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Forensic crime fiction queen Patricia Cornwell published her first Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel 35 years ago, so you're damn right she deserves a cameo in Scarpetta, Liz Sarnoff's new Prime Video series.

Starring Nicole Kidman as Cornwell's iconic forensic pathologist, the crime procedural show includes a moment with the author in its very first episode.

A comet swept through the solar system carrying a strange chemical recipe — one that has astronomers taking a closer look at what kinds of worlds might form around distant stars.

Astronomers studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS detected two gases streaming off its icy surface: methanol, a type of alcohol molecule, and hydrogen cyanide, a compound made of hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen. They

How's your sleep? Not getting enough of it? That's why the National Sleep Foundation has its annual Sleep Week, to remind people just how important sleep is to our overall well-being. Contemporary life can leave us sedentary and constantly staring at screens, which doesn't create the best conditions for sleeping well.

For most of us, getting a good night's sleep requires a little bit of effort

The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building on the AI wave. Samaipata, the pan-European venture capital firm founded in Madrid in 2016, has launched its third fund with […]

• Venture capitalist Julien Bek has some words of warning for current founders.
• "If you sell tools today, you're really in the line of sight for the models," Bek said of AI advancements.
• Instead, Beck, a partner at Sequoia, said founders should

Founded in 2024, Outpost acts as the legally liable entity for cross-border payments, tax, and compliance, so merchants don’t have to. Ribbit led the Series A. Selling across borders has always been technically possible and operationally punishing. The payments fail more often. The tax obligations multiply. The audit risk accumulates in ways that are expensive […]

2025 was another strong year for China's economy — on paper.

Beijing reported the world's second-largest economy hit its 5% GDP growth target for the year. Exports held up. Industrial output stayed resilient.

Underneath the surface, however, things were not as anodyne. There is China's ongoing real estate bust and the continued trade battle with the US. And then there's

The San Francisco startup, backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator, is betting that email, not some new identity protocol, is how AI agents will establish themselves on the internet. AI agents can already book your meetings, negotiate contracts, and handle support queues. What they have not had, until now, is a proper email address […]

In the final season of Mad Men, Peggy has an idea for a burger chain commercial that her bosses like. Then doubts herself. She goes back to her empty yellow legal pad, jots down a new concept from scratch, and returns to eat at the restaurant, even though she'd already visited more than a dozen around the nation. Nothing about her process is efficient, and her client would have likely

• Palantir's tech chief uses a "Superman" analogy to help employees identify their strengths and weaknesses.
• Shyam Sankar said Palantir's culture values honesty and learning from mistakes.
• The CTO shared a time when he made a major mistake and