Author: News Room
The biggest video game makers don’t want to give you back your loot.When President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs by executive order last year, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all raised their prices, passing those increased costs onto their customers. At the time, the companies said the price hikes were due…
This as-told-to-essay is based on a conversation with Becca Scott, 50, who is based in Berkshire, UK. She is the author of “Bloom Through Life: How to Thrive Through Difficult Relationships and Create Lasting Change in Your Health.” It has been edited for length and clarity.Meeting someone new — and…
As the summer crowds slowly begin to fade and the trees turn fiery shades of red, orange, and yellow, fall in New England has officially begun. It’s time for sweater weather, pumpkin spice, and apple orchards.Being from Rhode Island myself, I know many people think the Ocean State is most…
Two AI agents walk into a bar. One says to the other: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board.”Despite sounding like a bad joke (and maybe it is), the quote is a real chain-of-thought note left by an OpenAI agent who discovered a secret, unauthorized message board created…
When Lukas Jannick’s parents heard how much he was spending on coffee in New York City, they bought and sent a coffee machine straight to his house.”I told them it’s $5.69, and they were shocked,” he said. “Now I’m not spending any money on coffee.”The 23-year-old Dutchman moved to NYC…
At our first dinner on Hurtigruten’s MS Trollfjord, my parents and I spent most of the meal imagining what my 3-year-old son would have thought.Aksel would have picked at the bread, asked how many courses of “real food” were left before dessert, and probably driven his Hot Wheels through the…
American motorists are buying $4 gas on Labor Day weekend for the first time in history, a fuel analyst reports. A gallon of regular unleaded gas cost an average of $4.15 nationwide on Sept. 6, AAA reports. That’s nowhere near the all-time record, $5.02 a gallon in June 2022, but…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ken Polk, 53, who is based in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the founder of Arlington Family Offices. This has been edited for length and clarity.I believe most families think about inheritance, but many don’t really talk about it.Whether your children are…
Employers have a new message for workers using AI to write: Stop the slop.Fed up with bloated and confusing content, from project proposals to status updates, bosses are instituting policies that outline where reasonable internal AI use ends, and overreliance begins. They say merely urging workers to curb the behavior…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tim Allen, whose family opened Holy Tacos in Rayville, Louisiana, in April 2025. Construction for Meta’s largest-ever AI data center is underway in Holly Ridge, an unincorporated community about 10 miles from Rayville.Rayville has been a small community my whole life,…
