Author: News Room
If you work in tech, your manager might still care about your career. They just might not have enough time to do much about it.Across tech, the Great Flattening has meant fewer managers overseeing larger teams and racing to keep up as the industry remakes itself around AI.The result can…
President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America, and it’s making waves on the internet.After tense trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed and the US imposed new 50% tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Canadian goods, Trump turned to another tool in his arsenal: rebranding.On Thursday,…
Meet the state minimum for car insurance and you are legal to drive. Whether you are well protected is another thing. Required coverage is designed to cover the damage you might inflict on other people. For example, an injury to a person, or damage to their car or property. Repairing…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cara Torchia, a 25-year-old actor and UGC creator based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In four months, I went from earning nothing from freelance user-generated content (UGC) work to fully supporting myself, which allowed…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with James Strawn, a 56-year-old former senior software quality engineer in Colorado, who worked at Adobe for 25 years before being laid off in June 2025. After a difficult job search, he landed on a completely new career path: being a school…
For days, one of the most popular AI models of the week had no known maker.Ox Alpha was free to try, impressive at coding, and mysterious enough to set developers guessing about which major AI lab was behind it.Then Z.ai revealed itself.The Beijing AI company said this week that Ox…
Lindsay Vonn, 41, said she missed the phone-free focus of being an athlete after retirement.On Wednesday’s episode of the “Pretty Tough” podcast, Vonn told host Maria Sharapova that she was still thinking about being active on her way home after her Olympic injury.”I was coming up the hill to my…
A new Miss USA has been crowned.Miss Virginia Justus Kelley was named the winner of the 75th Miss USA pageant on Thursday at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, becoming Virginia’s first winner since 1970. She was crowned by Miss USA 2025 Audrey Eckert. Kelley, 31,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shreya Mishra Reddy, 34, an Indian national currently staying in Toronto on a tourist visa. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I moved to the US from India to do my master’s in engineering management at Duke University in…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” pointing to the lake’s Indigenous name and centuries of history.”The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,” Carney wrote in…
