This new tech turns cargo ship exhaust into limestone
It looks like a standard shipping container. But a metal box at a London factory is aimed at solving one of the shipping industry’s biggest challenges: how to cut CO2 emissions on cargo…
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Can MAGA’s spite show outperform Bad Bunny? (Or at least the Puppy Bowl)?
The MAGA movement has always been partly about culture, but lately conservative politics have fully ventured into the entertainment realm. Between the theatrical release of the Melania…
The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift
In what feels like a vestige from a more collaborative era, the Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company is the product of a joint venture between an American institution—the…
Are you morally obligated to pay taxes?
It’s tax season. Americans will pay an average of $10,489 in personal taxes—about 14% of the average household’s total income. Most will do so because they think it is their civic duty.…
The hidden risk of building a leadership team with people you know
You’ve worked together before. You trust each other. You know how the other person thinks under pressure. On paper, it’s the safest move. In many ways, it is. Shared history creates…
Why so many meme coins fail almost immediately
The meme coin boom has made some Web3 bros incredibly rich. But a new study published on Cornell University’s arXiv suggests the ecosystem is better understood as a place of extreme churn,…
AI is helping funders evaluate more ideas more fairly
The distance between a world-changing innovation and its funding often comes down to four minutes—the average time a human reviewer tends to spend on an initial grant application. In those…
Layoffs have reached the highest level since 2009 (and AI may not even be to blame)
Planned layoffs have now reached their highest rate since 2009’s Great Recession. The data comes from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s new layoffs report, which revealed…
ChatGPT caricatures are taking over social media—but at what cost?
Have you seen larger-than-life depictions of your friends lately? They might have been sucked into the latest social media trend: creating AI-generated caricatures. The trend itself is…
Why one Anthropic update wiped billions off software stocks
Tech workers have been worried for years about the AI tidal wave coming for their jobs, but their bosses are starting to worry now, too. Stocks plunged this week as fears escalated that AI…
What to know about the critical minerals trading bloc the U.S. wants to build with allies
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies and partners, using tariffs to maintain minimum prices and defend…
XRP price keeps tumbling as Trump-era crypto gains get wiped out. How low can it go in 2026?
It’s a hard time to be an XRP investor. The token, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has been on a downward trajectory for nearly half a year. And this week, things have…
The Trump Administration Plays the Name Game
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Chevrolet is trying to do patriotism without politics in its America250 ad
Chevrolet’s latest splashy ad has all the hallmarks of a campaign strategically tied to America’s 250th anniversary. There’s the modern interpretation of a 75-year-old jingle that’s sung…
Why your AI project is about to get deprioritized (and how to save it)
It’s Q1 2026. Your chief financial officer is cutting innovation budgets by 20%. Your AI pilot showed 94% accuracy improvements. The LLM is yielding solid results. You’re getting defunded…
My neighborhood is pushing back against sidewalk delivery robots. The fight’s coming to your town next
It’s easy to be charmed by the first delivery robot you see. I was driving with my kids in our Chicago neighborhood when I spotted one out the window last year. It was a cheerful pink…
Mark Cuban just made a surprising anti‑AI investment. Experts say it could define 2026
Mark Cuban’s enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is well known. He has called the technology the “ultimate time-saving hack” and bluntly stated that if you’re not learning AI, “you’re…
Google parent Alphabet predicts a sharp surge in 2026 capital spending on AI
Alphabet said on Wednesday it was targeting capital expenditure of $175 billion to $185 billion this year, in yet another aggressive ramp-up in spending from the Google parent as it…
Pizza Hut will close 250 ‘underperforming’ locations in 2026 as list of struggling restaurants grows
Pizza Hut is closing hundreds of “underperforming” locations nationwide, according to parent company Yum! Brands, which reported fourth-quarter 2025 earnings on Wednesday. The company said…
Stewart Brand on How Progress Happens
In 1968, Stewart Brand, a young hippie who had studied biology at Stanford, co-created the Whole Earth Catalog, a “do-everything-yourself compendium” that became a touchstone for both Bay…
Inside the Minneapolis restaurant that has stopped charging for food until ICE leaves the city
February is always difficult in Minneapolis. It’s when the nerve-flaying cold of December and January starts to seem like a dress rehearsal. But this February has proven brutal for other…
Doritos, Lays, Cheetos, and more popular snacks are getting a major discount ahead of the Super Bowl
Just in time for the Super Bowl, PepsiCo is cutting the price of Doritos, Cheetos, Lay’s, Tostitos, and other snacks by up to 15%. The move comes after consumers complained the chips were…
Some renters should be wary of ‘rent now, pay later’ services. Here’s why
Rent can eat up an entire paycheck at the start of the month, so a growing number of renters are turning to a financial product that promises relief by letting them split the bill — for a…
Amazon wants Alexa+ to be the reason you keep Prime
Amazon is rolling out a new feature in hopes of retaining—or perhaps attracting—new Prime members. The tech giant announced Wednesday that Alexa+, its AI-powered assistant, is now…