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When we talk about travel apps, we typically talk about the types of tools that help you organize your itineraries, find worthwhile stops along your way, or maybe even just find flights (and/or fuel!) in the first place.Those types of tools are important—but there’s another travel resource I recently ran into that might be even more invaluable.It’s a free website that gives you unprecedented insight into exactly how much turbulence you can expect on any given flight, before you take off—as well as what the wind and overall weather conditions may mean for your odds of an on-time (or, if…
Published April 4, 2026 06:05AMOfficials at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) issued a stark warning for visitors planning to explore America’s most popular park.In an April 2 press release, the National Park Service (NPS) reported that park rangers received a whopping 38 emergency calls inside the park throughout March, including 18 in the backcountry. Half a dozen of these calls required either technical rope rescues or helicopter extractions. Not all the victims made it out alive. Just last week, a woman died after falling from a popular hiking trail—the fifth death this year. “Great Smoky Mountains National Park saw a…
Managers are rushing to deploy AI for efficiency gains. Employees have to figure out how to make it work—and that’s sometimes harder than it seems.Half of organizations piloted general-purpose AI tools last year, according to MIT research. But adoption and readiness aren’t the same thing. According to Rumman Chowdhury, former U.S. Science Envoy for AI and CEO and cofounder of Humane Intelligence, the burden is likely to fall on workers.“There’s a lot of FOMO among C-suites and high-level execs on pressure to build AI, and then they’re also incentivized to pretend like it works really well,” she says. “If and when…
Published April 4, 2026 03:30AMIn early December I flew to Palm Springs, California, to rendezvous with Rickey and Ian, my co-authors“Fifty Classic Trails”, for our book’s capstone run, the Joshua Tree Traverse. This 37-mile point-to-point crosses the entire national park, winding its way through the Mojave Desert past spiny cholla cactus, Creosote bush scrub, and, of course, iconic Joshua trees.To make the run a celestial celebration instead of a sunny sufferfest, we decided to run at night, under a full moon. Although I packed a headlamp and spare batteries, I ended up never turning it on. With no clouds between…
At first, he appeared in the top corner of a multi-slide TikTok post. Then he was spotted demurely relaxing in a lawn chair on a livestream. Finally, on March 30, Apple’s new mascot, nicknamed “Finder Guy,” made his debut—and the internet has instantly become enamored with him.Finder Guy appeared as part of the rollout for Apple’s MacBook Neo, a colorful, affordable laptop marketed to younger consumers. For the Neo campaign, Apple introduced an entirely new TikTok brand persona on March 4, clearly making a play to capture Gen Z and Gen Alpha viewers by combining trending aesthetics with Apple’s high-design…
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Easter Jeep Safari, the iconic brand brought a fleet of drivable, trail-ready machines to the desert. From a retro 1980s resto-mod to a HEMI-powered military beast, these are the three that stole the show. Listen to this articleListenPublished April 4, 2026 04:00AM“What are all these Jeeps doing in town?”That’s what a mom and her daughter who were passing through on a national parks tour which included Arches and Zion, asked me by the fire pit at our hotel one evening. It’s a fair question. Moab, population 5,000, swells to around 15,000 people over…
We’re in the middle of the extended Easter holiday weekend, which usually sees millions of Americans taking long road trips to visit family or just get away. But this year, these trips will probably be more costly—at least at the pump. Still, there are steps you can take while driving to save fuel and reduce your overall gas bill.Why are gas prices rising?According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline passed the $4 threshold this week. That’s a price not seen since August 2022, and one that is more than $1 per…
The nail is six inches long. Sharpened to a surgical point. Mounted on a hydraulic press behind plate glass. The press drops slowly enough that you can count your own heartbeat between the moment it touches the battery cell and the moment it punctures the casing.I am standing in BYD’s visitor center in Shenzhen, February 2026, shoulder to shoulder with executives from one of Europe’s largest industrial conglomerates. Nobody speaks.Two batteries sit side by side. The first is a standard ternary nickel-cobalt-manganese cell, the kind of chemistry that once powered most of the world’s electric vehicles. The nail breaks the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Publishing more content won’t win anymore — having something original to say will. Brands that let AI handle speed and scale, while humans drive ideas, storytelling and expertise, will stand out. For years, marketers have faced mounting pressure to produce more content with fewer resources. The race to publish has never been faster or more competitive. When generative AI entered the mainstream, it promised a solution: the ability to create content at unprecedented scale and speed. Brands embraced AI, believing output would finally match demand.But that scale came with a…
If you want to understand where AI-assisted parenting is headed, skip the research lab and look into a messy living room at 2 a.m. Some of the most revealing use cases are happening in the homes of AI engineers who have just become parents.Few environments are more demanding: high stakes, low sleep, a never-ending stream of split-second decisions with imperfect information. No mom or dad (us included) has patience for a tool that adds friction, noise, or guilt to the daily gauntlet of childcare. It is why parents—especially those who build products—are a valuable and overlooked source of AI product…