For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run on it. A guest walks in cold, slightly on guard, half-convinced they’ve overdressed, and you’ve got about ninety seconds...
Corgi, a business-insurance startup that sells coverage to other startups, announced on May 28 a $106 million Series B1 round that values it at $2.6 billion. The raise landed just three weeks after the company disclosed a $160 million...
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that...
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and asked them to record what they were doing, where they were, and what they were thinking every hour they were awake. When she and her colleagues tallied...
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and were deciding whether to tell me. Not a “nice jacket.” The kind that names something true about who a...
In 1941, the psychiatrist Abram Kardiner published The Traumatic Neuroses of War, a clinical study of American soldiers returning from the First World War who could not stop scanning rooms for threats. Kardiner described men who flinched at car...
LōD Technologies has been selected to pilot its flexible AI inference technology with Dominion Energy, one of North America’s largest energy providers.
The pilot follows LōD’s selection for the Dominion Energy Innovation Center’s 2026 Accelerate program, a startup accelerator backed...
At one end of the ADC spectrum is the broken promise of the current capital gains tax changes. At the other, the PM’s trademark delay/defer/dilute/drift approach – think gambling ad reforms, religious and LGBTQI protections, environmental law reforms.
Wednesday’s carefully...
US-based supplier Microchip Technology warned the telco multiple times a Network Time Protocol server required a software update to prevent a “rollover problem” that would take down the system, Telstra officials told a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra.
The snap inquiry...
Ann Graybiel’s team at MIT has studied rats running mazes and mapped circuits in the brain where repeated actions become habits. The dorsolateral striatum, a small structure buried under the cortex, plays a key role in habit formation, and...
