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Published April 23, 2026 04:45PMMy knee-jerk take on peptides is, admittedly, self-contradictory. I think athletes who take them are cheating; I also think they don’t work. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, so I’ve been intending for a while to dig into the scientific literature to get a more informed take.A new review in the journal Sports Medicine provides just the spur I’ve been waiting for. Christopher Mendias and Tariq Awan, sports medicine physicians at a clinic in Phoenix, gather the evidence on ten peptides that are currently making the rounds on social media as potential athletic performance-boosters. Their…

NASA this week released a stunning video of “Earthset,” the humbling moment when the Artemis II crew (now back at home) caught a view of Earth setting behind the lunar surface. From the window of the crew’s capsule, the recording captured the cusp of our bright and blue planet slowly disappearing behind the moon. The camera lens is of high-enough quality that the imaging picked up the wisps of weather systems traveling over our oceans and, in the foreground, the much darker lunar surface, peppered with crevices and craters.  “Dude,” exhales an overcome astronaut on the recording’s audio. “No way.” …

Key Takeaways Andrew Bosworth says he feels truly stressed only four or five times a year, despite the intensity of his role as Meta’s CTO and key lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg. He manages stress through deep breathing, exercise, time with his wife and kids and talking openly about what’s bothering him. Other business leaders, like entrepreneur Emma Grede, have their own unique ways of managing stress. Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, doesn’t feel stressed on a daily basis. In fact, stress is a relatively rare occurrence in his professional life.  The CTO plays a key leadership role at Meta,…

Apple iPhone 17 Pro MaxGetty ImagesAnother iPhone update has been released just two weeks after the last one. But unlike iOS 26.4.1, the new version is all about one security fix. Here’s all you need to know and whether you should update to it or not.ForbesApple iPhone 18 Pro: Latest Leak Doubles Down On Design Update NewsBy David PhelanThis post has the initial thoughts on the new release and I’ll be updating this post over the coming week and I’ll add final thoughts on Thursday, April 30.Who Is It For And How Do You Get It?This is just the same…

One premium ice cream brand’s loss is another’s gain. David Stever, 60, took the helm of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams this month after leaving Ben & Jerry’s in March 2025. According to court filings, Stever departed amid tensions between parent company Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s board over the ice cream brand’s progressive political activism. Now Stever is leading Jeni’s through a major growth push. The Columbus, Ohio-based company notched $150 million in revenue last year and operates more than 90 company-owned scoop shops. Last September, Jeni’s announced it would move into franchising for the first time, with the first…

Meta announced to employees on Thursday that the company is laying off around 10% of the company on May 20—about 8,000 employees out of its workforce of more than 78,000 will be impacted, Bloomberg first reported. The company will also close 6,000 open roles it planned to fill, according to a memo that was sent to staffers today from Meta’s chief people officer, Janella Gale. In the memo, obtained by Business Insider, Gale attributed the cuts to Meta’s “continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making.” The memo did…

Key Takeaways When Tim Cook stepped into the CEO job at Apple in 2011, Steve Jobs gave him a brief but defining directive that would guide his tenure. Jobs told him to focus on doing the right thing, instead of trying to make decisions exactly like Jobs would have done. As Cook prepares to step away from his CEO role, he is offering similar counsel to his successor, John Ternus. When Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO in 2011, Steve Jobs offered him a simple but powerful piece of advice — one that would shape every decision he made…

Previously, transportation planners have thought bigger was more efficient. It didn’t work, but in the world of self-driving, a different answer is possible: Less is moregettyBigger isn’t more efficient when it comes to transportation.A large fraction of our energy use in modern society goes to transportation, and most of our oil. About 25% of greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, so it’s naturally one of the top topics for yesterday’s Earth Day. A common thrust of earth day messages is to use more transit. The problem is that in the USA, transit is surprisingly energy inefficient. Many people are unaware…

Key Takeaways Mariam Naficy is the founder and CEO of Minted, a stationery startup. At the start, in 2007, Naficy burned almost all of Minted’s initial $2.5 million funding round on a failed model of selling existing stationery brands online. A low-budget side experiment, crowdsourced design competitions for independent artists, became Minted’s core product and ultimately unlocked overwhelming demand. When Mariam Naficy opened the virtual doors to Minted, her stationery startup, she encountered every founder’s worst nightmare: silence. There were no customers. Back in 2008, no one was buying stationery online. Naficy had raised $2.5 million from friends and family,…

OpenAI on Thursday released its most capable AI system, GPT-5.5, which the company says will enable a more powerful Codex coding agent. OpenAI is quick to say, however, that GPT-5.5 will power the widening set of general digital work tasks that Codex is capable of. The system is significantly better than previous releases at helping with scientific work, including creative aspects of generating new hypotheses and testing them. The system represents an improvement in autonomous or agentic capability. GPT-5.56 “represents a step toward AI systems that can complete complex, multi-step tasks on a computer without human guidance,” OpenAI says in…