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The AI apps winning over corporate America
One chart in Okta’s new Enterprise AI Index neatly captures which work software has become more popular in recent years. You may be using these increasingly AI-powered tools yourself. Anthropic tops the ranking for corporate customer growth between June 2022 and June 2026, followed by OpenAI and…
My young patients fly into surgery dressed as superheroes. Surgery became a lot less scary for them.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leandro Brandão Guimarães. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I first started operating on children as a pediatric ear, nose, and throat doctor 15 years ago, I remember personally struggling watching children enter the operating…
How every Avenger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe compares to their comic-book counterpart
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is, for better or worse, sticking around through at least December 2028, with the release of “Black Panther 3,” the long-awaited sequel to “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” That’ll mark 20 years of the MCU and at least 42 feature films. But we’re getting ahead of…
I built an app to send messages after I die. The most popular feature wasn’t what I expected.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Majewski and Teresa Green, co-founders of One Final Message. It has been edited for length and clarity. Back when people still had genuine conversations on X (then, Twitter), I connected with people I’d never met in real life. I knew some…
I arrived in Greece with sky-high expectations. I left disappointed and wishing I’d avoided these 5 mistakes.
When one of my most anticipated trips turned out to be one of my most frustrating, it was entirely my own fault. I travel professionally for a living, but I still get caught up in excitement and unrealistic expectations when planning. Like many travelers, I’d been dreaming of Greece for years. I…
I’ve been buying foreclosed properties for almost 10 years. Here’s what you should know before buying one.
Billy Pritchard loves a deal. The Lafayette, Louisiana-based real-estate broker, 46, found his niche buying and flipping foreclosed homes after buying his first foreclosed home one year into his real estate career. “It was at a really good price range where I probably wouldn’t have to put a ton of…
I knew caring for my 88-year-old mom would be hard. I didn’t expect to spend so much time on tech support.
I really didn’t know what caring for an aging parent would be like. After my father died, my mother continued living alone in New York City. She was in her mid-80s and fiercely independent. She managed all her finances, doctor appointments, and dinner dates with her new boyfriend. She loved her…
The biggest ever lottery win in every state
Lottery jackpots continue to climb to staggering heights, with the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now sitting at an estimated $707 million. Although billion-dollar prizes remain rare, they’ve become far more common over the past decade. The Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot of $1.817…
The 7 best movies coming to Netflix in August
In one of the best sports movies ever made, Kevin Costner plays Ray, a Iowa farmer who, after hearing voices, decides to destroy his crop and build a baseball field. Eventually, dead ball players from the past populate the field, including one from Ray’s past. Read the full article here
Military medics train to keep casualties alive until evacuation. In the next war, that could take days, or even weeks.
The corpsman strapped his patient onto the litter as the sound of swirling helicopter blades roared from a watchful instructor’s hand-held speaker. Double-checking his IVs were secure, he and a stretcher team hoisted up their casualty and sprinted toward the landing zone amid flying debris from the…