Tiny bungalows are popping up in back lawns across the U.S. as more American adults welcome their grandparents home with “granny pods.” Denise Martin, a 65-year-old retired financial advisor and grandmother of three, has been cozied up in her own miniature home for over a year—right in her daughter’s backyard. “The primary reason why I…
YouTube TV has started deploying a fresh lineup of streaming packages designed to offer more flexibility and lower costs compared to its traditional all-in-one subscription. These new options are now active for a portion of subscribers, with the company opting for a gradual implementation strategy. Over the next few weeks, the plans will become accessible…
Oofos Oofos shoes are made from a proprietary foam material that’s designed to absorb shock. Recently, HuffPost consulted the older folks in our audience on their most comfortable sandals. Our interest was piqued when several responses highlighted one shoe that came with claims of reduced joint stress and plantar fasciitis relief. Amazon OOriginal flip-flop sandal….
In this article ARCC COP DVN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT ConocoPhillips Co. signage is displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images As stock markets continue to be volatile, investors looking for a stable…
Southwest Airlines doesn’t just assign – and charge for – seats now, they enforce assigned seating more strictly than other airlines. Customers and flight attendants report: When there are plenty of empty rows, passengers can’t spread out and leave their assigned seats. When passengers are in the aisle and middle, neither can occupy the unassigned…
An Uber Eats delivery courier in Krakow, Poland. Uber announced plans last week to acquire rival Getir’s food delivery business in Turkey © Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber is expanding its delivery business into seven new European countries this year, as tech groups step up their battle over the multibillion-euro food delivery market. The…
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after declining 3% in 2024, according to reporting this past week by the San Francisco Chronicle. Even as overall college enrollment climbed 2% nationally — according to…
Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev has ordered an immediate review of the sale of Israeli shipping giant ZIM to Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd and Israel’s FIMI Opportunity Funds, after officials were caught off guard by the deal, sources told Israel Hayom. The deal, finalized overnight between Saturday and Sunday, stipulates that ZIM’s shipping lines operating to and…
As global travel rebounds, the fastest growth is happening beyond the usual tourism heavyweights – from Ethiopia to Bhutan. More than 1.5 billion international tourists travelled abroad in 2025, setting the stage for a record-breaking 2026. According to the latest World Tourism Barometer published by UN Tourism, international arrivals grew 4% globally, beginning to match…
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Lifetouch, one of the most prominent school photography companies in the country, is facing district investigations and canceled school photo days. It’s all because of an unsubstantiated rumor spreading online. It claims the former CEO of Lifetouch’s ownership group – who is named in the Epstein files – may have accessed…
Xcel Energy shared a notice on the company’s X account on Saturday, warning customers to prepare beforehand for potential power shutoffs. “Historically low snowpack, coupled with unseasonably warm and dry weather and very dry vegetation, could contribute to large, fast-spreading wildfires in Colorado over the coming weeks and months. We encourage you to take steps…
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Investors view AI as a threat to much of the software-as-a-service industry © Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The rapid advances in artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT have taken place deep inside the leading AI labs, out of sight to most people. By contrast, the…
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts posting content generated by artificial intelligence. Social bots are AI software that produce content and interact with people on social media. We…
A wonkish guide for the confused WARNING: TODAY’S POST WILL BE EVEN WONKIER THAN USUAL Until recently the question of who pays tariffs wasn’t controversial among economists. The overwhelming consensus was that under normal circumstances tariffs — taxes on imported goods — are passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. There are…
Chinese cars could be at an American dealership sooner than you think, and that’s good news for US consumers. Chinese car companies make more vehicles than anyone else on Earth and export more as well. But high tariffs and hostile US-China trade relations have kept them out of the American market. That’s likely to change,…
The exterior of the headquarters of Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2025. (Photo by David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images) THE VACCINE MAKER MODERNA decided this past week to tell the world about bad news it had received from the federal government. A potentially groundbreaking vaccine for seasonal flu that the Massachusetts-based company…
If you daydream about getting a break from work, you might picture two weeks of vacation or a long weekend getaway. But some people dare to imagine something bigger and find ways to get a substantial breather from stress or their day-to-day routines. Mini-sabbaticals. Adult gap years. Micro-retirement. Extended career breaks go by many names…
While AI hyperscalers are committing hundreds of billions of dollar per year on capital expenditures, Anthropic’s spending plans are more cautious by comparison. But cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei said the reason for his more measured approach is because even a slight miscalculation could sink the company. In an interview with Dwarkesh Patel on Friday,…
“Resist and Unsubscribe” strike targets tech companies to influence Trump policies. By Rebecca Ruiz Rebecca Ruiz Senior Reporter Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation and mindfulness. Rebecca’s…
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DETROIT — Valentine’s Day dinner at White Castle with candles, attentive wait staff and white tablecloths was a treasured experience for Krystal Gray and her mother, Cornelia Murphy. This year, Gray will bring along a photo of her mother, who died last spring at age 80, and place it on the table she has still…
Making AI data centers perform better is more difficult. The new frontier is the tech that interconnects thousands of processor chips. Most investors would probably agree that artificial intelligence (AI) stocks remain the market’s best bet for growth. But there’s also no denying that leading AI stock Nvidia (NVDA 2.21%) has lost a bit of…
Americans, not overseas sellers, are paying almost all of President Trump’s tariff increases, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The report finds that roughly 90% of the cost of the administration’s import duties is falling on US consumers and businesses, undercutting Trump’s frequent claim that foreign exporters are…
It’s a risky time to buy the dip, but here’s how I’d do it. The Feb. 5 crypto sell-off was ugly, and the market hasn’t exactly snapped back with confidence. On that day, the crypto majors crashed by 14% or more, and none have completely recovered to their prior levels. Still, now’s the time to…
On Saturday, designer Kate Barton will unveil her latest collection at New York Fashion Week — with a twist, of course. Barton teamed up with Fiducia AI to create a multilingual AI agent (built with IBM watsonx on IBM Cloud) to help guests identify pieces of the collection and try them on virtually. TechCrunch caught…
Total federal debt is nearing an ominous milestone in a few years, but a potentially more troubling tipping point could also arrive soon. According to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office, publicly held debt is currently at $31 trillion and is about 100% of GDP. By fiscal year 2030, debt is expected to…
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders…
Companies and their advisors waking up to a new Washington: You can do deals again. The ouster of Justice Department antitrust chief Gail Slater last week makes clear that the White House’s business-friendly approach has won out over populists like Slater, Vice President JD Vance, and MAGA adviser Steve Bannon who are more skeptical of…
CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Tens of thousands of jars of peanut butter have been recalled after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the products may contain “foreign material.” The FDA issued a recall for three peanut butter products that may contain pieces of “blue plastic.” The products were distributed in 40 states, including Ohio and…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical framing, of course, that pointedly leaves the door open to this sensational and still-unlikely possibility being true. Amodei mused over the topic during an interview on the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast hosted by columnist Ross…
When things seem too perfect on Wall Street, they often are. From a statistical standpoint, the stock market has thrived with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. During his first term (Jan. 20, 2017 – Jan. 20, 2021), the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.10%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.05%), and innovation-inspired Nasdaq…