JAKE SHROPSHIRE
Jake Shropshire is a staff writer at
The Millennial Source. He is currently based in
Paris, France.
At least 125 are dead after a football game stampede in Indonesia
On Saturday night, at least 125 people were killed during a crowd rush at a football game in Malang, Indonesia.
Elon Musk shows off Tesla’s humanoid robot
Tesla just showed off its new humanoid robot (called Optimus) at the company's AI day presentation, and it's pretty interesting....
How Venice is fighting with the ocean
If there’s a city in the West to watch as climate change causes ocean levels to rise, it’s Venice. Venice,...
Russia updates – Russia admits mistakes in mobilization and plans to annex parts of Ukraine
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of its citizens into the war in Ukraine. This was...
WNBA players can’t outsource their pay as easily anymore – but should they need to?
Professional basketball in the US has a pay equity problem. The median pay for a man in the NBA is...
Meta takes down Pornhub’s Instagram account
When you think of free speech on social media, you’re probably thinking about political or even hate speech. But what...
Just say no to pointless work meetings
It’s pretty much inevitable that if you’ve worked with other people, no matter how closely, you’ve ended up in meetings...
A gas pipeline burst in Europe, and no one knows who did it
Energy is a hotly contested topic right now (no pun intended). See, Russia is a huge producer of oil and...
Are deepfakes ethical?
Back in 2018, former US President Barack Obama said that “Killmonger was right,” referring to the villain in “Black Panther.”
Snowden is a Russian citizen now
Nine years ago, Edward Snowden leaked a bunch of info about how the US and British governments were spying on...
Masses are fleeing Russia after Putin’s “partial mobilization”
Russia has called its invasion of Ukraine a “special military operation,” which in theory has meant that it involves only...
Digital nomads are becoming more common in China
If you haven't heard of the "996" system, it's pretty brutal. It's a kind of work culture well-known in China...
How does inflation affect climate change?
We all know that the decisions we make at the grocery store affect our carbon footprint. But we’ve also all...
Japan is reopening its doors
Japan has been pretty strict with its COVID guidelines since the start of the pandemic. And after the first couple...
Russia arrests more than 1,300 people in anti-war protests
On Wednesday, more than 1,300 people were arrested for protesting in Russia (a number still going up), mainly in the...
Is TikTok the new Google?
You’ve probably had that annoying experience where you went to Google to find a local restaurant for dinner, and it...
Plant-based meat executive bites a guy’s nose
You’ve probably heard about Beyond Meat, a company that specializes in creating plant-based imitation meat products.
Is going off the grid the way of the future?
Puerto Rico just got hit by a huge hurricane, which knocked power out across the island and left most of...
Meta isn’t doing so hot, and here’s why
In the not-so-distant past, Facebook (now Meta) was among the biggest Silicon Valley giants in existence. Two years ago, its...
Your science teacher lied to you about dinos; here’s how they actually died
At some point, probably in a primary school science class, you likely learned that the Earth used to be filled...
At least 125 are dead after a football game stampede in Indonesia
On Saturday night, at least 125 people were killed during a crowd rush at a football game in Malang, Indonesia.
Elon Musk shows off Tesla’s humanoid robot
Tesla just showed off its new humanoid robot (called Optimus) at the company's AI day presentation, and it's pretty interesting....
How Venice is fighting with the ocean
If there’s a city in the West to watch as climate change causes ocean levels to rise, it’s Venice. Venice,...
Russia updates – Russia admits mistakes in mobilization and plans to annex parts of Ukraine
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of its citizens into the war in Ukraine. This was...
WNBA players can’t outsource their pay as easily anymore – but should they need to?
Professional basketball in the US has a pay equity problem. The median pay for a man in the NBA is...
Meta takes down Pornhub’s Instagram account
When you think of free speech on social media, you’re probably thinking about political or even hate speech. But what...
Just say no to pointless work meetings
It’s pretty much inevitable that if you’ve worked with other people, no matter how closely, you’ve ended up in meetings...
A gas pipeline burst in Europe, and no one knows who did it
Energy is a hotly contested topic right now (no pun intended). See, Russia is a huge producer of oil and...
