Author: News Room
There are a few questions in my household that irritate me more than “What’s for dinner?”I think it’s the casual assumption that I have created a meal plan for the week, done all the food shopping and prep, and gotten dinner on the table at exactly the time everyone wants…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Federica Grazi, 34, who is based in London. She is the founder of Mitos Relocation Solutions, an advisory firm that helps retirees move abroad. It has been edited for length and clarity.There’s often a big gap between people who dream of…
The small camera installed in Meta’s AI smart glasses has become a problem for the company and the public.Photos and videos captured by Meta glasses have proliferated on social media, and not all of them are consensual. Clips of content creators harassing women and recording their reactions covertly have become…
While tech companies are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, they are also competing fiercely for AI talent — and the AI boom is reshaping the choices available to workers.Alongside established giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon, frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic now offer the chance to work at…
Happy birthday, Mr. Buffett.Investing legend Warren Buffett turns 96 on Sunday, and the 12 months since his 95th birthday have been truly transformational, featuring a huge career move and a major new investment. He’s also accelerated his charitable giving and dispensed plenty of his trademark wit and wisdom.Into the next…
Over the past four months, I’ve spent hours interviewing people who were brave enough to take a career break.I wanted to know if and how they overcame the many obstacles career returners face when trying to crack the job market. It all built up to the series My Big Break,…
Google Maps has made the switch — for Americans, at least.A search on the mapping app on Sunday shows the name “Lake America” for the body of water adjoining northern New York and southern Ontario, known until very recently — and still to most — as Lake Ontario.President Donald Trump…
Recently, after a major change in my personal life, I relocated from a single-family home to a 660-square-foot apartment. Transitions are hardly ever easy. Among all the uncertainty that comes with moving from a large living space to a smaller one is figuring out what to do with all your…
The day after Thanksgiving, I learned I’d have to move out of my beloved century-old, two-bedroom apartment in Kansas City.My building had been taken over by a management company in another state. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the beginning of a Hallmark movie in which the protagonist unites with her neighbors to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vanessa Banh, 28, a former accountant turned entrepreneur who bought a four-bedroom house with a garage in Modesto, California, and turned it into four separate Airbnb properties. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I feel like my generation is…
