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Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s new jet-powered drones takes a Shahed-like form
Ukraine has revealed a new interceptor built to take down Russia’s latest jet-powered drones, and it features a design that loosely resembles the Shaheds that Moscow uses extensively in the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted footage of the interceptor on Saturday, saying it was…
I fell for my surf instructor in Morocco. We got married and turned an abandoned riad into a hotel.
This interview is based on a conversation with Nina Ottevanger, 31, a surf instructor and co-owner of Ilyana Surfhouse, a small business in Rabat, Morocco. It has been edited for length and clarity. Eleven years ago, I was traveling in Morocco with two friends. While in Rabat, we wanted to surf and…
My 13-year-old refused to share his location with me. I was annoyed — until I realized he had a point.
I don’t think of myself as an overprotective parent. I began letting my kids stay home alone for short stints when they were around 10. I let them wander our neighborhood alone starting when they were 11 or 12. I don’t heavily monitor their social lives or phone usage, nor do I check their grades
A Lyft driver was in a crash on the job. Now he’s struggling to provide — and fighting insurance.
Osahon Aburime opened his Lyft app on Mother’s Day last year to make some money. That day, the North Carolina driver had made about $80 to put toward taking his wife out to dinner and getting a gift for his mom. As he was on his way to pick up a passenger, though, he got
The CEO who leads one handwritten note at a time
At least once a year, Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler’s right hand cramps up from a few hours of writing. He’s not signing copies of a book. The pain, instead, comes from penning personalized notes to every member of the technology company’s 80-plus-person leadership team ahead of their annual…
Dementia care can cost a fortune. Families pay in more ways than one.
When Angela Davis discovered that her mother with dementia had changed the locks, she knew she had to intervene. After a standard care facility didn’t cut it, Davis, 65, moved her mother into her own home. Davis now manages her medications, assists with her hygiene, and monitors her at night. She…
This Ford exec put her family’s Claude assistant on a PIP. ChatGPT has taken over.
Claudette is on a performance improvement plan. Three months ago, Whitney Stefko Dover, a director and senior counsel of policy and legal operations at Ford, told Business Insider that she had vibe coded her family a chief of staff using a bespoke Claude assistant named Claudette. The agent turned…
Stock compensation gives Big Tech workers a powerful reason to stay. Layoffs and the AI boom are changing the equation.
The day after Rob Waters learned of his layoff from Google last year, he was encouraged to apply for a new role there as an AI sales specialist. Google soon offered him the position, with a six-figure salary. Waters wasn’t sure he wanted to return. He’d grown frustrated with the bureaucracy at…
Half the drones in a recent US Army combat exercise were designed to be expendable
The US Army brought thousands of drones to a recent combat exercise, and roughly half were designed to be expendable. Soldiers could use and lose the drones in the fight, treating them like ammunition. The Army’s shift toward using low-cost drones has relied on amassing enough systems to make them…
I left New York, moved to Boston, and had 3 kids. Along the way, I built a career that looks nothing like the one I planned.
As a teenager, I’d sit on my bed flipping through glossy magazines, fascinated and completely absorbed by the empowering stories about women. The news felt dominated by men, but magazines seemed to offer a different world — one where women’s lives, bodies, careers, and opinions were worthy of…