I’d sworn off dating apps until I heard about the ‘burned haystack’ approach women are swearing by. So I put it to the test.
Nicola Prentis thought she had given up on dating apps for good until she discovered a new method. After a two-and-a-half-year break from the time-suck of dating apps, I reluctantly reinstalled one on my phone a few weeks ago. But this time, I was determined not to waste hours swiping or replying to any zero-effort…
A Russian warlord who seemingly put a machine gun on a Cybertruck says Elon Musk ‘remotely disabled’ the militarized EV
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, stands on top of a Tesla Cybertruck with what appears to be a machine gun mounted to it. The Chechen warlord who showed off a Cybertruck decked out with what appeared to be a machine gun is raging against Elon Musk, saying Tesla remotely bricked his…
Lithuania is the world’s happiest place for under 30s, but it’s also Europe’s suicide capital
Domantas Katelė, an official in Lithuania’s Ministry of Social Security and Labour, is widely known as his country’s “Gen Z minister.” Rings adorn Katelė’s tattooed fingers, which he uses to proudly point to his “Politicians make me sick” door sign. At 25, he’s the country’s youngest-ever deputy minister (he still wears braces), and rarely lets…
MIND is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets. A dietitian who wrote a book on it shares 3 mistakes people make when starting out.
The MIND diet was designed to promote brain health. A dietitian who has written a book on the MIND diet spoke to B-17 about the most common mistakes people make when starting to follow it. The MIND diet stands for the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, and combines the principles of the Mediterranean and DASH…
Apple fans line up worldwide as the iPhone 16 officially arrives in stores
Long queues and crowds of resellers outside the Apple store in Orchard, Singapore. The new AI iPhone is officially available in Apple stores, hitting shelves in almost 60 countries around the world on Friday. The iPhone 16 is the first phone to launch in Apple’s new era of artificial intelligence. A new Apple Watch Series…
Trump said if he loses, Jews would have ‘a lot to do’ with it
Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly challenged the loyalty or intelligence of American Jews who vote for the Democratic Party. Speaking at a “Fighting Antisemitism in America” event in Washington, DC, on Thursday, former President Donald Trump said that Jews would be partly to blame if he lost in November. “If I don’t win this…
Groundbreaking brain scans explain the ‘mommy brain’ phenomenon
Liz Chrastil looking at an MRI of her brain. For how common the phrase “mommy brain” is, we still don’t know much about how pregnancy, birth, and postpartum alter a person’s brain. “It’s shocking that in 2024, there’s so little information available to us,” Dr. Liz Chrastil, 43, a neuroscientist and associate professor at UC…
The hottest AI startups are raising back-to-back funding rounds. Suddenly, it’s feeling very 2021 in Silicon Valley for a chosen few.
In February, Glean announced a $200 million funding round valuing the AI enterprise software startup at $2.2 billion. Normally, a founder would hop off the fundraising treadmill after such a close. But these are not normal times, and Glean has the kind of meteoric revenue growth that lights up the eyes of VCs, more than…
The good, bad, and ugly of life after rate cuts
Jerome Powell One down. One to go. Wednesday’s interest-rate cut might have marked the end of the Fed’s fight with inflation, but it also signaled the start of another battle with an equally formidable foe: the job market. The central bank’s jumbo cut shows the concern isn’t prices continuing to go up, but the number…
