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Climate change is wreaking havoc on the insurance market. But socializing the costs is absolutely the wrong approach. Few things are as easily predictable as the path that America is walking down toward its awful, inevitable national political war over the costs of climate change. Each catastrophe will propel us to take another step toward our looming irrational meltdown.

These days, the company makes a broad range of products, from air purifiers to headphones. Dyson, chief engineer, believes they all fit together seamlessly. When Jake Dyson looks back at his childhood, he doesn’t remember his father, James, as the visionary founder of Dyson, the world-renowned technology brand. Instead, he recalls a tinkerer who was always working on something in the basement.

MS paint now lets you use powerful AI features like Generative Fill and Erase—for free. Once upon a clock.exe, Microsoft Paint was just a sad copy of the iconic MacPaint that shipped with every Macintosh back in 1984. Released in 1985 as part of Windows 1.0, Paint (barely) evolved with its operating system, turning from clone to hated app to beloved source of endless memes, almost ending in the Recycling Bin along with Clippy.

Devices like the Plaud NotePin are designed for effortless audio recording but introduce their own form of friction. The biggest obstacle I’ve run into while reviewing the Plaud NotePin is figuring out what to do with it.

Full of pop-ups, alerts, and a rapid countdown, the Inconvenience Store shows how the barriers of abortion bans are an awful user experience. When you get to the Inconvenience Store website, a banner at the top shares an eerie congratulations: “You’re having an unwanted pregnancy!” Then the urgency kicks in: “You’ve got 6 weeks, let’s shop!” The site takes you through steps to “shop” for an abortion, and at the bottom of your screen, a timer starts ticking down the weeks and days you have left to seek healthcare.

You might be understandably worried—especially if you were perusing job boards while on the clock. Here’s some wisdom from 10 leaders. If you’ve been looking for a new job and your current employer caught wind of your search efforts, you might be understandably worried—especially if you were perusing job boards while on the clock.