Are deepfakes ethical?
Back in 2018, former US President Barack Obama said that “Killmonger was right,” referring to the villain in “Black Panther.”
Snowden is a Russian citizen now
Nine years ago, Edward Snowden leaked a bunch of info about how the US and British governments were spying on...
Masses are fleeing Russia after Putin’s “partial mobilization”
Russia has called its invasion of Ukraine a “special military operation,” which in theory has meant that it involves only...
Digital nomads are becoming more common in China
If you haven't heard of the "996" system, it's pretty brutal. It's a kind of work culture well-known in China...
How does inflation affect climate change?
We all know that the decisions we make at the grocery store affect our carbon footprint. But we’ve also all...
Japan is reopening its doors
Japan has been pretty strict with its COVID guidelines since the start of the pandemic. And after the first couple...
Russia arrests more than 1,300 people in anti-war protests
On Wednesday, more than 1,300 people were arrested for protesting in Russia (a number still going up), mainly in the...
Is TikTok the new Google?
You’ve probably had that annoying experience where you went to Google to find a local restaurant for dinner, and it...
Plant-based meat executive bites a guy’s nose
You’ve probably heard about Beyond Meat, a company that specializes in creating plant-based imitation meat products.
Is going off the grid the way of the future?
Puerto Rico just got hit by a huge hurricane, which knocked power out across the island and left most of...
Meta isn’t doing so hot, and here’s why
In the not-so-distant past, Facebook (now Meta) was among the biggest Silicon Valley giants in existence. Two years ago, its...
Your science teacher lied to you about dinos; here’s how they actually died
At some point, probably in a primary school science class, you likely learned that the Earth used to be filled...
Are business travelers a dying breed?
During the pandemic, airline tickets were super cheap. One reason was that everyone wasn’t taking their tour-de-COVID to different parts...
Ye scraps his Gap deal
A couple of years ago, 24-time Grammy winner Kanye West (aka “Ye”) made a deal with Gap to put his...
How Patagonia is making its move to solve the climate crisis
Patagonia is unique when it comes to handling its climate impact. The outdoor clothing company has always been relatively concerned...
Adobe buys Figma for US$20 billion
Figma is a collaboration platform for software developers, and it’s been one of the leading players competing against Adobe’s version...
Australia will probably avoid the worst of the economic crisis
Experts have been saying for a while now that a recession is likely in several major countries. Bloomberg's poll of...
Whisper networks – the new “who you know” of hiring
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times – when it comes to job hunting, it’s...
What are ESG funds, and why are people criticizing them?
If you haven't heard of ESG, a good place to start is the acronym – it stands for Environment, Social...
Foreign-language content is finally getting its heyday
For a long time, most content meant for global consumption has been in English. Pick a year out of the...
How one billionaire is doing his own climate activism
For some background, Cannon-Brookes is a big name in Australia; he’s the country’s fourth-richest person and the co-founder of Atlassian....
Modern-day slavery is skyrocketing
According to a new UN report released on Monday, as you read this sentence, around 50 million people are living...
Did Apple just launch the next space race?
So, if you haven’t heard, Apple just launched the new iPhone 14, and it’s a doozy. Among the phone’s many...
Are nasal vaccines the way to go for COVID?
Last week, China became the first country to approve an inhalable version of the COVID vaccine.
Scientists think there are health benefits to magic mushrooms
These neuroscientists are working with psilocybin, the psychoactive component found in “magic” mushrooms.
The Queen of England is dead. What happens now?
Queen Elizabeth II died earlier today. She was 96 years old, and in her 70-year reign as Britain's monarch, she...
Apple did its thing
Apple just had its fall keynote, which is usually when it announces new devices coming out soon. This time around,...
Despite major losses, Snapchat is looking to grow
Snapchat isn’t doing so hot right now. Its stock has been on a downward slide for about a year now,...
NASA’s Dart will hit an asteroid in space
If you watched “Don’t Look Up,” and walked away from it having laughed but also trying to hide the fact...
China tests new ultra-powerful rocket engine
So we’ve talked a lot about space recently, and with good reason. NASA is working on getting its new SLS...
