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Former Google employees got $16 million to make video games more fun with AI

A startup with the first-ever artificial intelligence-powered “behavior engine” for characters in video games just raised $16 million.Canada-based AI startup Artificial Agency announced it has come out of a year in stealth mode and raised $16 million in funding from investors including Radical Ventures and Toyota Ventures. The startup, founded …

By Christian DeFazio
18th July 2024 • Quartz

What is effective altruism?

My story on rage-bait chefs for The Verge got a shout out in the Quartz weekly brief newsletter

By Jessica Lucas
26th November 2022 • Quartz

The ultimate residence for the hybrid post-Covid lifestyle

The Set, a new residential property in New York City’s Hudson Yards district, is reconfiguring the Manhattan apartment for the post-covid era. Designed for busy professionals commuting into a New York City office just two to three times a week, The Set is offering leases as short as six months, …

By Cheyenne O'Connell (Padgett)
14th October 2022 • Quartz

How to entice employees back to the office

Client: Steelcase It might be time to put hot desking—the popular practice where in-office employees sit at any available workstation instead of an assigned desk—on the back burner.

By Elevate your brand reputation with award-winning media relations
3rd March 2022 • Quartz

What a conference in the metaverse looks like

Remember in-person conferences? It wasn’t so long ago that attendees would fly to far-flung destinations with promises of inspiring conversation, networking, free food and maybe even a good panel or two. Then along came the pandemic and shifted in-person events to Zoom and other digital platforms which felt, well, flat. …

By Aria Deshe
25th February 2022 • Quartz

African workers in Lebanon are stuck and unpaid by Kafala system worsened by Covid

The future for Yemi, a Nigerian former student, was laid out in a contract written in Arabic which she signed in an office in Lagos in June 2019 to enable a recruitment agency bring her to work in Lebanon.

By Dario Sabaghi
24th November 2020 • Quartz

What do we call Hong Kong’s nameless “2019 protests” in 2020?

As Hong Kong’s protest movement passed the six-month mark and the year drew to a close, the question of what name to give a movement that began in June 2019 becomes a vexed one for editors and reporters, academics, and commentators.

By Antony Dapiran
20th December 2019 • Quartz

The fight against Nigeria’s northeast terrorism is also a battle against climate change

Boko Haram, poverty and lack of prospects force many Nigerians to flee – especially in the Lake Chad area. Climate change is driving the crisis further.

By Alicia Prager
20th October 2019 • Quartz

Singin' About A Revolution

The soundtrack of this year's Hong Kong protests marks a somber turn from the Umbrella Movement

By Antony Dapiran
26th September 2019 • Quartz

To understand America, don’t separate Republicans and Democrats statistically

Americans are fixated with the Republican-Democrat divide. But Republicans are a significantly smaller group.

By Ana Campoy
9th July 2019 • Quartz

What’s so special about Beto?

O'Rourke's whole campaign against Ted Cruz in Texas is about subverting the stereotypes that have polarized America.

By Ana Campoy
9th July 2019 • Quartz

Meet your next-door, English-speaking, home-owner undocumented immigrant

More than 60% of undocumented immigrants have been living in the US for 10 years or more.

By Ana Campoy
9th July 2019 • Quartz

Why Trump’s math on immigration is all wrong, in 7 charts

The rising numbers of people caught at the border are a sign of a bureaucratic crisis, not an immigration "invasion."

By Ana Campoy
6th July 2019 • Quartz

The definitive 21st-century guide to the fight in Venezuela

The "good guys" are not necessarily those who are democratically elected. Post Cold War dictatorships have donned new clothes.

By Ana Campoy
6th July 2019 • Quartz

The latest refugee crisis is not happening anywhere near a war zone

Venezuela is not at war, yet it’s starting to look like Syria based on the exodus of people fleeing the country.

By Ana Campoy
6th July 2019 • Quartz

Video: Over 1,000 Frida Kahlos celebrated the late Mexican artist’s birthday

Who knew a unibrow could be such a popular look?

By Ana Campoy
6th July 2019 • Quartz

Illegal immigration into the US is collapsing

Genaro López's plan was to cross the Rio Grande and to find work in an American farm. He was caught and deported, but he is thankful for that. He now lives in Monterrey, Mexico, an industrial hub some 150 miles from the US border. He earns less than what he …

By Ana Campoy
6th July 2019 • Quartz

A Cuban man built the world’s tallest bike, but can’t afford to ride it

Seemingly simple tasks, like buying a bicycle chain, are still incredibly difficult to achieve on the island.

By Ana Campoy
6th July 2019 • Quartz

A new party wants to break Bosnia’s political deadlock using computer science

A fledgling political movement called Platforma za progres, Bosnian for “Platform for Progress,” is trying to fix Bosnia and Herzegovina’s political deadlock using computer modeling and data analytics, a toolbox that decision-makers around the world are increasingly experimenting with.

By Alicia Prager
29th June 2019 • Quartz

Photos: Colombia’s “lost city of marijuana”

As Colombia's civil war draws near its end, pot farmers in poor regions are afraid of losing their livelihoods.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

If you want to get to Cuba “before it changes,” you’re already too late

That's a good thing: It's a much friendlier and happier place than 15 years ago.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

If you want to make money in Cuba, join a band

If Jorge Guevara worked as a doctor in the US, he’d likely have a six-figure salary. But this is Cuba, and as a drummer hammering out tropical standards for sunburned tourists in the resort town of Varadero, Guevara earns several times more than he once made practicing medicine. “In Cuba, …

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

Welcome to the new Cuba, where dog baths cost what some state workers make in a whole paycheck

Newly affluent Cubans want middle-class services, from pet grooming to tattoo removal.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

A conspiracy theory about sex and gender is being peddled around the world by the far right

From France to Mexico, conservatives are using the same coded words to fight progress.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

Here’s a way the US could get a better deal out of Nafta without changing it

There are two ways of looking at Laredo, Texas, a border city at the southern edge of the US. One is as barren outpost of the US economy, condemned by geographic misfortune to a marginal existence. The other is as part of one of the most dynamic economies in North …

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

Donald Trump believes manufacturing equals prosperity. Our data analysis proves him wrong

We collected years of data for every state and province in North America, and the conclusion is clear: US president Donald Trump’s belief that manufacturing equals prosperity doesn’t hold up.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

Globalization tore through my city and this is how we survived

While Monterrey has proved to be a master at racking up NAFTA winnings, it's been pretty incompetent at administering them.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

The economics case for using Zen to think about trade

Free your mind before freeing free trade.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

The origin of your TV set is a simple lesson in the dangers of ignoring globalization

The type of protectionist policies favored by Trump helped hasten the decline of a once-mighty American industry.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz

Hurricane Irma will likely cover South Florida with a film of poop

The prospect of poop-laden water pooling around Miami is scary enough, yet it’s just a symptom of a much bigger problem that plagues hurricane-prone Florida. Rising sea levels are upending its ability to deal with floodwater.

By Ana Campoy
28th April 2019 • Quartz