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• PeopleUnemployment can be low while the job market still feels terrible.The U.S. is approaching the 2026 midterms with unemployment around levels economists call full employment, yet hiring is slower, job switching is weaker and many workers feel insecure. The unemployment rate only measures one part of labor-market health.
• TechWant to be cited by AI Search? Start by publishing something worth citing.There is no guaranteed switch that makes a page appear in AI answers. Google’s own guidance points to a less glamorous strategy: original information, crawlable pages, clear structure, strong images, real sourcing and normal SEO fundamentals.
• ExplainedWhy do AI data centers use so much electricity?AI computing concentrates thousands of power-hungry chips in facilities that run continuously. The electricity demand comes from computation, memory, networking, cooling and the simple fact that useful AI services have to answer requests all day.
• CuriousA cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice helped win a Nobel Prize.Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for turning Antarctic ice into a detector for high-energy neutrinos. The remarkable part is not only the particle. It is that a place most people see as empty became a new kind of telescope.
• MoneyWhy is cheap long-haul flying so hard to make profitable?Norse Atlantic is flying with reduced capacity as jet-fuel prices squeeze its economics. The problem is broader than one airline: long-haul flying combines expensive aircraft, volatile fuel, thin margins and fewer ways to recover when something goes wrong.
• ExplainedWhat does the 1.5°C climate limit actually mean?The 1.5°C target is not a temperature any single day or country must stay below. It refers to long-term global average warming above the pre-industrial climate. Crossing it temporarily and staying above it permanently are different problems.
• ExplainedHow can a medicine change what supermarkets sell?GLP-1 medicines reduce appetite and food intake for many users. At population scale, that can alter portion sizes, snacking frequency and the types of foods companies choose to develop, even though the medicines are not food products themselves.
• CultureFashion still says autumn. The weather increasingly does not.Paris Fashion Week reached 28°C as retailers were trying to sell coats and knitwear. Longer, hotter summers are creating a basic mismatch between the traditional fashion calendar and the weather customers actually experience.
• ExplainedAI used to answer. Now it can act. That changes the risk.The FTC has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over possible consumer risks. The important shift is not simply that models are becoming smarter. It is that some systems can now take actions on a user’s behalf.