The edit button is coming to Twitter
If you’re a Twitter junkie, you know the struggles of not having an edit button. Whether it’s a typo, a...
Russia’s economy is taking a beating under Western sanctions, internal report says
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the West has hit Russia pretty hard with a wide range...
Why NASA making oxygen on Mars is a huge deal
Us humans have been dreaming about making it to the planet Mars for pretty much as long as we’ve been...
Qatar will allow beer sales at this year’s FIFA World Cup
If you're a big football fan, you probably already know that the FIFA World Cup is in Qatar this November.
US test scores indicate significant learning loss during COVID
You’ve heard it before – during the pandemic, everything was disrupted. And part of that everything was kids’ education, which took a...
How did editing software Grammarly become one of the world’s biggest unicorns?
Remember when everyone worked in offices and what often could have been an email was easier to flesh out in...
Russia closes Nord Stream 1 temporarily – again
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, Europe has been looking closely at its energy receipts. See, in the past,...
The next phase of the Ambani legacy
Asia’s second-richest person, Mukesh Ambani, is looking to prevent a power struggle from happening to Reliance Industries when he steps...
Is quiet quitting the new workplace trend?
In the past few weeks, the term “quiet quitting” has appeared out of nowhere. Although the concept isn’t entirely new,...
The Soviet Union’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at 92
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union before its collapse, has died at the age of 92, according...
Legos have entered the workplace
So it turns out that Legos, those multicolored bricks you put together to make funky-looking cars or buildings that span...
India’s Supreme Court says that families are families, no matter how “traditional” they are
India's march toward LGBTQ+ equality has been, well, more of a trudge, to be honest. It took until 2018 for...
Heightism in the workplace
Research shows a correlation between taller people (both men and women) and higher income, and it suggests that height also...
NASA will launch a new era of rockets toward the moon
On Monday, NASA is launching its new space launch system (SLS) rocket on what is essentially a dress rehearsal for...
China unveils a 1 trillion yuan infrastructure stimulus package
China, like everywhere else, has had it pretty hard during COVID. But with its strict lockdown restrictions in place when...
The world is having a mental health crisis
Living through a global pandemic, not seeing friends or family for weeks or months and having to work from the...
Biden cancels some student loan debt for US students and grads
Whether you're an American or not, you've probably heard the horror stories about people straddled by student loan debt from...
The problem with vinyls
You may be surprised to hear the vinyl industry is booming despite the shift to music streaming platforms and song...
An Australian tennis player Kyrgios has been hit with a defamation suit over his Wimbledon comments
So back in July, when the men's final was going on at Wimbledon stadium, Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios complained...
JWST takes stunning new pictures of Jupiter
About a month ago, the stunning first photos from the US$10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released to...
France wants people to switch to a bike or a scooter … and it’s willing to pay
France is investing a bunch of money into getting people to transition from gas-guzzling vehicles to electric scooters and bikes,...
China’s Pinduoduo is heading to the US
When it comes to e-commerce in the US, Amazon is hands down the biggest player. It has nearly 38% of...
Andrew Tate has been banned from TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
If you haven't heard of Andrew Tate, honestly, congratulations. He's an American-British former kickboxer who got kicked off of the...
Singapore repeals gay sex ban
On Sunday, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the country would repeal the ban on gay sex in...
Crypto and carbon credits?
So you might have heard of something called carbon offsets, or carbon credits. Basically, the idea is that companies that...
Why’s China pushing back on the US CHIPS and Science Act?
Back in July, US Congress passed a bill called the CHIPS and Science Act, which was essentially legislation that invests...
Venice surfers expelled from the city after a run-in with the mayor
Venice, Italy, is known for its beautiful canals, through which one often sees gondolas floating by, small boats gently motoring...
US Pharmacy chains ordered to pay US$650 million to Ohio counties for fuelling opioid crisis
Back in the 90s, Big Pharma told the US medical community that opioids weren't addictive, so doctors in the US...
The WHO is asking people for a new name for monkeypox
Monkeypox was named in 1958 after it was initially found in monkeys used for research in Denmark. And now, the...
