I didn’t expect to start my adult life so young, but that’s where I found myself when my parents kicked me out of their house at 17. I learned how cruel life can be by living in a homeless shelter for a year. I cried myself to sleep almost every night and realized that the
Over the past few decades, several mysterious hackers have captured the public’s imagination, but none like Phineas Fisher. A decade after his most famous hack, Phineas remains, by most accounts, the most prolific and public hacker ever caught. As part of our series on the biggest cybersecurity mysteries of all time, we delve into the
My dad is one of the smartest people I have ever met. He was known as a talented poet and speaker at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia. But during this time, Colonel Hugo Banzer established a military dictatorship and, in the midst of political repression against students, left for Madrid
Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company is in talks to raise a $4 billion funding round at a $20 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal has not been finalized and the terms could change, says the WSJ. At $20 billion, the valuation would be a significant increase over The Boring
It was the era of heroin chic. When iconic supermodel Kate Moss was at the peak of her modeling career in the 1990s, she was often photographed in clubs with a cigarette, a far cry from today’s trends of Pilates and matcha lattes. So when actress Ellie Bamber came to play Moss in the recently
my handbag It’s more of a mobile workstation than an operator. On any given day, I have to carry a 16-inch laptop, noise-cancelling headphones, chargers, my daily planner, a bottle of water, and whatever gadget I’m testing that week. Many leather bags look beautiful on the first day, but far fewer are designed to withstand
