Motorola once showed the industry how to build affordable smartphones without compromising on experience. Its Moto G conquered the budget segment, while the Moto X offered high performance without costing a bomb. Unfortunately, though, ever since the Chinese company Lenovo acquired Motorola, there hasn’t been any interesting product in the Moto line-up. Fast forward to […]

he National Rifle Association is, like AAA or AARP, a bundle of bargains, a smorgasbord of savings on insurance policies, motel rooms, bottles of wine and prescription drugs. But unlike the nation’s other interest groups that boast millions of members, the NRA also unabashedly embraces controversy, lunging into battle with fiery rhetoric and no-holds-barred political attacks. The NRA touts […]

There’s an eerie and incredibly rare phenomenon witnessed by few that has long puzzled scientists: ball lightning. These flashes, which typically appear in the evenings during thunderstorms and look like small, bright spheres, have gone mostly unexplained aside from some theories. But now, using some of the most mind-bending physics around, physicists think that they’ve recreated […]

Calculating attribution is hard. The above makes it sound like marketing attribution is a relatively straight forward thing to calculate. It could be if the customer only visited one channel, but what happens when they concurrently visit multiple channels? The calculation becomes much harder. Let’s say a customer receives a catalog in the mail, goes to […]

Government-registered cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan are setting up a self-regulation body in the region. The move, Reuters reports, is an effort to legitimize and establish trust in the area following the $530 million Coincheck theft in January. There isn’t a name for the body yet and similarly, there’s no word for when all the paperwork will be finalized. It […]

“We received a subpoena. Every [crypto]fund I’ve talked to has received one,” said Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder who launched his own $100 million cryptocurrency investment fund in the fall. Subpoenas across the cryptocurrency industry come from Securities and Exchange Commission offices in New York, Boston and San Francisco, said Jason Gottlieb, partner at Morrison Cohen. The […]

PRAGUE — Tens of thousands of Slovaks marched in a national rally Friday to honor journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, who were shot dead as Kuciak was working on a story about the influence of the Italian mafia in Slovakia. In the capital of Bratislava, President Andrej Kiska asked a crowd estimated at 20,000 […]

On Wednesday, Feb. 28, Surface hosted the 42nd installment of its Design Dialogues series. This edition featured Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, alongside Paula Scher, partner at Pentagram Design, and took place at the MoMA Design Store in SoHo. The conversation, moderated by Surface editor-in-chief Spencer Bailey, focused on the connection between hospitality and design—specifically their […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Climbers on North America’s tallest mountain may have to start packing out more of their poop after a researcher determined a glacier in which much of it has been dumped over the past decade probably is not decomposing the human waste. Michael Loso, a glacier geologist, calculates that 36,000 climbers between […]

This month, explore fitness-related comedy shows, wellness talks, and more. BY RATHA TEP STYLE March 1st, 2018 Being up to date on all things health and wellness is social and cultural currency these days, which is why we started the Furthermore book club. Now, we’re introducing an events calendar to help high performers stay on top of the best new lecture […]