38 Syrians were found stranded on an island between Greece and Turkey
Thirty-eight Syrian migrants were found stranded on a tiny island along the border between Turkey and Greece. They'd been on...
Apple jumps on ads
Whether you like it or not, Apple is entering the ad game much harder than before. See, up until now,...
Kenya’s election is decided and disputed
Like everywhere else in the world, Kenyans were hit hard both economically and through healthcare by the pandemic. So when...
Chinese internet watchdog publishes Musk article
China’s internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is in charge of creating policies on the internet in China. It...
Salman Rushdie is off a ventilator after a stabbing attack. Here’s what you need to know
Back in 1988, novelist Salman Rushdie released “The Satanic Verses,” in which two characters become an angel and a devil...
The US isn’t the top choice for Chinese students anymore
Chinese nationals have previously made up as much as 35% of the international students studying in the US. For a...
China is unhappy with South Korea expanding its missile-defense system
North Korea has been expanding its nuclear program for a while, and, to counter it, the US has been rolling...
A former Twitter employee, Ahmad Abouammo, has been found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia
On Tuesday, a jury convicted Ahmad Abouammo, a former Twitter employee, of spying for the government of Saudi Arabia by collecting personal...
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida reshuffles his cabinet amid concern over ties to the Unification Church
Last October, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office. He's a member of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, replacing former...
Musk sells nearly US$7 billion worth of Tesla stock in case the Twitter deal goes through
Elon Musk has been in a pretty hairy court battle with Twitter after trying to pull out of the deal...
Japanese fashion pioneer Issey Miyake dies
Issey Miyake, the revolutionary Japanese fashion designer known for combining modern and traditional fashion techniques, died on Friday.
Coinbase reports an over US$1 billion loss just after announcing a partnership with BlackRock
In the bigger picture, though, Coinbase is still suffering. In the second quarter, it lost over US$1 billion, or about...
Apple’s Focus mode will be a win, eventually
When iOS 15 came out, Apple released a new mode called Focus, designed so you can customize your phone setup...
Russia turns Ukrainian nuclear plant into a military base
Back in March, pretty early into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took control of a city called Zaporizhzhya, which...
Amazon, iRobot and data
On Friday, Amazon announced it was buying iRobot Corp for US$1.7 billion. You probably know iRobot from their signature autonomous...
The Senate passes the largest climate legislation in US history
For a while now, Democrats in the US Senate have been wrangling with Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrstin Sinema, two...
A new telescope will tell us about the collision of neutron stars
When a star reaches the end of its life, it turns into a neutron star, collapsing in on itself and...
Everything you need to know about Brittney Griner’s 9-year sentencing
Brittney Griner, the American WNBA star detained in Russia at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was found...
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead, it turns out
For a while now, scientists have thought that when an animal (or a human) dies, cells in all the various...
Small Hong Kong firm AMTD grows to be bigger than Goldman, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo
As of Wednesday’s close, a Hong Kong-based software company called AMTD Digital was worth more than US$203 billion, a pretty...
More people are signing up to be Uber drivers now than ever
For a while now, Uber has been facing a driver shortage. See, during the pandemic, people weren't really catching rides...
Kansas is the first state to put abortion to a public ballot
Back in June, the US Supreme Court made a ruling that got rid of a federal constitutional right to an...
Tesla-branded cocaine seized in Mexico
Back in April, Elon Musk posted a tweet saying that he was buying Coca-Cola so that he could put the...
Is North Korea funding its weapons programs with crypto?
For a long time now, North Korea has been heavily sanctioned. To fund all the different things its government wants...
Is TikTok getting into music?
When TikTok came on the social media scene, its rise was meteoric. It changed the game as far as social...
Iranian and Taliban forces exchange fire during a border skirmish
Since the US withdrew from Afghanistan last summer, the Taliban has had control over the country and its borders. This...
Biden and Xi have a marathon phone call to deepen ties and discuss Taiwan
Tensions between the US and China have been higher than average in the past few months. The big thing going...
Got an important message to send at work? It might be best to skip the emoji
Imagine this scenario – you just signed a big client at work, and though you can’t be in the same...
Will the rest of the world decide the UK’s next prime minister?
