School starts in less than a month across all of South Florida’s counties — although the exact date varies by district. Below is a breakdown by county, including when students…
After their own mediocre RV rental experience, Carrie and Brian Smith saw a business opportunity: offer travelers a more polished version of RV living.The Dallas-based couple, both full-time airline pilots,…
The build-versus-buy debate around business software has a new calculator.Last year, I wrote about how AI coding tools were making it easier for companies to create their own internal apps instead of paying an outside software provider. That shift raised…
According to an Indeed Hiring Lab analysis, women now hold more payroll jobs than men in America. It’s only the third time this has ever happened. The first two times, during the Great Recession and just before COVID, the gap…
Recently, I brought you what felt like rare good news. After 40 years of watching companies shove older workers out the door first, artificial intelligence was finally starting to tilt the job market toward older workers. Experience suddenly looked valuable…
Insurance can feel abstract until you need it. Month after month, year after year, you pay premiums without filing a claim. Then, suddenly, that policy is the difference between owing massive debt and having the costs covered. These are the stories of people who were grateful they had the foresight…
Saving more than half your income doesn’t have to mean living in your parents’ basement and subsisting on ramen.”A lot of the old FIRE content is focused on hyper-frugality: Sell your car and bike 20 miles in a snowstorm to work. Live in a storage unit,” Cody Berman, the author…
Dropbox is “virtual-first” and that’s not changing anytime soon, according to its new co-CEO.While many companies continue to enforce return-to-office mandates, Ashraf Alkarmi said that when he takes over as…
How far we get in our careers, we tend to believe, depends on us: our intelligence, our temperament, our hustle. But where we work and the support we get there…
The dollar could eventually lose its status as the world’s reserve currency if the US fails to maintain its economic and military dominance, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said.”If we’re not the strongest military in 25 years and the strongest…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daisuke Fujii, the cofounder of Farm & Firm Company, a Japanese consulting firm that helps farmers and rural communities generate new income through agritourism, hospitality, and business development. It’s been edited…
Kevin O’Leary says he could have done a better job selling his plan for a hyperscale data center to the people of Utah.In an interview with MS NOW, released on Thursday, the “Shark Tank” investor talked about how he and…
As companies spend billions on AI in the race to automate work, a surprising office trend is taking hold among the youngest generation of employees.Gen Z workers are embracing the decidedly low-tech: premium notebooks, colorful desk pads, handwritten notes, and…
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In his 12 years on the job, Justin Berk, a 44-year-old product manager at an insurance-tech company, had seen his employer get bought and sold twice. All he had received in return was a “pat on the back” at a…
In Canton, Mississippi, where Nissan assembles the Altima sedan and the Frontier pickup, there are cameras watching how workers move.The automaker says the AI-powered system…
ZUOYING, TAIWAN — Taiwan’s navy deployed two medium-class strike drones on Saturday for the island’s biggest annual military exercise, and their designs resemble those of…
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Because the ADU would be their home, the Christies paid for the build, not the Swanns.”We did not spend a dime of our own personal money,” Swann said.The Christies lived in their home in New Jersey for most of the…
Your old Ikea bookshelf is part of a growing secondhand market.Ikea has spent five years growing its buyback and resell division, which pays customers for…
The MV250’s fuselage is bonded together rather than held with conventional fasteners.”That allows us to make this in a panini press, basically,” Clark said. “You…
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A few weeks ago, my daughters were floating in the water of New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, with my mother and grandmother. I snapped a quick picture and then joined them, thinking how special it is to have four generations swimming…
If you’ve ever admired someone’s engagement ring, you’ve probably oohed and aahed over the size or shine of “the rock,” as many like to call it.The diamond or other gem in an engagement ring is a key element, but it’s important…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ciara Jones. It has been edited for length and clarity.My daughter recently turned 13, and there were so many ideas we had about how to celebrate. It’s a huge birthday —…
The drive-thru line at Chick-fil-A stretched around the block, packed with oversized SUVs at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. Engines idled.No one honked. No one seemed in a hurry. It was one of my first glimpses of life in Wichita,…
If AI really is coming for the software industry, which companies have the best chance of making it through?This has been on my mind again this week after the gruesome acquisition of Airtable. This former SaaS startup darling was valued…
Every office has them.The employee who treats work like a second home. The one who arrives before sunrise and disappears by lunch. The midweek warrior. The stealth drop-in.As the return-to-office wars have subsided, they’ve left behind a workplace ecosystem populated…
I became a flight attendant in 2022, and the job has made me a better traveler. It’s also made me a more frequent one, and I prioritize taking vacations almost every month.Last year alone, I flew on over 250 flights.…
Free the kneeShorts at the office. Appropriate or not?It’s a heated and long-running debate across much of corporate America, one that Instagram boss Adam Mosseri recently planted his flag in. He said he was “pro” shorts in the workplace, with…
As a stay-at-home, work-from-home mom, I am primarily responsible for my 18-month-old daughter’s childcare during the workweek. Even with childcare help from my mom and mother-in-law, it’s still hard to find time to get all of my work done on…
One unexpected lesson I learned from traveling with just a backpack is that you can’t make excuses if you want to stay active. If you spend time looking for the perfect outfit, the best gear, or the right location, you’ll…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Henry Chen, a former Meta tech lead who was laid off in May. He’s 38 and lives in the San Francisco…
Many wealthy parents obsess about getting their kids into a great college, believing it will set them up for life. Drusilla Blackman specializes in helping them achieve that goal.Blackman, a…
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Diet advice is rarely one-size-fits-all. But one particular vice — enjoyed daily by more than half of Americans — has become the bane of health experts.Dietitians really, really want us…
On a gloomy July evening, Dean Ball is appraising the political theory shelf in the basement of San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore. It’s the end of his second day at OpenAI, and he’s arrived straight from orientation in a cashmere zip-up hoodie, carrying a…
