The Dutch love four-day working weeks, but are they sustainable?Anna HolliganBusiness reporter, AmsterdamBBCGavin Arm and Bert de Wit introduced four-day working weeks at their business in 2019The Dutch have quietly adopted working just a four-day week. But what has been its impact, and can it last?"Your kids are only young once," says Gavin Arm, co-founder of Amsterdam-based small business...

Zapping Mosquitos With Lasers Is a Real Thing, Thanks to AIAs summer arrives, and mosquitoes celebrate another season of bloody conquest, you might be thinking, "Why do we even have all this AI tech if it can't do a single thing about these airborne pests?" There are plenty of reasons to complain about artificial intelligence, but its failure to fight mosquitoes is no longer one of them.Using...

Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund I, which allows retail investors to invest in private tech companies like Stripe, Oura, Databricks, OpenAI, and others, through a publicly traded fund listed on the NYSE. “We had something like over 150,000 retail investors participate in...

Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. We'd gone to this Christian village in northern Syria with a former teacher named Abdallah Ibrahim. Much of...

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