This Halloween, we have listeners’ spooky stories about good ideas gone bad, from giving a hormonal teen a debit card to getting into business with a scammer. Plus, a Backstreet Boys obsession that goes awry.
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Immigration arrests and deportations are keeping some construction workers away from jobsites, disrupting homebuilding projects and leaving families without vital income.
Plus, Google’s earnings fall short of Wall Street’s expectations as investors pressure-test Big Tech’s AI spending. And Microsoft announces voluntary buyouts covering about 60,000 employees.
A late spring freeze wiped out almost all of the crop at Solebury Orchards in northeastern Pennsylvania this year, forcing a change to an annual tradition.
Economists think that a more strained consumer could slow growth in the fourth quarter, and that much of the wealth cushioning higher-income spenders comes from AI-driven stock gains.
Yeling Tan, professor of public policy at the University of Oxford, talks about why China might want to keep its “developing” title — despite its growing economy and international relevance.
Its third-quarter earnings report showed ad sales weren’t great and revenue didn’t meet expectations. That’s got investors worried about an AI-driven downturn.
Buy now, pay later services, which allow buyers to pay for purchases in installments, are becoming increasingly popular — even for basic needs like groceries.
A proposed hyperscale facility in Lowndes County could cost as much as $33 billion to build. Here’s what it could mean for the hundreds of people who’d live next door.
The memory bandwidth needed to help power the generative technology has brought smartphones 15% more expensive globally, says Gerrit Schneemann, principal analyst at Counterpoint Research.
Before cattle can be shipped and sold out West, the rancher has to prove ownership. The practice dates back to 1800s cattle rustling, but nowadays is a step in the livestock regulatory process.
Voters will select a new member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which has nothing to do with regulating trains and everything to do with the oil and gas industry.
In late September, the Trump administration removed 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act insurance plans, claiming the enrollees were likely in the program fraudulently.
Scott Miller, director of the Democracy and Capitalism Lab at the University of Virginia, discusses the new Global Capitalism Index and how deeply intertwined capitalism is with democracy.
That’s the accusation that the Trump administration has made, as it moved to suspend big tech companies from using the visa program to sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency here.
Chips and cookies in hand, folks from AI startups, Big Tech, research nonprofits and activist groups gathered to hash out ideas for preventing an AI-driven catastrophe.
New companies like Techless and Sleke are offering scaled back phones or software to help you ditch your screen addiction. Some old-school brands, like Nokia, are also attracting new customers.
Stephanie Silverman, the executive director of the Belcourt Theatre, has hopes for a movie-filled holiday season, despite increases in cost of living in Nashville.
Investors are demanding even higher interest rates on long-term government bonds, because right now, there are a number of factors that could cause the value to fall.
The periodic table’s second element is used in the manufacture of mirochips and operation of MRIs, among many other products. But the rest of the world is facing a major shortage.
