Lance Bass Says There's One Hour Every Day He Looks Forward to Most as a Parent
Lance Bass, the former *NSYNC singer, says the hour before his 4‑year‑old twins’ bedtime is his favorite part of the day. He and husband Michael Turchin use the time for games, reading multiple books, and a brief gratitude journal. The nightly routine, which includes teeth‑brushing and pajamas, is designed to wind the children down and reinforce positive habits. Bass highlighted that the twins now read four to five books each night and record three things they’re grateful for before sleep.
Higher Oil Prices Are Making Russia Richer — but Not Helping Its Economy Grow, Goldman Says
Rising Brent crude prices, now around $92 a barrel, are swelling Russia's oil export earnings and boosting the Kremlin's fiscal coffers. Goldman Sachs estimates the windfall will lift the current‑account surplus to roughly 3.2% of GDP and add about $21 billion...
Sam Altman Said Automating Everything Will Be 'Unfulfilling' And 'Dangerous'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that a world where everything is automated would be both unfulfilling and dangerous. In a Monday blog post they emphasized that human judgment, values, and responsibility will become more critical...
Starbucks' Latest Drink Launch Is a Bet on the Future of Fast Food Beverages
Starbucks is expanding its $2 billion Refreshers platform by offering blended versions of the popular cold drinks, beginning July 14. The move targets afternoon traffic and aims to capture Gen Z and millennial consumers who view beverages as social and expressive. Executives...
Read Sam Altman's Plan for OpenAI as It Enters Its 'Third Phase'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki announced the company’s “third phase,” focused on making advanced AI abundant, affordable, and safe. The new strategy follows two earlier phases—research toward artificial general intelligence and product rollout—and coincides with a...
I Study Mentally Strong People. Here Are 5 Signs You're Overwhelmed at Work — Not Burned Out
Therapist Amy Morin warns that many workers mislabel temporary overwhelm as chronic burnout, leading to mismatched solutions. She outlines five clear signs that differentiate overwhelm—still caring, relief after a weekend, desire to work despite a heavy load, seeing a finish...
SpaceX's Long-Awaited IPO Could Be Southern California's 'Google Moment'
SpaceX is set to launch the largest IPO in history, targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion. The offering will convert paper equity into cash for thousands of current and former employees, many of whom work at the Hawthorne manufacturing hub...
I Taught My 3-Year-Old How to Pack Her Own Bag. I Want Her to Be Independent.
A parent began teaching her three‑year‑old daughter to pack her own suitcase, turning a quick task into a three‑hour lesson in independence. The process started with guided participation, then moved to constrained choices, and now includes a dedicated pink suitcase...
I Use AI at Home because I'm a Working Mom. It Saves Me 10 Hours a Week, and I'm Tired...
Cara Katz, a 36‑year‑old working mother, uses AI tools like Claude to automate household management, claiming she saves about 10 hours each week. She leverages the chatbot to sync family calendars, generate color‑coded schedules, create grocery lists tied to delivery services,...
I Banned Smartphones for My 4 Kids. They Became Obsessed with Walkmans Instead.
Utah mother Ali Hynek barred her four children from smartphones until age 17, opting instead for vintage analog gadgets like a boombox, rotary phone and Walkmans. The kids quickly embraced the devices, making their own mixtapes on cassette tapes and...
Can America Make the Chip that Rules the World?
Intel’s Oregon campus offers a rare glimpse into the United States’ only integrated design‑and‑fabrication operation for advanced semiconductors. The tour covered a state‑of‑the‑art cleanroom, an R&D lab developing next‑generation nodes, and a packaging line that has never been shown to...
My Father and I Started a Parking Lot Clean-Up Business. It's Been 45 Years, and My Family-Run Company Is Still...
Brian Winch turned childhood parking‑lot clean‑ups with his father into Clean Lots, a family‑run service that has operated for 45 years. After his father’s death, he formalized the venture, added his twin brothers, and grew annual revenue to roughly $700,000....
Elon Musk Plans to Pitch SpaceX's Terafab Chip Moonshot to Employees at Europe's Biggest Tech Company
Elon Musk will address ASML employees in a virtual fireside chat to outline SpaceX’s ambitious Terafab chip‑manufacturing moonshot. The Terafab joint venture, involving SpaceX, Tesla and Intel, aims to build massive semiconductor factories that will feed a planned network of...
Kelly Rowland Says 1 Piece of Parenting Advice Helped Her Create Clear and Easy Boundaries for Her Kids
Kelly Rowland says a single piece of parenting advice—being quick and direct when correcting behavior—has helped her set clear, easy boundaries with her two sons. She avoids baby talk, speaking to them as humans, and emphasizes brief, honest corrections that...
Larry Page's $23 Million Private Island Headache Won't Go Away
Larry Page and his wife bought the Hans Lollik islands in the US Virgin Islands for $23 million in 2014, only to face a renewed claim from developer James Eckel who says he had a prior purchase contract. Texas courts in...