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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with June Boyd, 90, who lives in Toledo, Ohio. Boyd works as a director’s assistant for a community development nonprofit that helps people 55 and older find work. Boyd doesn’t have much in savings, though she isn’t worried about her future. Her…
How can AI actually foster more human connection?That’s a question Menlo Ventures, a venture capital firm that’s invested in companies like Uber, Tumblr, and Anthropic, wants to answer.Connection is one of a handful of “white space opportunities” that Menlo Ventures is eyeing as fertile ground for new startups in consumer…
Social Security is switching things up to answer your calls faster, while data showing wait times has disappeared from its website.The agency is temporarily reassigning up to 1,000 field office employees to teleservice work, per an internal union document obtained by Business Insider. The document shows the agency is changing…
The US State Department said on Wednesday that it’s resuming its process for approving student visas and that applicants have to make their social media accounts public for review.”Our overseas posts will resume scheduling F, M, and J nonimmigrant visa applications soon,” the department wrote in a notice, asking applicants…
I have four kids. My youngest son and daughter, 12 and 14, respectively, are in middle school. They’ve both formed important friendships during this time — no small feat for kids this age — and being able to maintain these bonds is important to them and to me. That often…
It was easy to predict that Elon Musk and Donald Trump would break up someday. Even the dummy typing this imagined it.What I didn’t imagine was that the divorce between two of the most powerful men in the world would play out on rival social platforms.Musk is tweeting away on…
