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I built an app to send messages after I die. The most popular feature wasn’t what I expected.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Majewski and Teresa Green, co-founders of One Final Message. It has been edited for length and clarity. Back when people still had genuine conversations on X (then, Twitter), I connected with people I’d never met in real life. I knew some…
I’ve been buying foreclosed properties for almost 10 years. Here’s what you should know before buying one.
Billy Pritchard loves a deal. The Lafayette, Louisiana-based real-estate broker, 46, found his niche buying and flipping foreclosed homes after buying his first foreclosed home one year into his real estate career. “It was at a really good price range where I probably wouldn’t have to put a ton of…
The biggest ever lottery win in every state
Lottery jackpots continue to climb to staggering heights, with the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now sitting at an estimated $707 million. Although billion-dollar prizes remain rare, they’ve become far more common over the past decade. The Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot of $1.817…
Military medics train to keep casualties alive until evacuation. In the next war, that could take days, or even weeks.
The corpsman strapped his patient onto the litter as the sound of swirling helicopter blades roared from a watchful instructor’s hand-held speaker. Double-checking his IVs were secure, he and a stretcher team hoisted up their casualty and sprinted toward the landing zone amid flying debris from the…
Caviar and selfies with Alix Earle: Inside Time magazine’s soiree for top creators
“Do you want caviar?” Servers floated around a renovated pencil factory in Brooklyn with holsters carrying caviar and crackers around their waists, while internet stars mingled. The soiree, hosted by Time magazine, celebrated the publication’s second annual “Time100” list of content creators. The…
Taking Greenland won’t fix the US’s problems in the Arctic, experts say
President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to acquire Greenland, reiterated most recently at a NATO summit last month in Turkey, have thrust the Arctic into the global political spotlight. The bigger challenge, they say, isn’t acquiring more Arctic territory. It’s that the US has spent decades…
When my kids were young, I was excited to send them back to school. Now that I’m a mom of teens, I feel differently.
My two youngest kids are entering 11th grade. The recurring theme in my head is, How did we get here so fast? I have misty memories of their younger years: soft, pudgy baby hands, “Doc McStuffins” playing in the background, and the marked absence of deep sighs and eye rolls in my life. When my
Don’t expect supersonic flight any time soon — our new private jet is close enough, says Bombardier CEO
The world’s newest private jet is breaking speed records, but the manufacturer’s CEO and chief engineer say going supersonic isn’t worth the time. Bombardier’s Global 8000 is the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde and costs at least $78 million to buy. It entered service in December and made its…
Phoebe Gates’ shopping app Phia is in damage control mode and offering refunds after a payment scandal
Clean up on aisle Phia. The shopping startup cofounded by Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe, is doing damage control after a bombshell Bloomberg report revealed it had been earning commissions on sales it didn’t help drive. Phia is working with at least one affiliate network, Impact.com, to…
WaPo’s opinion editor is leaving a year after a controversial shake-up. Read his memo to staff.
The Washington Post’s opinion editor is leaving after about a year. Adam O’Neal was hired as part of owner Jeff Bezos’s push to champion “personal liberties and free markets” in the opinion section. O’Neal had been a correspondent at The Economist. A replacement hasn’t been named. Bezos unveiled…