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The author in Puerto Natales, Chile.
My partner and I spent 10 weeks backpacking around South America.
  • In 2022, I quit my job to backpack through South America for 10 weeks with my partner.
  • We visited 16 cities across eight countries, and even saw one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
  • One of my favorite cities was Buenos Aires — the sightseeing, shopping, and food were incredible.

In the summer of 2022, I quit


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An aerial view of flood waters from Hurricane Delta surrounding structures destroyed by Hurricane Laura on October 10, 2020 in Creole, Louisiana.
Hurricane season is on the way.
  • Hurricane season starts on June 1 and ends on November 30.
  • We already know the list of names that have been chosen for storms this year.
  • The names are reused every six years, except if a name is retired due to storm severity.

Hurricane season will soon be bearing down on us, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) already has a list of




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California Treasurer Fiona Ma is running for lieutenant governor.
  • California Treasurer Fiona Ma has ties to a private Chinese boarding school under scrutiny.
  • Ma, who visited the school in 2023, is running for state lieutenant governor.
  • The school was the subject of a scathing audit issued last month by California education officials.

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Participants during a Hackathon session at a developer event organized by OpenAI in Bengaluru, India, in January 2026
An AI product exec says workers are being judged like machines.
  • An AI product leader says the bar at work is creeping closer to machine-level consistency.
  • Svetlana Makarova of IKS Health calls the devaluation of human traits the "humanity discount."
  • Decades of standardized, scripted jobs have made many roles easier to automate with AI, she said.

If it feels like the bar at work


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The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they work. It has reached multiple millions in revenue in under a year and is targeting 4x growth by end of 2026. Coral, the New […]



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Earthset, captured Apr. 6, 2026, by Christina Koch.

The staggering visuals from the Artemis II mission just keep coming.

On Sunday, Commander Reid Wiseman shared an extraordinary video he shot on an iPhone 17 Pro Max from inside NASA's Orion spacecraft, and it's a stunner.

"Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset," Wiseman wrote in an X post. The moment when Earth


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A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 departs Los Angeles International Airport en route to Orlando on January 27, 2026
A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max.
  • United Airlines pilots diverted their plane when a beeping noise raised fears of a bomb on board.
  • The flight, from Chicago to New York, made an emergency landing in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
  • After landing, a bomb squad swept the plane and found "negative results."

United Airlines flight was diverted, and passengers were evacuated after a


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Global oil and jet fuel prices have spiked since February amid the ongoing war.
  • Oil prices surged on Monday after peace talks between the US and Iran stalled.
  • President Trump said the negotiations would resume, but Iran said it would not participate.
  • Brent and West Texas intermediate crude jumped more than 6% in early trading.

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A man in a suit sits behind a talk show desk. In the top left is an image of a smartphone.

Prediction markets, which essentially allow users to gamble on almost anything, are on the rise. But what are the ethics of companies that allow people to bet on the possibility of nuclear war?

In the latest episode of Last Week Tonight John Oliver unpacks that exact question, while also digging into other issues — like the possibility of insider trading — faced by leading platforms Kalshi and


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