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My earliest memory of travel insurance was the life insurance vending machines that used to populate airports up until the early 1980s. For those too young to remember this bizarre part of 20th century air travel, these kiosks offered very short-term life insurance policies that cost $2.50 (paid in quarters) for coverage of up to $62,500. Since these pre-travel policies were marketed to anxious flyers, it seemed clear the insurance companies were capitalizing on fear rather than offering a needed product. Over the intervening decades, I never revised my opinion of travel insurance. I’ve been lucky enough to never need…

A sleek AI symbol featuring stethoscope ear pieces, symbolizing the emerging role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. This concept represents AI’s potential to enhance medical practices, from real-time diagnostics to personalized patient care. The fusion of the AI symbol and medical equipment emphasizes how technology is transforming healthcare solutions, paving the way for more efficient and accurate medical interventions. A powerful visual of the future where AI and healthcare converge.gettyMany of those researching equity in healthcare can see profound differences in care by gender, and the advancement of women’s health, as it compares to men’s health. That’s in addition to…

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. During the pandemic housing boom, homebuilders saw their number of unsold completed new builds dry up as overheated demand quickly absorbed almost everything for sale. That is exactly what was experienced by D.R. Horton, America’s largest homebuilder, which had just 600 unsold completed new builds for sale in fiscal Q2 2022—compared to 4,700 in its fiscal Q2 2020.  However, as the pandemic housing boom ended and the market shifted, U.S. homebuilders saw their unsold new builds spike back up. At the end of…

Toronto, Canada – February 23, 2025: Mobile apps on a smartphone: ServiceNow, Salesforce, and HubSpot.gettyEvery CTO in America is fielding the same question from their board right now: which of our software vendors is about to become irrelevant? It’s a fair question. In February, $285 billion in SaaS market cap evaporated in 48 hours after AI agents demonstrated they could execute complex business workflows autonomously. The financial press dubbed it the “SaaSpocalypse,” and enterprise software stocks posted their worst quarter since the 2008 financial crisis.But the panic is broader than the problem. The market is treating all software companies like…

Independent bookstores are beacons of hope, offering intangible commodities such as connection, empathy, and knowledge, in addition to physical books. The convenience and discounts of Amazon have long threatened their very existence. Since 2015, Independent Bookstore Day has worked to combat this threat on the last Saturday of April. This year’s festivities fall on April 25. Fast Company sat down with Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, to talk not only about the holiday and his organization’s work to offer an Amazon alternative. A cultural awakening around independent bookstores Since the pandemic and continued high cost of living, we…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The organizations that consistently win the security talent war have moved the following five questions from diagnostic exercises into operational frameworks. Most CEOs find out about security team problems the hard way — when a key analyst hands in their notice mid-project, or when they realize the incident response capability they thought they had disappeared along with the person who built it.Here’s what makes this worse: Threat actors are paying attention. They monitor LinkedIn for patterns of security professionals leaving organizations. They track signs of team instability and time their…

Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max: how will the display on the iPhone Ultra compare?David PhelanThat intriguing time of the year has arrived, when objects purporting to be dummies of upcoming iPhones leak into the public domain. Now, a video shows how the folding iPhone may look, comparing it to the iPad mini and upcoming iPhone 18 Pro.ForbesApple iPhone 18 Pro: Latest Leak Doubles Down On Design Update NewsBy David PhelanThe iPhone Ultra Dummy Units SurfaceThese curious metallic lumps, sometimes stratified like igneous rock can provide clear ideas of what the final produce may be like. The video comes from YouTube…

Our culture of individualism pushes each person to try to be a star. “Team player” has even come to have the negative implication of subverting one’s own well-being and best advantage, and maybe even becoming invisible to leadership. To counteract these possibly negative effects of selfless invisible toiling, people often strive to make sure leadership sees their individual achievements. But research shows that the culture of individual stars is not what leads to team success. A McKinsey study found that superstar individuals often do not create the best teams: Thinking about themselves first leads to behaviors that disrupt team trust…

Relic Arena has a release date. Credit: Relic Arena Relic Arena, the auto battler game created by Dota 2 casters Shannon “SUNSfan” Scotten and Andrew “Jenkins” Jenkins, finally has a release date after years of development. As announced in a new trailer, Relic Arena will launch on May 7. The game will be available on Steam, with the store page now live and available to wishlist. Relic Arena is an auto battler, similar to Auto Chess and Teamfight Tactics, with a historical theme. It features iconic leaders from history such as Abe Lincoln, Isaac Newton and Celopatra to play as,…

The missed promotion. The botched presentation. The project that went sideways despite our best efforts. We’ve all been there, stuck in what I call failure’s funk: that heavy mix of shame, fear, and paralysis that keeps us replaying mistakes long after they’ve passed. In both life and work, this funk doesn’t just feel awful, it blocks learning. We’re so busy avoiding, denying, or criticizing ourselves that we miss the insight failure offers. We often hear that failure is life’s best teacher, but learning from it isn’t automatic. It doesn’t happen just because we failed; it happens because we do the inner work,…