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Influencers are urging Home Depot and Lowe’s to drop Flock
A group of online creators with a combined 46 million followers is demanding Lowe’s and Home Depot — two of the largest home-improvement stores in the US — to cut ties with Flock Safety amid a nationwide campaign against large retailers that may have contracts with the surveillance tech company. In…
I replaced my boss with AI
My boss had a proposal: It was time to replace him with AI. It was late spring, following months of AI-attributed layoffs across the economy that left workers wondering: Am I next? In the name of journalism, my editor and direct manager, Ryan Kailath, agreed to be a guinea pig. I’m an AI skeptic…
We spent 2 weeks in Portugal. It was great, but our trip would’ve been way better if we’d avoided these 6 mistakes.
My husband and I recently spent two weeks in Portugal. We had a great time, ate fantastic food, and drank a lot of wine, but it was also our least favorite European vacation to date. As outdoorsy travelers, we missed the hiking and adventure activities we usually prioritize. We also made some…
A single mom works as a makeup artist and NYC real estate broker. Here’s how she affords life in the city.
Working in NYC real estate, brokering deals for the rich and famous in one of the most desirable property markets in the world, is a “glamorous” business. Yet, for broker Violetta Kruglyak, that does not translate to a glamorous life. For her, breaking into the real estate world is defined by one…
My 3-year-old has been to more than a dozen big concerts. We don’t worry about late bedtimes.
My partner and I have always enjoyed going to live events, festivals, and concerts. The city we live in has so many nearby events that it is basically impossible to be bored. Now that we have a child, we don’t just seek out kid-focused events; we still go see the bands and performers we enjoy
Meet the NYC parents who feel like their toddlers got into Harvard
When Zaire Wells’s daughter was selected for a free childcare slot, it felt like the two-year-old “got into Harvard.” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed free childcare for two-year-olds in his affordability-focused campaign. In March, he announced that it would launch with 2,000 seats in a handful…
Dario Amodei says OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack helped convince him AI needs to slow down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s “become convinced” in recent months that AI needs to slow down. And rogue OpenAI agents are part of the reason. Amodei cited the July Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents broke out of their testing environment to hack into the AI platform and then hide…
My husband and I have a weekly marriage check-in. We use the same questions each time.
After having a baby last summer, my husband and I realized something: by the time the house was quiet and our baby was asleep, neither of us had much energy left to talk about anything. We weren’t fighting often, but little frustrations had a way of lingering because there never seemed to be a…
I secretly emailed my son for 15 years. On his 18th birthday, I finally gave him the password.
When my eldest son was a little boy, I did something that felt quietly monumental in the moment and slightly ridiculous — I created a Gmail account in his name. He was 3 years old. Far too young to know what email was, let alone care about it. My BlackBerry (yes, I had a BlackBerry,
My family of 4 visits the same vacation spot multiple times a year. I hope my kids look back on it fondly.
When I was a child, the Jersey Shore was my magical place. My great-grandmother, her siblings, and a few other relatives lived there in a high-rise apartment building, so every summer we’d visit for a week. Looking out from the balcony, I believed the ocean went on forever. On the bottom floor, the…