This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission. Shares of Intel jumped 3% Friday as The Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper and Asa Fitch reported that Qualcomm has approached Intel about acquiring it for perhaps as much as ninety billion dollars, citing multiple unnamed sources. The “massive” deal, as the authors […]
A Texas pipeline explosion has turned into a criminal investigation
A pipeline fire that burned in a Houston suburb for four days finally went out Thursday as authorities announced a criminal investigation into the blaze that had roared into a towering flame, forcing neighborhoods to evacuate and melting parts of nearby cars. Before the fire fully stopped Thursday evening, officials announced that human remains were […]
This 20-yr old fashion fund has launched American designers to stardom
Amid the curated electronic music, models’ cold stares and magazine editors lining the runway at New York Fashion Week this season, several designers felt a particular sense of urgency. In a little over a month, they will learn whether they have won of one of the most coveted competitions for emerging designers: The Council of […]
Why the first 30 seconds of a stressful situation are the most critical?
Think about stepping up to the podium to speak, or going into a job interview, or having a difficult conversation with an employee. When you’re entering any stressful situation, the most difficult part is the beginning when your anxiety peaks. That period of time is also the most critical because how you handle the first […]
MomTok tried to make Neom look like paradise, and it backfired spectacularly
Promotion for Neom, the upwards of $500 billion, 10,000-square-mile region under construction in Saudi Arabia, has always been a little off. There are the videos touting Neom’s 105-mile-long city, The Line; and the reality-defying renderings showing off a litany of luxury spaces including the golf resort Gidori. Now, though, it seems like Neom’s marketing team […]
DOJ files $100M lawsuit against ship owner in Baltimore Key Bridge collapse
The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse recklessly cut corners and ignored known electrical problems on the vessel, the Justice Department alleged Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to recover more than $100 million that the government spent to clear the underwater debris and reopen the city’s port. […]
New AI tools can dig up skeletons in politicians’ social media histories—and yours, too
Character, as they say, is what you do when no one’s watching. What’s been hard to ignore during the current election, however, is that character also seems to be what you do when only certain people are watching. Or when you think only certain people are watching, anyway. Ever since JD Vance became Donald Trump’s […]
Michael Keaton is one of many famous actors who changed his name for professional reasons. Why does that SAG rule exist?
People assign labels to other humans to help organize and personalize everyday life. Recent studies even show that we are not the only species on this planet to do so. Marmoset monkeys, bottlenose dolphins, and African elephants act in a similar manner. Things get hairy, though, when names are similar. In Hollywood, the Screen Actors […]
Boeing strike: Why 94% of its union workers rejected a ‘historic’ deal
Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed by the depth of fury among workers who tossed out a 25% pay rise deal and launched strike action. “They probably didn’t think that we had enough people for the strike,” Kushal Varma, […]
Is the Kroger-Albertsons merger really doomed? The deal’s chances, and what it means for consumers, explained
A weekslong court battle is playing out in Oregon right now that could determine the future of your grocery shopping—with one side arguing the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history will drive up prices, and the other side assuring it will benefit consumers. Next month marks two years since Kroger announced it would acquire […]