Thursday 18th April 2024

  • The jubilant revival of the British Sunday roast

    Once the staple of local pubs or humble carveries, the Sunday roast can now be found at any number of chef-driven eateries, where the offerings go well beyond the usual.

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  • Hamantaschen: The iconic jam-filled biscuits that are the signature treat at Purim

    The ancient dramatic tale of Purim is celebrated every spring with the buttery, triangular-shaped biscuits called hamantaschen.

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  • Eat beans and live longer: One reason why many Ikarians live to be 100

    In The Ikaria Way, Greek American chef Diane Kochilas offers a roadmap for people who want to incorporate aspects of the Mediterranean island's "Blue Zone" diet into their lives.

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  • How Lufthansa Shapes Data-Driven Transformation Leaders

    The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

    The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

    Up in the air, a modern plane generates 1 terabyte of data every 24 hours of flight. For airlines like the Lufthansa Group, this data can be used to create valuable business outcomes, from improved operational efficiency to higher customer satisfaction. On top of this rich data set, Lufthansa has invested substantially in deploying artificial intelligence technologies, improving data quality processes, and hiring data engineers and data scientists. However, in 2023, it recognized that it had to do more to become a truly data-driven company. The industry incumbent faced not a mechanical problem but a human one: Organizational resistance to change stood in the way of transformational efforts. Lufthansa’s data experts felt like they were operating as lone wolves, without the business support and use cases that would get the whole company behind its transformation goals.

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  • Webinar: How Grassroots Automation Speeds Digital Success

    The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

    The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

    Companies must digitize to survive — but many can’t find the developers and data scientists to do so. To keep pace, leaders are launching citizen development initiatives to harness the creativity and business acumen of their nontechnical “citizens.” When designed and championed effectively, these programs speed digital transformation.

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  • Can NASA's Mars Sample Return Program Be Saved? Some Experts Think So

    The Mars Sample Return (MSR), one of NASA’s most critical programs designed to bring pristinely sampled Mars rocks inside 30 titanium tubes to Earth, just hit a major roadblock.

    On Monday, NASA announced that the current MSR budget was too expensive, costing somewhere between $8 billion and $11 billion. To avoid budget cuts to other critical programs, like the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Asteroid Surveyor space telescope that could spot a rocky existential threat to our planet, NASA pushed the retrieval back until the 2040s. That’s a decade longer than the space agency’s initial timeline.

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  • 5 Years Later, The Decade's Most Underrated Demonic Thriller Could Make a Wild Pivot

    In 2019, Ready or Not revolutionized the niche subgenre of “horror movie that seems silly but is actually really good.” The terrifying thriller starring Samara Weaving follows a young bride as she realizes her initiation into her new husband’s family is a bit more sinister than just a normal dinner party. But as exciting as the story was, it was just as definite — there wasn’t much story left to tell.

    But with a sequel on the horizon, how can Grace’s story continue? A quote from one of the directors seems to suggest it will only build from here — hinting at a demonic confrontation.

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  • 42 Years Later, Atari Is Giving a Pivotal Franchise a New Lease on Life

    At Nintendo’s most recent indie showcase, Atari announced the new platform adventure game Yars Rising, developed by Wayforward, the studio behind the beloved Shantae and River City Girls series. While Wayforward’s pedigree is enough to be excited for, Yars Rising is actually much bigger than just that, as it marks the revival of a pivotal Atari franchise that’s been buried for over a decade. It’s an inventive way to bring back a classic, and looks like it could continue 2024’s Metroidvania renaissance. Yars Rising is planned for release later in 2024, and is coming to all consoles and PC.

    The Yars series first debuted on the Atari 2600 with Yars Revenge in 1982, which ended up being the best-selling game on the entire system. The best way to describe Yars Revenge is a shooter that’s a sideways version of Space Invaders mixed with elements of Asteroids. As you might expect there was a very small story, revolving around bug-like aliens called Yars taking revenge for the destruction of one of their worlds.

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  • 10 Years Ago, Google Started a Smartphone Photography Revolution With an App You Can't Install Today

    We visited Google’s top-secret Pixel design studio to talk to Isaac Reynolds, the man in charge of building cameras for Pixel devices.

    Take your pick of any flagship phone — iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, hell, even OnePlus or Xiaomi — and it will have a great camera. Not just one great camera, but a system of lenses (on the back and front) capable of taking excellent ultra-wide shots, portrait-style photos of people and pets, macro close-ups, zoomed-in pics, incredible night images, and steady and stabilized high-resolution videos.

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  • 14 Years Later, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show is Attempting a Hard Reboot Again

    Doctor Who is a show built on reinvention. Thanks to the titular character’s ability to regenerate, the series has been able to continue on with more than a dozen characters playing the Doctor and traveling through time and space. But after 60 years, it’s not just the actors that have to change. Doctor Who is also constantly reinventing its substance as well, and the upcoming season will be the biggest reinvention in almost 20 years. But it’s not the first time a soft reboot has been attempted, though many of the same tricks are being used.

    According to a press release from Disney+, the new distributor for the British series outside of the UK, the 15th Doctor’s introductory episode, “The Church on Ruby Road,” will be considered Episode 1 of Season 14 of Doctor Who despite airing as the 2023 Christmas special.

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