Katie Zacharia’s run as White House press secretary lasted five days, and memes about her exit are rolling in. There is someone who can relate: Anthony Scaramucci, whose brief stint as Trump’s White House communications director in July 2017 became a pop-culture unit of time — a “Scaramucci,” or “Mooch” — for measuring short-lived political
“There are continuing problems with positive leap seconds even after 50 years, and the concern was that the negative leap second would be much more serious because its effects had never been tested,” Levine says. BIPM time department director Patrizia Tavella confirmed those concerns in an email to WIRED. “The probability of a negative leap
Pope Leo XIV has been pictured celebrating Mass from hospital, in the first images of him released by the Vatican since he underwent lung surgery. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed with lung cancer after the surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, which the Vatican said had been “successful” and proceeded without complications. The
Abdulrahman Alfozan loved Saudi Arabia. One day before arresting the former OpenAI engineer on charges of bugging the office, the Justice Department worried he would flee back to his home country. Alfozan, his wife, and another family member had already booked one-way tickets, the department said in a court filing. It wouldn’t be unusual for
My 16-year-old self had it all figured out: I wanted to live in a van and travel the US. Time did what time does, though, and practical lessons from older relatives slowly pushed those dreams to the back of my mind. Instead of saving for a Volkswagen bus, I saved for my first home, because
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Robbie Cartwright, founder of Yorkshire Trainers. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’ve been selling things since I was a child: candy bars, fidget spinners — you name it. My middle school had a challenge to see which student could take a small investment
