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Coworkers are divided about the office’s ‘Big Light’
At Atlas Financial Solutions, there’s a generational divide that’s highlighted by the flip of a switch. “I like the bright light,” Amanda DiGiacomo, the owner of the Bakersfield, California, firm (and avowed millennial), told Business Insider. “I just feel like I can see the computer screen better…
I tried Martha Stewart’s hack for making the ‘best scrambled eggs in the whole world.’ They were deliciously creamy.
During her Food and Wine demo, Stewart described how to clarify butter in some very simple terms: “You pour off the melted butter, the butterfat, and that’s your clarified butter.” Since I wasn’t familiar with the process before this experiment, I got a little more clarification with the help of…
Jeff Bezos buys part of Liverpool Football Club
Jeff Bezos has entered his sports ownership era. On Friday, Liverpool Football Club, one of the English Premier League’s so-called “Big Six” clubs, announced that Fenway Sports Group sold a minority equity stake in the franchise to 1892 Holdings, which includes K5 Sports, a fund where the Amazon…
I visited the Obama Presidential Center, the most expensive presidential library in US history. Here are 15 things that surprised me most.
The last installation in the museum journey is the Nelson Mandela Sky Room, a viewing lounge at the top of the Center’s tower with panoramic views of Chicago’s South Side, Jackson Park, Lake Michigan, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, and the University of Chicago campus. Visitors can…
Lawsuit alleges Sony investigated WPP’s media operation and said it ran a ‘global crime scheme’
A new filing in a lawsuit from a fired WPP executive alleges that Sony, one of the ad giant’s major partners, investigated the company and concluded it had improperly withheld rebates from clients. The lawsuit says that Sony presented the findings of its investigation to WPP in 2025 in a detailed…
X reveals the formula for going viral on its platform
On X, not all engagement is equal. Elon Musk’s social media company on Thursday released the source code that determines how posts are recommended to users, the latest development in Musk’s quest to champion transparency on the platform. “The goal is straightforward — we want people to be able to…
I made chef Alex Guarnaschelli’s favorite ‘accidentally vegan’ dish. The recipe is now my go-to for an easy dinner.
It’s tempting to order take-out or make a frozen pizza for dinner, but making a restaurant-quality dish at home isn’t as much of a hassle as you might think. Just ask chef and Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli. When I interviewed her in February 2021, she told me cauliflower “steak” is one of…
Claude users are canceling their subscriptions, citing Anthropic’s new AI watermark
Anthropic’s move to watermark Claude-generated text is driving some users away from its AI assistant. The AI lab said this week that some versions of Claude will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into their text output. It will travel with the content when it is copied and pasted and may…
A golden visa firm says ‘plan B’ passports are going middle class
Buying second passports was once largely the preserve of the superrich, but one investment migration firm says that’s changing as more middle-class Americans shop for them. The investment migration industry has traditionally catered to those who can afford the six or seven-figure price tags of many…
Luigi Mangione admits to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO: ‘I knew what I was doing’
Luigi Mangione admitted on Friday to tracking down and shooting Brian Thompson in a court hearing where he pleaded guilty to stalking charges in connection with the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing. Mangione reversed his previous not-guilty plea while Thompson’s family members looked on from the…