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A group of online creators with a combined 46 million followers is demanding Lowe’s and Home Depot — two of the largest home-improvement stores in the US — to cut ties with Flock Safety amid a nationwide campaign against large retailers that may have contracts with the surveillance tech company.In…
My boss had a proposal: It was time to replace him with AI.It was late spring, following months of AI-attributed layoffs across the economy that left workers wondering: Am I next? In the name of journalism, my editor and direct manager, Ryan Kailath, agreed to be a guinea pig.I’m an…
My husband and I recently spent two weeks in Portugal. We had a great time, ate fantastic food, and drank a lot of wine, but it was also our least favorite European vacation to date.As outdoorsy travelers, we missed the hiking and adventure activities we usually prioritize. We also made…
Working in NYC real estate, brokering deals for the rich and famous in one of the most desirable property markets in the world, is a “glamorous” business. Yet, for broker Violetta Kruglyak, that does not translate to a glamorous life.For her, breaking into the real estate world is defined by…
My partner and I have always enjoyed going to live events, festivals, and concerts. The city we live in has so many nearby events that it is basically impossible to be bored. Now that we have a child, we don’t just seek out kid-focused events; we still go see the…
When Zaire Wells’s daughter was selected for a free childcare slot, it felt like the two-year-old “got into Harvard.”NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed free childcare for two-year-olds in his affordability-focused campaign. In March, he announced that it would launch with 2,000 seats in a handful of communities selected for economic…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s “become convinced” in recent months that AI needs to slow down. And rogue OpenAI agents are part of the reason.Amodei cited the July Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents broke out of their testing environment to hack into the AI platform and then hide…
After having a baby last summer, my husband and I realized something: by the time the house was quiet and our baby was asleep, neither of us had much energy left to talk about anything. We weren’t fighting often, but little frustrations had a way of lingering because there never…
When my eldest son was a little boy, I did something that felt quietly monumental in the moment and slightly ridiculous — I created a Gmail account in his name.He was 3 years old. Far too young to know what email was, let alone care about it. My BlackBerry (yes,…
When I was a child, the Jersey Shore was my magical place. My great-grandmother, her siblings, and a few other relatives lived there in a high-rise apartment building, so every summer we’d visit for a week. Looking out from the balcony, I believed the ocean went on forever. On the…
