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I spent a year driving across the US in an RV. These were 7 of my favorite places — and the 2 I’d skip next time.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sarah Silbiger, a 30-year-old freelance video and photojournalist based in Philadelphia. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In 2023, my now fiancé and I sold all our belongings, took a sabbatical, and kicked off a yearlong…
The prediction markets are catching on with Wall Street interns
The summer intern hunched over their phone, surreptitiously typing away, might be doing one of two things: betting on a prediction market or managing an AI chatbot. Morgan Stanley’s equity research team asked the firm’s summer interns about both their AI use and, for the first time, betting habits…
I don’t like to take the same trip twice. I made an exception to bring my kids to the Galápagos Islands.
I usually tell my kids they can travel to places I’ve already been when they are older. I started traveling as a teenager in high school and never stopped and my travels have taken me all over the world. In my quest to see and experience as much of the globe as possible, I am
Overcoming the bad vibes around data centers is a battle on multiple fronts
In a country that doesn’t tend to agree on anything, Americans are aligning on something: no data centers in their backyards. For all the growing anti-AI sentiment, the tech still has plenty of fans. The infrastructure powering it is a different story, though. A Gallup survey earlier this year…
I’m a LinkedIn career expert. Skip ‘doomjobbing’ and do this instead.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Catherine Fisher, a career expert at LinkedIn, based in San Francisco. This story has been edited for length and clarity. It’s becoming harder for job seekers to stand out. A lot of people are mass-applying and using AI tools that make them…
Silicon Valley threw a hot robot party, and the clankers were M.I.A.
At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find. This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. They came…
Hyundai’s growth is pushing Genesis’ US production back to Korea
Genesis, Hyundai Motor Group’s luxury brand, is putting its US manufacturing footprint temporarily on hold to make room for its parent company, Business Insider confirmed on Thursday. Ted Mengiste, chief operating officer of Genesis Motor North America, said in an interview that Hyundai is moving…
His robotics company IPO’d this week. He still thinks a humanoid breakthrough will take years.
Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can…
I left my job and became a stay-at-home mom. Starting over as an intern at 31 felt strange, but paid off.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mounika Chinnam, 33, who lives in Andhra Pradesh, India and took a seven-year career break. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I got my first tech job when I was 23, writing code for a research and development company. I had a…
We spent 2 weeks in Portugal. The best stop on our whole trip was a fairy-tale-like town just outside of Lisbon.
On our two-week vacation to Portugal, my husband and I planned a fairy-tale day trip to the town of Sintra, less than an hour northwest of Lisbon. Known as the first center of European Romantic architecture, Sintra is home to a stunning palace, the remnants of an ancient castle wall, and a…