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My corporate sales job was sucking my soul out one call at a time. I’d drag my feet from one mind-numbing meeting to the next, asking myself: Why am I choosing this life?After I graduated from college in 2016, I was unsure what I wanted to do. I bought a…
President Donald Trump has made many changes to Washington, DC, since returning for a second, non-consecutive term. One such change is visible from space.In April, Trump announced that he had chosen Atlantic Industrial Coatings — a contractor he initially said worked on his Virginia golf club before later walking back that…
That K-pop earworm you’ve had on repeat might not have come from Seoul. It might not even be human.Deezer, the French music-streaming company, launched a free tool on Thursday that lets users scan playlists on its own platform and from competing services — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud…
When the Knicks won Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday, I immediately turned to my husband and screamed, “IT WORKED!”I didn’t mean OG Anunoby’s miraculous tip-in that clinched the Knicks’ third win of the series. I was, of course, referring to Jordyn Woods’ purse.Woods, who’s engaged to Knicks…
New Yorkers woke up Thursday morning to a giant blow-up figure of the world’s richest person, one day before his already immense fortune is set to inflate thanks to the biggest IPO in history.The big bust of a shirtless and smiling Elon Musk appeared in Times Square overnight, adorned with…
I took my first long train ride when I was 18, heading upstate from New York City. I can still remember the view of the gold, rust, and deep-red leaves out the window.I grew up in Hawaii, where there are no trains or fall foliage, so the experience felt completely…
The AI race has a blue-collar problem. Big Tech wants to fix it.Days after Meta said it was launching a $250 million program to train Americans for data center construction jobs, Google announced a similar initiative.The search engine giant on Thursday said it is investing $50 million in skilled-trades training…
Soldiers are using a new Mortars App that makes it easier to plan and control mortar fire from tablets or smartphones.Mortars are man-portable indirect fire weapons that lob explosive shells at high angles onto targets that the crews often cannot see directly, making fire-control calculations — the math that soldiers…
When most people think of major stock market indexes, their minds go to the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, or Dow Jones because they’re the “Big 3.” One index that often flies under the radar is the Russell 2000, which tracks the smallest 2,000 companies in the Russell 3000 index. The…
On a chilly winter day, Julius Mondragon stepped into a half-empty car on the Metra train line in Chicago.”Computah, activate hyperspeed typing,” he commanded a random woman typing away on her laptop. “Computah, make these two guys friends forever,” he said to two men sitting together, as they looked up,…
