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Today’s NYT Strands hints and answersCredit: New York TimesIn my hometown Hullabaloo is a summer festival held downtown every June with live music, lots of beer, people dressed up in outlandish costumes and a fun costume bike parade. It’s a lot of fun, though I haven’t been in some time. Maybe this year! In any case, today’s NYT Strands isn’t about a local music festival, but that’s what the word makes me think of, so here we are. It’s my last day as your Strands sherpa, so after this I’ll see you in two weeks — in May! Have a…
Starbucks is pouring $100 million into fancy Nashville offices. But some employees aren’t too hot on making the move. In March, Starbucks presented its roughly 100-member Seattle-based sourcing team with a choice: relocate to Tennessee and take a pay cut of at least 5%, or lose their jobs. The ultimatum has rattled morale and eroded trust in leadership, according to Bloomberg. To sweeten the deal, Starbucks offered stock grants worth tens of thousands of dollars and extended the decision deadline. The company is also reimbursing up to $2,000 in travel costs for employees to explore Nashville. For those who decline,…
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…