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British Columbia is an adventurer’s playground with impressive natural beauty. It’s hard to get bored with the beautiful Pacific coastline and legendary old-growth forests.Johnstone Strait, a glacier-carved channel between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island, is especially beautiful — and you might even see a humpback whale in the water…
Back in 2018, I was finishing my final year of college.It had been far from the best chapter of my life, so I did everything I could to graduate a semester early. I abandoned my plans to apply for a Fulbright scholarship and moved in with my parents temporarily.Now that…
Good Good’s CEO and president are out on Wednesday in the latest twist at the beleaguered YouTube golf collective, according to a memo seen by Business Insider.Nahid Giga, one of the company’s founders and an early investor, will step in as interim CEO, according to a memo shared by Alex…
The US Navy’s top admiral sees laser weapons as a strategic answer to the cost challenge of combating cheap drones.The Navy has been looking to laser and directed-energy weapons as a potentially cheaper means of neutralizing uncrewed systems, preserving limited and much more expensive interceptor missiles for higher-end threats. Laser…
They’re ugly. They’re noisy. They sprawl across the landscape. They gobble up energy and water.Americans hate data centers and don’t trust the Big Tech companies that need them. But they love using the artificial intelligence models they power.More than half of Americans used an AI chatbot in July, according to…
Google escapes again.A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Google doesn’t have to break up its adtech business — which was the nuclear option sought by the Justice Department after the tech company was found to have operated an illegal monopoly in certain online advertising markets.It’s the second time in recent…
Bill Simmons has said he authorized another person to place sports bets on his behalf, but don’t expect the podcasting star to get more than a slap on the wrist.Simmons, who runs Spotify’s podcast strategy, said on his show on Sunday that he’d enlisted his daughter’s boyfriend to log into…
Los Angeles County and Sheridan County, Wyoming, don’t share many similarities, except for one main area: a high volume of business applications.That’s one of several findings from the US Census Bureau’s most recent business application data release in June. The data track applications for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) submitted to…
With America’s debt mounting and oil prices on the rise again, the bond market has been gripped by a sell-off this week.Market jitters were first triggered last week, following Scott Bessent’s plan to have the Treasury as much as double its long-dated bond purchases. The move briefly quelled yields, but…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Teri Williams, president and chief operating officer of OneUnited Bank. It has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up in Indiantown, Florida, I used to follow my great-grandmother around, whom I called Ma Honey. Ma Honey owned a penny candy store,…
