‘We’re all nerds now’ Are fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons the cure for America’s loneliness epidemic?
Will Champion was 24 and working at a board game café on New York’s Upper West Side in 2021 when he and his friends decided to turn their Dungeons & Dragons hobby into something bigger. Champion was making a meager $15 an hour at the game café as a dungeon master, the storyteller who often…
You can now pay for that DoorDash order on Klarna. Hmmm.
DooDash partnered with Klarna to offer customers new payment options. The “Buy Now, Pay Later” model is coming to DoorDash, of all places. DoorDash has partnered with Klarna, a Swedish fintech company, to offer US-based customers more payment options. When DoorDash customers checkout, they’ll be able to select Klarna as a payment option. Under Klarna,…
Tesla’s stock is down for the ninth week in a row. B-17 readers got an early signal trouble was coming.
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Wonder what it was like to attend Nvidia’s annual developer festival, where the party started with pancakes in the parking lot? Our reporter was on the ground for the so-called “Super Bowl of AI.”…
Finding AI unhelpful? Reid Hoffman says you’re not trying hard enough.
Reid Hoffman says he uses AI to learn new topics and assess companies as an investor. Reid Hoffman has some advice for anyone not finding AI useful: try harder. “Frankly, if you haven’t found something where it’s useful to you, about something you care about, then you’re not trying hard enough, you’re not being original…
OpenAI says ChatGPT might be making its most frequent users more lonely
AI is making us more productive. It might also be making us more lonely. AI, like social media, might be just another in a long line of technologies that make us all feel worse. It’s been over two years since OpenAI released ChatGPT. Since then, it’s taken the world by storm, attracting 400 million weekly…
My husband and I met thanks to a wardrobe mishap
The author and her husband have been together for almost 20 years. “Your fly is down.” That’s the first thing I ever said to my now-husband. In my defense, even though I didn’t know him, he was talking with two other people I did know. Also, I’m the kind of person who wants people to…
A scientist who studies whether cutting calories could help us live longer shares how he eats, exercises, and de-stresses
Professor James White prioritizes lean proteins and vegetables in his diet. A scientist who studies whether restricting calories in a safe way could help us live longer shared how he eats, exercises, and de-stresses for longevity. Restricting the number of calories we eat causes low-level stress in the body, which triggers certain processes that remove…
This 31-year-old woman has been on 76 cruises. Here are her 9 tips for first-time, budget, and crowd-adverse cruisers.
Emma Le Teace, a 31-year-old cruise content creator, said she’s been on 76 sailings. For Emma Le Teace, cruises aren’t just a vacation — they’re her livelihood. She was 11 years old when she went on her first vacation at sea. Now 31, Le Teace said she’s been on 76 voyages at an average of…
A United Airlines passenger says a pilot forced him from an airplane bathroom for taking too long. Now he’s suing.
The incident unfolded during a flight in January. An Orthodox Jewish passenger on a United Airlines flight says a pilot forcibly removed him from the airplane’s bathroom while he was experiencing constipation. In a lawsuit filed this week, Yisroel Liebb said the “visibly enraged” pilot broke the lock on the restroom door and forced Liebb…
