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When the email hit my inbox, my heart raced.The company’s cofounders announced they’d made the difficult decision to lay off about 20% of its workforce and restructure the organization. Those impacted would know in the next hour or so.For a moment, I assured myself that my role would be just…
Since March, my family of five has been living with my parents in their two-story home on the Gold Coast, Australia. The youngest member of our household is our daughter, who is 3, while the oldest is my dad, who is 81.When people talk about multigenerational living, the conversation usually…
Whispers that Elon Musk might combine Tesla and SpaceX are growing — and investors want answers.Shareholders took to an online Tesla investor forum to submit questions for executives ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings and clamor for more details about a rumored merger with SpaceX.”Will SpaceX merge with Tesla?” asked…
Democratic lawmakers want to hold colleges accountable for unmanageable student-loan burdens.Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin are reintroducing the Accreditation Reform and Enhanced Accountability Act. It’s aimed at strengthening accountability in the system that determines whether schools can receive federal aid for students.The bill would require the Department of Education…
Erin Brockovich is getting Americans to report data centers in their backyards. The renowned environmental activist, whose work inspired the Julia Roberts film “Erin Brockovich,” launched a registry of US data centers in April, inviting nearby residents to report how the projects are affecting their communities.Speaking in an interview with…
Lockheed Martin announced a new PAC-3 interceptor on Monday that it said costs less than half the price of a regular Patriot missile.The PAC-3 Adapted Capability Effector, or ACE, is “built to defeat a wide range of air and missile threats for less than half the cost of a PAC-3…
I’ll probably take that extra step to make the mac and cheese since my kids loved it so much, but I won’t be doing it again for spaghetti or Mexican rice.I could save time and mess by making those dishes on my stove. Plus, the air fryer is an unnecessary step…
Melania posed for photos in front of pyramids in Egypt wearing cream trousers, a white blouse, a black tie, and a sand-colored Ralph Lauren blazer. A white-and-black boater hat completed the look.The outfit may have been innocuously stylish in a different venue, but some social-media users thought it looked similar…
Top Trump administration AI safety official Chris Fall has left after just three months on the job, according to a Commerce Department spokesperson.Fall, who was director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, has been at the center of the federal government’s voluntary review process of frontier AI models.…
Netflix expects employees across the company to develop an “aspiration for AI fluency” as the technology reshapes how work gets done, a top executive said.Elizabeth Stone, Netflix’s chief product and technology officer, said on an episode of “Lenny’s Podcast” released Sunday that the streaming giant is encouraging all employees —…
