REI Workers Say Union Effort Has Prompted A Disciplinary CrackdownSean Barnes has often shown up a little late to work at their REI store in Austin, Texas, over the last four and a half years. The 31-year-old says managers never hassled them about the tardiness ― until workers started chattering about forming a union last year.
Building a Data-Driven Culture: Three Mistakes to AvoidWhen people resist changing the way they make decisions, well-intentioned data science projects are doomed. Here’s how to overcome the key challenges.
How beauty brands learned to speak ‘Sephora tween’On a Thursday night in February, more than 200 moms and tweens packed into Townhouse, a speaking venue in Greenwich, Connecticut, for a talk by esthetician Nicole Caroline.
Indian airports soar as transit hubs for international travellersIndian airports soar as transit hubs for international travellersCountry's 6 leading airports see near doubling of foreign transit traffic in a year Premium Photo: Bloomberg New Delhi Major Indian airports are increasingly becoming global connecting hubs, with international transit traffic for India
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your postsOpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products. It’s an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million.
What Does It Mean to Go Big With Fashion?Everything is bigger in fashion right now. Blazers have ballooned into giant hulking forms with supersized shoulders and even bigger lapels. Bags are large enough to fit your whole life inside.
Blue Zones researcher shares 2 cheap, 'revolutionary supplements' you can find in any grocery storeIt's a warm, sunny day in Beverly Hills, and it feels like just about every important business person and political advisor in the world has arrived for the annual Milken Institute Globel Conference.
The World’s Greatest Party Crasher Strikes Again!For those who suffer from FOMO, the fear of missing out, this can be a mean season in Manhattan, with red-carpet events sucking all the air out of the social calendar. But Fred Karger, a seventy-four-year-old former political consultant, finds high season to be an enjoyable challenge.
America’s dime-store NietzscheansIt turns out that yet another leading member of the racial, “vitalist” right is an erstwhile Bernie-ish bro who at some point snapped, or became disaffected with the millennial left, and shifted rightward – not stopping with “normie” conservatism, but going all the way to the weird right.
Her First BookWhat is a voice of a generation?” Honor Levy asks me at Corner Bar on Canal Street. “Is it the most controversial voice? The first person to write in the way that everybody writes? The person that most people hate or love?”
The weird new hiring warsAI bots are battling it out over job searches. No matter who wins, we all lose. When Josh Holbrook, a software engineer in Alaska, was laid off in January, he didn't expect to spend too much time looking for a new job. He certainly didn't think he'd need to relearn the job-hunt process.
NATO Cannot Survive Without AmericaLast month, NATO, the world’s most successful military alliance, celebrated its 75th anniversary. Some fear that it may have been its last anniversary with the United States playing a leading role. Former U.S. President Donald Trump still views the alliance as obsolete.
Where Have All the Second-Round Quarterbacks Gone?A decade ago, prospects like Michael Penix Jr. and Bo Nix would have been day-two draft picks. Now, though, the quarterback market has inflated to a point that the second-round QB is going extinct—and teams are learning the wrong drafting lessons.
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deathsIn March 2023, a North Carolina student was stepping off a school bus when he was struck by a Tesla Model Y traveling at “highway speeds,” according to a federal investigation that published today.
Credit cards are getting smarterIn mid-March, a scammer in California tried to buy $150 worth of Wingstop using my debit card. Aside from being impressed at the sheer size of the order, I was relieved because Citibank, which issued my card, declined the transaction on the spot and alerted me to the fraud.