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Teddy Roosevelt boxed. Richard Nixon bowled.Dwight D. Eisenhower put in a putting green. George H.W. Bush added a horseshoe pit. Herbert Hoover played a game named for himself to get more exercise, while George W. Bush threw open the space for youth T-ball.The White House and its storied South Lawn are no strangers to sporting events. But they’ve never seen anything like the UFC bout President Donald Trump is hosting to celebrate his 80th birthday on Sunday or the eight-sided, wire-mesh cage complete with an open overhead dome featuring large screens that are surrounded by thousands of arena seats.Sometimes called…
Tamas Kadar is the CEO and cofounder of SEON.The rise of instant payment systems has brought as many risks as rewards. Funds move in seconds, but fraud tactics like authorized push payment (APP) fraud and account takeovers (ATOs) play out in seconds, often faster than organizations can react. Synthetic identity theft compounds the problem, with fraudsters creating bogus personas to open mule accounts.Generative AI makes the threat environment even more volatile. Attackers use deepfakes, automated phishing tools and AI-powered voice cloning to scale social engineering. The U.S. experienced a 9% increase in reported identity theft incidents in 2024, with credit…
ThredUp users have a routine. They stuff a bag with the sweaters and jeans they never wear, mail it off and let the company do the heavy lifting. ThredUp receives the package and proceeds to photograph, price, and list everything, so the sellers can forget about it until they get money deposited in their bank account a few months later. But for many sellers, there’s one thing they hold back—a pair of Manolo Blahniks, a Louis Vuitton purse—because it’s special and they don’t want to let it go for less than it’s worth. So they might opt to sell it…
From tracking invisible scent plumes on the wind to navigating a rapidly warming Arctic, the polar bear reveals both the power and limits of evolution.gettyFor the better part of the year, the Arctic is nothing but ice, snow and silence stretching far beyond the horizon. There are no trees. No landmarks. Temperatures routinely go well below freezing. Yet beneath the sea ice, spread sporadically across the landscape, seals are resting in their hidden lairs and occasionally surfacing to breathe. And polar bears have no issue finding them.Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) can smell seals from dozens of kilometers away. While these…
Yesterday, Apple unveiled the next major version of the operating system that will power the iPhone. The operating system, iOS 27, was revealed at the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino, California. But compared to previous versions, iOS 27 is relatively lacking in the number of new features that most people expect with the company’s annual operating system refresh. That’s because this year, Apple is really focusing on stabilization, speed, and bug fixes with iOS 27. While that may disappoint some iPhone users, a focus on speed and reliability is something longtime Apple fans have been hoping for for…
Vishal Talwar – Sr. Vice President and Sector Head Technology – New Age Vertical at Wipro.As with every year, Frontier Tech innovators and industry watchers followed CES 2026 closely. This year felt like a turning point for embodied AI. What stood out wasn’t just what these systems could do, but where they were doing it—in open fields, in backyards and inside living spaces—far beyond controlled demos or research labs.When intelligence moves beyond software interfaces and begins to operate in physical environments, the stakes change. Systems no longer react to prompts on a screen. They engage with the real world. For…
We talked to the Bicycle Nomad about his quest to unearth the faces and names of the 1897 Buffalo Soldiers Bicycle Corps.Published June 9, 2026 03:01AMErick Cedeño is an explorer and historian who learns and teaches about history by biking through it. Known as the Bicycle Nomad, Cedeño has retraced many historic routes, including the Underground Railroad route from New Orleans to Niagara Falls. “I was always fascinated by the resilience of people traveling through the Underground Railroad, not knowing how to read a map, but knowing how to navigate through rivers, mountains, and the natural world,” he told me.…
The MBA is often considered the cornerstone degree for business leaders who aspire to reach the corner office. In fact, roughly 75% of the Fortune 500’s top 20 CEOs received an MBA or some other graduate degree. The chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Blackrock, and JPMorgan all hold MBA degrees, among countless other leaders who have risen to the top after graduating from business school or pursuing further education later in their career. As a business school professor, I see the ambition in the eyes of MBA students who aspire to be counted among tomorrow’s change makers. Although some enter…
Published June 9, 2026 03:18AMSabastian Sawe, the first person to run an official marathon in less than two hours, took baking soda before his race. What’s most remarkable about this fact is not that he did it, but that most people didn’t think it was a big deal. Of course he did. Everyone is doing now, right?I’m exaggerating, but not by much. When I first wrote about the Swedish company Maurten’s new easy-on-the-stomach formulation of baking soda back in 2023, it was mostly seen as a performance boost for short events lasting between about one and ten minutes. Baking soda—sodium…
ToplineSkywatchers should clear their diary for dusk tonight as the two brightest planets in the night sky — blazing Venus and giant Jupiter — get to within 1.6 degrees of each other just after sunset. However, the sight will be visible for only a couple of hours after the sun has set. The prize for anyone looking west about 45 minutes after sunset will be the rare sight of two bright planets no farther apart than the width of a thumb held at arm’s length, according to Sky & Telescope. Here’s what you need to know to see 2-26’s best…