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- Current price of oil as of October 9, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
- Red Sox Legend Pushes Back On Trump After Medal Of Honor Update
The Boston Red Sox’s all-time great offered a live correction to President Donald Trump during a surprising announcement.
- Beau Welling’s ‘Old World’ Orange Hill Is Kiawah’s Newest Golf Course
The Kiawah Island Club is adding a third golf course, Orange Hill, as member demand and home sales surge. Beau Welling's design could open in fall 2027.
- Ultra raises $62 million for fast-growing ‘robots as a service’ business, announces tie-up with AI research firm Physical Intelligence
The raise consisted of a Series A seed round led by Framework Ventures plus an earlier seed round.
- How To Decide If A CD Fits Your Savings Strategy When The Fed's Next Moves Are Unclear
Are certificates of deposit still worth it? Discover current CD rate trends, how CDs compare to HYSAs and Treasuries, and strategies to lock in yield.
Technology
- Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
- Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
- Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller
The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind was made up. “It was super fascinating,” he says. “I just immediately wanted to be a part of it.” Wischnewsky is now an RPIC, or “remote pilot in command,” at a company called FlyTrex. An RPIC is…
- We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
- We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs
This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age. Overweight and diabetic people who take GLP-1s have a biological age around two to three years younger than similar…
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