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Cinemark is giving customers a break at the box office this summer. The movie chain that operates over 300 theaters in the U.S. just announced it’s offering a major deal on tickets as part of its Summer Movie Clubhouse program. The program, which kicks off on May 13, will bring a series of family-friendly films to 285 Cinemark theaters across the country. Showings will run from June 1 through August 6, but tickets are already available on Cinemark.com, in the app, and at participating box offices. The price for tickets? Just $1.75. “We continue to see that younger audiences treasure…

Even as a seasoned camper, I learned the hard way that a map does not tell the whole story. These simple steps will help you find a private camping spot and avoid the crowds on your next national park trip.Tent on a campsite by Lemolo Lake in morning mist, Umpqua National Forest, Orego. (Photo: Getty)Published May 13, 2026 10:46AMElkmont Campground was buzzing with activity as I rolled through after a day of adventure inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Men fished the Little River on the edge of the campground, kids rode bikes in small gangs on the paved looped…

Micron stock has risen 1,000% in the past three years on the back of the memory pricing boom. (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesAfter a red-hot inflation report this week that showed the annual consumer price index rising to 3.8%, affordability is on people’s minds. But plain-old consumer inflation pales in comparison to the inflation in data centers. In the technology markets, inflation is all over the place, most notably in the stratospheric rise in technology components such as memory and storage devices, sales of which are driven by the AI capital spending…

There’s a nationwide sale going on for one of America’s most expensive graduate degrees. Business schools are offering up to 50% off as applications decline and students weigh whether an M.B.A. is worth it. The Wall Street Journal reports that Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business is cutting tuition 40% this fall, dropping the cost of its 48-credit online M.B.A. from $60,000 to $36,000 for out-of-state students. The University of California, Irvine is slashing tuition as much as 38%—saving students between $30,000 and $48,000—on its Flex and Executive M.B.A. programs. Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is giving 50% scholarships…

Does the high price of gas have you considering a hybrid for your next vehicle? We don’t blame you, especially if you drive a lot. Fortunately, there are lots of hybrids to choose from, and many don’t cost much more than their non-hybrid counterparts. But to recoup the extra cost of a hybrid the quickest and start saving money, we don’t recommend purchasing just any hybrid. The car experts at Edmunds outline four tips that will give you the tools you need to find a hybrid that will maximize your savings. Aim for hybrids with the shortest payback periods New…

eBay’s board took a look at GameStop’s $55.5 billion offer to buy the company and had one message for CEO Ryan Cohen: game over. Earlier this month Cohen made an ambitious play for a company nearly four times GameStop’s size, with vague details about how he’d fund the deal. Then came a bizarre twist: he started selling GameStop merchandise on eBay—including a branded cap for $4,950 and a mug for $3,151—apparently to help fund the purchase of eBay itself. On Tuesday, eBay board chairman Paul Pressler formally rejected the proposal, calling it “neither credible nor attractive” in a letter to…

Angry hacker drops more Windows 0-Days in ongoing campaign.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe day following the Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates rollout is known in cybersecurity circles as Exploit Wednesday. This month, there is more reason than ever to take that very seriously indeed. While Microsoft didn’t patch any “in the wild” vulnerabilities this time, an angry hacker known by the monikers Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare Eclipse decided to synchronize the public disclosure of no less than two zero-day exploits with the official release. Here’s what you need to know, and do, about the YellowKey and GreenPlasma exploits.Forbes‘Significant Threat’—Billions Of Gmail…

After more than 20 years running a successful furniture business, Daniel Boone decided his next chapter needed to mean something more. The Scottsdale entrepreneur walked into a smoothie shop one day and walked out with a vision: a high-protein smoothie concept that made nutrition a seamless part of everyday life. He brought his son Ethan in on the idea early, planting the seed when Ethan was just 16. Together, they created HB Protein Smoothies—a proprietary formula packed with 35 to 50 grams of protein and just 250 to 400 calories. Now they’re taking on the giants. Their first franchisee, John…

Americans paid more for their groceries last month, but high gasoline prices resulting from the Iran war were only one of the reasons why.Prices for food eaten at home rose 2.9% in April compared to the same month a year earlier, according to government figures released Tuesday. That was the highest year-over-year inflation rate for the category since August 2023.Prices at restaurants, fast-food chains and other places to get prepared meals also increased, putting overall food prices up 3.2% in the last year, the Labor Department’s consumer price index showed.Fuel prices have soared while the Iran war prevents cargo ships…

Russell Sarder, CEO & Founder of AI CERTs – advancing global AI certification & education.Most AI strategies still read like shopping lists: Pick a model, pick a platform, hire a few specialists and then wait for productivity.That’s not where the constraint is showing up. In the U.S., most workers still aren’t using AI meaningfully in day-to-day work. The Pew Research Center found that, as of October 2025, 65% still “don’t use AI much or at all.”If usage is low, model capability doesn’t matter. The bottleneck is people and how work is designed.The productivity promise is real but slow to show…