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Port union credits Trump for averting a strike. It may shape future labor talks

A tentative labor deal forestalled potentially damaging trade disruptions at three dozen U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico ports, with both sides in the talks crediting President-elect Donald Trump...

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn will launch on Sunday—initiating Bezos’s challenge to...

Jeff Bezos‘s Blue Origin is set for an inaugural launch of its giant New Glenn rocket on Sunday, a long-awaited first leap to Earth orbit that sets up one of the biggest challenges yet to industry...

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Scoop: Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global-backed Divvy Homes is being sold...

Rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes is being acquired in a fire sale by Charleston, South Carolina-based Maymont Homes, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Maymont, a division of...

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How the Interior Department balances conservation, development, and trust...

The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It became known as “the department of everything else” for its enormous portfolio...

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Tired of the corporate grind? This is how to craft an exit strategy

There’s an important trend unfolding across the corporate sector, from mid-career professionals to the most experienced executives: we’re leaving. As return-to-office policies continue to increase and...

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4 ways Apple should upgrade its privacy and security game in 2025

Every year, Apple adds additional privacy features that make its products the most secure in the world. Most recently, in iOS 18, Apple added the ability to limit Contacts access to only the select...

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How AI is helping an Israeli TV reporter speak clearly again

When a renowned Israeli TV journalist lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS, he thought his career might be over. But now, using artificial-intelligence software that can recreate his...

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Midlife wasn’t always a crisis

In the acknowledgments of her 2024 novel All Fours, Miranda July explains that she was inspired by a series of conversations about “physical and emotional midlife changes” with several women close to...

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Southern California’s water crisis is fueling fires. These maps show just how...

Dry conditions across Southern California set the stage for a series of deadly wind-driven wildfires that burned thousands of homes and other structures in the Los Angeles area in early January 2025....

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Weirdcore 2.0’s freaky aesthetic is taking over your feed

The sun is bright. A caucasian grandma sits on the grass. She smiles at the camera. Caresses two small dogs. It’s a peaceful summer day. Three seconds later, your brain notices something is off. Her...

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It doesn’t matter what L.A.’s fire budget was—no city is prepared for climate...

As multiple wildfires rage across Los Angeles, causing unprecedented levels of destruction, the city’s budget has come under scrutiny. It’s an example of misinformation that has spread during the...

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CES was a giant exercise in AI gaslighting

For a reporter covering CES, the booth for Samsung Display can seem like a pure distillation of what the tech trade show is all about. CES has always been a celebration of screens, and every year...

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When and how to invest in your career

When I was growing up, my otherwise frugal father leased a new car every three years. He claimed that, as a financial planner, his clients expected him to look successful, which meant driving a nice,...

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Meet the startup pioneering AI-to-AI commerce—and why it matters

AI using AI to pay for AI? It could soon become a reality.  As AI systems become more ubiquitous, those systems will further interact with other AI systems, requesting data, resources, or...

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How to watch Blue Origin test launch its first orbital rocket over the...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will finally launch its first orbital-class rocket on Sunday, January 12, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida....

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AI is changing the way we grieve and perceive death

Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who...

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Nuclear fusion could be the future of clean energy if it can overcome these...

The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source of clean energy....

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The full moon tonight is also a January ‘wolf moon’: What it means and the...

The first full moon of 2025 is upon us. According to NASA, the full moon will reach its peak on Monday, January 13, but it will appear full from Sunday until Wednesday. The Old Farmer’s Almanac took...

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Elon Musk didn’t start the H-1B visa debate

The H-1B visa program, which countless tech companies and other large employers rely on to recruit highly skilled talent from abroad, has recently sparked a debate between various factions of the...

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These 3 types of workers contribute to toxic drama. Here’s how leaders can...

Passionate John Lennon devotees may ardently visualize a utopian future, wistfully slipping the surly bonds of reality to imagine a perfect world of people living life in peace. It is indeed a...

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