Author: Megan Burrows

In early 2024, a picture of Charles Liang sitting next to Jensen Huang of Nvidia at a tech conference went viral. The two men were surrounded by the quiet hum of a world that had suddenly become desperate for the hardware they were selling. Liang’s net worth had increased to about $6.1 billion at that point. He was listed as one of the world’s 500 richest people by Forbes. Supermicro, which Liang co-founded with his wife Sara Liu in a San Jose office in 1993, was regarded as one of the main drivers of the AI infrastructure boom. The speed…

Some executives don’t make headlines like tech founders do; they don’t have stadium-sized product launches or mysterious tweets that instantly change markets. That type of executive is Scott Strazik. However, by early 2026, his estimated net worth, which is based almost entirely on stock in a company that contributes to the production of about 25% of the world’s electricity, is between $119 million and $124.5 million. It’s not a small footnote. That is an amazing tale. When GE Vernova separated from General Electric as a separate public company in April 2024, Strazik was appointed president and CEO. One of the…

A well-known headline evokes a certain emotion. “New Covid variant detected.” The majority of people in Britain have by now become somewhat immune to the alarm itself, scrolling by, reading half of it, and moving on. It makes sense to have that reflex. Additionally, experts are starting to subtly speculate as to why this specific moment merits more attention. The variant, known as BA.3.2, has been given the nickname “Cicada” in honor of the insect that goes underground for years before emerging in enormous, noisy numbers. T. Ryan Gregory, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Guelph who has been…

When you discover that you were paying more than you should have—not because you made a mistake, but rather because someone in a dealership subtly changed your interest rate to increase their own profits—you feel a certain kind of rage. An estimated 12 million people in Britain who took out auto loan agreements between 2007 and 2024 experienced something similar. And now, following years of court cases, a Supreme Court decision, and persistent consumer advocacy, the Financial Conduct Authority has approved a £7.5 billion compensation plan to begin making things right. The announcement, which was made on March 30, 2026,…

It will probably take some time for anyone who has been secretly hoping that Easter 2026 will provide the kind of clear, crisp spring weekend that makes a long bank holiday feel earned—the kind where you can actually sit outside with a coffee and not regret it. The forecast for the Easter bank holiday released by the Met Office is as welcome as a wet sock: erratic, erratic, and occasionally genuinely windy. From Good Friday onward, low pressure is predicted to dominate most of the United Kingdom. According to the forecasters, there is “a strong signal” that windy and rainy…

The way a full moon can halt people in their tracks is subtly amazing. The April Full Pink Moon, the first full moon of spring, arrives on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 10:12 PM Eastern Time, bringing with it that familiar pull. And even though it falls on April Fool’s Day, what the sky has planned is not at all ridiculous or staged. After sunset, go outside and turn to face east. The moon won’t appear white or silvery in those early minutes as it rises low on the horizon. When held up to a flame, it will burn amber,…

It began as a birthday greeting. For the first time in his fifty years as a comedian, Howie Mandel apologized on Instagram in a beachside video. When Kelly Ripa said someone “looks great,” the entire situation took on a life that neither of them could have fully predicted. On the March 23rd episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the setup was as low-stakes as it gets. Mandel was a visitor. As is customary for morning hosts, Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, who has co-hosted the program since 2022, were chatting, congratulating, and keeping things warm. Mandel had recently…

Although the rocket is 322 feet tall, the sense of scale is rarely conveyed by numbers. Technicians wearing hard hats appear nearly tiny next to the Space Launch System’s orange core stage in NASA-released images. It’s difficult to ignore how much that image resembles old Apollo images, but it’s also clearly contemporary, with digital screens, sensors, and software layers that weren’t around in 1972. There is no lunar landing on Artemis II. That’s a crucial distinction. In order to test systems in deep space before any boots ever touch lunar soil again, this mission will send four astronauts on a…

In the final moments before landing, a plane experiences a certain kind of stillness. Flight attendants gather cups, passengers begin packing up laptops, and the cabin settles into that collective, quiet exhale. No one anticipates that a quick Sunday afternoon trip from Columbus, Ohio, to Atlanta will be anything but ordinary. Apparently, a man in seat 3A changed his mind after that. On March 29, 2026, at around 5:07 PM, Frontier Airlines Flight 2539 landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Almost instantly, everything changed. A male passenger verbally threatened to kill the woman seated next to him and claimed to…

When the cameras stop rolling for the final time, a certain kind of silence descends upon a television set. Not overly dramatic. Not very loud. Just the sound of a show coming to an end before the majority of the audience had settled in. As CBS wraps up a season that has seen more departures than arrivals, more farewells than greenlight celebrations, that is the sentiment that permeates the network at the moment. The completion of Watson, a medical mystery drama starring Morris Chestnut, and DMV, a workplace comedy centered around the hectic rhythms of a Department of Motor Vehicles…