When you start a new job there is a lot to learn. There are projects, clients, and processes that are likely to be new to you. You may have been pointed at the employee handbook and maybe even given a mentor. But you probably still have more questions than answers for the first few months. As trite as the phrase “drinking from a firehose” may have become, it is a pretty accurate description of those first eight or 10 weeks.

It’s time to find out who really is the most competitive player at family game night. Mattel is putting $50,000 up for grabs at its inaugural UNO Championship.

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Between late 2016 and August 2026, China connected 27 new nuclear reactors to its grid. In the same period, the United States connected two. As Jacopo Buongiorno—professor of nuclear science and engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—tells me, “China is the world’s leader in nuclear power plant (NPP) construction.”

Below, Lani Watson shares five key insights from her new book, Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers.

Fencing is one of the oldest sports in Olympic history. It’s also one of the least watched domestically. Phil Andrews, CEO of USA Fencing, is on a mission to change that, and with the 2028 Los Angeles Games on the horizon, he’s running out of time. In a masterclass in scrappy brand building, he shares how he’s building a sports brand with almost no budget and no marketing playbook, cold-calling CMOs, crashing Comic-Con, and convincing Snoop Dogg and Flavor Flav to pick up a sword. 

Buzzwords, clichéd phrases, formulaic sentences, and most notoriously—the use of the em dash. These are all signs readers and writers alike have learned to look out for when trying to spot whether something was written by AI. 

As part of ongoing festivities for America’s 250th birthday on July 4, IndyCar is taking over the nation’s capital this Saturday and Sunday.

Anytime a grizzled mentor in a movie mentions that he’s one day away from collecting his pension, the audience knows he won’t make it to the end credits.

’Tis the season for breathing—and, in many parts of the world, wondering if the air you’re inhaling is going to cause problems.

It seems like hardly a month goes by without some new or increasingly frequent online scam trying to separate us from our money or data. In June, it was the so-called Apple High Alert scam. Now it’s a swindle using both Apple and Amazon as its facade. Here’s what you need to know about the Apple and Amazon “unauthorized charge” scam—and how to protect yourself.

Below, Claire Stapleton shares five key insights from her new book, Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape From Big Tech.

I used to schlep from my office to a 6:30 p.m. Soul Survivor class, shower, and make dinner by 8 p.m. Every week. The waiting lists were insane. The bike you got mattered. Thirty-four dollars for a cycling class and nobody blinked. That wasn’t about fitness.

Heather (a pseudonym) was a senior leader at her firm, one level below the C-suite. And the C-suite had some really big personalities.

Moviegoers will often flock to the cinemas for one of two reasons: in response to viral clips on social media, like in the case of Obsession, or because of the draw of a star-studded cast and director, like for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. But as summer comes to a close, Chinese animated film Niu Lai has become an unexpected hit for bringing people to theaters for another reason: its terrible quality.

A fundraiser for the family of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom and former nurse who is on trial for the 2023 strangulation death of her three children inside their home, has raised over $1 million as of Friday.  

With most Americans still feeling the pinch of persistent inflation, President Trump wants to make one pricey grocery staple cheaper.

Prediction markets already get a bad rap online from some social media users, and now a new app that blends livestreaming and live betting is unleashing a new wave of social media outrage.

For a long time, the biggest hurdle for a small business was simply finding capital. Today, the challenge is choosing the right kind.

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the algorithms supplying your feeds may be prioritizing content that clashes with your values. That’s because the algorithms heavily weigh online posts that you reply to, and more often social media users tend to comment on content they take issue with than on content they agree with.