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Go barefoot. Make art. Get wet. It’s never just a hike when you let things get a little feral. (Photo: The North Face)Published June 2, 2026 07:41AMSure, hiking is just walking. But consider this: Walking is also the most primal thing we do, exploring the world through the power of our feet. Our legs. Our heart. It’s also the best way to reconnect with your feral soul. Something most of us could use a lot more of right now. You just need to take the guardrails off. Look at trails as the gateway to so much more. Go ahead, dance…

Obsession has not just been a box office miracle, it has also been an enormous critical and audience hit in the form of its dual 96% and 94% Rotten Tomatoes scores, respectively. Now, however, a new horror movie has dethroned it.The movie is Leviticus, which will be released on June 19 in the US, and as it stands, has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score with a couple dozen critic reviews in. It originally debuted at Sundance before being acquired by NEON. Here’s the synopsis:“Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire…

It’s estimated that the average person will spend 90,000 hours of their life working—that’s roughly a thousand weeks, or a third of our lives. Over the years, I’ve watched many of my Oxford and Harvard university classmates come to reunions and alumni dinners disillusioned, burned out, unhappy, divorced or separated, and alienated from themselves and their friends and families. I can guarantee you that not a single one of them graduated with the deliberate strategy of getting to this stage of their careers unfulfilled. Yet a shocking number of them unwittingly implemented that strategy. They seemed successful—the boats, the bank…

Insights from Chris Dimitriadis, Chief Global Strategy Officer, ISACA.​Cybersecurity is no longer a novel concept in the boardroom. There have been enough years’ worth of headlines detailing cybersecurity breaches—and the resulting financial and reputational damage—to elevate cyber risk as a board-level issue. However, significant gaps remain in enterprises’ preparedness. For the fifth year in a row, cyber incidents ranked as the top global risk, according to the Allianz Commercial Risk Barometer. A disconnect exists between how prepared boards think their organizations are when it comes to cyber risk and the reality.Why Boards Struggle To Prioritize Cybersecurity Investment​Much of this can…

Four months ago, John Furner took the helm as CEO of Walmart Inc. after a lifetime at the company.   Today, he’s steering a “people-led, tech-powered” transformation of the world’s largest retailer, which employs more than 2 million people worldwide. Furner has already centralized Walmart’s historically fragmented tech and product divisions under unified leadership in an attempt to supercharge enterprise-wide products and services—especially AI capabilities.  The company is betting on an agentic, omni-channel future. The evolution of Sparky, Walmart’s AI shopping assistant, is a big part of that, as is real-time supply chain automation. Yet this aggressive digital integration comes at a moment when the broader public narrative around artificial intelligence is souring, highlighting critical questions about automation and…

I love the smooth-rolling wheels and sturdy materials, but the latch closure and smaller dimensions are best suited to shorter trips. (Photo: Maggie Slepian)Published June 2, 2026 03:51AMCotopaxi is the undisputed king of color-blocked layers and soft-sided travel backpacks (like the Allpa backpack, a staple for aesthetics-minded gearheads). So when they announced the Coraza Suitcase, their first foray into hard-sided rolling luggage, I was eager to see if their travel-bag design principles—excellent access, thoughtful features, convenience —could translate to a rigid shell.(Photo: Maggie Slepian) I was supposed to test this suitcase during an extended trip this winter, but it arrived…

One of the more overlooked anime of the past few decades is the rather sweet Hotori, and now it’s finally remastered on Blu-ray.A short one-off short story, Hotori tells the tale of the titular Hotori, who has a condition where she is losing her memories, and Suzu, her friend, who’s also a robot that is being implanted with memories of a dead boy.The anime starts with Suzu walking to meet Hotori holding a gun with ominous intent, only for the story to go back in time and show how the two originally became friends.Obviously, I’m not going to spoil how…

Published June 2, 2026 03:24AMIn 2021, I started my Isle Royale National Park backpacking trip with a four-mile detour night at Lane Cove. It’s one of the few campgrounds with unobstructed north-facing views, which is a must-have for aurora hunting in the contiguous U.S. I set all night alarms to peek out the tent flap and scan for northern lights. After several groggy rounds, I noticed a green flicker. I ran to the lake to witness what would become one of the best aurora shows of my life.I tried to recreate this magic in May 2026. I was on a…

Last fall, Anthropic was playing second fiddle to OpenAI. It had a lower valuation, while OpenAI was still drawing much of the attention as the first mover in the generative AI boom. But the dynamic shifted in late November, when Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, which gave the company’s Claude Code coding agent a new brain and helped elevate it to the status of “AI killer app.” Arguably, that was the moment that set Anthropic on its path toward a forthcoming initial public offering (IPO). Developers had been using Claude Code to build software for much of 2025, but the…

Snowstorm over the Cairngorm Mountains from Dava Moor in Scotland. (Photo by: Jan Holm/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesA four-day ‘megafire’ last year across parts of the Highlands and Moray unleashed nearly a year of fire emissions, according to a new analysis. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, found the 2025 Dava Moor fire torched as much acreage as usually burns in an entire year in the U.K, and classed it as Britain’s first ‘megafire’.Researchers also said it released carbon equivalent to 85% of the average annual emissions from fires across the U.K…