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One car ride home, my observant 6-year-old asked a tough question: “Mommy, do you want to live here?”I suppose she’d heard me complain about life in the DC suburbs a few too many times. Still, in a moment of vulnerability and sadness, I said, “No, I miss my friends, and…
Finding cheap flights can be a matter of both where you’re going and who takes you there. Going released its 2026 Top Airports and Airlines for Flight Deals on Aug. 17. The analysis was based on a review of more than 45,000 routes at U.S. airports from July 1, 2025,…
The US military has awarded a massive contract to dramatically ramp up the production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, the Pentagon said on Monday, after burning through hundreds of these long-range munitions during the Iran conflict.The $22.9 billion contract awarded to US defense contractor RTX’s Raytheon follows an earlier framework agreement…
Self-driving cars have spent years learning the rules of the road. Now, several Waymo veterans are trying to apply those lessons to a far less predictable environment: construction sites.San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now working without human operators on three…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dima Beseda, cofounder of Spiry. It has been edited for length and clarity.I was only 3 when my dad brought our first computer into the house, but it changed my life. At a very young age, I realized that video games…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster.Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its quarterly…
Michael Tarulli, a retired NYPD officer who worked recovery at Ground Zero after 9/11, did what he thought was the responsible thing with his car insurance. He set the payment to automatic to ensure it got paid. When his checking account went into the red, he had no idea why.…
When Vinit Juneja started as a software engineer at Amazon last year, he knew he might leave one day for a more attractive role.But after watching colleagues lose their jobs during two rounds of layoffs that eliminated roughly 30,000 positions at Amazon, another factor took on new importance: job security.”I…
EY is betting that an eight-week internship is no longer enough to prepare young workers for the age of AI.The Big Four firm is launching a new paid “Career Residency” for its assurance interns that will continue for 8 to 12 months after they complete the traditional eight-week internship. Participants…
Here’s a cool deal for Tuesday, Aug. 18: You can get a free small ICEE at more than 1,800 locations nationwide for the first National ICEE Day. Free drinks will be available at participating Walmart Fuel and convenience locations and Krystal restaurants, with no purchase necessary. You can also get…
