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Meta’s Muse feels real in a way the metaverse never did
My colleague Pranav Dixit attended Meta Connect this week and he stopped by AI Insider to share his thoughts with newsletter subscribers. Here’s how the Q&A went down, in longer form: What was your biggest surprise while at the event? The biggest surprise was how good Meta’s upcoming VR glasses…
Retailers Are Cracking Down on Returns. These 16 Stores Still Have the Best Policies
The pandemic saw a peak of loosened retailers’ return policies to the delight of shoppers, but now many stores have tightened their policies after seeing a wave of return fraud. So if you love to shop and want more liberal return policies, you have to read the fine print first. We’ve done a lot of
Each state’s infrastructure, ranked worst to best
Infrastructure has a big impact on the quality of day-to-day life. Whether you’re struggling to get around because of poor road quality, unreliable public transportation, or your neighborhood experiences frequent power outages, weak infrastructure can make everyday life more difficult. It’s also…
I wasn’t ready to leave my college, so I took a job at my alma mater. It gave me the closure graduation never did.
When I was in college in New York City, I loved the theater department so much that it became a punchline: my friends and I joked that after graduation, I would take a job there and stay forever. Little did we know that would actually become my reality. After earning my degree in May 2022,
The RMD Mistake That Costs 401(k) Owners a 25% Penalty
Here’s a rule that’s cost retirees real money, and hardly anyone sees it coming. If you’re 73 or older and you own a couple of IRAs, the IRS lets you add up what you owe across all of them and take the entire withdrawal from just one account. Tidy. Convenient. Now assume that same convenience
I was afraid to delegate tasks for my 7-figure business. Learning to let go helped me grow it to nearly $5M.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luba Patlakh Kaplun, founder of Kidology. It has been edited for length and clarity. I used to dream of being a broadcast journalist. But my parents — Russian Jewish immigrants from Ukraine — wanted me to do something more serious, in their…
44 of the best and worst looks Melania Trump has worn as first lady
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 another venue, but some social-media users thought it…
8 Reasons Not to Waste Money on Car, Home or Renters Insurance
Insurance bills you every month for a disaster that may never come. On a fixed income with premiums climbing, dropping a policy can look like found money. Paying for insurance may seem like money poorly spent. In fact, you are not wasting money. You are protecting yourself against the financial…
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ deluxe album has 4 new songs. They range from inspired to indefensible.
Precious few music critics would’ve said that Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” needed more songs. When it was unveiled last October, Swift’s 12th studio album — inspired by the joy, drama, and “effervescence” of the Eras Tour, Swift said at the time — received some of the most disenchanted…
6 of the best scents to wear this fall, according to professional perfumers
As the weather gets colder, the fuzzy socks and heated blankets start to come out … and another way to exude warmth is by adding a spicy scent to your fragrance collection. “In the fall, we often look for warm, sensual, resinous smells, like rich vanillas and spices,” Haugen said. For a resinous…