Month: December 2023

Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest for media workers ever recorded, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. At least 90 have been killed since the conflict began on October the 7th. The International Federation of Journalists says around three quarters of all deaths in 2023 have been in Gaza. They have mainly been…

A car loses about 10% of its value as soon as it’s driven off the lot. And within the first three years, that number goes up to 50%. Depreciation — the rate at which that happens — is one of those numbers everyone in the automotive world thinks about including consumers, automakers and the massive…

How does Google Maps use satellites, GPS and more to get you from point A to point B? What is the tech that powers Spotify’s recommendation algorithm? From the unique tech that works in seconds to power tap-to-pay to how Shazam identifies 23,000 songs each minute, WSJ explores the engineering and science of technology that…

Israel has gone far beyond “going after Hamas” in the first 10 weeks of its war on Gaza, according to one of the United States’ leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer. He tells host Steve Clemons that murdering hundreds of civilians daily and starving the rest is a “punishment campaign” and “should be unacceptable to decent…

Israel’s military police are investigating the killing of two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after a human rights group posted a video that captures the apparent “executions” of the two men by Israeli forces, according to the Associated Press news agency. Israel’s B’Tselem human rights group accused soldiers of carrying out a pair of…