons sunsets look different depending on where you are [44d]
• The best cleaning tools for bottles, according to Consumer Reports [44d]
• 8 signs your dog is overheating — and what to do immediately [44d]
• 20 ways the human immune system works that most people never learn [44d]
• Starbucks is rolling out its 2026 fall menu on Aug. 25 — PSL is back, apple crisp is out [44d]
• The best detangling brushes, ranked by Consumer Reports [44d]
• The rise of the Computational Class [44d]
• 10 things that will get even weirder in the next US presidential campaign [44d]
• Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school? [44d]
• Year-end lists are hazardous to your health [44d]
• Disrupt this: The most misused word in 2012 [44d]
• OK Glass? Google gives an augmented peek at a transparent future [44d]
• Samsung ad fail: IT security is hardly chill, bro [44d]
• Gesture control: Why 2013 is the year when we stop clicking and start waving [44d]
• BMW is turning itself into Zipcar—by selling mobility instead of cars [44d]
• From Ray Kurzweil to Kanye West, everyone’s a futurist now [44d]
• Austerity-stricken Brits drown their sorrows in American candy [44d]
• Bitcoin is just the poster currency for a growing movement of alternative tender [44d]
• Make way for the human flesh search engines [44d]
• Five reasons why Americans will never understand the point of Eurovision [44d]
• Robotic farm workers won’t improve food prices or labor costs [44d]
• The sharing economy isn’t sharing its wealth with you [44d]
• Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: human tissue and organs [44d]
• The fun and games are over. Even the internet’s got to make a living [44d]
• There’s nothing new about Silicon Valley’s food hacking [44d]
• Why Taco Bell is beefing up its protein offerings [44d]
• Who needs the NSA? Your dishwasher is already watching every move you make [44d]
• Smart charging stations for electronic cars are extremely vulnerable to hacking [44d]
• Step aside Google, here come the real bionic glasses [44d]
• Competitive video gamers can now get visas to “work” in the US [44d]
• Pepsi is launching soda-scented body wash and scrub in a beauty collaboration [44d]
• The best back-to-school planners, according to Consumer Reports [44d]
• 7-Eleven is launching its own line of sodas to compete with Coke and Pepsi [44d]
• Spain’s tourist boom won’t help its tax revenues thanks to Airbnb [44d]
• Be careful, your computer might be lying to you [44d]
• Americans don’t want to live to be 120—even if they could [44d]
• Hippies and libertarians have become unlikely allies in a war against solar power [44d]
• You can now visit 85,000 square miles of the UK in Minecraft [44d]
• It’s stronger than steel and paper thin, but graphene isn’t living up to its promise [44d]
• India’s upcoming mission to Mars is a chance to best Russia and China [44d]
• Galanz is recalling 120,000 retro refrigerators after electrical fires killed one person [44d]
• Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon [44d]
• Soon your text messages could smell like curry [44d]
• It’s time for all politicians to start campaigning via holograms [44d]
• The chase for the Higgs boson is about to get bigger, faster, and costlier—but we need it [44d]
• There’s a job contemplating the future of Hershey’s Kisses—a great sign for America [44d]
• How space travel will help broaden your vacation-home options here on Earth [44d]
• The ultra rich are starting to like the risks involved in asteroid mining [44d]
• What Google Glass has taught us one year in [44d]
• Edward Snowden threw a bucket of hot water on Scandinavia’s quest to house the world’s data [44d]
• Things get weird when objects get hooked up to the internet [44d]
• Soon American highways could be overrun with self-driving trucks [44d]
• The future of US air travel doesn’t look pretty [44d]
• Estonia is making it easier to cross borders digitally [44d]
• Amazon wants to know everything about you by having a robot talk to you [44d]
• Taking video of people harassing your family can get you busted in the EU for privacy violations [44d]
• In 2015, we’ll need different words to talk about the future [44d]
• To avoid another Brexit let’s stop treating citizenship as a birthright [44d]
• The single most important pitfall to avoid with legalizing marijuana [44d]
• If you thought election 2016 was horrible, then 2020 will be much, much worse [44d]
• Robinhood is launching a $200 million IPO for its second venture fund [44d]
• JPMorgan Chase is pledging $750 billion to boost U.S. housing supply and homeownership [44d]
• The best bath towels, tested by Consumer Reports [44d]
• Strategy sold more bitcoin as it keeps pivoting away from its buy-and-hold playbook [44d]
• 6 island-hopping routes that don't require a private boat [44d]
• FAA certified Boeing's smallest 737 Max jet after nearly a decade of delays [44d]
• Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and could dominate by year's end [44d]
• Amazon stock topped $3 trillion in market value for the first time after cloud growth surged [44d]
• White House is meeting with AI companies to roll out its new frontier model review framework [44d]
• The best all-inclusive resorts for serious food lovers in 2026 [44d]
• The best — and most capable — self-parking cars of 2026 [44d]
• 7 famous journeys taken purely for leisure that changed history [44d]
• Ukrop's Homestyle Foods recalled nearly 23,000 pounds of frozen meals over metal sliver fears [44d]
• The Dow is up 700 points after Trump called off strikes on Iran and oil tumbled [44d]
• Japan and the U.S. jointly intervened to prop up the yen — and say they'll do it again [44d]
• Visa is buying AI-powered fraud detection company BioCatch for $2.4 billion [44d]
• Apollo and Castlelake face the same Friday deadline in the fight for EasyJet [44d]
• Walmart, Costco, and Amazon are racing to become the front door for weight loss drug prescriptions [44d]
• EchoStar's Hughes filed for bankruptcy as its satellite internet subscribers fled to Starlink [44d]
• Hugging Face CEO called OpenAI's rogue AI hack "unprecedented" and wants new laws [44d]
• 8 beach towns in Europe that aren't overrun in August [44d]
• Marriott's pipeline hit a record 629,000 rooms and Q2 profit rose to $844 million [44d]
• Tyson Foods is slashing its annual profit forecast as beef losses widen [44d]
• The 10 most incredible things to do in India [44d]
• The best — and most underrated — national parks in the U.S [44d]
• OpenAI says its next AI model Astra cracked ten long-unsolved math problems for roughly $2,000 [44d]
• Shein is offering $1.1 billion in cash payouts to investors as it prepares for a much cheaper IPO [44d]
• NY Fed's Williams warns rate hikes are on the table if inflation doesn't ease [44d]
• Trump Media's paid data feed giving Wall Street faster access to Trump's posts is now live [44d]
• AstraZeneca stock sinks on reports of merger talks with Bristol Myers Squibb [44d]
• GameStop is swapping $1.4 billion in convertible debt for stock, sending shares lower [44d]
• OPEC+ is raising oil output for a sixth straight month, completing its 2023 cut rollback [44d]
• E.U. activated new powers to fine or restrict AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google [44d]