by John Hill | May 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
The U.S. has a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople. A school in Huntsville, Ala., is attempting to replenish the talent pool—one teenager at a time. The Huntsville Center for Technology (HCT) is a new $40 million facility where 700 students leave their traditional...
by John Hill | May 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was a process that had become routine for Maxim Topaz. The associate professor at Columbia University’s School of Nursing had grown accustomed to having artificial intelligence tools help polish scientific papers for grammar, formatting, and other details. But a...
by John Hill | May 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
About 28 years ago, I was reporting a story from my desk at Wired titled “The Hot New Medium Is … Email.” This was an unusually personal report because I was partly its subject — a creator of a then-novel phenomenon: the viral internet newsletter. Think Substack circa...
by John Hill | May 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
Near the U.S.-Mexico border—just a few miles from SpaceX Starbase—little-known NextDecade is on the verge of becoming the top exporter of natural gas out of Texas. Its massive complex, sprawling 1,000 acres along the Brownsville Ship Channel, took more than a decade...
by John Hill | May 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure has drawn scrutiny for its astonishing scale: 3,711 trades, almost entirely in shares of companies across America, including many whose fortunes can turn on federal policy. Collectively, they constitute...
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