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Waymo and Waze are teaming up to prevent people from driving into potholes.On Thursday, the companies announced a joint pilot program that will take pothole data collected by Waymo’s robotaxis and display it on Waze for Cities. The robotaxis already have cameras, radar, and other sensors that can be used, among other things, to note potholes.Waze and Waymo are both owned by Google parent Alphabet. The tool is an additional means of spotting potholes on Waze. Users have long been able to report any potholes they see through the Waze app. “This pilot program with Waymo adds another source of data to…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Snyder found early success listening to her intuition. Writing bestsellers about wellness and inventing a popular green smoothie led to celebrity clients She walked away from the A-list world to help regular people not just famous people. Kimberly Snyder never expected to run a wellness empire. When she graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University, she backpacked across over 50 countries around the world for three years, including India, where she discovered and studied yoga and meditation. Afterwards, she moved to a rent-controlled apartment in NYC, went back to nutrition…
Published April 9, 2026 01:01PMThere are so many reasons to love trail running. The benefits for mind, body, and soul. The community. The thrill of races. The places it takes you. At its heart, trail running is a way to explore yourself and the world. What are you capable of? What will you discover around the bend, past the tree, beyond the pass, on the other side of the planet? While any run can deliver that feeling of adventure, there are some routes that stand apart. Consider these the Wonders of the Trail Running World. Will there be arguments over…
Every April, the internet fills up with green logos, limited-edition packaging, and pledges that will be quietly retired by May. We’ve gotten good at calling that out. Greenwashing is understood, documented, and increasingly prosecuted. What we talk about less is the other problem: the brands that are actually doing the work, but have stopped saying so.Both are failures. Just different kinds.Here’s what’s actually happening. The share of S&P 100 companies using “ESG” in their sustainability report titles dropped from 40% in 2023 to just 6% in 2025. But the work hasn’t stopped. According to a 2025 EcoVadis study, 87% of…
Key Takeaways Kojo is the largest construction materials procurement platform in the U.S. Its founder, Maria Davidson, was an outsider to construction when she decided to create the company. Davidson relied on conversations she had with “thousands” of construction workers about pain points in the industry to create Kojo. Eleven years ago, Maria Davidson was 23 years-old, living in London and working in an entry-level job as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs when she went on vacation in California. While there, she had a chance encounter with Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and founder of the venture firm…
Updated April 9, 2026 12:16PMNepal’s Mount Everest guiding industry has been thrust into the international spotlight this week amid allegations that some trekking companies filed fraudulent insurance claims worth tens of millions of dollars. One allegation that’s generated a glut of headlines is that trekking guides poisoned clients with baking soda as a way to trigger an unneeded helicopter rescue.This scandal has hit just as hundreds of climbing clients are beginning the hike to Everest Base Camp prior to their acclimatization hikes later in the month. Nepal’s Everest outfitters are watching the scandal, and whatever fallout comes from it, closely.…
Remember the iPod? It’s making a quiet comeback.Four years after Apple killed off its digital music player, secondhand sales are surging. It’s fueled in part by young people interested not just in its retro looks but a desire to listen to music in a focused way and with playlists not determined by algorithms.“There’s a growing trend, particularly amongst younger users, to mitigate the ease with which they can be distracted by smartphones, often driven by mental health and well-being concerns,” said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight. “Having a dedicated music device, such as an iPod, is a good way to…
This week on How Success Happens, I sat down with longtime writing partners Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, the duo behind How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rescue Rangers, and, most recently, the hit The Naked Gun reboot starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. They’ve gone from scraping together sketch shows at NYU to crafting a movie that crossed $100 million at the box office. “That guy Liam Neeson really needed a break,” jokes Gregor. “We put him on the map.” During our chat, the duo discussed risk-taking, partnership, pitching, and getting over the inevitable bombs that come with…
The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% as the United States, Iran, and Israel disagreed on the details of their two-week ceasefire, whose announcement had sent markets flying in optimism on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 40 points, or 0.1%, as of 10 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower.The oil market was jumpier, and the price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude oil climbed 6.8% to $100.79. It rose after semiofficial news agencies in Iran suggested forces have mined the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that has been at the center of President Donald Trump’s…
Tax day is right around the corner, but for some, the true deadline to complete returns is nearly a week earlier. That’s because if you’re planning to mail your tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instead of filing them electronically, they’ll need to be postmarked — not mailed — by April 15.Due to recent changes at The United States Postal Service (USPS) that impact transportation operations, mail may not arrive at originating processing facilities on the day it is mailed, the organization said in a January announcement. “This means that the date on the postmarks applied at our…