This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology.

If you want to sound confident, avoid expressions that broadcast your insecurity. Eliminate the following words and expressions from your speech.

I’ve never been good at stopping what I’m doing. AI has made this problem even worse.

Alphonzo Terrell was the global head of social and editorial at Twitter, until Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition that led to roughly 80% of the company’s workforce being laid off—Terrell included.

At last, we know how Elon Musk’s fabled Terafab will look. Tesla and SpaceX showed a video rendering of their jointly developed advanced chip factory on Thursday. It will occupy 100 million square feet in Grimes County, Texas, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Houston. The sci-fi-looking building is so vast that you could fit six of them in Manhattan. Musk, the CEO of both companies, took to X on Thursday to declare it “the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.”

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Handwriting has personality. Get to know someone well enough and their handwriting will remind you of them, because we all form letters just a bit differently.

Most people take for granted that the messages they send via popular messaging apps like Meta’s WhatsApp or Apple’s iMessage are end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning that no one but the sender and receiver—not even WhatsApp or Apple—can read the contents. Unfortunately, this rock-solid privacy-preserving encryption doesn’t extend to the other major type of messages we send: emails. 

The White House Quantum Summit brought together dozens of quantum policy officials and industry leaders last month, representing a rare glimmer of bipartisanship as the U.S. hustles to become the first nation to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer. 

When I think about one of the most critical thinking tools in the history of civilization, I think about the notebook. Yes, I mean the paper-filled wonder that so many of the world’s greatest thinkers have used to capture thoughts that sometimes contained great ideas. 

President Trump’s controversial plan to build an enormous ballroom adjacent to—and larger than—the White House just ground to a halt.

Wendy’s deals might be “biggie.” But it’s performance this year hasn’t been. 

A new survey shows employee morale is on the rise after hitting all-time lows.

Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it’s far from the most trusted source of advice, according to a new Gallup survey conducted in partnership with Edward Jones, a financial services firm.

There has been no shortage of recalls linked to possible salmonella contamination recently, and unfortunately, consumers need to be aware of yet another one.

“Hold my beer” has become a catchphrase to signal that something important is about to go down. It implies that drinking a cold one is an everyday occurrence.

If you really want to reduce your transportation emissions, it would actually be better to scrap a brand new gas-powered car and switch to an electric vehicle instead of waiting until that gas car stopped working.

Gen Z gets a lot of flak for being endlessly connected online. But a new trend is proving that the digital natives are burned out from a life spent consuming content on social media: They’re carrying tech-free purses and totes, otherwise known as “analog bags.” 

We’ve got a new vision for the next great piece of AI hardware—and it (allegedly) is going to look a lot like a donut.

The brand name behind recent showstopping fashion moments isn’t quite as delicate as their romantic and otherworldly looks. When asked what an ethereal Zendaya was wearing for The Odyssey‘s premiere in New York, her stylist, Law Roach, responded: “Fecal Matter.”

Zendaya’s angelic strapless gown with feathered white wings was the work of Matières Fécales—yes, in English, Fecal Matter—the Paris-based, high-end fashion house founded in Montreal over a decade ago that’s, seemingly suddenly, everywhere.