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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nicole Liel, a 28-year-old social media content creator from Singapore. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… The last leg of my first US trip was derailed by the Spirit Airlines shutdown.I wanted to tick America off…
How do you celebrate a memestock trying to buy a company four times its size? You make memes, of course.On Sunday, GameStop’s CEO, Ryan Cohen, made an unsolicited offer to buy internet retailer eBay for about $56 billion. GameStop has a market cap of about $11 billion, compared with eBay’s…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lee Tze Gwen, a 32-year-old animator and artist from Singapore. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve been drawing since I was 10. It’s always been a hobby for me, but I found my true calling…
Yeneshia Thomas was in her Central Florida home when she got a surprising email at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday: Spirit Airlines was shutting down. Loading audio narration… Thomas, 42, first heard the news from her union, but was still in disbelief. The flight attendant still hoped Spirit Airlines executives…
Tye Pierpont got her first passport a few months before turning 40, and she knew exactly how she wanted to celebrate that milestone: with a trip to Thailand. Loading audio narration… She’d never left North America, and Thailand felt exciting.”Back in 2008, that seemed to me the most exotic, crazy…
The World Health Organization said three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean after a suspected hantavirus outbreak. Loading audio narration… The agency said it has confirmed, through laboratory testing, one case of hantavirus and suspects there are five additional cases.”Of the six affected individuals, three…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessica Stanton. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… On Saturday morning at 2:28 a.m., I had an email from Spirit Airlines informing me that my flight back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had been canceled.I had…
Spirit Airlines shut down in the early hours of Saturday morning. By that evening, one superfan was already trying to save it. Loading audio narration… “We could buy Spirit Airlines,” Hunter Peterson, a voice actor who once flew Spirit Airlines for 24 hours straight, said with excitement in an Instagram…
AI is making white-collar work more efficient, proponents of the technology say. Employees’ eating habits may tell another story. Loading audio narration… When companies such as Atlassian, Block, and Snap, announced mass layoffs earlier this year, they cited one common factor: AI. The technology, they said, has led them to…
The least-expensive rooms are often listed as “guarantee” or GUAR class. For these, the cruise line will assign you a cabin, often within the category you selected, such as interior or balcony. In rare cases, you might get a free upgrade.This can be a great deal, but if you’re sensitive…
