How access to reproductive care shaped a founder’s career, highlighting its importance as an economic driver
Tracy Young is a CEO and cofounder. It might be common sense to many women, but Tracy Young decided to say it out loud. “As both a mother and CEO of two companies, I’ve experienced firsthand how crucial reproductive rights have been to my journey,” she wrote in a post on LinkedIn last month. Young,…
I’m a horror fan who’s seen the first 9 ‘Saw’ movies. Here are the 3 you must watch and 6 you should skip.
The Jigsaw Killer put his victims through deadly games. Watch: “Saw” (2004) lives up to its horror fame, especially for viewers who don’t know the major twists. The Jigsaw Killer puts his victims through deadly games. The first “Saw” movie became an instant classic in the horror genre. The creative traps were still winnable, so…
I created a chatbot of myself and had it answer my Instagram DMs. Boy, was I annoying.
Obviously, I know that Instagram isn’t real life and the version of myself I present on there bears only the faintest resemblance to my actual self. And yet, I was still disappointed — vexed, even! — when I saw the way that Meta’s new AI chatbot interpreted me. There’s a relatively new feature that came…
Mike Huckabee is the unlikely avenger of deep-faked celebrities
When celebrities get deep-faked, they don’t tend to run off to the nearest courthouse to sue Facebook or YouTube. Oprah Winfrey did not file a lawsuit earlier this year after her AI doppelganger hawked a $37 self-help course based on “missing” Bible scriptures. Neither did Taylor Smith, after her recent deepfaked “endorsement” of Donald Trump.…
Reddit is becoming the new Google
Reddit CEO Stave Huffman said more people are coming to the social media site to find answers to their questions. Reddit is a forum with over a million subreddits tailored to just about any subject one can imagine. And beneath the many posts posted to those subreddits, over 100,000 of which are active at any…
Michigan’s election fate will depend on laborers. A Democrat and Republican outline what those workers are looking for.
Michigan’s workers could help decide the fate of the election. With the election clock ticking, all eyes are on Michigan. Polls in the state are still tight. Former President Donald Trump won by a narrow margin in 2016; it swung back to Biden in 2020. Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II is campaigning for the Harris-Walz…
The costs of raising kids without grandparental care
May Udy, 32, is “on the cusp” of affording part-time childcare. She works full-time at her remote sales job, and her husband, Jackson, has a steady stream of work as a contract engineer in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yet, the cost of even a few days of childcare for their two children, Noah and Hannah, aged 5…
10 US cities with the lowest cost of living, where things from buying a home to a grocery run are relatively affordable
Little Rock, Arkansas. While inflation in the United States is gradually easing, many people have yet to tangibly feel much relief. Since inflation reached a 40-year high in 2022, prices for everyday expenses in the US — including gas, food, entertainment, and housing — have increased significantly. Although prices are beginning to moderate, many American…
How national security panics in Russia could stifle innovation and hurt its economy
Ivan Pavlov, a Russian-born lawyer who now lives in Europe, was 51 was he was forced to leave his home country. After years of representing Russians who had been accused of treason, he was put on the nation’s wanted list and labeled as a “foreign agent” in 2021 — a term that, in Russia, is…
