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While the rain continues to fall in Texas and Louisiana, analysts are scrambling to work out how much the damage done by Hurricane Harvey will cost. The US government won’t be releasing an exact estimate for a month but its lead expert says it looks like it will easily pass the $160 billion cost (in […]

As the floodwaters begin to recede from Harvey, a natural disaster that has claimed at least 38 lives, residents in Houston and beyond are grappling with a new reality in a car-dependent region: When the roads become passable, how will they get around? How many cars were destroyed by Hurricane Harvey? An estimated 500,000 cars […]

Samsung, the global electronics manufacturer that makes everything from TVs, phones, and washing machines, to container ships and oil rigs, seems to be trying its hand at cars that drive themselves. The company was awarded a license in the state of California to test autonomous vehicles today, Aug. 31. In a statement, the company said: […]

The rainfall is slowing in Houston, but the impacts from Hurricane Harvey are expected to be felt for months, as homeowners deal with totaled properties, businesses repair storm damage, and tens of thousands of people look for temporary homes. However, one of the city’s main economic drivers, the Port of Houston, is coming back online […]

1. STFU In the early days of the Internet, we were all pretty sure the network would level the playing field for information distribution and herald in a new era of open communication and free speech. Then came the trolls, the haters, the terrorists, and even the Nazis. Now we find ourselves wondering who gets […]

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told his current staff that he’d be leaving them and taking over Uber in a memo obtained by Recode. In it, Khosrowshahi called the decision to succeed troubled founder Travis Kalanick “one of the toughest decisions of my life.” “I’ve had the privilege to run Expedia for 12+ years now, and […]Read More

In the wake of the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the US is grappling with the question of what to do about the statues, buildings, and monuments honoring the Confederacy. Among the memorials in question: public schools christened after Confederate leaders. A great many schools fall into that category. In 2016, the Southern […]

It’s been only a day, but the new CEO of Uber has already brought some much-needed maturity to the embattled ride-hailing company. Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Expedia, officially accepted his new job after a soap-opera-like executive search that pitted him against corporate icons Jeff Immelt of General Electric and Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard […]

US president Donald Trump spoke in Missouri today about tax reform, kicking off the White House’s next big push to turn one of his campaign pledges into reality by passing new laws in Congress in coming months. He pledged to “bring back Main Street by reducing the crushing tax burden on our companies and on […]

In the days after tropical storm Harvey pounded Houston, officials in Dallas readied 5,000 beds at its convention center to shelter evacuees. But even as 9,000 evacuees huddled at Houston’s own convention center, exceeding its capacity by nearly double, only a couple hundred people had trickled into the Dallas shelter by Tuesday evening, according to […]

Sometimes the greatest art comes from a place of pain. After being forcibly ousted from his position as CEO of Uber in June, Travis Kalanick was sued for fraud on Aug. 10 by Benchmark, the venture-capital firm that was an early investor in the company and holds a seat on its board. They claim he […]

For every dollar a white man earns in the US, a woman earns about 80 cents. Many people are familiar with that data (which comes from the American Association of University Women), but the inequality is even more nuanced. According to analysis by the Pew Research Center, black women, for instance, black women earn 65 […]