You know Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs — but have you heard of Wendell Weeks? Probably not. He’s the CEO of Corning Inc., the 173-year-old New York glass company that has long supplied the glass for some of the world’s most famous inventions, per Fortune. And in the 1990s, the company invented optical fiber to power the…
Juan Soto has signed the richest contract in professional sports history. The MLB superstar reportedly agreed to a 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets ($51 million per year), surpassing the 10-year, $700 million contract Shohei Ohtani received from the Los Angeles Dodgers last year. Soto is also deferring none of his contract, a contrast…
After nearly two years and 152 shows across five continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour took its final bow in Vancouver last night. It will be remembered as a cultural phenomenon on par with Beatlemania or Woodstock. It was also an economic juggernaut. When the first leg ended in 2023, it was already the highest-grossing tour of…
Your relatives who took handwritten notes all their lives are going to have something to say about this: Yesterday, Google debuted Willow, a new quantum chip that the company said needs less than five minutes to complete a test problem that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10 septillion years to figure out. Thirty-year setback,…