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I started making $10,000 a month from user-generated content in 5 months. I didn’t need to pitch or do any outreach.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cara Torchia, a 25-year-old actor and UGC creator based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In four months, I went from earning nothing from freelance user-generated content (UGC) work to fully supporting…
I was laid off after 25 years at Adobe. After a soul-sucking tech job search, I became a school bus driver.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with James Strawn, a 56-year-old former senior software quality engineer in Colorado, who worked at Adobe for 25 years before being laid off in June 2025. After a difficult job search, he landed on a completely new career path: being a school bus…
Everything we know about Z.ai, the Chinese company behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
For days, one of the most popular AI models of the week had no known maker. Ox Alpha was free to try, impressive at coding, and mysterious enough to set developers guessing about which major AI lab was behind it. Then Z.ai revealed itself. The Beijing AI company said this week that Ox Alpha was
Lindsey Vonn says training gave her something retirement did not: time without distractions
Lindsay Vonn, 41, said she missed the phone-free focus of being an athlete after retirement. On Wednesday’s episode of the “Pretty Tough” podcast, Vonn told host Maria Sharapova that she was still thinking about being active on her way home after her Olympic injury. “I was coming up the hill to my…
Miss Virginia wins Miss USA 2026, becoming the first mother to take the crown
A new Miss USA has been crowned. Miss Virginia Justus Kelley was named the winner of the 75th Miss USA pageant on Thursday at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, becoming Virginia’s first winner since 1970. She was crowned by Miss USA 2025 Audrey Eckert. Kelley, 31, is a…
I gave up on getting an H-1B visa because of the $100k fee. I’m optimistic about my future outside the US.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shreya Mishra Reddy, 34, an Indian national currently staying in Toronto on a tourist visa. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I moved to the US from India to do my master’s in engineering management at Duke University in…
Mark Carney says Lake Ontario’s historic name will remain as is, ‘then, now, and always’
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” pointing to the lake’s Indigenous name and centuries of history. “The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake…
40 movie sequels have hit $1 billion or more at the box office — here they all are
At one time, sequels were expected to have diminishing returns — but not anymore. Now, if a sequel doesn’t outgross its predecessor, it can be considered something of a failure. Perhaps that’s why, among the 64 films released by US studios that have made $1 billion at the box office, a whopping 40…
7 celebrities who competed at Miss USA, including Halle Berry and Olivia Culpo
Berry represented Ohio at Miss USA in 1986. She was first runner-up to Miss Texas, Christy Fichtner, who was the first runner-up at Miss Universe. If Fichtner had won, Berry would have inherited the Miss USA crown. That same year, Berry was the first African-American woman to represent the USA at…
We could all learn something from Olympic champion Alysa Liu’s commitment to rest
Alysa Liu is taking a break from competitive figure skating, but not because she’s burned out. The 21-year-old Olympic champion wrote on Instagram that she will be sitting out next year’s season to focus on personal growth and fine-tune her skating and artistry. She told NBC Sports on Tuesday: “I…