Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rarely grants interviews as extensive as the two-hour exclusive TIME secured last week. For portrait photographer Peter Hapak, who shot the cover of this week’s magazine, getting a lengthy photo session is just as unusual.
“I had a very fortunate session with him,” Hapak tells TIME. “I had a full hour with him, which is very unusual because most of the time I only have 10 minutes for a portrait session.
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Burlesque Boss Harold Minsky has no prejudice against home-grown talent, but at Las Vegas’ Dunes Hotel the foreign-born element in his chorus line is the spice of the show (“People enjoy talking to them”). So last month Minsky* took off on a recruiting trip to Europe, returned last week with a report that was part showbusinesslike, part sociological. Said he: “Europe is one big striptease.
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Charles is the Founder of SME100Africa – A a social enterprise, with the aim of ensuring African entrepreneurs succeed regardless of their socio-economic background, has grown to provide over one hundred thousand African Small and Medium Enterprises with access to finance, markets, capacity development, mentorship, networks, skills, resources and most importantly information. Charles Odii explains, “this book is written from my extensive experience gained over a decade of starting and running a business in Africa, international travel and engagement with thousands of entrepreneurs (who have sat with me and sent me emails to ask critical questions from “how to structure businesses, to how to develop marketing strategies that support their products in niche markets and more”).
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On Oct. 7, 2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign’s headquarters should have been a sea of smiles. Saturday Night Live even imagined the aides in Brooklyn popping champagne in a skit many in the campaign watched while sipping stale coffee at their desks the following night. The Access Hollywood tape had just been released.
Politics is a science. No, politics is an art. Stop — both are wrong. Politics is a game, played in Washington these past two years by politicians so concerned about the next election that they are willing to sacrifice the next generation. Every official in the capital knows that little can be done to bring down the nation’s appalling deficit or tackle the problems of drugs, education and the environment without raising taxes.
When Demis Hassabis was a young man, he helped design Theme Park, a popular computer game that gave the player a God’s-eye view of a sprawling fairground business. Ever since then, Hassabis, who leads one of the top AI labs, has been trying to attain a God’s-eye view of the world. As CEO of DeepMind, which was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014, Hassabis has led teams of computer scientists to AI breakthroughs including solving the vexatious protein-folding problem, and beating human professionals at the complex board game Go.
Doro Makes a Smartphone for Seniors
2024-08-05
Jared Newman / TIME.com Tech specs and fancy features take a backseat to oversized buttons and a dead-simple interface in the Doro PhoneEasy 740, a phone built with older folks in mind.
To even describe the Doro 740 as a smartphone seems like a stretch. Though it’s based on Android, it bears no resemblance to the operating system seen on many high-end handsets. Instead, the Doro 740’s 3.2-inch touchscreen presents users with a simple list of options, such as calls, text messages, e-mail and a handful of basic apps.