So you might have heard that Boris Johnson resigned, but how is his replacement chosen? Well, it turns out, it...
Sources say that the US has made a prisoner swap offer to Russia for Brittney Griner
Back at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brittney Griner, a professional basketball player who had been playing...
What’s Joe Biden’s Zoom setup like?
What does your video-call setup look like right now? Maybe it’s just your laptop, propped up by a couple of...
Russia may leave the ISS by 2024. Here’s what you need to know
Once upon a time, having the tech to be in space was a competition between Russia and the US. But...
The Pope apologizes to Indigenous tribes in Canada
For more than a century and running to the late 20th century, Canada separated more than 150,000 Indigenous children from...
The fight between Musk and Brin, explained
Shocker: there’s new drama surrounding Elon Musk. See, it just came out that he reportedly had an affair with Nicole...
Will insects be the next steak dinner?
You’ve probably heard of brands like Impossible and Beyond Meat making alternative plant-based “meats” for those of us looking for...
Anti-abortion advocates are divided on how abortion restrictions should play out
Last month, the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, which meant it got rid of constitutional protection for people...
What are digital nomad visas?
You might have heard of a recent trend of people moving all their work online and, instead of living in...
US federal prosecutors arrest former Coinbase executive
For the first time ever, federal prosecutors in the US have officially brought charges against business executives for insider trading...
How our brains deal with multilingualism
If you speak more than one language, you probably already know that juggling a whole different set of vocabulary, grammar...
Tesla sells off 75% of its Bitcoin amid a cold crypto winter
In case you haven’t heard, crypto isn’t doing so hot right now. So far this year, Bitcoin has lost around...
Is the early-years grind a necessity?
If there’s one thing we learned from the pandemic, it’s that we sometimes have to clearly create boundaries between our...
China meets with the EU for economic dialogue amid rising tensions
European and Chinese leaders are engaging in high-level economic and trade dialogues on Tuesday. The same officials will lead the...
Would you put a computer in your brain?
You've probably heard about Neuralink – Elon Musk's venture to basically link people's brains to computers so that we can...
A recession might be coming just because we keep saying it is
For months now, experts have been predicting that there will be an economic recession, particularly in the US. JP Morgan...
Biden won’t walk away from Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia won’t walk away from China
President Biden has been in the Middle East for the past few days trying to strengthen ties in places like...
What happens when you’re overqualified for a job?
It turns out that being overqualified for a job doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re more appealing to a company. In...
Park in Thailand gets two elephants with one hole
One day, an elephant and its baby were walking down a path when the baby fell into a hole. No,...
Italy faces political crisis as prime minister’s resignation is declined by the president
Mario Draghi, Italy's prime minister and chief executive, tendered his resignation to the Italian president on Thursday. But, it was...
What to expect from Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East
Joe Biden started a trip to the Middle East on Wednesday. The trip started in Israel, where he pledged to...
Who’s Rishi Sunak, the first-round winner of the UK’s conservative prime minister vote?
After Boris Johnson announced his resignation, it became the job of the UK's conservative party to find and vote on...
First photos from the Webb Space Telescope revealed
NASA just released the most detailed photos we've ever seen of the universe taken from its newly in-use James Webb...
New omicron sub-variants are spreading quickly throughout the world
New omicron sub-variants of COVID-19 are spreading quickly throughout the world. In the US, a little more than 100,000 people...
India will overtake China in population figures by November, says UN report
In just four short months, by November, the earth will be home to 8 billion people, the highest global population...
Does the Texas woman arguing her fetus counts as an HOV passenger have a strong case?
Since the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion for Americans, a number of states now have...
What does gender have to do with crypto? More than you’d think
Since the dawn of the internet, anonymity has allowed users to experiment with who they are online, most notably when...
The Uber files reveal how Uber broke the law and secretly lobbied world governments during its rise
According to more than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to The Guardian – known as the Uber files – tech giant...
Japan is throwing the book at online bullies
Cyberbullying, hate, trolling; whatever you want to call it, we can probably all agree it isn’t the best thing to...
How are people responding to Boris Johnson’s resignation?
Since November of last year, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has endured challenge after challenge to his political wellbeing. He...
