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Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi isn’t leaving the storied news program quietly.Alfonsi, who has clashed with CBS News top editor Bari Weiss, told “60 Minutes” employees on Wednesday that her contract expired over the weekend.”The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over,” Alfonsi…
DuckDuckGo has seen usage surge after Google unveiled its biggest Search overhaul in decades, suggesting some users may be looking for alternatives as the internet giant pushes deeper into AI.DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, said US installs rose an average of 20.8% week over week in the seven days after…
As a Korean-American with family and friends in Seoul, I’ve come back to the Motherland quite frequently over the last few years.On my most recent visit, I decided to explore a little differently. By this trip, I had already taken in the city’s most popular hot spots: Itaewon, Myeong-dong, Hongdae,…
We may have to thank the baby boomers for the strength of the US economy.The economy is often said to be in the midst of a K-shaped divergence, a dynamic in which the top earners account for most of the growth and spending, while lower-earning Americans face greater economic pressure.But,…
A decade after he co-founded a medical device to open up clogged arteries caused by coronary heart disease, John Adams underwent his own treatment.An electrical engineer and medical device entrepreneur, John Adams first started tinkering with the concept of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in 2007 with his partner, Daniel Hawkins. The…
Maybe AI isn’t going to ruin everything — or fix everything! — after all.People as different as the pope, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang have given me some hope in recent days: Maybe we can find an AI middle ground where it doesn’t kill us all, or become a substitute…
First, it was Hawaii. Then Sicily. Then Thailand. Soon, the French Riviera will get its turn in the spotlight when the fourth season of The White Lotus arrives.Filming has kicked off for the latest season of Mike White’s Emmy-winning HBO Original series, which follows the wealthy guests and long-suffering employees…
When Hyaat Chaudhary founded Luxome in 2018 to sell luxury weighted blankets, “returns were an afterthought,” he said. Not every customer wants to keep the products they order, so returns piled up at the warehouse.Other retailers disposed of their returns in landfills. “It just drove me crazy as a human…
Art_Photo / Shutterstock.comThe benefits of marriage don’t stop at love and companionship. In some situations, marriage can result in more Social Security benefits. If you stay married for at least 10 years, those benefits can last even if you get divorced. But the rules for marriage and Social Security get…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has frozen undergraduate tuition prices across all public colleges and universities for the third year in a row. In a letter issued on May 27, Abbott said affordable higher education is essential to meeting the state’s workforce needs and ordered the freeze through the 2026-27 academic…
