Elena Lacey; Getty ImagesYelp wants to know if you're a car owner who prefers jazz bars and Korean food or a vegan parent who loves going to the beach. No, Yelp isn’t expanding into online dating. It just wants to match you to restaurants (and other businesses) better. The company announced Tuesday it will begin…

Jerry Markland/Getty ImagesI know it was a long time ago, but there was this interesting discussion about stopping a car on an episode of Car Talk. Should you just brake as hard as possible or should you brake and weave back and forth? The idea is that by weaving back and forth you increase your…

The widening gap between preaching and practicing philosophy in tech isn't promising.Joe Cicak/Getty ImagesKarl Marx famously complained that “philosophers have only interpreted the world ... The point, however, is to change it.” While it’s doubtful Silicon Valley’s mission to disrupt the world was inspired by Marx, the father of communism captures how many capitalist engineers…

Simon Dawson/Getty ImagesThe Fate of the Furious doesn’t really get crazy until the movie’s villain, played by Charlize Theron, tells her hacker minions to “make it rain.” A few obedient keystrokes later and empty cars are flinging themselves from a high-rise parking garage onto the streets of Manhattan. The carnage blocks the path of the…

Before and after his year in prison, Jeffrey Epstein lavished money and attention on scientists and other influential thinkers, raising the question: What cultural ideas did he help shape?Rick Friedman/Getty ImagesGive the money back.Anyone who took money or accrued influence from accused child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, who died of an apparent suicide in jail, should…

Here's a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that a hardheaded social scientist from, say, 1974 is plucked out of time and dropped here, in the midst of the internet age. What, more than anything else, would blow their mind?I'm not just asking what they'd be most dazzled by. I'm asking what would shake their…

While Slack is trying to kill email, a new email startup backed by Kleiner Perkins is trying to make corporate email more like Slack. Consider is an email service for…

WeWork, now known as The We Company, announced this morning the acquisition of a rival co-working business, Spacious. The three-year-old, New York-based startup turns restaurants that sit empty during the day…

The Dutch data protection agency has asked Microsoft’s lead privacy regulator in Europe to investigate ongoing concerns it has attached to how Windows 10 gathers user data. Back in 2017…

PlaceIQ is announcing a strategic investment from credit reporting company Experian. CEO Duncan McCall said the investment is part of a growth round that PlaceIQ raised after divesting itself of…