I lived in the UK for 4 years and am glad to be back in the US
I visited Benllech, Isle of Anglesey in Wales. I can still remember the day when I was 8 and my mother and I were at an estate sale. We discovered a tattered wooden chest filled with photo albums documenting a 1950s trip throughout Britain. The images of Windsor Castle and the Royal Guard in their…
How TV companies learned to stop worrying and love YouTube
Lots of “Love Island” programming is available on YouTube. Many TV companies have stopped trying to fight YouTube and are embracing its rise instead. TV has become the top place people watch YouTube in the US, beating out mobile and desktop. And increasingly, Hollywood is providing shows for viewers to watch there. “Long-form content is…
What we know about the $1.5 billion Bybit crypto hack
Crypto company Bybit was hit by $1.5 billion digital currency heist. Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said Friday that it had suffered what could be the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, with hackers stealing Ethereum worth around $1.5 billion. Ben Zhou, Bybit’s CEO, said in a livestream that the hack had affected around 401,000 Ethereum and…
I drained my savings to take my 7-month-old on a trip to Ireland. It was worth it for him to meet his great-grandmother.
The author’s son (not pictured) was 7 months old when they flew to Ireland. From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I had an urge in me to make sure that my child would know about his Irish identity. I began to ask my father, who was born and raised in the North…
3 numbers that show how dramatic Walmart’s transformation has been with Amazon nipping at its heels
The welcome center at Walmart’s brand new Bentonville headquarters. If you think you know Walmart, think again. While investors weren’t too thrilled when Walmart reported a conservative outlook during its fourth-quarter earnings this week, the company shared three key numbers that underscore just how much the company has grown in recent years. Here’s how the…
3 steps you can take to boost your career
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that people who are worried about artificial intelligence’s impact on the job market should become well-versed in using the technology. You might not be hitting the gym as much as you were in January, but there’s still time to achieve your career goals in 2025. There are a number…
Trump tells Musk: ‘Get more aggressive’
President Donald Trump told Elon Musk in a TruthSocial post that the DOGE head should “get more aggressive.” As far as President Donald Trump is concerned, Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t cutting enough. On Saturday, Trump praised Musk’s efforts to streamline government operations and reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and then called on his…
I moved from Chicago to San Diego for love. My friends were jealous, but I couldn’t leave the California city fast enough.
A view of La Jolla Cove in San Diego. After living in Chicago for six years, I had a fulfilling career, great friends, and was involved in several organizations. I would’ve happily stayed there forever, but my then-boyfriend (now husband) was in the Navy. We’d been in a long-distance relationship for seven years, and we…
A top US Navy shipbuilder says the problem isn’t that the industry doesn’t know how to build warships
The US Navy’s demand signal has fluctuated, forcing industry to adapt. A senior Huntington Ingalls Industries executive said the US Navy’s mounting shipbuilding problems aren’t because shipbuilders don’t know what they’re doing. Instead, he pointed toward inconsistent demand and workforce issues that have drastically affected industry’s capacity. Navy officials and analysts have raised some of…
