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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) will be in the fight of his political life Tuesday, as he looks to defy the odds and defeat Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched an endorsement from President Trump, in the Senate GOP runoff. The last-minute support tees up another test of Trump’s influence in a Republican primary. The president has already successfully picked off several…
READ MOREAs an insurance industry veteran, I’ve had a front row seat to watch many insurtechs adopt growth assumptions borrowed from industries where scale eventually delivers profitability. Insurance doesn’t work that way. Overseeing a $100m turnaround taught me how businesses are learning the wrong lessons – not least their adoption of Silicon Valley’s philosophy of growth-above-all-else.
READ MOREMicrosoft has a habit of changing things that aren’t broken, but it looks like they are finally ready to admit a mistake. When Windows 11 launched, one of the biggest points of friction was the locked taskbar. For decades, we had the freedom to pin that bar to the top, left, or right of our
READ MOREDurhams’ strong start to the Blast season continued with a dominant performance to beat Leicestershire Foxes by six wickets with six overs to spare at the Riverside. Matthew Potts 3-28, including two wickets in an over, checked the Foxes charge with the bat as the visitors were restricted to 148-8. The opening pair of Graham
READ MORELooking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a medium-tough one, I think. I recognized the blue category words right away. Read on for clues
READ MORESome of the most effective horror films craft their scares out of the reassuring everyday. In “Passenger”, the familiar routines and sounds associated with driving become ominous signs of incoming disaster, as a mysterious figure haunts and attacks drivers on the American highways. Norwegian director André Øvredal does not reinvent the wheel with this humble
READ MOREAs NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals to partner
READ MOREThe journey by taxi last year with her female cousin – covered from head to toe, only their eyes visible, as the rules decree – was an exceptional thing to do, and risky in Afghanistan, where at any moment they might be caught by the Taliban inspectors enforcing rules banning women traveling long distances without
READ MOREMcKinsey candidates can now practice their problem-solving for interviews with AI before they face the real thing. In April, the global consulting firm launched an AI tool to help candidates prepare for interviews — and, ideally, keep them from feeling they need to pay for pricey consulting coaches. The tool is available globally to those
READ MOREArtificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the core infrastructure for some of the biggest professional services firms on the planet. In a massive move that signals where the future of enterprise tech is headed, KPMG and Anthropic have announced a major global alliance. This partnership will see Anthropic’s advanced Claude AI models embedded directly into KPMG’s
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