Digital Gems

White men manage 97% of all hedge fund assets.

Just 1.4% of America's wealth is handled by asset management firms that are owned by women and/or people of color as of September 2021, even though there is zero difference in performance.

Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...

Mortgage lenders issued $1.61 trillion in purchase loans in 2021, beating a record set in 2005, as a wave of Americans entered the housing market or sought larger homes.

Thieves are stealing catalytic converters and earning between $50 to $300 by selling them to scrap yards. Insurance claims for stolen converters jumped from 3,389 in 2019 to 14,433 in 2020. The cost of replacing a stolen catalytic converter can cost uninsured victims north of $1,000.

Corporations and trade groups donated over $8.1 million to the 147 members of the Sedition Caucus.

The world's biggest furniture brand IKEA is raising prices by an average of 9% as it faces increasing costs in transport and raw materials, the owner of most of its stores worldwide said on Thursday.

When we look to 2024, it’s easy to focus on the doomsday scenario: an election where legitimate results get thrown out. But our democracy has been eroding for years — and we’ve never been an equal democracy for everyone in the first place.

Ads are showing up in places they shouldn’t, signaling not so much a death knell for the effort, but more of a warning that if the trend continues, early trust between podcast networks and tech companies could fall apart.

Around 25% of workers changed jobs worldwide in 2021 compared to 2019, according to LinkedIn.

Learn how USB keyboards translate keystrokes to binary digits and the latency in transmitting this data compared PS2.

With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.

Essential costs like housing accounted for 17% of total spending among households earning annual incomes of less than $15,000 while only representing 2% of costs among households earning $200,000+. On the flipside, 19% of total spending among households earning $200K+ went toward personal insurance and pensions compared to roughly 1.5% among households earning less than $15K.

The Defense Innovation Unit released its initial "Responsible AI Guidelines" document Nov. 15, with intent to operationalize the Defense Department's ethical principles of artificial intelligence into

The new research sequenced genomes from the bones of 12 Japanese people who lived across a range of time periods and found that approximately 71 percent of modern Japanese people’s ancestry comes from this third population.

Inventory remains low even with factories producing more than pre-pandemic levels. Supply chain issues are likely to persist until mid-2022.

Covid accounted for 14 percent of all deaths in the United States from March 2020 until all adults became eligible for the vaccine in April, compared with 11 percent of deaths since then.

Companies growing explosively in the mental health arena face three key blind spots: too few clinical therapists, challenges in building a high-gross margin company, and the the possibility of doing more harm than good.

Venture capitalists, who provided a total of $35.2 million for mental health startups in 2011, upped their ante in 2020, providing nearly $2.4 billion in funding.

During the pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, a share that has been largely consistent, up from one in ten adults who reported these symptoms from January to June 2019

When asked questions normally used to screen patients for mental health problems, 24 percent showed clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30 percent showed symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

In our 2020 commissioned survey, 60% of respondents said that current public investment in mental health research is not enough. This is a 9% increase, up from 51% in 2018.

60% of workers felt like they were more productive when working from home, and a variety of major companies seem to understand that getting work done is no longer contingent upon having four walls and multiple conference rooms.

More commission-based workers are popping up on social channels as startups provide the tech infrastructure to help them sell directly.

Centralized crypto exchanges reported more than $14 trillion in trading volume in the year 2021, according to The Block Research.

SOS is up an eye-popping 960% since its surprise Christmas Eve airdrop.

Beauty is an ever-changing goalpost that has everything do with race, class and power. Learn about the western colonization of the beauty industry and how it's shaped standards in the East and among Latinas, including driving patterns of disordered eating.

The 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act included a little-known provision establishing something called opportunity zones. The plan, which was lauded as a way to direct investments into under-developed communities in the U.S., created 8,764 tax havens that were almost immediately exploited by the wealthy to gobble up capital gains tax breaks. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wessel explains how opportunity zones came to be, who is profiting off of them, and why it’s so difficult to tweak the tax code without creating windfalls for the rich.

Nepal has halted Covid-19 vaccinations in children ages 12 to 17 in eight districts because of a shortage of syringes.

Some companies are moving away from education requirements in a bid to be more inclusive. Others, like The Wing, are keeping it more traditional—at least in the case of its CMO job description.