There aren’t many fan bases quite as dedicated as Costco’s, so it makes sense that loyal shoppers have cracked the store’s codes over the years—specifically, those involving their pricing and ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion explain what universal basic income is and its implications for society. This matters because it could drastically change work, wealth distribution, and the future of ...

Mr. Means quietly departed his federal role about a month ago. His sister has been nominated for surgeon general. By Benjamin Mueller Calley Means, an influential adviser to Health Secretary Robert F.

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. TikTok’s algorithm, which shapes what more than a billion users see, has developed an almost mystical reputation for ...

Anthropic has added web and mobile interfaces for Claude Code, its immensely popular command-line interface (CLI) agentic AI coding tool. The web interface appears to be well-baked at launch, but the ...

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Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Guests can wear jeans to dinner on a Regent Seven Seas cruise now. Not only that, but they can pair the jeans with sneakers. Dress codes on luxury cruise lines are reaching a new level of casual, and ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

A 401(k) is an employee-sponsored retirement plan offering tax advantages. You contribute a chosen percentage of your income, which is then automatically withheld from each paycheck by your employer ...

At this point in Western civilization, we have done away with most of the formalities that defined life in previous centuries. That’s largely a good thing—especially with regards to gender roles and ...