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A Pentagon official demonstrated live how Palantir's secretive Project Maven can be used to carry out a strike.
  • A Pentagon official recently demonstrated how a Palantir tool can be used to support strikes.
  • Cameron Staley, the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer, praised Palantir's Project Maven.
  • According to multiple reports, the US military has relied on Maven to

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Tom Blake.
  • Tom Blake, 29, turned his college side-hustle experiments into a full-time content business.
  • He now makes a six-figure living by testing and reviewing side hustles on YouTube and Substack.
  • Paid market research is one of Blake's top side hustle recommendations, offering low-stress income.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tom Blake, a 29-year-old


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Dyson had nowhere to go but up after its last robot vacuum. You don't even need to test the new Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai to already know that it completely dunks on the 2024 Dyson 360 Vis Nav any way you dice it.

Still, as the third Dyson robot vacuum attempt after two flop releases, there's a lot riding on the Spot+Scrub Ai's success. If it sells well, that means the 360 Vis Nav truly was just a


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But first, the elephant in the room

The lukewarm rivalry between Shark and iRobot heated up for a second in March 2025, when iRobot went rogue and overhauled the entire Roomba lineup outside of its usual release schedule. But the last-ditch effort to get people excited about Roombas again didn't work. Once iRobot's lack of acquisition interest dwindled down to zero potential buyers, iRobot filed


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Serval founders Jake Stauch (left) and Alex McLeod.
  • Eight salespeople from ServiceNow have jumped ship to rival startup Serval in recent months.
  • Two of the salespeople cited fears about AI as their reason for leaving ServiceNow.
  • ServiceNow's stock has tumbled 40% in the last six months in the so-called SaaS-pocalypse.

Eight salespeople from ServiceNow and its newly acquired subsidiary, Moveworks


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A messy (but formative) part of girlhood is the reckless appropriation of various trends, traditions, and cultural elements in a haphazard attempt to build an identity. For some girls, this means trading one clique for another, or jumping from band geek to cheerleader. For others, it means dabbling in witchcraft. 

30 years ago, The Craft became iconic for a generation of '90s girls who dreamed of


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DISNEY+ BUNDLES: Disney+ is offering bundle deals so you can stream the best of its library at a lower price.


The best Disney+ deals and bundles in March 2026:

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An up-and-coming creator gets offered their first brand deal. It’s enough money to pay their rent, but not nearly enough to hire a lawyer to look over the contract, so they sign it. A few months later, they see their face on a billboard or in a commercial without their consent.

This isn’t a hypothetical, says lawyer Michelle May O’Neil, whom I met at SXSW in Austin, Texas, after her panel, “Who




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Astronomers have discovered the first clear example of a star made entirely of materials from one of the very first stars.

Researchers spotted the extremely ancient and chemically primitive star in Pictor II, a satellite of a satellite: Pictor II is a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Large Magellanic Cloud, which, itself, circles the Milky Way. The star's unusual makeup suggests it formed after a weak



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Jerome Powell will lead his second-to-last Federal Reserve meeting as chair this week.
  • The Federal Reserve will announce its March interest rate decision on Wednesday afternoon.
  • It's likely the FOMC will hold rates steady, especially as the Iran war has sent oil markets into chaos.
  • The Fed will also release its first economic projections of 2026.

It's been a tumultuous few


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Bushra Amiwala
  • Bushra Amiwala quit her job at Google last year to run for Congress full-time.
  • She applied for a leave of absence, but said the request was not approved.
  • She explains what pushed her to take the leap — and her advice for young professionals.

Last summer, Bushra Amiwala faced a career-defining choice: stay at Google or quit to run for Congress.

In May, Democratic Rep. Jan