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Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff. Scales previously worked on talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, and as part of Uber’s talent acquisition team, per LinkedIn. Employees at GSA tell WIRED that Coristine … Read more

Severance fans, if you’ve ever wanted to read the wise words of Dr. Ricken Hale (Michael Chernus) for yourself, you’re in luck. On Jan. 31, Apple Books released the first eight chapters of The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You, Ricken’s self-help book that spurred Lumon Industries’ Innies to action in Severance Season … Read more

Social media changed everything from news consumption to shopping. Now, Dub thinks it can do the same for investing through an influencer-driven marketplace where users can follow the trades of top investors with a few taps. Think of it as TikTok meets Wall Street. Founded by 23-year-old Steven Wang — a Harvard drop-out who began … Read more

The Shokz OpenFit 2 wireless earbuds were designed specifically for me. I don’t know how Shokz’s engineers managed to pander to my lifestyle so perfectly; I suspect they hired spies, or my fiancee is a sleeper agent. Sunday Runday (Image credit: Android Central) In this weekly column, Android Central Wearables Editor Michael Hicks talks about … Read more

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority With PayPal facing a backlash and a lawsuit over the under-fire Honey Chrome extension, you might be in the market for new money-saving apps or Chrome extensions. Honey may have been one of the most popular tools, but the good news is that there are tons of other great options … Read more

The photography blog PetaPixel once interviewed the photographer who took one of the most famous “Tank Man” photos showing a tank-defying protester during 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests. But this week PetaPixel reported… A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM chatbot DeepSeek refuses to answer questions about the famous Tank Man photograph taken in … Read more

I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference … Read more

On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Future of Jobs Report 2025, with CNN immediately highlighting the finding that 40 percent of companies plan workforce reductions due to AI automation. But the report’s broader analysis paints a far more nuanced picture than CNN’s headline suggests: It finds that AI could create 170 million … Read more

January has come to a close, with Apple pushing out iOS 18.3 and related software updates in the final week of the month to deliver some refinements for Apple Intelligence, security fixes, and more. We’re looking ahead to more substantial updates with iOS 18.4, while we also shared news and rumors about AirPods and the … Read more

Table of Contents Table of Contents How can smartwatches assist? Fixing sedentary behavior Sleep, obesity, and nutrition What experts say The American Heart Association just released its 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update report with some critically important stats. It mentions that heart-related diseases, which are on an upward trajectory across the globe, are … Read more