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Lauren Tamaki for VoxAfter founding GiveDirectly, Niehaus is pushing the frontiers of social science research.
In 2008, when economist Paul Niehaus came up with the idea of a charity that distributes cash directly to the world’s poorest people, the reception was not positive. Jacquelline Fuller, who formerly ran philanthropy for Google, has said that when she initially pitched the idea of funding the venture to a boss, they replied, “You must be smoking crack.”
But Google would go on to donate to GiveDirec
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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A common abortion drug survived a second brush with the Supreme Court, leaving it accessible while justices decide its fate in a future ruling. The Court issued a brief order Thursday evening, which indefinitely blocks a lower court order targeting the drug mifepristone. The Court’s order in Danco Laboratories v. Louisiana is not permanent, but […] Read more ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said it's unfair how some people avoid paying the state sales tax when buying software. Read more ›
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Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk's lawyer, stumbled over his words. He at one point called Greg Brockman - a co-defendant - Greg Altman. He erroneously claimed that Musk wasn't asking for money and […] Read more ›
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Old camera tech has been employed to form a 3D hybrid of NAND and DRAM tech using IGZO instead of silicon. Read more ›
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The difference between 87- and 89-octane is subtle. Midgrade gas came around at a time when it was needed, but it has since had trouble finding traction. Read more ›
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After numerous complaints from sales representatives within T-Mobile, the company is changing its terms and conditions, making contracts a bit more lucrative for new customers. Up until last month, new customers were able to get up to two discounted smartphones on a single account. This pushed away many new customers who have a family of four, for example, and can't get four devices at a discount. T-Mobile responded quickly and... Read more ›
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OpenAI announced a Codex tab in the ChatGPT app. The mobile interface could help reduce the need to take your open laptop with you, a recent trend. Read more ›
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Gallup data illustrates rising opposition to data centers across the US, with barely anyone in favor of new facilities. Read more ›
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A report claims Apple is working to welcome AI agents to its App Store as it attempts to embrace the future. Read more ›
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A commencement speaker was booed for calling AI an industrial revolution. Why does Gen Z hate AI so much? Read more ›
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AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have agreed in principle to form a joint venture (JV) aimed at reducing U.S. mobile dead zones through satellite connectivity, especially in rural areas and during emergencies when ground networks fail. Here are three of the customer benefits listed by the JV (as highlighted by Droid Life): Fewer coverage gaps: Will nearly eliminate dead zones in the U.S. currently without mobile service, reaching previously unserved areas.... Read more ›
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Dark Horse’s prequel to the smash‑hit Netflix anime turns Rebecca and Pilar’s early days into a sharp, funny, and promisingly rich expansion of Night City that deepens everything that made 'Edgerunners' Anime of the Year at the 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Read more ›
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New Google accounts are now starting with 5GB of free storage. Linking a phone number unlocks the full allocation, but the support page quietly dropped its unconditional 15GB promise. Read more ›
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Steve Fisher, president and chief product officer at Salesforce, has stepped down and moved into an advisory role at the company, he announced on LinkedIn. Fisher, one of Salesforce’s longest-tenured technical executives, reported to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, his former high school classmate. ... Read more ›
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Other new inductees include Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' and Taylor Swift's '1989.' Read more ›
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The most graphically-impressive first-person shooter made for the Nintendo Switch is $20 off at Best Buy. Right now, you can buy the physical version of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for $39.99 ($20 off). The game looks surprisingly good on the 2017 hardware, but runs way better on the Switch 2 with the additional $10 upgrade […] Read more ›
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Cerebras Systems, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that built the world's largest commercial AI processor, erupted onto the Nasdaq on Wednesday, opening at $350 per share — nearly double its $185 IPO price — and rocketing past a $100 billion market capitalization in its first hours of trading. The debut instantly crowned Cerebras as one of the most valuable semiconductor companies on Earth and validated a decade-long bet that the AI... Read more ›
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So, what’s a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring […] Read more ›
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It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read this, you’re almost certainly wearing or drinking from something they were used to produce — polyester fabric or plastic bottles, for example. If you brush your teeth with toothpaste or top your salad with bottled […] Read more ›
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The details of the ongoing outbreak of hantavirus may sound uncomfortably familiar to all of us who lived through Covid-19: an aggressive pneumonia-like infection, a cruise ship quarantined with sick passengers, the world’s public health authorities on high alert. So it’s natural to have the follow-up question: Is this the next pandemic? Not likely, experts […] Read more ›
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It’s been four months since the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the US to stand trial. His vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, is now in charge, but the Trump administration has been largely silent on what comes next for the country. In the meantime, Missy Ryan, a staff writer at the […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. […] Read more ›
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By a 4-3 vote, the Virginia Supreme Court just struck down that state’s recently enacted congressional maps, which were intended to give Democrats four additional seats in the state’s congressional election after the upcoming midterms. The state enacted these new maps to cancel out Republican gerrymanders in Texas and other red states. Both the majority […] Read more ›
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For years, one of the bedrock adages of electoral politics was “it’s the economy, stupid.” The quip, coined by former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville, warned party leaders that economic concerns will always outrank other issues in the mind of voters But recently, Carville’s iconic advice feels like it’s been forgotten. In President Joe Biden’s […] Read more ›
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There are few news subjects more reliably depressing than nutritional science. A glance at the headlines will tell you that sugar is bad for you, red meat is bad for you, and alcohol is really, really bad for you. The message seems to be that if a food or drink gives you even an iota […] Read more ›
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I’ve been getting my hair braided ever since I was a little girl. In elementary school my Moesha obsession meant Brandy-style box braids; in middle school, Alicia Keys was the reason behind my cornrows, and even now, a vacation is not a vacation without a head full of boho braids. I always thought of braids […] Read more ›
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Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s this week’s question from […] Read more ›
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