In March, a New Jersey resident won an astonishing $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, yet state lottery officials report that the prize remains unclaimed. This brings up the disturbing possibility that theNJ winnermay not even realize they've struck it rich. On the other hand, the winner m...
Klay is a great shooter in general, but that performance was unreal. He hit 13 shots in a row, 9 of which were three-pointers. It’s what I characterize as a “Hot Hand”. If you’ve played basketball, you likely understand the Hot Hand. Every shot feels like it’s going in, and...
Tim McCarver, 81. The All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country’s most recognized, incisive and talkative television com...
After MIT won the contract to supply the guidance and navigation system for Apollo, Hamilton got a job working on the systems software, and she eventually led the team that created the onboard flight software. Margaret Hamilton: mathematician and computer programmer at the MIT Instrumentation Labora...
“They’ll sit here and count it for me and won’t even blink an eye nowadays,” Parisher says. “Do you ever just think about how many people’s lives this amount of money could change?” I ask. Donaldson looks at me like I’ve just asked what color the sky is. “Yeah,...
As chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett turned a small company into a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, acquiring some of the most prominent businesses in the U.S. His investment philosophy, rooted in value investing (buying undervalued stocks with the potential for long-term growth) ...
The second issue is you can’t fix a problem by throwing more bodies at it.USA IT workers make about 10 times the pay and benefits that their counterparts make in India.I won’t suggest USA workers are 10 times better than anyone, they aren’t.However they are generall...
Long, who currently works on WebXR tools at Mozilla and previously at AltspaceVR, initially offered the $5,000 to anyone who could jailbreak the original Oculus Quest, but nobody was able to get root access and implement custom firmware on the now out-of-production device. ...
he had been delivering them to consumers at monumental scale in his ubiquitous superstores, a strategy that won him more fear than love in the world of publishing but made him arguably its most powerful player. Books had been very good to him, and now they were dissolving into the ether. ...